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Old January 14th, 2008, 12:03 PM

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Preview for new 4x game, Lost Empire: Immortals

http://pc.ign.com/articles/844/844984p1.html

Looks interesting. Need more detail about ship building though. Not sure if it is like SE5/Moo or GalCiv.
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What do you mean regarding ship construction?
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Old January 14th, 2008, 10:06 PM
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Default Re: Lost Empire

That first screenshot looks a bit starcrafty.

It looks interesting. I have played Hearts of Iron from Paradox and that was good enough for me to make a mod. I know they didn't write it but their choice of games to distribute makes me optimistic.

There is also an Honorverse game coming out. Despite my dislike of the books I am interested in that.

http://www.rulethehonorverse.com/
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Old January 14th, 2008, 10:16 PM

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What do you mean regarding ship construction?
SE5 has tactical combat, so ship construction is extremely varied and not linear.

Galciv ship combat is a rock paper scissor model and very linear.

I think thats a good way to describe it...
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Old January 15th, 2008, 12:11 AM

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Ship design is very varied

Though ship combat is mostly strategic

Nothing linear about combat, I think


I know a lot, I just can't say a lot
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Old January 15th, 2008, 10:32 AM

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Well when building a ship, are there different weapons with different characteristics? In SEV there are decisions to make when choosing Meson vs APB vs DUC vs High energy weapons.
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Yes, there are weapons with different characteristics; for example, there are small-large weapons and point-defense weapons, with small ships using small weapons.
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So combat is galciv style where you just watch?
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Basically, you watch a movie of the battle if you want to see the battle; it doesn't automatically come up like in SE4/5.
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Right, so you don't control your ships/units at all, correct?
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