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Do any good free 4x games exist?
Lord Jezo
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I need to 4x it up a bit but I can't afford Galciv II right now.
Are there any decent freeware projects in the genre?
Are there any decent freeware projects in the genre?
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http://www.freecol.org
Vox Imperium:
http://www.voximperium.com/
Ultracorps:
http://ultracorps.sjgames.com/
Empire Deluxe:
http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=369
People's Tactics:
http://www.peoplestactics.com/
Battle for Wesnoth:
http://www.wesnoth.org/
Anacreon:
http://neurohack.com/anacreon/index.html
Stars!:
http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=3228
Reach for the Stars:
http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=886
Stellar Conquest III:
http://necrobones.com/games/games1.shtml
Imperial Domination:
http://www.yoyogames.com/games/show/628
...I'm sure there are others around, and YMMV with these, depending on your tastes...
Stars! is a very "clicky" 4x game. Not a whole heck of a lot of automation, but what it does have works well enough. Again, lots of mouse clicking. Playing in huge maps with several hundred stars is carpal tunnel inducing. It's worth it though, in my opinion.
Many race creation options, including a base race option that can mine the planets it's space stations orbit ([something no other race can do] the catch being that they live in space stations and if it's destroyed, kiss your possession of that world goodbye), a race that breeds rapidly (seriously, you can breed and spread like bacteria if you plan it right), and a race with innate stealth, among several others. It's a point based system, so you can modify lots of options to get a species you really like.
All of the above is IIRC, as I haven't had a copy for several years.
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Oh christ.
Even if you don't want to pay for it the demo version is still fairly good. It limits the maximum map size, locks you into the default races, and caps the level of technology you can research, but other than that it's the normal game.
http://wiki.gible.net/index.php?title=Clones
I haven't experimented thoroughly, but I think at least some of those are in a fully playable state.
Free as in beer.
Its a red shirt crewman exploitation simulator. I lost so many of those poor bastards on planet landings they jacked the price of new crew on me.
Lots of choices.
So is there a good primer for these things? I want to play but suck hard at them.
I went back to freeciv last night, first time playing a Civ game in over a decade, and I can't remember anything. I think I run into issues when I don't know what to build or where to go. Is there a crash course on Civ I can read? I just need to get myself going again. End game my brain always collapses when I need to manage a ton of cities but getting there is fun enough.
And galciv has a demo?
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I'm going to help you out right now. This is going to rock your world. Everytime you're interested in a genre, do this:
1. Figure out what the best games in that genre are. You can do this with Google: "4X games review." That will give you a hitlist of reviews to read (and a wikipedia article, because Google is now conditioned to return wikipedia articles as the top hit. You can probably google "milf anal porn cumshot" and the first return will be a wikipedia article).
2. Write down the names of the games that pop up and are mentioned in the first returned reviews (and the wikipedia articles).
3. Read some of the reviews. Even if the review is bad, it will usually say something like, "this game isn't as good as Galactic Civ 2 or Civilization, where are the best games in this genre and you should totally be playing them right fucking now." Write down the names of these games, too. This is what we call "research."
4. Go to fileplanet, click on Demos, and one at a time, enter the name of the games you wrote down in the search bar so you know what games have demos and what games don't.
5. Stop coming to Penny Arcade to ask about free demos you ought to know about already.
Next time he should find a forum where the subject is about games!
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat for a lifetime. Or some such.
Free demos? I am looking for free open source freeware projects that are full complete games. That stuff is usually buried in places under rocks where only the hardcore lurk. I figure since I am an outside who only knows about Galciv II and Civ IV and other pay to play games I would ask here and find out what people recommend.
Like Freeciv. Wonderful suggestion.
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