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[KickAssClown]

They chose the blue pill ultimately to get it done and shipped. They could have gone for MOO--Master of Orion--for the space stage, but instead they gave us the pseudo-"Lost In Space" option. I would have been perfectly happy with a Homeworld-style setup. Anything as long as I got a fleet to mess with.

I wish they had gone with what they demoed for several years leading up to the release. The different stages are effectively non-sequitur. I had been hoping that transitioning between stages was like pulling back to see a larger and larger landscape. Instead, they opted to go for the hard transition where they break and switch to the new minigame. The choice to do so broke the potential links of causality between the stages.

As iteration one, I hope that iteration two addresses the deal breaking weak points of iteration one. Sid Meier and Chris Taylor should work along side Will Wright; they would build the spore that the fans had been expecting since the first demo. Kinboat, the modder who made the community tools for the Total annihilation modding community and got hired by Gas Powered Games, would improve the in game tools.

On a more personal note: Death to the Military and Religious space-faring civilizations! Extorsion or War? I'm a scientist, diplomat, and trader. I've got more allies, technology, and resources than you do. I'll blow up your planet. Stupid Civilization AI.