Sword of the Stars? (New 4x game apparently)

AAshbery76 · #1 November 5th, 2005, 02:54 PM

So you have more than 1 empire for each race.Do they have different graphics,race pictures.Can you mod more than 8 empires in a game?

Mecron · #2 November 6th, 2005, 06:48 PM

they will have different race pictures. And feel free to mod to your hearts content.

AZ: Are you talking about that jupiter incident game?

cshank2 · #3 November 6th, 2005, 08:37 PM

I just caught the trailer on G4TV

Looks slick.

AgentZero · #4 November 8th, 2005, 04:03 PM

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Mecron said:
they will have different race pictures. And feel free to mod to your hearts content.

AZ: Are you talking about that jupiter incident game?

Yes, yes I am. Sooooo preeeeety. And that's about it. But still, sooooo preeeeety. You mean you haven't played it? Shame! Should be doing your research!

BTW, if you have any job vacancies for 'researchers' lemme know k?

Mecron · #5 November 8th, 2005, 09:46 PM

Ummm not knowing what term you were referring to is not the same as not playing it. Indeed I did play it

I was a reviewer for most of the 90's...I still have the habit of playin a loooooot of stuff. I found it extremely pretty close up but at most ranges I was shooting at the ships were just lil shiny chunks.

AgentZero · #6 November 9th, 2005, 09:38 PM

Forgive my unarticularity. I will attempt to be a bit more clear in the future, though I have no doubt that I will fail miserably.

Ahhhh, the joys of interstellar combat. Tiny little pinpricks hurling even smaller pinpricks back and forth at each other, puctuated occasionally by an impressive pinprick. Still, it's a bit better than Hegemonia (Hegemonia: Legions of Iron, 2002, Dreamcatcher Interactive). That was an extremely pretty game, and still is, but I played nearly the entire game from the strategic map, coz otherwise I got whupped.

Mecron · #7 November 10th, 2005, 03:36 PM

Space games have a rough relationship with "reality". The truth of it all is that "real" space combat is a battle of dots of light and long periods of time. Your basic terrifying yawn fest. Old timers who remember first edition Traveler starship combat rules can attest to the fact that realism is not often your best friend in space games. And I have seen plenty of computer game designs over the years that get infected by this same dubious yen and end up wasting all their pretty art becuase they really want players to shoot at things 10,000 klicks away.

On the other hand I guess the nightmare of the opposite pole would be the Wing Commander movie....<shudder>.

David E. Gervais · #8 November 11th, 2005, 07:47 AM

Hi there people, I didn't feel like starting a new thread and since this thread was about an 'other' game I thought I'd post this link I found at TheGameCreators..

Another 'Other' game.. Can you say 'Elite/Privateer' Plus a whole lot more?

This caused my eyes to glaze over and send my mind on a journey to the past where I have fond memories of Universe II, Elite, Privateer, Starflight, and Sundog... aaah, the good old days.

Cheers!

Renegade 13 · #9 December 6th, 2005, 11:01 PM

GalCiv only succeeded due to the abysmal failure of MOO3. I bought GalCiv. It annoyed me to no end. SEIV was/is a much better game. Hell, SE3 is a better game! SE5 will be a much better game than GalCiv2. Granted, GalCiv2 looks better than the original, has a few things that the original really should have had (ship design anyone?), but...nah.

Ruatha · #10 December 13th, 2005, 10:15 AM

Warlords and Warlords2, I still play them.
Spent 12 hours on Master of Orion (Not 2 or 3) last week when I was sick, it's still great!
But that doesn't stop me from buying SE5 when it comes out!