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Reply to Cari makes the news in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

I work in a software company and I'm a Computer Engineer and all I can say is it is good to have positive examples of women doing well in a field dominated by males. Many of my undergrad courses had only five females versus fifty males. At work it's even worse as we have no female software or system engineers, the only women are in administration and HR. I'm against legislated equal employment as it too often leads to companies hiring someone of lesser skill only because they have to maintain a

Reply to Random News: April 2006 in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

He is just expressing his opinion, try exhibiting some tolerance. Success and money changes anyone, even StarDock... Not saying it'll happen and remember all this is about a proposed mini-expansion, but all the same, maybe try an open mind...

Reply to Random News: April 2006 in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

I just went back and looked at the developlment post-mortem and I should modify some of my comments. I suppose for a $1.3 million budget little things like the invasion animations are pretty minor issues. I think the game could use some more polish, to be sure, but for the price and size of the team things are pretty damn good. I can also understand how the promise of a bunch of people buying the $9 expansion (mostly because they are loyal f

Reply to Random News: April 2006 in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

I have a tendency to buy expansion packs and then not play them... I would agree that the extra ships should be in an expansion pack and not a minor $9 package. I know it is not a lot of money but even with a lot of disposable income I don't like buying something I consider not worth the money. An expansion pack would be a better way to add content, address some artistic things (like the rendered images for planet tiles, those really do not look g