Anyone know of any good Space empire games similar to Sins of a Solar Empire?
Good 4X Space Games?
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Distant Worlds
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- Truly Epic-Scale Galaxies: play in galaxies with up to 1400 star systems and 50,000 planets, moons and asteroids. Vast nebula clouds spiral out from the galactic core, shaping the distribution of star clusters in the galaxy
- Private Enterprise: the private citizens of your empire automatically take care of mundane tasks like mining resources, transporting cargo, migration between colonies, tourism and much more. This frees you from micro-management and instead allows you to focus on a macro-scale
- Intelligent Automation: automate the various tasks in your empire, so that you can focus on the areas that you enjoy most. Or have your advisors make suggestions in different areas like colonization, defence or diplomacy – helping you learn the best tactics and strategies
- Explore: explore the vast galaxy, discovering valuable resources, potential colonies for your empire and making contact with other empires. Uncover secrets that lift the veil on the galaxy's mysterious past...
- Colonize: send out colony ships to found new worlds for your empire. Develop your new colonies by keeping them well-supplied with a steady stream of valuable resources
- Defend: patrol the outlying areas of your empire to protect from raiding pirates or dangerous space monsters. Construct defensive bases at your colonies. Build up your fleets to defend against enemy empires. Recruit troops to invade enemy colonies and conquer the galaxy!
- Diplomacy: interact with other empires, discussing treaties, making trade offers or just giving them a piece of your mind. Talk to pirate factions, tapping into their underground information, or paying them to do your dirty work for you...
- Espionage: covertly seek out information about other empires, or even disrupt their progress with acts of sabotage
- Research: develop new technologies for use in building your own unique ships and star bases
- Build: design and build the ships and star bases in your empire. Construct mighty military ships at your space ports, or build mining stations, research installations or secret monitoring facilities at remote locations throughout the galaxy
- Built-in Game Editor: fine-tune your own galaxy, adding or removing star systems, planets, asteroid fields, ships, star bases, space monsters or anything else. Modify the attributes of any empire in your game
- Extensive Help: exhaustive, built-in, context-sensitive help is always only a single key-press away. Press F1 at any time for a detailed explanation of the current game screen, your currently selected item, etc
- Tutorials: in-game tutorials familiarize you with all of the game elements and tools
- Built-in Customization: modify all ship art, alien races, and much more. Switch between different customization sets with a couple of mouse clicks from the main game menu
AI WAR
At A Glance
- Space-based RTS, single player or up to 8 player co-op.
- Powerful emergent AI that retreats, probes defenses, and surprises even veterans with intelligent tactics.
- 30,000+ ships at a time on 10-120 simultaneous planetary battlefields.
- Different Every Time: 16 billion procedural maps, each with specific units. - A focus on deep strategy with nearly no micromanagement.
- PC Gamer UK (November 2009):AI War breaks most of the genre's rules. Which is precisely why it's incredible... This out-of-the-blue one-man passion project is one of this year's finest strategy games.
Are The Basics Like Other RTS Games?
In general, the mechanics of AI War are pretty conventional within the RTS genre. You collect resources, build ships -- both stationary "building-****" ships as well as mobile ones -- and you prepare for and engage in battles. Genre standbys such as control groups, minimaps, and hotkeys are alive and well here. We made AI War so that it would feel "familiar" to genre veterans (primarily because we're genre veterans ourselves).
Of course, we've also added some new conveniences to make things even easier than ever before -- you do command an awful lot of ships in this game, and a much larger space to manage than most other games, so we've made some great tools to help you manage it all. Intel Summaries, the Planetary Summary, in-game peformance stats, a Find interface on the galaxy map, and quick-buttons along the bottom of the screen are new usability improvements found only in AI War.
Beyond these basics, however, the first thing you need to know about the game is that it's not a true RTS except in its controls. One reviewer described the game as "a grand strategic tower defense 4X RTS," and that's about as apt a description as we can think of. AI War is essentially the first game of a new strategy subgenre, and you'll be lost if you don't start out with the in-game tutorials. Fortunately, the tutorials are a load of fun, and the intermediate tutorial lets you play through a whole game while just giving you overall goals and pointers as you go. The AI War fanbase has quite a lot of RTS veterans in it, but also a lot of people who generally prefer turn-based stragegy titles, or who have been tired of RTS for a decade or more. So if you've been looking for something different from "yet another RTS clone," AI War is the game demo you want to try.
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http://www.gamersgate.com/DDB-AWZRP/ai-war-zenith-remnant-pack-bundle$23.90
I really recommend this one :P
[QUOTE="mrbojangles25"]so sorry, it is not my opinion People have been calling TBS games TBS games all my life; the 4X genre didnt pop up until about a couple years ago, or whenever Sins came out.Makarinot to be too mean about it, but you got it pretty much exactly wrong. Exhibit A, Wikipedia link, as quoted earlier. The term '4X' originated in 1993 - it doesn't specifically refer to turn-based games, but it just happened to be 99.9% TBS games because of how they functioned. Exhibit A, Part 2: if you'd like more specific evidence, here's the 2006 edit of the Wikipedia page, two years before Sins was released. Note the list of games being referenced that remained unchanged on the list on every edit up to and through the release of Sins - Civilization, Master of Orion, Alpha Centauri, Heroes of Might and Magic, Galactic Civilizations - basically the titans of the TBS genre. Exhibit B, Sins' own official page:
Q. What exactly do you mean by the phrase "real-time space strategy"? A. This means that Sins of a Solar Empire is primarily a real-time strategy game (RTS) but, incorporates some of the best features of space strategy games (4X). One could almost say it's an "RT4X" game. Real-time refers to the continuity of play. Most space strategy games are at least partially turn-based, which means each player must wait for the other players to complete their turns before the game can continue. Sins of a Solar Empire is played entirely in real-time, meaning players compete simultaneously and are never waiting.sinsofasolarempire
well I'll be damned...
it is just I have been gaming for over 20 years now, and I have never heard anyone refer to a turn-based strategy game as a "4X" game.
Websites, friends, associates, neighbors, fellow gamers, and just about everyone have always called such games as Civ, Alpha Centauri, etc (in short, empire-building games) as turn-based strategy.
It sounds like 4X is the genre, and RT4X and TBS are subgenres, i.e. Sins is a 4X, and Civ is 4X, but Sins is a real-time 4X (RT4X) whereas Civ is a TBS 4X.
And with that, allow me to post this image:
Either way, I am too set in my ways to change, and technically I was not wrong in calling Civ a TBS and Sins a 4X...so there :P
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