The more I poke around with this the more astonished I become. Apparently, there is some connection between this game and the Starfire game involving David Weber before he started writing Honor Harrington books.


It's still intimidating, but this looks to be the 4x equivalent to Dwarf Fortress.

The systems in this game do make a logical sense. The underlying math seems plausible. The flexibility in things to design and build is CRAZY. Like Valar said, there is a believability to the whole proceedings, though I have not yet had combat myself. The interface is a sheer vertical cliff, but the Aurora forums are organized and the creator, Steve, is very accessible...

Harpoon in space is not a bad analogy, though this is a broader experience.


For some reason, this has captured my attention in a way that X3 never did. That felt like a whole lot of grind for no real reward. I play GalCiv2 and it's many expansions, and this is far more detailed, tactically speaking. I love the shipbuilding of Nexus and Sword of The Stars, and this seems to be alot deeper, even if you only ever see a yellow dot to represent your ship.


Not really sure what I'm saying here, but yeah, if you can get past the looks, there does indeed seem to be something very cool here.

Sounds very interesting. I am a fan of the genre and enjoy GalCiv2 a lot. I love GalCiv2 for its diplomacy aspects, clean interface, and empire-building, but IMHO it falls so short in tactical combat - I don't care for the hands-off dice-rolling one bit. Looks like this takes it and runs in the other direction!

It looks very interesting, but the minimum screen resolution of 1280x1024 is a bit of a turn off, since my laptop is only a 1280x800 screen. I could probably use a floating desktop, but I think I've had enough of them.

Well, I've completed designing the components necessary to build, Gravitational Survey, Geographical Survey, and Cargo Ships. Having completed Grav and Geo survey, I've found some needed minerals on Europa and Io, using cargo ships, I've set up Automated Mines on both and am currently building Mass Drivers to facilitate the transfer of said minerals. The Grav Survery has discovered 4 viable points for wormhole generation, not counting LaGrange points.

In the meantime, one of my lead scientists was killed in an accident at the lab and progress on the Fusion Reactor has been halted. Her replacement seems like a good man, but his talents lie in other fields. So much for enhanced reactor tech, hello missiles!

Thanks - I will take a look. I really enjoy Sins of a Solar Empire and as much as I have tried, I just can't get into X3.

Version 5.2 came out today as it just so happens!

Version 5.42 is out, making the worlds most advanced 4X game even better :-)

Toaster, the new version addresses your resolution problem, btw.

I have it on all my pc's and have 2 games going. It is a neat little piece of software.





Bullet