I don't recall mentioning C&C here. My comments were about the starship simulator genre, maybe "starfleet command" fooled you.
True about the card games. While subscription isn't expensive, I've come to realise that asking my friends to pay for that subscription just to play a card game with me from time to time would seem unreasonable and I wouldn't be comfortable doing so. Both are unable to work for various reasons and are on very tight budgets. Equally paying for all three subscriptions would be more than I'm happy doing for what we would get out of it. I would be happy arranging us all for an internet based monopoly game, which would probably be more interesting to them both and I hope wouldn't need a subscription if it was ran on a host/client basis on your own system rather than a central server.
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