One thing I found unique is the emmersion factor and the game isnt even complete yet.

The music fits, the graphics are buetiful, the battles amazing. Even watching a ship phase space draws into the game more and more.

lol, you can edit your posts

01) The cap ships really feel like capital ships and they're a huge leap from the cruisers and frigates. The fact that each capital ship is named also adds to this feeling of these ships being special.
02) The phase jump graphics look great
03) Refining and Trade ships
04) The graphics for when the Javelis fires its missiles.

A good thing is that the AI appears to be thinking. If you take locked teams and have allies, they'll try to help you as long as they're strong. In fact, if your teammates stay alive because the other AIs in your system are busy with you, your ally will eventually have several battlegroups going around - a bunch of cruisers and maybe a capship each.

One time the pirates made it all the way to my homeworld with minimal damage (didn't build Phase Disruptors this game), and I totally forgot to build much defense on my homeworld, or even develop the Tactical, since I'd been conquering AIs for a few hours.

I started cranking out Kodiaks as fast as I could, and got a planetary shield up (the pirates had 7 Pillagers among others), and then my ally comes rushing in with about a dozen cruisers - Hoshiko, Perchirien, Cielo, and Kodiak, and a few Cobalts. I met their fleet halfway by nailing the pirates from the opposite part of the gravity well, since my light factory was on the other side, and some of my Kodiaks started to hammer their pillagers.

But the AI really helped save my homeworld. This shows that the AI is thinking about important things to do... and if it happens to have a well-developed position, with a lot of resources and fleet capacity, it will be able to do some of those important things. Like defending its allies' homeworlds.

The AI isn't always the most intelligent, but sometimes it surprises you. Just don't make it any dumber. They even seem to be capable of anticipating an attack; on more than a few occasions when invading an enemy AI with many planets, they'll have a huge fleet, with frigates and capships, ambushing my forces as soon as I jump in.

Another thing you shouldn't change is the laptop-friendly controls. Keep those zoom in/out and rotating functions nice and convenient for those who don't have access to a scroll wheel!

The opening music kicks a#$#$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will start up SOSE and crank up the music just to listen to the music and not even play the game.

I prefer low resources because then I feel like I actually have time to think. With high resources, I get into situations where I can hardly spend my money fast enough, and I am spending the whole game just clicking on stuff to "buy" once I get just a few planets up and running. If I sit back and watch a few battles up close for fun, I feel like I am wasting all that money I am getting, so I definetely prefer low resources.

I like the graphics and how scalable the game is. Just like Supreme Commander, being able to zoom out and zoom in quickly is very efficient. I also like how easy it is to change your viewing angle.

I have some gripes like everyone does. Will post in a different thread.

Sins I likey list

1) Scale and Graphics are great
2) Seamless zoom
3) The idea of a massive empire and epics size universe to conquer
4) I like the starting options, being able to choose your opponents as well as color and symbols. (Do different player slot translate to different starting positions?) (another win option could be; destroy or timed blockade of enemy capital planet with locked capitals)
5) Stability, I have the graphics options maxed with very little lag even with large fleets. And the game only crash once, when Norton started a scheduled scan.
6) I like to a lesser degree the loyalty factor; however, I think it’s too severe. Or perhaps should be a morale issue with different things to increase morale like developing their colony infrastructure, planetary defenses, etc.
7) I like the ship experience as well and I thing it should apply to frigates and cruisers as well. If not for upgrades then just fighting performance bonus.

wow, people actually seem to like the game... whodathunk?

Please keep this thread on topic. We rarely ask for it and you have free reign in every other thread. Thanks for your cooperation The miscellaneous posts that were just above this have been moved to their own thread. Don't worry, they aren't lost

...i thought i was staying on topic... *sniffle*

NOOOOO!!! the edit button went away! anyways, what i MEANT to say was: "Anyways, great work, the only major complaint I have is Kryo and Yarlen's constant telling us what they have disabled in the game just to torture us. "

Played 2 games so far, and have to say,

1. The battles a what I realy like about this game.

2. Puting a bounty on you opponets and hope the pirats make life more hard for them, thats one excelent game feature, would love to have a pirat base that could be taken down

3. Trade ships, nice way to hurt you enemy, when you take them down and you get money for them too with bounty in place

4. Experince for you capital ships, nice move like it alot

Due to balancing issues, any such designs would have to be purely aesthetic.

Exactly, else you'd be facing off uber missile ships with spork cannons, with 1000000 shield points... Not that I would build them...