3:00AM Maggie Greene | Tom Francis, author of the wonderfully funny essay
chronicling his attempts to find love in MMOs, is back with a running diary of his attempts to take over a galaxy in Galactic Civilizations II. Now, Francis has
done this once before, but now GalCiv II has gotten an expansion pack and is even bigger. And this time, he’s going for dominance via peaceful tactics, not war. He’s finding that a peace pledge is making things slow going indeed, but there’s a certain je ne sais quoi about his descriptions. My favourite so far is his reaction to a more aggressive race trying to extort the planet ‘Solidarity’ from him:
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