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I gave this game a try back when the latest round started, maybe a month ago, ish. I hate to say it but I think I'm agreeing with the resident troll. A lot of the design feels like a mobile game (especially the login rewards and cards) and there's a clear pipeline between money and instantly building poo poo (and from that economic power, to fleet power). Like, if you want to go full whale and dump a thousand dollars into build acceleration cards you can probably level up a good number of alts to gently caress up the game. You can probably also convert those same cards into card-resources and then that into unit powerups. There's no real reason the devs would disallow this, too, beyond "health of the game" which is a non-issue as long as its profitable so I can't see this not happening. It claims to be an MMORTS but it feels closer to a turn-based (or pbem) 4x for all the negligible time commitment and player interaction required, and units basically jumping between tiles (as opposed to flying around on-map in real time) only helps that comparison. Past the initial frenzy, most of your construction and fleet movement takes place on the scale of hours to fractions of a day, and you really only need to log in once or twice a day (if that) in order to fill your queues and move a couple fleets around. In terms of playstyle it's closer to those old "five minutes a day" browser games like ogame or astro empires rather than true mmorts' like beyond protocol used to be. Combat also looks pretty damned simple; you've got 'offensive' and 'defensive' units in small/medium/large sizes, and the player has no actual control over the units on the field so if my offensive doomstack is bigger than your defensive doomstack, I win and that's all there is to it. Might be good in the future, but there's enough red flags in the game for me to decide that I didn't want to put any more time/effort into it past the first week. I just don't trust it, and don't see enough potential for that to override my distrust. Radio Free Kobold fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Dec 6, 2018 |
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