Welcome to the BE board!

[Buster's Uncle]

Trenacker has come up with a productive angle on all this, and in a related vein, I'd tried earlier to start some talk about what we'd like to see in a SMAC2.  It's nothing we're likely to ever see, but not uninteresting to discuss; go have a look.

And I'll say this in defense of the grousing (it applies to my grumblings about fake Star Trek, too, and a lot of the slagging of sequels and remakes that innerwebs nerdz are prone to do so passionately):  it's hard to take when you love a thing, wish it would return, and then see a bad imitation come out done by people who don't love the parts you loved.  It's a very hard thing to take.  It's even harder to talk about without getting passionate, perhaps to excess.  Did you like the Star Wars prequels as well as Star Wars?  Got anything nice to say about them?  Is that what you'd choose to be saying about the prequels outside the context of this discussion?  (There's a Rec Commons thread for that if the topic interests you.)

[Vishniac]

Trenacker has come up with a productive angle on all this, and in a related vein, I'd tried earlier to start some talk about what we'd like to see in a SMAC2.  It's nothing we're likely to ever see, but not uninteresting to discuss; go have a look.

There is a thread untitled "The state of SMAC2" if it's what you mean and I once posted there a wall of text saying everything I think about the subject.
I really don't want to repeat or rehass just for the sake of posting.
http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=2949.225

As for the SW prequels...  I could use a few minutes to talk about.

[Buster's Uncle]

I was talking about Be Wishlist in this folder, but that's a good thread for it, too.  I remember your post.

I believe the prequels thread is still on the front page of Rec Commons (no; it's on page two now, but there's the link).  It's fun to talk about how to fix them, so please post away.

[BlaneckW]

- Master of Orion 3 (and I fortunately didn't pre-ordered)

I liked some of the concepts.

[Geo]

https://mobile.twitter.com/CivGame/status/464132185616703488/photo/1/large

Concept art from what appears to be a 2k twitter account showing some naval vessels, linked to their faction's/colony's affinity.

[Buster's Uncle]

^

[BlaneckW]

If I draw you a ship will you clap?

[Buster's Uncle]

Yes.

[BlaneckW]

First, we would have to figure out what it should look like.

[Buster's Uncle]

I want a sailing ship.  A beautiful five-master sailing the waves.

[Geo]

I want a sailing ship.  A beautiful five-master sailing the waves.

That's not a ship. That's a clipper.

[Geo]

In other news, PC Gamer released an onlind version of their latest magazine.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=525819

[Buster's Uncle]

Has anyone seen the stuff out about the writing that went into it?

[Geo]

If you mean the PC GAMER article, partly. Hard to read from a low resolution download and I'm about to meet a certain death machine anyway.

[BlaneckW]

If you mean the PC GAMER article, partly. Hard to read from a low resolution download and I'm about to meet a certain death machine anyway.

You've been cosigned to the electric chair?