JonnieR

I know you are all waiting breadthlessly for the this announcement (tongue in cheek) but I did buy Elemental. I apologize for my excessive angst in coming to this decision. However, just to hedge my bets, I also bought Age of Wonders Shadow Magic and Disciples II: Dark Phophecy Gold editon (has two mods in it). I tried each game out for about 4 hours apiece initially. Based on this very scientific testing procedure (tongue in cheek, again). Elemental ranked by far the highest followed

Interesting about Distant Worlds, I did not buy it, but came to the conclusion (after some research) that life was too short to help some Euros rewrite their program and, apparently, I have dodged a bullet. However, there is one important difference here; there were other 4x space strategy games available. Besides if it didn't come up to the level of GalCic 2 why bother. My read on Elemental is that it is somewhat unique and there is is no other 4x fantasy strategy game that quit

Thanks for the helpful rsponses. Is it true that they are offering a discount on the Fallen Enchantress when it is released if you buy the current version of Elemental War of Magic (V1.11 I believe)? If that is the case and Stardock certainly appears to ber commited to this game, then I don't see why not to buy the game now. The premise is interesting and the AI seems to be getting better and offering more of challenge and there really isn't anything else out on the horizon that's similar. If

I bought GalCiv2 directly from Stardock and received a physical CD. Later I purchased Dark Avatar and Twilight on line and downloaded these add-ons. I believe I did this before Impulse was available. In any case I reinstalled GalCiv 2 but I can't find Dark Avatarr or Twilight to download again. Impluse has a copy of Sins of the Sloar Empire which I purchased but no Dark Avatar or Twilight. I have sent several emails on this subjects to customer services and never received a reply. I also left

Kyro, Thanks for the info the game run flawlessly now.

I recently reloaded GalCiv2 on to my system running windows 7 professional 64 bit. The game installed and most of the functions operate correctly except for the images on the star map. Instead of the well-done icons representing planets and ships I only get small dark blue symbols for the ships which are very rough interpretations of the actual icon and small white circles for the planets (the more filled in the circle the better the quality of the planet). They are difficult to pick up