Ah knew I forgot something, diplomacy is limited at the moment it seems on single player to espionage and sabotage. I sure trading tech, alliance with ai could be added at a later date. I've only just updated to iOS 5 and jumped on a couple of multiplayer games which is where diplomacy could come in handy if not just nuke em off their planet lol.
Just bought the game yesterday, really nice ! I made a first game on my ipad 2 in huge galaxy, 3 opponents, average difficulty, and was destroyed by my neighbour, because I focused too much on civilian tech and buildings, when he arrived with his fleet he just kicked my sorry ass. I tried to continue the game on my iphone 4 today, the saves had appeared, but when I clic on any of the two saves for this game, it crashes instantly. I had a save for a game in which I made only two or three turns, when I try to load it, it works. On the game, it's a real pleasure to find an "master-of-orion-like" on iOS, game is for once a little bit complex, thanks a lot for that. I don't have much complains, it's pretty straightforward for people used with the genre, but I think that new gamers will find it hard to apprehend, help in the game is short. There's just two things : I don't see the interest of the "galaxy" button, and I'd really like to be able to have diplomatics in the game. Now I know everyone is at war, so for future games I'll adapt, but it would be nice if you could include diplomatics possibilities.
Picked up my iTunes card yesterday and downloaded last night. Haven't got around to playing yet, though.
The app description says that the price is going to increase from $4.99 to $7.99 after the release sale, it doesn't however say how long the release sale will last.
awesome .. I'm a fan of galactic civilization and been waiting for ages for similar game in iOS.. to dev .. might be too much too ask, but one will never know if they don't asked .. is there any plan to include campaign like dread lord, dark avatar? I know you've mentioned that you planned to release all update for free, but seriously i don't mind iap for new campaign .. regardless, thanks for developing and releasing this game .. the download is not yet finished, but I know I'm going to enjoy it once it does .. thanks ..
I wanted to let everyone know testing has begun on v1.0.3. We should get this submitted to Apple soon, with a probable release of next week. Here's what was fixed:
Downloading now! I went insane when i read this thread.. love this kind of games this is gonna be a hell of a weekend! I might just tell the wife to back off and let me play ! Also kudos to the dev, It must be super hard to achieve this quality running mostly a one man show, getting starbase command too to show some love
Explore, expand, exploit and exterminate. A more encompassing RTS, I guess you could say. Or maybe not, because as far as I know, RTS games came from 4X games...
me neither, I'm finding myself spending more time reading everything inside the "?" icons than anything else... =oP Hopefully I'll get it soon... this is the first game of this type that I've ever played.
This is a link for an early game tutorial. http://www.chimerasw.com/starbaseorion/forums/showthread.php?tid=18
