Ego Draconis is supberb, yes... but I always felt that lacked better cities or towns. Since FoV provided precisely this, I quickly fell in love for the expansion ^_^
When I was playing the main game, I always had the hope for a city like Veridistis; so, think of my disappointment when I saw ""Rivertown"" and Aleroth. Anyway, the main game had many other great elements to compesate this ^_^
