Leaning negative for a couple of reasons -
1) I heard that you can only use one ship at a time in the tactical battles (there are several pirate games that let you manage multiple ships).
2a) Still peeved about no patch for Civ3 (the one that was cancelled before Civ Not-Complete was released
2b) The release version of Civ3 was not release quality
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If I hear that the 1 ship battle issue is hardly noticible due to other features AND there are no major issues, I might purchase it...
ps: I was going to buy it on a whim last week when CompUSA had it for $40, but it wasn't in - they refused to give rainchecks and then when it came in later in the week, they said the sale ended on Wed.
ps2: I want the game to be good, but I feel that firaxis products have earned a more cautious approach than I used to give them.