Hey /v/ is this a good game ot buy someone as a gift? I am planning on giving it through steam on x-mas, but I need to know if it's worth it.
I suppose if they like medium paced RTS yeah.
>>319291020
It's fairly complex and not exactly easy and I didn't enjoy it for very long. Lot's of frustrating elements.
>>319291020
The pirate mechanic was bullshit. I don't remember which version so maybe it was improved, but if you were playing against ai, the pirates would ignore them completely, and still go after human players regardless of the bounty target. They would go out of there way to go through your space to reach a far away ai. First thing I would always do would be to nuke the pirate base if they weren't disabled.
Other than that it was a pretty good rts.
>>319291020
I tried it. Almost fell asleep.
>>319291020
>medium paced RTS
Then what is slow for you? I know exactly one RTS with a pace slower than this and that's Knights of Honor.
>>319292294
*cont. This games fits a very particular taste in RTS games. Only buy it for a huge nerd with a like for space themes and very slow paced and abstract strategy games.
>>319292184
learn to bid well m8
i always manage to outbid my ai opponents and pirates never screwed with me
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>>319292496
Pirates can be removed in one of the patches. I hated those fuckers too.
Great game.
Shame the developer committed financial suicide by MOBA. Idiots.
>>319292573
I think in rebellion that TEC rebels have a tech that makes pirates ignore them forever
It's like a turn based space 4x game, only real time. The pacing is glacial which allows you to manage multiple parts of your empire at once rather than having to focus entirely on whatever battle(s) you might be waging at the moment. You can field a lot of ships at once and battles can take very long which helps make big fights feel grand.
That said it's not awfully deep for space 4x standards, the tech tree is rather small and not randomized, and building/upgrade paths are limited. It's a good entry level 4x space strategy game if nothing else.
Decent game but paced about the same speed as a game of civ.The game tends to be won in the meta and your tactical level is about lining up ships,focus fire tatics and popping capital ship abilities. I tended to like it for the space navy battle porn. Also its got an ok star trek mod if your into that kinda thing.
>>319291020
I like it a lot. However, you need to be aware of several things.
First, it's not very well made. Engine got a lot of upgrades over the years but you'll still notice framerate drops on anything but the smallest of maps.
Second, game has huge balancing issues, which Ironclad ignored so hard they basically killed the online multiplayer scene. It's fine for compstomping or having a casual game with your friends, but the moment someone begins to optimize it will stop begin fun, fast. Compounding that is the fact that counters are much harder than you are led to believe, to the tune of one unit type simply murdering another regardless of upgrades. Compounding THAT is that all thee races have a non-obvious crippling weakness that you need to know about and address in your long-term plans. TEC has wonky titans, capital ships with little fleet synergy and no effective endgame tech, Advent gets fucked by phase missiles and anything that disables abilities and Vasari can't compensate for their overly expensive, supply-eating ships properly,
Thirdly, if you know what you are doing every game will be decided in 20 minutes, but if you don't know what you're doing it will take a whole weekend.
>>319291020
While I love the game, it's very slow, especially if you're trying to turtle. I actually rage quit once from a match with AI's because I spent the better part of three hours turtling up, trying to improve both social and military aspects in a sort of balance with a little more emphasis on military (since ya know, I have seven other dudes against me in a hectic FFA) and I thought I was hot shit for having about seven upgraded capital ships of vary classes for diversity and around 800 ships in my fleet, and they all get wrecked at the next planet over and then proceed to smack my shit like an angry wall of drunken rape.
