Sid Meiers Starships

So, anyone else plays it here?

Bought it on a whim today and found it...nice. Its a nice alternative to 4X games when you don't have 12 hours (which my Civ 5 and Endless Space games tend to run to).

I'm just wondering if they are going to patch Lasers into something more..useful.

I've played on easy and medium only, but so far the Plasma Cannon alone had been enough with a liberal use of torpedos.

It's a $15 game. I'll pick it up soon.

It's out? I had heard nothing about it since the initial announcement.

I'm seeing a shocking amount of negative reviews on Steam. Are they well-founded, or is this one of those "This game has DRM, I refuse to touch it with a ten foot pole" that plagues some Steam games? Anything with Uplay, for example, gets nailed to the wall pretty much instantly.

They are actually pretty good.

Like this one

''This is a hard game to recomend. Unless they make some improvmens to the game, I have to say do not buy this unless it is on sale.

You can think of Sid Meier's Sarships as a 4x Light turn-based strategy game. The best thing I can compair it to is a Simplified iOS version of Endless Space. Even the 4 resources look and sound like Endless Space. You have Food, Science, Metal, and Engery. Each turn your planets give you all the resources that they have produced based on their population and improvment you built. There are only 5 improvment to build, one each for production of each resource and a Planetary defence one for the fifth.

You move your fleet of ships from planet to plant completing quest they give you to get influince with them until they become one of your planets. You only have one fleet and it starts with two ships. Each turn you can use your enerigy to improve your ships or build a new one to join your fleet. You never seem to loose a ship, if it is destroyed in battel, it will be back in your fleet at the end of the battle.

You can also link this game with Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth using the My 2 K account. Playing this game will let you unlock some things in Beyond Earth.

There are parts of the game that I did enjoy. The simplified version of the 4X game means the game move at a fast pace, focuing mainly on battles. My main problems with the game is that you can tell they put all their focus on the iOS version, and left out a lot of standard featurs you expect to have on a PC game, especially from a Firaxis and 2K game. These are not small Indie startups making their first Greenlight game.

Right now the main problems I have with the game:

-There are no resolution options and no Fullscreen. There is what they call Fullscreen Windowed -You can set victory conditions, but the AI ignors them and can win any way it want. So victory conditions are just a way to handycap yourself. -There is no way to rebind keys and there are no hot keys. Right now they only keys that work are they arrow keys to move the map, and the ESC that lets you exit the game. -No multi-player. I can tell this game is going to get old realy fast. multi-player was something they were going to put in, but decided not to for some reason. I hope they change their mind on this.

Had I bought this on iOS, I would say it a great game and have a lot of fun with it, but as a pc game it feels off some how. Like we have a really good Beta, but you are just waiting for them to finish it now.''

edited 14th Mar '15 2:53:27 PM by Beaver

I actually like the somewhat simplified form. I love Endless Space but I rarely have the time these days. This plays in an hour or two, so its nice for that.

I'd not complain if it gets expanded over time, though.

Also, just saying...The "You can act twice a round (but not shoot twice" and the "Fighters have a full turn after launching" wonder feel really powerful in combination.

edited 14th Mar '15 4:25:33 PM by 3of4

The negative reviews are this: "This game is too simple for a $60 game!"

That is the single worst spelled review I've ever seen.

...but it's 15.00.

Exactly.