what dlc worth a buy?

[Saica-Fox]

???

[Astasia]

I would say just Crusade at this point. The earlier DLC has been broken, buggy, and imbalanced for years now, little to no effort has been spent to make it work with new mechanics and game changes. Intrigue seems to be a ballache that has caused much of the playerbase to quit. The gold bundle might be pretty cheap at the moment though and might be worth it if they ever fix the content.

[ColorsFade]

Without Question:

1) Mercenaries.

2) Precursor Worlds

3) Crusades

4) Intrigue

Mercenaries provides a host of random ships that are big assists in winning. If you're the kind of player that likes to play against the more difficult AI's, you need this.

Precursor Worlds are great. No other way to describe them. When you find one, it's like Christmas. They're a really nice bonus to your civ.

Crusade adds the most bang for your buck and contains the biggest set of changes (in a good way) to the base game.

Intrigue: IMO, Governments and Galactic Events are totally worth it.

[rikoHen]

Originally posted by ColorsFade:

Without Question:

1) Mercenaries.

2) Precursor Worlds

3) Crusades

4) Intrigue

I concur.

Mercenaries is an absolute must for game immersion and could a nice boost in beginning of game and all through to make any difficulty more exiting.

Precursor world will really give another "Oh yeah!" moment when you get one colonized and could plan for a meg-planet that can churn out some nice buildings or specialized planets for ships or research.

Crusades and Intrigue is a must to enhance the overall gameplay and improves all aspects hundredfolds.

Get them all at this reduced price, you will not be disappointed for what they add to the game.

[Astasia]

Precurser Worlds used to be great, it was probably my favorite DLC, most of them are useless now though. The stats don't make sense or don't work, and many of the events for them are simply broken and do nothing.

Mercenaries is meh. Most of them aren't interesting, they are just boring upgrades that sometimes trivialize early progression a bit. Like you can always get a cheap upgraded survey ship with massive radar, range, and movement, and it makes going for those techs pretty pointless until later in the game. The few interesting mercs don't show up very often, and having them on just one ship tends to not be very exciting. It always felt to me like it would have been much better if the entire merc system was scrapped and all the abilities and upgrades were added to the tech tree of various factions to make the main game more interesting. It doesn't help that all of the mercs are pretty cheap and easy to get, and the AI almost never buys any of them, so the system is pretty one-sided.

[Infarkt]

my votes are: 1st: crusade, 2nd: mercenaries, 3rd: precursors and only if you really love this all, buy intrigue.

[Ricardo]

Just bought this game yesterday and really like it, especially missions. I got Crusade pack, so what others DLC should I buy, to play whole stories before Crusade? I would like to play all the mission from Day 0.

[LeftPaw]

Bought the gold pack and game seems to be more on par with Gal Civ 2 now as far as interesting and fun is concerned. Which is a good thing.

[Bou]

The only DLC I can recommend is Crusade.

[Infarkt]

Originally posted by Ricardo:

Just bought this game yesterday and really like it, especially missions. I got Crusade pack, so what others DLC should I buy, to play whole stories before Crusade? I would like to play all the mission from Day 0.

Other missions are coming with the DLC Revenge of the snathi, you should try this one. But notice that the campaigns are older than the crusade dlc, so some smaller issues can appear during the gameplay.
If you liked the snathi campaign, the next interesting one might be the altarian prophecy, also a DLC, and the Rise of the terrans, another DLC.