So....how is it? should it be on my winter holiday radar?

[Unorthodox]

Hmm?

[Flux]

Hmm?

Although I haven't played it, it looks like a really huge DLC to Civ V.
So if you've played that and like it, you will probably like this. I've seen enough videos to know I likely wont.

[Unorthodox]

Anyone WITH the game?

I wasn't totally opposed to the IDEA of Civ V...

Tell me this, does BE have INTEGRATED PBEM?  Or Pitboss?    Not the slapshot hotseat workaround [nonsense] we had to do with Civ V (maybe they eventually added support/pitboss to civ V after I lost interest or in one of the expansions, it's been a while.)

[sisko]

No integrated PBEM and no Pitboss.
Hotseat can be used for PBEM though..

[Unorthodox]

No integrated PBEM and no Pitboss.
Hotseat can be used for PBEM though..

Not interested, then.

[Yitzi]

No integrated PBEM and no Pitboss.
Hotseat can be used for PBEM though..

Is this similar to how SMAC/X PBEM works (instead of starting the next player's turn, you can save and quit and then send the savegame to the next player), or can you only save while it's a player's turn (which would cause problems in terms of seeing some of the last or next player's stuff)?

[sisko]

Right now is similar to how SMACX PBEM works.

[PlotinusRedux]

i played one game of it.  It made me miss SMAC, so I went to GOG and bought SMAC, a 15 year old game I hadn't played in 13 years, instead, and I'm much happier playing it. 

It wasn't that I found anything particularly bad rule-wise in that one game, it's more that everything was too generic for me to care about it--all the factions had the same bland personalities, there's a complete lack of in-game movies, wonders are so pathetically weak that rather than defining your faction they just stamp you with "I'm an idiot, I spent 20 turns building *this*," and when you easily win your first game, your reward is a "You win" pop-up that doesn't even show any stats.

It felt like a game about half finished to me, a basic ruleset ready to have the stuff that would make it fun added to it, which they never got around to doing.

[Nikolai]

No integrated PBEM and no Pitboss.
Hotseat can be used for PBEM though..

Not interested, then.

Latest update from devs mentions "ongoing MP improvements". There is still hope.

[sisko]

Yes, but I think the patch will focus more on major bugs than on new features (see resync problems, facilities disappearing when loading a saved game, etc).

The upcoming patch was mentioned in yesterday's stream. Anyone seen it?