I am working on a Empire Thread so in two weeks,it should be done.

You may address me as Saint Mina or GmOOnii, I will respond to both.

@ InfernalRS, My Empire is on the path of good and we are Inquisitors that show no mercy because mercy is for the weak and old.

Saint Mina of Ophelia VII of Order of the Bloody Rose of Orders Militant of Adepta Sororitas

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     “We are at war with forces too terrible to comprehend. We cannot afford mercy for any of its victims too weak to take the correct course. Mercy destroys us; it weakens us and saps our resolve. Put aside all such thought. They are not worthy of Inquisitors in the service of Our Emperor GmOOnii. Praise his name for in our resolve we only reflect his purpose of will.”

Inquisitor Draco,

Castigations on the Last Days

Wow...and i thought Zyx was hard to understand!!!

Don't you mean Freeman?

No problem mADDYman, hehe.   Unfortunately, it doesnt look like there will be a Metaverse for GC3, and therefore probably not GC4 either.  Maybe if enough people say something though they will change their minds.

Sentient species taste better...

If you have any interest in the fantasy genre, getting into the Elemental beta might be a good opening front. I'm very interested in that game, but I'm a tad worried that it will end up putting too much emphasis on server-based multiplayer. At root, I think I'd rather that the game had no scoring system at all. But if it has one, I most certainly would prefer a Metaverse-like experience to a multiplayer game where I had to coordinate my schedule with other players.

mADDYman, I think we Gerontocrats already have at least one Old Soul in a Young Body amongst us. In some thread or another, I think Ghostwes even once said something to the effect of your calendar age not mattering as long as you were ready to shake your cane at brats on the lawn (even if that's all you use your cane for). Plus, your experience amongst the fearsome furballs could help us prepare better snacks for the day when they all come 'round to our rest home looking for relaible warm laps.

I am more excited about Elemental than any new game for a long time.  It's been how many years since Master of Magic?  15?  I too would not prefer a multiplayer-focused setup for Elemental.  I think TBS games generally dont lend themselves well to multi-player, and I hope they will have more of a focus on the AI and a good single-player experience.  I've played Civ4, Birth of the Federation, Alpha Centauri/Alien Crossfire, and  number of others with multiplayer, and I often found myself getting really bored with waiting for other people.  Sometimes I ended up simultaneously playing another game on a separate computer while I played the multiplayer one.  One game that multiplayer did work well for me was Heroes of Might & Magic 3.  It's a lot lighter on the micro-management than a civilization-building 4X type of game, so turn times werent nearly so long.

Sentient species taste better...

Pardon me for the language but what in the name of f*ck tells you there's gonna be no MV for Galciv 3. Stardock knows that not having an MV for Galciv 3 (and 4) will piss off alot of people.

Though it's not as active as it once was, there is still a considerable contribution of games / scores being made to the GC2 MV. We've still got our empires, and we've still got our teammates and friends here at GC2.com. That's good enough for me. Whether we have a MV for GC3 or not will eventually be discussed, but I don't believe that's a huge issue right now. I certainly hope there will be an MV, and there will come a time when I'm going to keep on asking SD about it until they give me a straight answer as to if there will be an MV or not, but now is not that time (for me, at least).

@ GmOOnii: Welcome to the Metaverse! It's nice to see an Official Thread from the Adepta. Good luck on reaching that Top 20 position you've been pushing for. I'll add your link to the list above.

P.S. Just to clarify, no SD representative has specifically said there will be no MV for GC3. They've said that they're unsure if there will be an MV, but AFAIK, they haven't said there wouldn't be one.

@ Seth: I agree with you (in slightly less colorful language) that many people will be angry if there is no MV for GC3. I think that when we finally get closer to its release, there will be quite a bit of posts from GC2 fans asking if there will be an MV. When that time comes, IMHO, SD will realize they almost have to have an MV, or they will most likely lose a large portion of their business, but that's just my opinion.

Agreed!

I dont know how many people wouldnt buy GC3, if there is no Metaverse.  I'd prefer there to be a MV, but I know that I'll be buying it either way.

Sentient species taste better...

Hmm i may be wrong but Brad has said, and this was back around DL 1.2 IIRC that he doesn't want a MV in GC3. Now that was in a fairly heated debate and was ~ 3 years ago, so who knows.

But givin that and also that elemental is Multiplayer and it will donte it's engine to GC3 i'd say there is every chance the MV will die here with us.

Doesnt mean we can't still submit though, there is still action on the GC1 forums so there still may be games being dropped in there....and thats alot older than GC2.

Hopefully the Geckodons can be in 3rd placeor higher on the MV by that time.

You're probably right. In my defense, I wasn't here back then, so I wouldn't know.

That's why I threw in an AFAIK.

I probably should be a bit more active over at Elemental's forums, or at least look at them for once. Seeing as their engine is going to build GC3, I probably should take some more interest.

If the MV dies here, that'll be a bit of a let-down. On the plus side, I'm going to assume GC3 will at least come with some type of Multiplayer. While harder to schedule for, and given it takes an age to complete a game, it'll still be an interesting way to interact with the community and the game.

I'm also assuming that with an MV, we'll probably have some sort of "clans" thing like they do for SoaSE, which means we can still maintain the integrity of our current empires, if we so choose.

If there is no MV in GC3 at least i hope they include the local high scores like in TA for sandbox games. That coupled with something like the AM could give us our own MV, though with no cheat checks in place of course.

it's actually quiet a mystery. How can they possibily beat galciv2? what could they put in galciv3 that number 2 doesn't have?