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Been a while since I've been kinda stoked about an RTS that does something new. Anyway, I know a bunch of you will be playing (and I know some of you will stop when Culdcept comes out!) so here's some links to make things easy: Download Stardock Central: http://sdc.stardock.com/sdcentral_setup.exeBuy the game: http://www.sinsofasolarempire.com (plz to be buying directly from dev). Get key in email. Put key into Stardock Central (which is like steam, but uhhh shitty?) Play! Keys should be mass mailed sometime today (today being Monday). And uhm. Yea. Oh, and some guy put 20,000 ships into one scene in beta and his comp didn't crash. Pretty fucking cool.  Yes, those dots are ships. Who wants to try some MP tomorrow night? |
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Mrbloodworth
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Whats different about this game?
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schild
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It's a 4x RTS. There's nothing NOT different about this game.
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JWIV
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Jeff Kelly
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So how is the gameplay.
I hate most RTS especially resource gathering RTS. In most RTS not the one with the best strategy wins but the one who clicks faster and has the most resources.
That is not what I'd call strategy. So what is different about this game?
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Simond
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And does it have Stellar Converters?
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bhodi
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How does this compare to Galactic Civilizations? It started out sucky and buggy, but by the time the second expansion rolled around the game started to become pretty good. Is it the same / similar codebase / idea? It seems to be very pretty.
Hum. Combat is in real time?
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« Last Edit: February 04, 2008, 08:23:54 AM by bhodi »
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Sky
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It's a 4x RTS. There's nothing NOT different about this game.
 You know the drill, Will Robinson! |
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Moaner
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I couldn't resist, I just pre-ordered. I'll be ready for some multiplayer this weekend.
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Murgos
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How does this compare to Galactic Civilizations? It started out sucky and buggy, but by the time the second expansion rolled around the game started to become pretty good. Is it the same / similar codebase / idea? It seems to be very pretty.
Hum. Combat is in real time?
I think it's more along the lines of Homeworld + subset of 4X features in a multi-system galaxy. There is media floating around that pretty much shows a whole game, what I saw looked pretty well polished. I'm very interested in checking this out. Unfortunately, this is a bad week for me so I probably won't get to it until next week. |
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Phildo
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I'm pretty sure this was already a Star Wars game a few years ago. I'm waiting for good reviews before considering a purchase.
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Soukyan
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Must. Buy. Now.
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NiX
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 I'm so buying this. |
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Murgos
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Anyone come across reviews or have a BIIF?
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schild
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I just got my serial number.
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So, if you took MoO3 and launched the Homeworld client to handle the battles, would that be better or worse than this game?
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THIS IS THE MOST I HAVE EVERY WANTED TO GET IN TO A BETA
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bhodi
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OK so I'm going to get this tomorrow.
It's like Homeworld with a dash of 4X thrown in. The game's also heavily moddable.
I love me some Space RTS The only thing that kind of sucks is that there is no single player campaign :/
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schild
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Well. There's tutorials and (seems to be some single player skirmish stuff).
The tutorials are long, and without voice acting, they feel really long. I'll probably have to get back to it this weekend. Though I really want to get some in before work.
As such.
Sleep time.
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Rasix
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I love me some Space RTS The only thing that kind of sucks is that there is no single player campaign :/ Uhhh.. wow. Really? Just saved myself $40. |
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Mazakiel
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No single player is pretty depressing, I was looking forward to trying the game. My schedule's too different from my friends' to be able to reliably get some multiplayer going, assuming I could sell them on the game.
Oh well, there's no shortage of games being released right now to spend money on.
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AngryGumball
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Just curious why do you advise buy it from the website company?
Instead of local computer store?
Is the company really earning that much more profit?
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Phildo
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I was under the impression that even if there's no storyline campaign, you can still play against the CPU offline. Yes?
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Jeff Kelly
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BTW what is this 4X you all keep talking about?
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JWIV
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There's multiple Single Player Modes and map sizes and the like - there's just not crappy single player campaign to cripple your troop selection for 20 hours as you slog through voice acting and dialogue to get to the fun.
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AngryGumball
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anyone know the max planet size you can make a map, like with Masters of Orion4, you could select HUGE map size and it had like 85-200 galaxies to fight over, ranging from 2-7/8 planets.
Edit: I got the impression from watching the g4tv preview it was limited to 5 galaxies a game?
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Typhon
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you mean solar systems, not galaxies. Large galaxies can contain billions of stars.
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Hutch
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BTW what is this 4X you all keep talking about?
The stages of gameplay in Civ style games. Explore Expand Exploit (?) Exterminate If I recall correctly. |
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schild
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I was under the impression that even if there's no storyline campaign, you can still play against the CPU offline. Yes?
I'll check when I get home, but yes, I'm 99.9% sure I saw that option. |
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Jeff Kelly
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Ah thanks for the clarification. So are all of these phases in SoaSE real time or are some turn based? As a previous poster mentioned some sort of MOO + Homeworld for the fights or Real time all the way?
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schild
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Seems real time all the way.
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Sky
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Just curious why do you advise buy it from the website company?
Instead of local computer store?
Is the company really earning that much more profit?
Yes. I may not buy this game, but if you do, buy it from Stardock (they'll send you a hard copy if you want). I'm all about their next turn-based game. Though I do have to ask my standard RTS question, should be standard, anyway: Can you pause and issue orders? Freedom Force and Baldur's Gate 2 are both real-time games I pretty much played as TBS. |
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Thrawn
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Played this for a few hours last night, can't say I've been blown away by anything but overall I was enjoying it. But being only a couple of hours in I have a ton of of the game to get deeper into still.
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schild
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I think this is a game that will purely shine in 10+ player matches. (if it can do more than 10).
But then, my pain in that being the case is averted by the fact it's totally indie. Which I'm OK with.
Production value is Very High for an indie title.
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bhodi
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I guess it's technically an indie title, but it has a few of the homeworld developers that worked on it. It's not one guy in a basement like dwarf fortress.
As an aside to schild, the next dwarf fortress is going to feature graphics -- he's decided that while he loves ascii, it's a bit of a wall preventing some people from getting into the game :)
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