Well, Spore is highly successful.  I'd give "magic spore" a chance, though I want MoM 2 much MUCH more.  (I'd say... infinatly more.   I don't care about spore, I do care about master of magic.  I just would give magic spore a chance)

I wouldn't be worried about "simplification" resulting in shallow single player sandbox epierience.  I mean MoM had pretty simple economy mechanics.   If you recall, around the time Elemental was announced, Frogboy announced they would be making some dramatic changes to the classic 4X strategy game economy mechanics.   It sounds like to me, they are taking a step back and moving in a more classic or simple direction.  (you wouldn't want to alienate all your Civ and MoM fans by having some crazy outlandish economy model that is counter intuitive to the way they've played 4X strategy games since the 80's)

it just occured to me that by not even on the user's box means no Hotseat games?   T_T << is crying

Demigod's multiplayer must have really upset Stardock.    Sins of a Solar Empire wasn't that bad was it?  It is peer to peer right?

It's pretty easy to have an economy model more complex than MoM/AoW/Dominions (Dominions in particular is as simple as you can get). So I wouldn't worry much there honestly.

   I am also praying we are given   PBEM  and  HOTSEAT...  I hope we're provided a more detailed answer.   Please allow  PBEM and HOTSEAT.   PLEASE.

   I'm not sure the details behind their plans for simplifying the economy, but I hope the modding capabilities will allow us to  add/change/remove  resources as well as adjust the pricing.  Gamers could then adjust the game to be very simple or more complex. 

I still have hope but it's a huge kick in the arse. I'm defnitely not as excited as I was. I feel like Im being punished for liking multiplayer

I believe we should wait for frogboy to make a post about multiplayer that isn't freash out of working on Demigod before we get upset about it.     

Even so, why would you be punished for liking multiplayer?   I don't think Demigod is going to let this game be released without solid multiplyer.  However they just want to create a very high quality single player experiance. 

Personally, I hope to shape that into a good multiplayer experiance.   Depending on the single player works, I'd like to see an elaborate multiplayer story mode if possible.   Things like good AI and all that from single player, will only help the multiplayer experiance.

I'm excited about the user-custimaztion options and such.   The multiplayer option is just a nessessity to me.  I want it, this game I think needs it, but I don't think its the best feature by any means.  If the content creation features were cut or lessened, then I would be upset.   (I'd say I have more love the 2nd and 3rd plane of existance, even though it hasn't been announced nor has SD given any suggestion that they exist.  But I'll be more sad if SD announces there are no alternate planes or underground options, over the fact that multiplayer games will be hosted by SD)

I don't know Corporate Machine, so how does its turn system differ from a normal 'this person goes, and then this person goes'?

So essentially both people take a turn at the same time? I find it hard to see how a turn-based game could even possibly work if you take turns at the same time, with Unit 1 on Tile A moving to attack Unit 2 on Tile B, but Unit B trying to move to Tile C. Or does it detect an end of a turn? Or is it timed? Super confused here.

If that is the case, couldn't it just swap the current player when it auto-detects the end of the turn to make hotseat work fine?

Normally I don't like ANYTHING real-time, but that system would actually work quite nicely.

So it will be like Neverwinter Nights where the 'turns' just go by with time, and you can pause it? That seems fair. Perhaps people could just mod in a hotseat mode where you can use only instant-resolve and auto-resolve when fighting against players. Sure, it doesn't match up to LAN, but it would be a nice option for those with only one computer. At least I think =P Well, I'll just have to wait and see how it turns out Thanks for the info, Hadberz!

No, by my understanding there is no timer, and it works like this:

You move your guy. The oppionent moves his. Then you move another of yours. Then he moves another of his and so on. When neither of you have any moving pieces left, the turn ends and it all resets.