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!

The majority huh?  look at the join dates on the people complaining vs... say, yours.  We're the real fan base, and we are nearly universally against the epic exclusivity deal.  You should be too, competition is good, and this is not that.

Holy crap, Pig aint buying the game, what will Stardock and Iron Clad do.  Oh wait, absolutely nothing.  Have fun not enjoying the game, I know I am have fun enjoying the game.

yeah have fun enjoying broken game with limited appeal because the developers are too greedy and blind and decided to sell out to the anti competitive antics by douchebag Epic Game.

And I am sure they will do nothing as is the mark of all these greedy company who cares more about profit than the fanbase, even long term fan who supported them since the very beginning. 

And fancy idiotic simps thinking that it is actually a good thing. What mind boggling stupidity.

And no, telling the greedy STardock and ironclad NOT to go exclusive is NOT limiting competition. IT IS telling them to compete in the open market AND actually bring their games to more gamers.

Oh come all we need is an impulse relaunch to go with a sins relaunch. That sale still makes me sad, not that I blame Stardock in anyway, you have an IP and someone wants to pay you an absurd amount of money for, why not sell. Game stop just destroyed it in every way one could've imagined. Oh well, old wounds and all. 

Honestly excited for a lot, already played the alpha a bit and chomping down for multiplayer. Sins was a great game and I have many memories of the sessions with my friends.  I look forward to many more with Sins II. 

Overall better animations (trade docking in Sins 1 ugh so bland), and perhaps a more alive map, with civilian space traffic? 

Sorry to weigh in here again BUT:

- I am probably part of the vocal minority that is against SINS 2 being on epic exclusively
- I am a long term fan (sins the very first sins) and mod dev and I still think that we are a minority (that dislikes epic)
- I do not care to install another launcher (but it depends on the company. I have Origin and GOG in addition to steam)
- I dislike epic because their behaviour is detrimental to the gaming industry in the long run
- - > they can only afford to have their percentage set that way because they make money from fortnite. It is not profitable and the do not invest in the infrastructure or gaming community in any comparable way. They just go for market share growth by giving games for free and an exclusivity model that I can never condone
- I will buy it the second it is available on steam or GOG (origin I have only used for Battlefront 1 and will not use further)
- Steam is part of our community for over a decade and they never let the gaming community down. I respect that.
- I remember Impulse and do not have confidence in EGS in the long run

- I do NOT think that calling the devs greedy or the community stupid is a good way of communicating. Please refrain from it

@ IronClad / Stardock: I dislike your decision but it is what it is. Thanks for SINS 1 and please make SINS 2 great and available on GOG and Steam (and others)

Honestly? A near direct port of the game, and stable engine that can support a hundred stars (or planets) for truly massive games without the late game crawl. The late game crawl is what ruined the first one. This engine so far, granted we're limited to only vs 3ai, has not stuttered once.

I honestly couldn't give two sh*ts about it being an epic games exclusive, since epic lets me log into their stuff with steam (though maybe I should think about contacting someone and having my old stuff ported over.... I think I had two copies of soase, but no clue where to start on that one).

I just thought of two more things:

First: better info cards that more clearly describes how damage and damage reduction is calculated. Also better description of the abilities. I never understood how some of the abilities-percentages translated to the game.

Senond. This is more of an idea. Would crew and crew experience be an idea. If I launch a capital ship I have to man it from a crew pool (some experience and some fresh). Perhaps when a capital ship is destroyed some of the crew manages to escape (escape-pods) and returns to the recruitable pool, but now with more experience?

I remembered that I might still have dormant Stardock account so re-posting here, and with a few tweaks and updates.

Firstly, great news that Sins2 is coming (and partly already here)!! I wasn't sure it was still going to happen but am very glad about the announcement. A few reflections on what was mentioned so far and what we have seen in the tech demo.

Like:
- The new combat system with its focus on innate offensive and defensive ship characteristics over hard-coded damage bonuses. Sounds a great way to implement moving turrets as not just a visual gimmick but a meaningful gameplay component. (question how widely that applies. How will beam and laser weapons feature into this?) I would say that combat in the Oct build is way too fast-paced for my taste but then it's an early build so may well be changed.

- More 4X and management options. This a bit more between the lines between the PCGamer article mentioned that the neutral factions DLC was a test-bed for Sins2 and that the dev team is looking for more empire management tools. I think that would be fantastic addition. I look forward to future early access editions adding those elements more fully, as the Oct build doesn't have much on it yet. Probably need to get more of a feel for the new planet management system but it seems a step in the right direction. Less no-brainer actions like always immediately build every asteroid and getting 1/2 population upgrades for new planets.

- Similar scale. It seems like Sins isn't trying to become Stellaris and focus gameplay around 100s of planets and much longer sessions than currently. For me keeping the scope would be a big plus. One of Sins' competitive advantages is that it has a manageable gametime per session, for a 4X (like) game.

- (Apparently) no ship customisation. I can't bring myself to like that in games and it seems particularly stressful in an RTS game, even a comparatively slow-paced one as Sins. The limited add-ons to capital ships seem like a nice and manageable addition.

- All/most of Sins 1's content will apparently be in the release version. The early-access road map mentions titans, starbases, sub-factions and, given the above, I'd expect diplomacy and neutral factions to be present also.

- More faction differentiation. It was mentioned that the TEC would be the only faction able to use trade. (and that the trade system would be more detailed). That fits with the pattern in that factions got more differentiated over time, with entrenchment, diplomacy and Rebellion, and would be cool. Vanilla Sins factions were not /that/ diverse.


On the fence
- Moving planets. An intriguing idea in principle and we have now seen it in practice. As many people have now written, it will need more visual guidance where things (planets) are going and what is going to happen when. Will still have to see how much I'll like it in practice but it's an optional feature.

Don't like.
- No campaign or other stronger push for lore. A traditional campaign may not work well here or offer limited replayability, but maybe alternative approaches could help. Like faction-specific quest lines as in Endless Legend/Space, a few unique planets with a written history, a few named characters with personalities and background. Maybe even the different sub-factions we have in Sins 2 (Korsul armada; etc.) and/or their leader portrait could get a bit of description who they are and what their role or position is. Much as I loved Sins 1, it's approach to lore-building was mediocre when compared to what other games have done. I'd hope for more in some form.
- Given how pretty it is, I hope my slightly older laptop can actually play it.

Wish to see it on the Linux the most. Secondly, Steam version.

excited if not a galciv clone....

preordered on €pic