HEY BRAD, do you know what would be awesome?

no offense, but that's the worst idea I've ever heard.  GalCiv is, and always should be a single player 4x game with great AI.

Why?

I'm serious here. Most of the multiplayer crowd want multiplayer and singleplayer. But why make it an MMO? As someone who almost only ever uses single player, and the only conditions I do play multiplayer is hotseat on Civ4 or something, I don't really care about MM. And I especially wouldn't want a MMO.

I don't mean to offend, but I can see no reason for the idea at all. You yourself say that only a handful of 4x MMOs have been done, and none have been very successful.

Surely after Demigod the Stardock team would be apphrehensive to tinker around with a massive multiplayer set up, at least in the short term

the children eventually replace those older, as it should be.  maybe we have not taught them well.  maybe they have not experienced hard times or struggle.  in any event, i'm rethinking my position on abortion.

Not me.  I heard a worse idea once.  I think...  

Hey now, don't go denigrating a practical technology like that. A douche can be a good thing for people of all genders in a wide range of circumstances. Although I admit listening to a douche is proboably useless at best and mostly a bit gross...

educate me.

I will continue believing Galciv as an MMO is a good idea until Brad Wardell himself tells me otherwise.

What an outright horrifying thought, a version of Gal Civ 3 I absolutely wouldn't buy.

Gal Civ is and should remain a game focused on single player. MP can be added (as a product of already having the netcode from other games) but the emphasis should really remain on the single player experience. Gal Civ occupies an almost unique niche in strategy gaming by focussing so strongly on the SP game and ensuring that the AI is a strong challenge, to abandon that (especially in favor of something as lazy and irritant-ridden as an MMO) would be a great tragedy.

who dares summon the chrimson avenger! oh hai slurple. i suppose i must be the one to connect the concept of the douche to your avatar. yuck, i hate that tuna catfood smell.

now hear this

https://forums.galciv2.com/98074

so he already told you. now go splort some hygene mixture on that thang and do not summon me here again.

Well, if you insist. First, I was careful not to make an absolute statement about the technologies--as with any tool, misuse and abuse are a risk. But there are circumstances where both a vaginal douche an an anal douche (enema) can provide medical benefits. It's douching more or less for recreational/presentation purposes that can be bad for you as a regular habit.

Massive Single Player Online, next. Better known as MSPO or enhanced Metaverse where the usual TBS process taps an IP portal wide enough to make duel games private and thus, preventing chat freaks & idiots from invading my continual decisions against AI+ still unknown. It's nine opponents as of now, one of these may be you.

wow, you are not a very pleasant person, sir.

   be careful what you ask for.

Tried both Celetania and Cosmic Supremacy. Celetania seems to have too many problems, they released prematurely, and the community is getting upset. Cosmic Supremacy was in beta for a very long time, you can tell because the game is really stable, and the game mechanics appear to be thoroughly tried and tested. I'll be playing that for a lot longer!