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4:37 PM <CrazyC0330> apparently Sword of the Stars has another expansion pack. we have the base game and the first expasion pack up on Impulse. any word on the new one?

4:38 PM <Yarlen> We won't get the new expansion. It's exclusive to Gamer's Gate because they paid for it.

Ouch! That hurts. I was under the impression from another thread that all the PI titles would be coming in the near future. MoC is really, really necessary. It is just like TotA to GC2.

It's not that we don't want the game to come to Impulse, it's that we can't get it.

As for the other thread's wording, it does say we are getting the "majority" of the Paradox titles, and that (as far as I'm told) is still entirely true.

No worries. I guess I read into it too much. I considered "majority" to mean from the entire software palette of GG inclusive of the PI titles.

Awwwww, that's unfortunate ... guess I'll have to pick up AMoC and sort out the install.

dreamer of pictures - Yeah, I noticed that when I was reinstalling through Impulse after a fresh OS install. Pre-Impulse they installed to two separate locations with their own disk paths, registry etc, but then post-Impulse it overwrote vanilla SotS.

I asked about it, thinking it a bug, but it's apparently intetionally installed that way. Not a gigantic deal, unless you wanted to play vanilla SotS for backstory (or to remind yourself of all the goodness of BoB or AMoC).

i had read that MoC was a european release only but i might have just misread that

I would go with GalCiv2 for the fact that the base game itself goes above and beyond anything Sword of the Stars has, then their are the two expansions. And if you haven't purchased any part of the game yet you can get GalCiv 2 and its Expansions for only $60.

Sword of the Stars is an interesting game don't get my wrong, but the only way you will really win is through military might.

Theyre two different and excelent games on their own. Sword focuses more on the tactics of a fleet than the managing of an empire, and its very limited diplomacy options show that, gal civ2 is about strategies and the management of an empire, leaving behind (or more like reducing) the military aspect.

Itys realley a shame that Stardock cant get murder of crows up on Impulse onsidering they have the other 2 hope some day they can make it happen.

It should happen in a few months methinks. Stuff like this has to be worked out. Otherwise gamers will get highly irked and not want to buy titles until an "ultimate pack" is offered.

The problem with that is that when you take tactical control of your ships, your opponent--the AI--has its hands tied behind its back because it's AI.  It's like you get to cheat because you are multiple times smarter than the AI.  It results in a reduced strategy element to the game because you can fall back on your superior fighting ability.  Of course, AI is always inferior to a human intelligence, but in this case (tactical movements and target selection) it's even more pronounced.

There is the SotS Ultimate Collection on Impulse for $29.99 (which is just four cents more than Sins) which has SotS plus both Born of Blood and A Murder of Crows.  Great deal if you ask me.  Plus there is a micro-expansion for AMoC, Argos Naval Yard, releasing on June 17 and priced at $8.99 which adds 10 new weapons and over 75 ship sections spread out over the 6 races.

For racial diversity and backstory, SotS really takes the cake.  On the Kerberos forums, there is an entire sub-forum dedicated to the various races in SotS.  You could spend a couple hours poring over the backstory of the various races, and more is being added all the time as the fans ask the developers questions, and the developers answer them.  The amount of developer-fan interaction is really something.  The developers take the time out of their busy lives to post on their forums.  And I don't mean like it is here where they rarely post, the lead developer for SotS has over 13,559 posts on the forums since August 5th, 2005.  The SotS developers definitely listen to their fanbase.

SotS UC is on sale this weekend 20 bucks, I am buying it right now