"If there were a strategy guide for GalCiv"

I think it would be great once everything is settled and values for various areas in the game stay the same for some time to come.

I don't think so. If the community goes crazy with mods, which I hope it does, a strategy guide could be obsolete very soon. But, if you do it as an online, updatable type thing, you have it made.

I hope mods will only be approved for Metaverse scores if they don't upset the scores... as in, you can only score as high as you could without it.

Still, won't people want to complete the pure, non-modded game?

A strtegy guide posted on GameFAQs wouldn't be a bad idea though.

There's so many ways to win, so many different variables... people aren't going to care about playing the pure unmodded game. Case in point, it comes with a bonuspak! You're already playing a modded game.

I expect a few fan sites will post some basic strategies.
One thing I will say after playing galciv through beta and gamme is that you will have to adjust your stragies while playing.
No one strategy will win every game.


~SDC~

Maybe putting a dedicated section here, where people could upload stuff, will give a central point for anything GalCiv-strategy related ?
It'll surely take some mod/webmaster input so to keep it clean though

One thing i noticed about the OS/2 version is that all too often strategies became very personal things. Everyone seemed to have their own preferences. With GC/Win, I have been seeing a constant shifting of the way the AI's approach the game. This makes it very difficult to come up with any one (or even several) winning strategies. The game really *does* feel alive.

However, a "begginner's" strategy game that was careful to point out how to develop one's personal strategy could be very useful.

~SDC~