Imperium Galactic III when?

I'm a fan of Imperium Galactica II which I still play and also an RTS fan.
And from the hundreds of RTS I have played none equals the quality of the imperium galactic II NONE! I never ever tried even on a recent RTS a game with a decent AI has IG II nor with such a complex diplomacy or that even came close to what IG II had!

This is a list of a few of the IG II features:

Design your own units with technologies you research(Spaceships and Ground forces)
Diplomacy (one of the best and with most potential I ever seen)
Amazing tutorial!(every player that did the tutorial knew how to play the game)
Intelligence(spying the best I ever seen loved the RPG feel and the racial bonus)
City Building Simulator ( Amazing to expand a city and then fighting on the same city you built but building were not scaled and you see no movement from your citizens)
Space battle simulator
Ground battle simulator
Very large technology tree
Decent AI
RPG features like ingame quests with unique rewards
-Dinamic missions which meant every game would not be equal
Trading system (Simply amazing if you had credits you could mass a large army with state of the art or obsolete equipment from other empires selling units)
Good number of units on screen(considering this was a 2000 game)
Amazing space theme songs
Amazing cutscenes
3 Campaign scenarios each with different missions, story and cutscenes
One resource based game (credits this is the best and allow a better gameplay than huge number of types of resources)
And so on...

After IG II RTS market seems to be stuck on the dark ages none RTS has ever had the amount of features IG II had, there is currently none space RTS has deep but yet simple on the surface has IG II

I request for an IG III with this following features adding to all the ones the IG II had:

- Infantry brigade units hundreds or thousands of them on screen(Blitzkrieg or Rometotalwar style)
- A slightly deeper city simulator with the ability to see citizens and maybe click on them (sim city 4 style)
- Increase the number of dynamic quests
- Asteroid mining and base/outpost construction
- Increase the number of fighters on screen
- Replay battle option
- Addition of commanders both military, research, production and economy that would boost fleets and colonies but could also be kidnapped or killed
- Experience for both ships and ground units
- Ability to set a ship has a flagship
- Price 25-40 euros
- Demo tutorial

With all of these this game would sell millions of copies not joking! There is a very huge market for RTS but there is a huge void for Space RTS and there is still a large number of IG II fans out there. If this IG III ever comes out don't dumb it down like civilizations did IG II had already achieved the perfect formula with a tutorial that covers all features and a easy interface that was based on text instead of icons.

IG III = IG II ( 100%) + Space Empires V and Galactic Civilizations II (20%)+ Star wars Rebellion/supremacy (30%) + Sim city 4 (40%) + Blitzkrieg(30%) + Nexus Jupiter incident ( visual graphic space battles)

Best Regards
Deathmachine

I just registered cause I wanted to reply on this topic:

Im also a very big fan of Imperium Galactica 2, and all the time since 1998 Im looking for a strategy game that is like that. I was very happy when I've heard that IG3 was under developement, but then I was very sad when dev was canceled and only Nexus came out (which I bought and also very much liked, but its just not the same). The only game after that which was also quite nice where X2 and X3, but both are not that overwhelming and big as IG2.

If you would make a real, new IG3 with the fight-system and graphics of Nexus, that would be great. I dont want new Features, I only want IG 2 with Nexus graphics and maybe some new Techs / Ships. Everything else could please stay.

Maybe you shouldn't wait for a Publisher to see that this would be a great Idea: You could raise the money through crowdfunding? I would pay that 150 € for that immediately. How much would the developement of IG3 cost?

On a lot of internet pages people write that they would totally throw their money on you if you would dev another IG...

Best Regards,
Firstdeathmaker

I didn't really like Haegemonia at all XD, your space fleet was so god DAMN limited, Not ground Units!, no building cities on planets, technology research was arcade and limited to the missions.
The story was ok but it was a big turn down the fact they were split in missions on IG 2 it was a single game(like total war series) this was so awesome and gave a personal and unique feeling.

I would be happy with IG 2 HD too would prefer this over Haegemonia 2. ( I would buy it too as long it does not reach 50 euros)
(Great idea DRevan!! it could actually help fund and also study how big the market still is and how many fans are still out there)

Btw one of the main problems with RTS this days is that sometimes they offer alot of units under your command but they have no AI and they are dumb requiring you to constantly giving you orders, this makes players enjoy less of the game since they see less combat, effects and are forced to keep checking their units locations. This could be simply correct with attack and move Blitzkrieg style or additionally defend and move they would hold their ground and retreat to a safe position if counter with enemy fire while moving to target.

Out of all the RTS games i have played, imperium galactica 2 was my favorite. When this game hit the shelves i bought it right away and was amazed by the graphics and gameplay. This game was ahead of its time when it came out, and even after 10 years i am still playing this game. I cant wait to get my hands on imperium galactica 3.
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Everything about this game is great. i even love how i can zoom in on planets on the map view and watch their orbits. same with zooming in on space battles. The tutorial was a plus as well. I also liked how you can create your own shit designs. Although the ships and tanks were generic in shape and detail, for the time i have to say it was badass. I just hope that the imperium galactica 3 will have cooler looking ships, tanks and weapons.

Suggestions:

More scientificpedia for the weapons, sheilds, buildings ect. (makes the game more realistic when the technology is explained)

A great feature for this type of game would be a way to create your own unique ship body.

planet mining: should have planets or moons that have raw materials for mining. they would have a mining option rather than a colonize option. maybe even a research planet option.

Hallo,

leider ist mein Englisch nicht so gut, vielleicht findet sich jemand der das übersetzen möchte. Jedenfalls wäre ich sehr dankbar.

Erst mal Danke für die vielen schönen Stunden die ich mit Imperium Galactica 2 erleben durfte.
Ab und an spiele ich es sogar noch heute, obwohl es schon in die Jahre gekommen ist.
Seit langer Zeit weiß ich schon, das es wahrscheinlich keine Fortsetzung, das für mich besten PC-Spieles aller Zeiten geben wird.

Euer erstes Spiel "Reunion" habe ich mir seiner Zeit auch gekauft. Mit IG1, IG2 und Haegemonia dachte ich eigentlich das ihr euch auf Science-Fiction Spiele konzentrieren würdet. Leider kam nie mehr was in der Richtung raus.
Haegemonia war das letzte Spiel was ich von euch gekauft habe.

Ich frage mich was passiert ist, euren Kurs derart zu verändern.
Ein Weltraumspiel was im IG2 Universum Spielt wäre mein Traum, mit Kämpfe,Diplomatie,Handel und Forschung.
Gibt es für sowas keinen Absatzmarkt mehr frage ich mich.
Statt dessen bringt ihr ein Ballerspiel nach dem anderen die im 2.Weltkrieg angesiedelt sind raus.
Und jetzt dies/e neuen Fun-Spiele für Kinder.
Hat sich die Zeit so gewandelt. Sowas Spielt man mal und legt es wieder im Schrank. Keiner redet mehr darüber nach einer Zeit. Es gibt so viele solcher Mist-Spiele. Der Markt ist voll davon. Nintendo,PS2,WII.

Über Imperium Galactica wird heute noch geredet.......

Gruß

translation of Godan72's post using google.translate:

Hello,

Unfortunately, my English is not so good, maybe there is someone who wants to translate. Anyway, I would be very grateful.

First of thanks for the many happy hours I have experienced with the Imperium Galactica second
From time to time I play it even today, although it has come on in years.
For a long time I know that it's probably not a sequel, which will give me for best PC game of all time.

Your first game, "Reunion" I bought his time. With IG1, IG2 and Haegemonia I actually thought that you would you focus on sci-fi games. Unfortunately never came out in what direction.
Haegemonia was the last game that I bought from you.

I wonder what happened to change your course so.
A space game which would be playing in my dream IG2 universe, with battles, diplomacy, trade and research.
Is there something more without a market, I wonder.
Instead, she brings a shooting game at a time that are located out in World War 2.
And now this is / e new fun games for kids.
The time has so changed. Does something like it again and puts it back in the closet. No one talks more about it after a while. There are so many such crap games. The market is full of them. Nintendo, PS2, WII.

About Imperium Galactica is still spoken today .......

I also registered today to show that there is a marked for IG3, I accentual check if there are any news for successor or remake of IG2, this is in my opinion the greatest game I ever have played. many strategy games are grate and specialized at one set of gametype, but IG2 combined so many strategy aspect in to one game in such a grate way, that no other game to day has even come close to match, from city management to destroying empires.

there are so many branches from IG2, like nexus, nexus 2(on and off project), and hegamonia. I have no idea ho have the rights to make a successor to IG2, but I'm happy to se DR is back and kicking. perhaps my fading hope of a return of my favorite game got a lite more strong.