I, for one, am absolutely stoked for next week, to get my hands on what you guys have cooked up. Sins of a Solar Empire 1 was a pastime for my brother and I, and we poured 100s or hours into. For several months, it became our go-to for spending time together, and we would stay up all night Friday after school/work losing ourselves in it. Even with the technical test being limited in scope, that hasn't tempered my enthusiasm; in fact, I might be more excited to be part of the birth of the sequel to this beloved game and be able to give input into its development. 

Somewhere in Q1 of 2023 multiplayer is coming; so it'll take a few more months, but by then it should at least be more complete (2 factions) and a lot of artwork, music and weird kinks will be replaced as well. Hopefully improved with my and everyone's feedback. So well worth it to actually wait until then to play with others I would say.

I was originally excited for this news I played the hell out of the OG. Took forever to see that it is epic exclusive, guess you were hiding THAT news. Dug up my old Stardock account to let the devs know that you will get 0 dollars from me ($0x88% > $60x70%?) Disappointing, anti consumer behavior, you should be ashamed.

I can't wait till the whole game is complete. I love the new engine and it looks amazing, runs like a dream on my PC. I'm just so happy about the new Sins game and being able to play it from day one with a pre-order.  

Quoting Fivve,

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No, I can’t speak for others, but I will not purchase this game, even if it comes to other retailer platforms. Developers need to stop this anti-consumer behavior. I choose to vote with my dollar. 

Exactly. So distribute it on both stores at the same time.

Yes. I'm not ever going to f****** split my game library over any game. Nor am I going to install Epic for the sole purpose to play a single game which I cannot take screenshots of, broadcast, unlock achievements, engage in active discussions / comments on screenshots, record hour usage, display it on a very customizable profile, etc. I've used steam for the better part of 10 years and I've unlocked quite a bit of things for my *personal* profile. F*** splitting my library. F*** Stardock. F*** Epic. F*** Origin. F*** Uplay. And F*** any game that still uses a launcher while being on Steam.

Playing a game I would undoubtedly love on a separate platform that is away from my 10 years of progress / achievements, would make all previous time and effort on said progress feel and be meaningless. Idk maybe it's and ADHD thing but yeah no F*** Epic.

 

Gotta love capitalism, I totally agree with this.  This game will sell regardless, guarantee. 

My wishlist, in no particular order:

- Moving planets and phase lanes are awesome. Realistic orbits are probably not ideal for gameplay, which is totally fine. Gameplay comes first. But please give us an OPTION (through settings or map design) to play with realistic solar systems.

- option to invade a planet rather than bombing it. Maybe it takes longer and is more expensive, but you keep some of the planet infrastructure if you succeed

- expanded planet specialization options, both in upgrades we buy and natural characteristics

- more varieties of defense structures. Synergies between different types, counters, etc etc.

- customizable autocast. I like autocast as a tool to reduce micromanagement in the first game, but there are a lot of abilities where it is just dumb. A ship ends up using ALL it's antimatter for no benefit, just because it can. It would be a cool strategic layer if we could set up our own rules for when autocast could activate each ability. For example, I might decide that I only want my Skirantra to autocast repair cloud if it has greater than 50% antimatter and more than 10 damaged targets in range.

- make it possible to actually harm an opponent's economy with small raids, if left unchecked. In the original, there is little that a small fleet can do even if it gets behind enemy lines and is ignored. Blow up a mining asteroid? Takes significant time, cheap to replace, barely noticeable effect. Pick off trade ships? Almost unnoticeable. Bombing a planet will hurt, but siege is expensive, slow and easy to kill. Need a full fleet to protect it, so it's not really a raid anymore.

 

The rare resources are only hard to find if you play it on easy.  I usually play either Hard or Unfair. There are a lot more Exotics in those levels, both in drops and offers. I kind of like the system the way it is now.  When you go to purchase something, it automatically starts the research as long as you have enough labs, and it also starts mining the exotics if you have the Refineries. 

I want to see the linux version

What I'm excited about the most for this Sequel?

I want to find out whats chasing the Vasari!

I money is on that theory that its NOT another alien race thats chasing them cause that would mean the developer would have to create a FOURTH Faction for Players to play, and that would upset the "trinity" that already makes the game so special. 

So no, its not a fourth playable race; and it wouldn't be some AI controlled race either, because the Lore already implies that its seemingly some "unstoppable force" that's been chasing he Vasari across the Galaxy for nearly 10,000 years! 

The Lore says that this unknown threat started within the core worlds region of the Vasari Empire, located near the center of the Galaxy.   That it started when their colony worlds lost contact with the rest of their Empire, and that it spread to their original core Home World as well.... It says that any attempt to send their own ships in to find out what was happening, resulted in those ships never coming back, and all contact with them being lost.   Except for 1 lone ship that returned with everyone on it fallen to some sort of madness.. at watch point the Vasari chose to flee and set out across the Galaxy on their 10,000 year journey thats finally brought them into Trader Space...

Now here's the interesting part in all this!

We actually do not know the fate of that single, lone ship... that returned filled with Madness, the Lore doesn't say... only says that the discovery of this one Ship, is what prompted the rest of the Vasari to suddenly flee, and make a run for it across the Galaxy... fleeing from what we only know of as some sort of "unseen/unknown enemy"... not even the Vasari know what it is yet, other then the "madness" on that one lone ship, they apparently must have left behind, when they fled.

I'm betting, its some sort of viral contamination that's infected their population on those colony worlds, and its their own infected peoples chasing them down, like zombies...  

The "madness" witnessed on that 1 lone ship that returned all those years ago; thats how the infection starts, before it becomes transmissible.  It rots away at the brain resulting in state of "madness" for a short period of time, then the host dies... then some time later after death the virus reanimates the host and thats when the virus is fully matured and can then be spread to new hosts... and this is why none of the current Vasari are infected.   They fled before the hosts on at that 1 lone ship, became contagious.   

But since they left them on that 1 lone ship.... those Hosts now HAVE a ship... and that's what's chasing them!

A single Vasari "Super Titan" filled with Viral Death... and when it arrives, players can't just destroy it, cause that will free the infection from within it.  Imagine a big battle over your richest world, and you blow that thing and all its debris raining down on your valued population... 

No, you cant risk that... 

Only through the combined might of the TEC, Advent and Vasari can you find a way to cure this infection and stop it once and for all...

OK, thats MY idea and opinion... about what's chasing the Vasari.  

Would love to see other poeples ideas and opinions!