/vr/ - Retro Games

The art and atmosphere is neat but it's somewhat terrible as a game. I normally wouldn't mind all the bureaucratic exercises, but it's real-time, you're unable to pause, and things move very quickly.

There isn't any such a thing as a "fleet," and you will wish there was. Instead, you execute a repetitive procedure on individual ships one-by-one
>direct the money generated by each world under your control, separately, to the one you want to build the ship
>that's right, you don't have a bank account, just cash under a secret mattress on each world
>select that world on the main screen, purchase the ship there
>go to the world's cargo bay and select it
>supply crew from population
>supply fuels from stockpile
>supply energy from stockpile
>supply food from stockpile
>supply minerals from stockpile
(there's no indication of how much a ship needs of these things for the distance you want it to travel)
>add troop platoons if applicable
>go to docking bay and select it
>send the thing into orbit
>send to transit to a system
>wait a couple seconds
>send it from orbit at destination to docking bay
>go through the cargo offload / activate harvesting / invade sequence you intended
>decide what to do with the ship because there are only three docking bay slots
repeat this seven or eight times per world you are developing, which all require a bunch of resource harvesting ships, ditto for troop invasions


This would not have been too torturous if this were all turn- or time-unit based.
In RTS this same sequence is
>Building
>Unit Ready
>Yes sir?
>I'm on it!
And you can select multiple units if you want them all to execute the same orders

>>5408286
The game itself is just clicking dozens of administrative buttons to do micro-managerial tasks, step-by-step, with no feedback— should be called Bureaucracy, not Supremacy. This would be potentially interesting and bearable, but it's in real time.


So I hated the fucking game, but the art has cool vibes. I mean look at this thing. You want it. It's 26,753 credits but you absolutely must have it.