Why is this game 1.1 gb on GOG but only around 700 mb on steam?

Good question. I have no answer but another question.

Why is this $60 US dollars, only 1.1 gig in size, five years old and require so little RAM?
That's a lot of $ for a 1.1 gig game that uses so little processing power to run.
It says it needs Internet Explorer to run. Is the background game processing going on, on a web server somewhere? Hence the small size and low processing requirments?

I do have this game in my library, I'm just wondering if I should bother to install and play it.

because of the amazing amount of code used to generate your games with. It is considered a 4x masterpiece with a choice and availability not often seen in the scene
you can play the game offline and be amazed with all of its automation features. if you consider yourself a 4x sf gamer you should have at least tried this game once.
even now it is fairly unique in what the game offers

Thanks for your reply.

I should really just load it up and give it a good go. I'm running out of storage* on this rig of mine but being that it's only 1gig in size it should be ok.

I realy love, and am searching for, a good complex sci-fi strategy. I may be misunderstanding the code/RAM dynamics, hence my thinking(wrongly?) of small RAM requirement = less complexity in strategy dynamics.

In my review/forum research, the game gets good (trustworthy) marks from the community. Yours included. Thanks.

Installing now.

* running out of storage : a poor exuse for just being plain ol' bunrt out on playing too much vidy game...


p.s. I was just thinking, how did this game get into my library in the first place? I believe it was free as part of a promotional campaign probably because of my purchases the other sci-fi space strategy games that I've bought. Neet! I got a $60 game in my library for free.

no you are not wrong with your line of thinking.

this particular developer is a full blown lauded and recognized wargame developer whoms productions even made it into the training regime's of different armies over the world

One would almost say that the best strategic a.i. can be found in their , Matrix, games
Another wicked production under their flag is Gary Grigsby's war in the east for example, following the german invasion of russia during the 2d world war.

I'm currently enjoying Polaris Sector which is mindboggling in its own way. This all being single player productions you can be certain that the developer in question, though with a bit of specific mindset always had 1 player fun for eyes

Yes. I'm glad you brought up the quality of DW:U and Matrix games and their developers. I went over to the Matrix games website and saw that they had the famous Gary Grigsby's War in the East game. I haven't purchased that one yet but I did pick up a couple titles and DLCs that I've had my eyes on. They still had some good sales going for a good amount of their games so I got the Field of Glory II + DLCs and FoG: Empires.

I keep forgeting that the developers have their own stores and will have titles that may not even be sold on Steam or GOG and will have sales of their own that can often be deeper than the sales for the game sold on Stm or GG.

So now I've got an account at MatrixGames and Slitherine now.

Cheers!