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This genre was coined by a dev team to describe and promote their (not yet released) game. The term RT4X isn't in common usage in the gaming community outside discussion of Sins of a Solar Empire (less than 800 Google hits and no gaming links that are not directly related to SoaSE). As such, I'm not sure this article meets Wikipedia's criteria regarding emerging neologisms yet.
The article contains a great deal of speculative material (e.g., "may be regarded by some as..."; "An RT4X title is expected to feature...") that is not sourced to reliable references. Until this genre term gains widespread usage in the gaming community outside of SoaSE promotional and primary sources, I think this article should either be changed to a redirect to Sins of a Solar Empire or prodded. --Muchness 09:54, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
- If it has to be redirected, why not to 4X? I don't think 4X games restrict you to non-real-time gameplay, in fact that's exactly what's said in the opening lines of the 4X article. Personally I think the term should be dropped. --Revlob 10:38, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
- I've redirected it boldly to Sins of a Solar Empire, since it seems to be a marketing term limited to that game. I don't see any reason to redirect it to 4X, since it isn't used to refer to 4X games in general (indeed, it isn't used at all except to refer to SoaSE). - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 10:45, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
- Well the only article that links to RT4X is the Sins of a Solar Empire article, so redirecting it there just sends people back to the page they came from. Not terribly useful, I must say. There isn't really any usage as a separate genre, and it appears in the text of the 4X and Real-time strategy articles, which both say that the term is a combination of Real-time and 4X game and is used by Sins, which is all there really is to say about the term right now. Redirecting to 4X makes more sense to me, as it is the genre of which the RT4X genre, in as much as it exists, is a sub-genre. The 4X page also mentions some 'precursor' RT4X titles which provide some slight amount of additional info about the genre over the Sins article. Boldly going. Infernal Inferno (talk) 01:05, 2 April 2008 (UTC)