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though it is fun the first few times you play. this is a pretty good game, however it is pretty repeditive. there is not much to it, no campaign, and the single player game play is all the same thing.
I like this b/c it's like starcraft & homeworld together.Thus far it looks like no real diff b/t the races.I still need to log more hours of gametime.
Pirate attacks are not as strong as enemy attacks, however they can still devastate your economy and distract you enough to let the enemy stick a spear in your side when you are not looking. While there is no story mode, lack of development for characters, and the music is VERY dull, you will still find yourself playing this game for hours and hours at a time, just on one skirmish too. You build ships by collecting three resources-money, metal, and crystals. These resources are unlimited, yet can only be collected in a limited quantity, for example,.2 per second. Despite the frustrations, it is still one of my favorite strategy games to play. My point is, Sins of a Solar Empire offers a variety of units available to stack into simply massive fleets, and yet they are easy to manage.As you might have guessed, you are thrown into space with the single task of defeating your enemy. *This is one of my gripes in the game, especially on the smaller maps. But I digress.
One problem that commonly occurs with RTS games that feature huge environments and a plethora or units is the issue of micro-management. To be honest, I have played this game for a month and still do not know how to deal with them. It seems that even if I am dominating all the resources, they still are somehow able to build these massive fleets and STILL have enough money to pay off the pirates.Ahhh the pirates. Sometimes, even if I had more bounty on my enemy, I was STILL attacked. To speed up this process, you must expand to other systems and collect more resources. Additionally, if you want to collect resources faster or build newer and cooler ships, you must research them on the technology tree. Take for example the Total War franchise. Not only do you have to manage many buildings in your cities, you also have to monitor and babysit your units like crazy.
Absolutely. You have the option to put an amount of bounty on your enemy. One aspect the game refuses to teach you in the opening tutorials is how to work with pirates. Whoever has the most bounty on them gets attacked by the pirates, however I noticed this was not always the case. Now the strategy dilemma comes in the form of do you build up your fleet of small ships with your resources, spend money on research in order to gather more resources and build cooler ships, or try to balance the two.Don't count on your enemy to sit around idly while you are working all this out.
So, should you buy this game or not. The amount of gameplay and the re-play value of it is definitely worth the amount of $'s you will spend. The good thing is that pirate attacks can be disabled in the beginning options. For some hard-core gamers, this is not a problem, but for more casual gamers, massive yet minimal management is fun. They in turn can do the same to you, often competing fiercely over the amounts.
The enemy is always quick to hit you in the game and to take your newly conquered planets. First, you start with one planet and must build up a small fleet of warships to expand (warships are needed to dispatch the peasants standing in your way of galaxy expansion). This is the only bit of micro-management you can expect to do, and it can get a little old at times.
Game might be decent but I wouldn't know as I don't play games without updating. Poor customer service and no sympathy or support for reselling (a legal right in developed countries which Stardock is trying to limit, preferring to treat customers as potential criminals instead of dealing with us legally and fairly) leads me to suggest to people to not buy this, or any other Stardock product. I did not appreciate this, nor the implication I got that I had actually copied the game instead of buying it.
First advice: do not do this. Licenses are only sold once, so to update the game I BOUGHT I have to pay more to get a new license. I bought this game second hand, being genuinely interested in the game.
It's all spelled out in the EULA which I cannot read without buying the game. Apparently I can't. If the cd key is in use you cannot update the game past 1.3, leaving bugs in the game.
I quizzed Stardock about this and the official response was this: I am not buying the game, I am purchasing a license.
Stardock weds your game to one system for life, and flat out refuses to let someone else have your license. You win by creating an enormous fleet and moving it from planet to planet, while your opponent does the same.But don't try to sell or give anyone your copy of the game when you're done. Ok, it's snazzy looking. But, when you get right down to it, the game is nothing more than Masters of Orion on steroids.
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