Eventually, mankind will encounter an alien race somwhere that is just belligerent as hell. At that point, if humanity doesnt unify, we will just all die! There is no way the human race could adequately defend itself while fighting itself, so lets all hope we decide to unify when the time comes.
UberZanfear
Other winning conditions would be nice, as i do have lots of stalemates too, but I also like winning by conquest. The thing with the stalemate is being the first to break it!
This sounds interesting, but I like the system of combat right now. While the combat system may not be as interesting and realistic as this, it is much simpler, and easier to handle. Having a ton of different stuff happening to my ships during combat like this would probably make me stop playing the game.
I love finding extractors like this, because they have higher income, cant be destroyed, and the AI almost never bothers with them. Also, it lets you see the whole gravity well, so you can see enemies there without putting any of your ships on the line for defending it!
It would be nice to not start at war with everyone. At least it would in single player, which is all I can play because of my crappy dial up. When you do a mission for another race, they wont agree with anything, and their happiness towards you goes away before you get another mission, so its near impossible to be diplomatic with the AI.
You either overpower their culture until they go neutral and you can colonize, or blast them into oblivion and colonize. Either way is good, but I like seeing the sweet explosions!
Pirates send out fleet according to the amount of bounty, and the amount of good targets and things to raid. On the three player map im playing, bounty on the person raided is usaully around 1500 credits, but the pirates are on elevated status and sending out massive fleets. Well, at least they are hitting my enemies!
Yeah, I really like that you can just build from the planet. Sometimes its almost impossible to find your construction frigates.
I just finished my first one, and even though it was on easy, I was didn't expect to win my first game. The AI gave me quite a challenge at the start, but soon I was dominating. I just love how they made it so easy to do stuff in the game. On other games, like Warcraft or Age Of Empires, I used to get slaughtered cause it was so hard to be everywhere at once, but on this game, its easy.