[Piecy]Gratuitious Space Battles

[Jacob]

Sounds interesting.

Now, what I really want is a game like that with historical battles.  I want to lay my plans, give orders to my commanders, arrange my troops and then have the battle be simulated.

[Ideologue]

Looks rather promising, although the graphics are dissapointingly cartoonish.

Cartoonish is good.  Means possibly GSB won't rape my PC like HOI3.

That's not your PC's fault, that's the fact that it was coded terribly inefficiently.  I've heard of Quattros and i7s with GTXs and HDs having difficulty with the game.  It still runs slowly on mine, although maybe max speed is really just slow.

I'll echo that space combat in 2d doesn't sound very cool.  It would probably be more fun if it were Gratuitous Early 20th Century Naval Battles.

[Neil]

See, but what's the real advantage of 3d?  From a strategic and tactical perspective, it just doesn't matter.

[Ed Anger]

Tried the demo. Amusing, but with no control during battle, it feels like watching porn. Just not that fun.

[DontSayBanana]

See, but what's the real advantage of 3d?  From a strategic and tactical perspective, it just doesn't matter.

Adds more options for stealth and pincer movements.  Also, it was nice to be able to mine resources a few klicks up the Z-axis from the enemy mothership without having enemy ion frigates raping all my harvesters.

[Tamas]

Has anyone bought it yet? I am kinda intriqued by the demo

[Syt]

Haven't had the time/will to download the full version yet, though I paid for it couple weeks back.

[Neil]

See, but what's the real advantage of 3d?  From a strategic and tactical perspective, it just doesn't matter.

Adds more options for stealth and pincer movements.  Also, it was nice to be able to mine resources a few klicks up the Z-axis from the enemy mothership without having enemy ion frigates raping all my harvesters.

So, shitty AI?

[grumbler]

See, but what's the real advantage of 3d?  From a strategic and tactical perspective, it just doesn't matter.

Adds more options for stealth and pincer movements.  Also, it was nice to be able to mine resources a few klicks up the Z-axis from the enemy mothership without having enemy ion frigates raping all my harvesters.

So, shitty AI?

Yeah, and AI blind to the Z-axis would definitely make a 3-D map "better" than a 2-D one! 

[Tonitrus]

See, but what's the real advantage of 3d?  From a strategic and tactical perspective, it just doesn't matter.

Adds more options for stealth and pincer movements.  Also, it was nice to be able to mine resources a few klicks up the Z-axis from the enemy mothership without having enemy ion frigates raping all my harvesters.

So, shitty AI?

"Khan" AI

[DontSayBanana]

"Khan" AI

The AI could be tuned, but it was pretty "Khan" in gameplay, especially with the Trek-themed Sacrifice of Angels mod.

[Tamas]

I am not going to buy it until I can't defeat the second tutorial mission in the demo.