HA! I finished it!

[Anguille]

Completed a military victory in Lords of the Black Sun...was fun while it lasted (and worth the 10$ I paid for)....now going to move on to something different.

So what did you enjoy about LofBS?  Its criticisms/shortcomings are pretty well-known by this point, but how about the things it does/did well?

I bought it for about 10$ and for that price it's ok (despite the fact that there are still some bugs). I don't think i'll spend much more time than i did with the game (about 15 hours). As you know, i am a 4x addict (mostly space) and like to try them all if i can.

What i like about the game:

- Nice intro movies for each race
- Minor races
- Simple and easy battle system
- Simple and easy to manage research system.
- Galactic map with no starlanes and yet not as much micromanagement as GalCiv.
- I enjoyed the music.

If the game should get a major patch (and i do hope it does), i might consider playing some more campaigns.

[Martok]

Thanks Anguille.  Sounds like I'll want to wait for it to go super-cheap and/or receive another major update (hopefully it does!). 

[Anguille]

Completed the campaign in Worldshift! It's been sometimes tougth but it's done...finally.

Music is excellent and i like the artwork. Didn't really understand the whole story but it was fun.

[airboy]

Finished a Dominions 4 game against the AI playing Early Age C'tis.

[Anguille]

Just had an economical victory in Endless Space...

[Huw the Poo]

Just had an economical victory in Endless Space...

Congrats.  It's the only bloody way to win in my opinion.  The AI can conjure up incredible fleets in late-game that I never had any hope of defeating militarily.

[W8taminute]

What difficulty were you playing Anguille?

[Anguille]

What difficulty were you playing Anguille?

On *cough*very easy *cough*  ::)

After a few attempts on normal where I just couldn't get into, I've decided to play one game on very easy. It's been a good learning experience as I've researched almost everything in the tech tree and have a much better understanding of the game. So it's my first main campaign in Endless Space. The next campaign I'll play will be on normal.

Indeed, the economical victory seems the easiest (also point victory). The penalties for expansion in this game are ridiculous. Of course you can build up things to improve the morale but in a 4x game, you shouldn't have such big penalties for expansion imho. Also the fact that a military victory requires 75% of the map is just too much. I could have done it in this game but it's a very long way to go (and that with a weak AI).

[undercovergeek]

As huw as alluded to, when he and I played our coop game we had ai smashing fleets of awesomeness until we both came up against the last ai opponent and this guy with less money, less resources an less power was able to pump out the most unbelievable one shot fleet destroying ships ever seen

[W8taminute]

What difficulty were you playing Anguille?

On *cough*very easy *cough*  ::)

After a few attempts on normal where I just couldn't get into, I've decided to play one game on very easy. It's been a good learning experience as I've researched almost everything in the tech tree and have a much better understanding of the game. So it's my first main campaign in Endless Space. The next campaign I'll play will be on normal.

Indeed, the economical victory seems the easiest (also point victory). The penalties for expansion in this game are ridiculous. Of course you can build up things to improve the morale but in a 4x game, you shouldn't have such big penalties for expansion imho. Also the fact that a military victory requires 75% of the map is just too much. I could have done it in this game but it's a very long way to go (and that with a weak AI).

Nothing wrong with playing on very easy.  Some games demand that as you try to learn the mechanics.   ;)

[Huw the Poo]

Yeah Geek, that was the Automatons wasn't it?  They were fielding cannons in the sky.  Those ships were absolutely bristling with firepower and Geek and I couldn't even figure out how you could fit so much ordnance onto one ship.

We took one look and bravely ran away!

[undercovergeek]

Lmao - end of campaign, ummm errr game of something else?

[Arctic Blast]

Far Cry 4 is in the books. Really enjoyed the game, and I'm glad that I started reading between the lines with certain characters and made the final choice that I made. I checked out the other ending possibilities on Youtube, and yikes.  :o

[airboy]

Finished a Dominions 4 game against the AI playing Early Age C'tis.

Finished a Dominions 4 game against the AI playing Early Age Tien C'hien.

About half way through a game as Sauromatia.

[airboy]

Finished a Dominions 4 game against the AI playing Early Age C'tis.

Finished a Dominions 4 game against the AI playing Early Age Tien C'hien.

About half way through a game as Sauromatia.

Finished a game as Early Age Sauromatia.