I agree, this was a real shame. I only ever had one (extremely lucky) successful game on Medium. Didn't stop me loving it to bits for ages, though.

Alpha Centauri was ace because the different ideologies made for such completely different gameplay styles, and I never even bought the expansion.

Star Trek Birth of the Federation is probably my favourite, though. I still play it sometimes, even though it sends XP into occasional re re re re repeating death stut tut tut tutters. Ferengi Alliance FTW!

X3

Bwahahaha just kidding.

As has been said above:
Ascendancy. Nothing else need be said!

If only Ascendancy had a brain. The AI was so weak that I would usually give the AI players a few hundred turn head start to make it at all challenging.

Star Trek Birth of the Federation took a large part of my life...

I do like GalCiv 2 (no expansions yet). Apart from that, Civilization is fun, but I do find space 4x games more enjoyable. I hope they kick development of FreeOrion into high gear (an open-source game similar to Mo2 and other space 4x games). I know when they have a complete version of that available that it will consume me.

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I love Imperium Galactica II and of cause Sins. Also Civ and Homeworld series - not to forget my old Stars!

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I gotta say iv got some old favorites.

Recently, Sword of the Stars was a good game for me.

Before that, the one I liked the most was Imperium Galactica 2, which was my very first 4X RTS.




ANNNNNNNNDDDD WAYYYYYYYYY WAYYYYYY back in the day, back to 1994 or so, maybe earlier, was a game called "Stars!". It was my very first 4X Strategy Game (not RTS), and it was a lot of fun, even though I really had no idea how to play it when I was only 10 years old.

I really looked forward to the sequel "Stars! : Supernova", but that game never materialized due to publishing problems in the UK.

Stars! will probabbly be my most nostalgic favorite, since it was probabbly one of the first, (or at least within the first few years) of 4X Space Strategy games.



After "Stars!", id go with "Star Control : II", but thats more of a 4X & RPG classic. (Its Freeware somewhere out there on the internet, its a great game with voice acting! For 1995 that was insane!)


A buddy of mine also said to add "Tradewars", which was a text based 4X strategy game, but that bored the hell outta me.

Hopefully I'm not repeating someone, but I didn't see it so I must ask would Rise of Nations qualify?

I'll put in a good word for Alpha Centauri. I wish that a true Alpha Centauri II could be made. I've never played Gal Civs, but I'm tempted to get it since I like Stardock/Ironclad.

Master of Magic. A really old game, but I played it for ever. Civilization with magic. Sigh. Such a shame advancing computer technology rendered it unusable.

It was a very fun game but once you researched plasma cannon it was pretty much over. The range and damage of that gave you such an advantage and the AI never seemed to catch up.

Other favs are GalCiv2, MoO2, and the Warlords series (notably Warlords II and Warlords IV). I still play them.

All the GalCiv games and expansions have eaten away at my life!
Also Birth of the Federation and Civ 4, but not to such great extents!
I can feel Sins slowly devouring me to!

master of orion 2 & master of magic. oh, and ufo: enemy unknown.

The hints that Stardock is working on a strategy game with partial MoM inspiration makes me oh so excited.

With all due respect to ozu08865 I am surprised MOO3 showed up as one of your favorites. (I bought it also and cried when I found out how bad it was.) It was the only game that I purchased where it was more productive to use the CD as a coffee coaster than running the software. I never played MOO2 but I did hear about how fun it was, that is how I got suckered into buying MOO3. From now on, I read the reviews before I purchase.

As for my list of favorite 4X games:

GalCiv II (plus expansions)
CIV I-III. (Never really got into CIV IV even though it gets good ratings.)
HOMM Series (I did not get HOMM V because of the mediocre ratings it received.)
Alpha Centauri