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[quote]Actually these guys are demonstrating something about 4x peeps. All they want is to BELIEVE[/quote] You make it sound like it's a bad thing. But yeah, immersion, suspension of disbelief etc. All very important to [I]us[/I] 4x people! Anyway, keep up the groupthink P5yy! I'm sure you're doing the community a great service. [quote] But then we loose all sorts of clarity -- which levels are which? What does that do?[/quote] No disagreement there,

[quote] We've been promised something : fleets (which act like formations) for a while now. [/quote] Great! Despite all my trolling I hadn't picked up on that one yet. And how about this: instead of saying 'population infrastructure: level 1, 2, 3, etc.' the names could be a little more imaginative. Something like 'outpost - ... - coruscant style'. And instead of emergency infrastructure: level 12345 something like 'sandbags - bunkers - force fields - f

So I played a couple of games vs AI in beta 4, and I would like to share my thoughts. Which are mostly on some specific aspects of the general feel of the game, so that's why I didn't put it in the technical/gameplay feedback thread. Last time I played was around beta 2. Just one or two games before I decided beta testing really wasn't for me, and went back to supreme commander. So consider me a noob! First off, the game really feels a lot more fleshed out. I love the pirates,

So I've been playing beta 2 for a bit, and on the whole I really like it, but there is a few things I would like to comment on. First is the way solar systems are handled. I really don't like the fact that there is specific jump lanes (I'll call it that, even though I'm not sure if it's the right in game name) from certain planets to others (but the way traveling between different suns is implemented is great). Not only is it a bit restrictive, it also just doesn't feel very 'spacey'. S