PC: Distant Worlds (Space 4X from Matrix)

[Richard Hakluyt]

I have cracked and bought this game, will matrix break their duck and thrill me  ?

Only time will tell..

[Agelastus]

I have cracked and bought this game, will matrix break their duck and thrill me  ?

Only time will tell..

I am manfully resisting temptation at the moment. I look forward to hearing how your opinion of the game.

[Lucidor]

Is it too pretty to be played on an Acer Timeline 1810TZ?

[Razgovory]

I can't figure out where the fuck I put my wallet or I would have likely bought this game as well.

[The Brain]

I have cracked and bought this game,

Why both?

[grumbler]

I have cracked and bought this game,

Why both?

He may not have been listing his activities in chronological order.  He needed a copy to crack.

[Josquius]

So is this another GalCivII - i was bored by that hence I don't want to shell 60$ for a duplicate.  A sure sign of a poorly designed space 4X game is when the first phase is nothing but a colonization rush.




G.

It sucks but aren't most 4x games like that?

[Alcibiades]

I have cracked and bought this game,

Why both?

He may not have been listing his activities in chronological order.  He needed a copy to crack.

Trolled 

[Josquius]

OK this is a really strange game.
Its odd to see a hands off indirect control game....Very odd...not sure how well it'd work.
Lots going on. Too much to keep track of. Which I suppose makes that its indirect good. If it was a traditional 4x then theres no way i'd be able to ever get anything done.

[Richard Hakluyt]

I've played the game for about 4 hours so far, first impressions are favourable.

You can automate just about everything, and the automation works reasonably well, the same as the AI empires I would guess. The scale is large, you have 100 ships after playing just 20 minutes and that rises rapidly.

I'm concerned that the automation is sufficiently good that there is little need for human intervention at all. However, there do seem to be areas where player interaction is positive and they are at a fairly high-level. It is possible to micro-manage more or less the entire game.......but that would be insane 

For example, pirates are often an early problem......the AI will deal with them at some stage, but the player can jump in and prioritise their elimination. If anyone remembers MOO3 at all, this game looks like a much better attempt at that sort of game.

There are no degrees of difficulty as such. The difficulty seems to be set from the options selected at game setup. For my first game I chose an "aggreeable" starting system. After an hour or two I seemed to be doing too well, so I've started another game with a "normal" starting system.

I'm hoping there are hidden complexities that will give the game a long shelf-life. In the game previously mentioned I had a huge number of colony targets........but I'm fairly sure that if I'd ordered all of them to be colonised at once then military spacecraft production would have been minimal as a result. Whether the AI would have exploited that is yet to be seen, I'll see how it goes in the "normal" game.

My eldest son also played for 3 hours yesterday and is intrigued by the game as well. Another 13 hours of play and it will have earned it's keep IMO.

[Cecil]

Military ships are constructed at space ports while colony ships are contructed on colonies.

[Richard Hakluyt]

There are still resource levels to take into account; but I take your point.

[Tamas]

I am still at the stage where I miss the "bugged" economy of pre 1.02. For survival, there is no need to manual-steer your economy, that is only for optimization now.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Yeah, 1.02 was out when I started playing. I'm getting the impression they went too far the other way and money is too easy now.

Roll on 1.03 

[Tamas]

Yeah, 1.02 was out when I started playing. I'm getting the impression they went too far the other way and money is too easy now.

Roll on 1.03 

Yeah maybe it was a bit too hard with 1.01 but it was manageable, and I liked the post-2-colonies expansion better there. ie. "Alright, monthly budget is in the green, check. No resources shortage. Check. Sufficient cash reserves, check. Send that ship." Whereas now it is "Not going to cause a diplomatic mess? Ok, send it, whatever".