Sins of a Solar Empire

[Tilda]

Comming out on monday looks to be a pretty groundbreaking RTS by Stardock. Getting really positive press from most sites.
As someone at PC Gamer said, most betas you expect to suggest something and for them to say "na we tried that 3 years ago, it sucked" instead you heard "Cool idea, we'll try that tomorrow"
I'm veh excited!

IGN: Sins of a Solar Empire

[PLightstar]

It is looking pretty good at the moment, just got to upgrade my PC then I should be able to run it.

Conquering the galaxy looks like its guna be fun, well more fun than the 4x games like GC and masters of Orion.

[Mabs]

i am surely blind , for i cannot find it listed on any intertron shops ?

[inactionman]

Best to buy over the internet. I'll be picking this up monday.

[Tilda]

Originally Posted by Mabs

i am surely blind , for i cannot find it listed on any intertron shops ?

Stardock are a bit funny with their distribution.

In the US its out on stores, but they haven't got distributors for the UK, you can order/preorder a direct download or dvd set from their website.

[Tilda]

Sins of a Solar Empire

[Opt1]

I miss MOO2 and Fragile Allegiance

Only been able to get them to work very sporadically on XP..

MOO3 I do not want to remember.. was awful.

This looks nice =) Shame my PC probably won't run it well.

[Tilda]

They've actually had it running on PC's over 4 years old. Granted they said it didn't look anywhere near as good as it will on a top of the line PC, but still, it runs, and at a playable speed. They've done good on the scaleability front.

[Mabs]

had my email through will DL later.
if its pants ill send the heavies round Tilda

[Tilda]

I got my email, about 7pm.
I downloaded it through their servers at 890kb/s !!
I loaded up a single player game at about 8:45 to "test it out and get the hang of things"
I went to bed at 2:45 and am gagging to play now.
Love it.

[taB]

This is getting downloaded tonight I reckon, looks very fun

[Milkshake]

I've been a big Galactic Civ fan, with pretty much all addons. Though this is real time rather than turn based yes? I guess that speeds things up, but does that still give you a chance controlling a huge empire against a computer?

[Tilda]

yes milkshake, its real time, and utterly awesome.
Can control a huge empire (think lots of solarsystems, each system with lots of planets) against up to 10 computer players.
You can save online games so if enough FH people get it, we could get a huge game going for a few hours each week/night.

[Mabs]

right well
its very shiny, and rather good. still havent really worked it all out so i keep getting overrun. must practise. tis worth a look tho, those people sitting on the fence

[inactionman]

It's good.

Not sure about the siege frigate spam though, can be crippling (zerg a capital with 20 or so siege frigates, ignoring any defences, then watch their economy go poof, for an easy win) and the AI can sometimes use it. This will probably get resolved in a patch soon though.