Good strategy game/needs map editor and realistic weapons pairing

If you are into strategy games, this version has a lot of options to explore. If you just play the default mode, you may get frustrated since there is a turn “limit” as well as definitions of victory pre-set in the options. Explore changing the options, especially turning off the default settings. While the game is entertaining, it is becoming somewhat predictable and also has some response issues and other quirks. I have tried the Hugh map option with only three main characters. The game definitely can overwhelm even a new Mac Pro if most of the world has become developed. Lack of game response can become very annoying, especially as the game can get out-of-sync with your mouse clicks and you wind up sending a worker to the other side of the world when you were trying to send your battleship. One option might be to turn off animation of individual units, but this would seem to lessen the whole experience. Late in the game you also start having cities starving with no means to increase the farms in their immediate areas. I still haven’t figured this one out. It doesn’t make sense to have cities linked by rail/trade and have issues of food availability within your domain, not when you are also launching rockets into space. Lastly, you must wage war at some point to survive. This is OK and requires developing strategy of how to actually wage war and win battles. What is very bothersome, however, is the pairing of different units and damge inflicted in confrontations. Somehow bows and arrows inflicting severe damage on a state of the art battle tank is just plain ridiculous. It is apparent the software is simply using the same code to determine outcomes between units even as the supposed sophistication of weaponry and modern warfare develop in the game. This seems a major flaw and really detracts and lessens the games experience once you reach the modern era. In fairness I have not tried the multi-player option and have not explored a wide range of combinations of play available through the options/settings.

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