BillTheCat

I don't understand how Star Citizen works either and I backed it. Occasionally they send me emails which have 30 minute videos showing models of space ships, Status updates on the alpha, more videos of guys running around hangers, fan podcasts, in-universe fan fiction, etc. Occasionally I'll log in and make sure my virtual ship is still there and see what random stuff they've added. I backed at the $35 level so I only have a small scout ship. As they've raised more money I now have a Class II Space Suit with Test Pilot Colors, a Fishtank Mark 1 with Midas Fish for my virtual hanger, a virtual UFE hand towel which hangs somewhere in my virtual hanger, and other strange random virtual items. I figure eventually I'll hear that the game has been out for a week and finally download it.

I get "Nos intendo quaerentis frustrationem." Which I think is pretty close to "We intend to seek frustration."

But if everything is different after the cataclysm and 250 years, what is the point of importing a save besides basic things like the name of your civ? In CK2 the game just ends at 1453 and EU picks up right were that leaves off. Even if your dynasty has conquered all of Europe there can still be internal sturggles and meaningful conflct. Whereas if you've won a game of Civ 5 by conquering everyone else there's no way for those civs to come back and continuing that world into another game is meaningless. You do a good job : ) Trying to talk about a game where not much is known is already hard but compounding that with everyone's thrid-hand half-rembered knowedge of different articles and interviews created a strange segment.

Man, I wish that at least one thumb had just watched the Firaxis panel where they revealed Beyond Earth. Instead it was a bunch of "Uhhh... I think you pick a race?" "They wouldn't make an overtly racist game." "Do you fight against aliens?" All of which was talked about in the panel. Importing a Civ V game into Beyond Earth isn't really going to work because the game is set about 250 years in the future after there has been some giant worldwide catastrophy and humanity has had to reorganize and rebuild. It isn't like Crusader Kings where the one historical period just leads into the next.