Its a RTS, not a TBS. Stop trying to play like it is sim city, and start trying to play like its starcraft.

How simplistic!


If I wanted to play a game LIKE starcraft.. Ill simply play starcraft!

Why would I want to have a "copy" of something else?  This is ridiculous and quite an infantile reply.


I want more, more complex, with more variables. Something that offer re-playability and also, as it is far more complex, provide more avenues and permutation when I play alone and/or in multi player mode.

As per the the comment of the other poster: Doesn't matter in the end, if something is TOO simple, no matter against whom you play,  the number of tactics and strategy is pretty narrow and therefore, pretty boring after a while

(yes, you may be not objective now, as you wet your pants in front of a new toy, but after a while, you will do the same thing you do with all other games you own: move on and look for something else..because it is TOO easy to master)

As I've said: this game has immense potential; the question now is: will it grow and becomes far more complex to keep people hanging to it...or stay that simple, and thus, end in the bottom of a drawer..like all other games as people are looking for real challenges.

The RTS genre is inherently simplistic.

This is a 4x RTS. You can only do so much before it becomes cumbersome and essentially just wasting your time. You can't build your own ships are something like that because you simply don't have the time to do so since everything is in constant motion.

Maybe something like the Galatic Civilization (another game by Stardock) or Endless Space is something to your liking. Those have more complexity but are turn based games.

You trade speed for complexity or the other way around. It doesn't work when you have both.

It's ment to be played against friends which is what the RTS genre is designed for in my opinion. And in all RTS's you can be rushed out very quickly regardless if its 4x or not so the whole empire building process has be simplistic as to shorten the amount of time to become competitive.

Sins can be a very strategic and tactical game once you starting playing other people. The AI can be won by throwing blobs of ships but that doesn't work very well against actual people especially when everybody knows counters and synergizes with their fleets. Heck it can be even more Macro and Micro intensive then Starcraft when you have multiple battles raging on.

Chess is simple...only 64 squares and six different pieces.  Don't waste time with it either.

Nah! been around galactic civilization..too simple too. I've been around the gaming world when most of you where just a twinkle in your father's eyes, and yet, after all those years, I still do not see anything made by anyone who is truly an "all that".
Yes some, by mediocrity, hides behind lame excuses or pathetic explanations..but the fact is: you CAN have "speed", graphics and extra complexity; an "all in one" game.....but that's only for REAL gamers, I suppose, to desire and for "business" to have the balls and pride for it.
{I remember, many years ago, a fail attempt was made to built one, 31 patches released, but to no vail (can't remember the darn name of it); but I think that more than a decade later, systems and programers has improved quite enough to pull it out, if they are professional and talented enough to really go beyond and take it all}

Casting a game in category (x4 etc) is the biggest mistake that can be done for the future of the industry, as true gamers (not just wannabe  who take easy achievements as "something") wants a mega game that will glue them to their screen for days, year long and will challenge every single parts of them, in every direction.

Now for the Nayers or the paid posters: Sorry, I simply do not deal well with mediocrity and always expect much, much more: I see the potential in this game, now let's see if it stay in the "safe but mediocre" avenue..or rise to become much more.

And surely this 'mege game' that you speak off, the cost and manpower implications for this to be completed in a reasonable time, not to mention the space it would take up, and then the eventual cost of buying the game?

If you are just gonna sit there and say how easy it would be to do and complain why it's not been done then, maybe, just a suggestion, but you should start making it? Start up your own company and hire a few people and roll it out?