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I find a lot of hostility toward remakes from that period usually pretty hyperbolic, so take that as you will. Its certainly not any worse than Civ-1 since it came out, I want to say three years later (1994 ompared to 1991).

I used to like that one quite a bit--you've got to give credit for a game that actually figures out when computer players have pretty much lost and has them give up--but I find there's some problems getting it to resolve properly with screen size these days and pretty much gave up on it.

Which version? The game has gone through seven versions, after all. And honestly, I don't see square grid/hex grid being a big deal.

Given some of the personalities there, I cannot be surprised.

I've seen ones that are okay, but most of them are similar in kind rather than trying to duplicate it. (the new Master of Orion is okay but generally just left me cold, and I can't honestly say why. I don't mind the spacelane thing, so that's not it).

Well, as I expressed, most older 4x games were trying to be Civilization too from my POV, so I don't find that much of a critique.

Well, maybe not the map, but there's plenty of tile based map things out there.

Yeah, but, honestly, the number of remakes of older 4x games that get a good response is, shall we say, thin on the ground.

Can't say I had any of that. Part of it will be your tolerance for the graphics. I'm not completely hostile to older style graphics--as noted, my default comfort food game is Master of Orion 2--but the original Master of Magic goes a bit too far. (The remake also addressed some mechanical...

Or, "why am I playing Master of Orion 2 again?"

Well, you're at least practiced with it now.:eek:

I don't know about MMO players--they're almost a thing to themselves--but you get some distinct stresses between people interested only in single-player game and PvP or co-op types, in part because its not easy to make a game really good for both.

I've got an associated player who is notoriously risk-averse. She isn't averse to getting work done, but she's always vaguely resentful when her character gets attacked, and will try and position herself so that happens a minimal amount of time. Only good thing is she's not prone to avoiding...

Eh, I've been playing it for a while now and it seems fine. My only complaint was they had an opportunity to fix the diplomatic system from the original and not only didn't, it seems if anything worse. Other than that I haven't seen anything to complain about.

I do have to point out niche protection isn't a priority in a lot of games. You can argue whether that is a good idea or not, but its less and less considered necessary the farther you get away from the D&D sphere. Since the OP is as coy as they are about their system, its hard to tell how...

Generally I do so because, well, its kind of the point. That said, I'm not the guy who's going to ignore the impact it'll have on other players or the game as a whole, so I'll do my best to steer around problems there unless the other actions seem pretty much oppositional to what the character...

Once you have time travel that isn't blocked off in some fashion, that sort of thing in kind is intrinsic to the beast.

I'm 6'2" and my wife is 5'2". It sometimes seems like half the shelving in the house is too high or too low.

Blind spots can be as harmful to discussion as hostility.

I'm going to say a particularly obscure game called Starfaring. Its not impossible I actually got Metamorphosis Alpha or Empire of the Petal Throne first, however. (As you might be able to tell, my first was OD&D).