Recommend Me A Good Space Strategy Games

[Kuciwalker]

GalCiv definately. That is the best strategy game EVER on first release, and it's still going strong.

If you're into (or don't mind) micromanagement, I'd suggest Star Wars: Rebellion. I liked it, though the MM got to me and I stopped playing. It's quite old; I don't know if they even sell it anymore, though you can probably find it in bargain bins.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by skywalker
If you're into (or don't mind) micromanagement, I'd suggest Star Wars: Rebellion. I liked it, though the MM got to me and I stopped playing. It's quite old; I don't know if they even sell it anymore, though you can probably find it in bargain bins.

You would have to really hate a person to recommend the stinkfest that was Rebellion to them. Or such a SW zealot as to defy all reason!

Spray, don't listen to him. Avoid Rebellion at all costs. It will make MOO3 seem entertaining!

[Kuciwalker]

That's why I put the MM warning in. Plus he wouldn't be out more than five bucks probably.

[Lonestar]

Birth of the Federation.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Rex Little
Ship combat in MOO1 involves fleets of ships represented by one icon per fleet; it's not uncommon to see a fleet of small, cheap ships numbering 1000 or more. In MOO2 each ship has its own icon, and the "command point" system makes it virtually impossible to have more than 20-30 ships in your entire empire.

Nice clear summaries of the differences. Obviosuly MOO2 is more advanced. Diplomacy is more complex, and you can have multiracial empires (unlike before) and you can custom make your races.

Oh, and RL: 20-30 ships? I have had single battles were each side had 70+ ships. You can pay for ships beyond Command points. In MOO1 , the most any single ship type could have was 32000.

[Rex Little]

Well, I admit I pulled that 20-30 figure out of my a**; it's been awhile since I played the game (the CD's gone missing). My point was that the numbers are orders of magnitude less than in MOO1. Anyway, I know I never saw anything close to 70 ships in a fleet in any game I played.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Lonestar
Birth of the Federation.

Ill! ::barf::

There's a little known game called Starships Unlimited, which is excellent.

I am surprised that nobody has mentioned Stars! or Space Empire.

[geeslaka]

Try the Escape Velocity series by Ambrosia. http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/games/evo/
I know those games are not strategy but they are very good space games. Before my mac died (broken back) EV Override kept me entertained for hours on end. If you do get it, make sure you install ResEdit as well so you can make plugins. I was playing it on a powermac 6600 so you wouldn't need a high-end mac to play it.

[Atahualpa]

Master of Orion 2

And be prepared to do something else (cooking, working, sleeping,...) while its the computers turn in a gigantic space battle

[Urban Ranger]

Personally, I like MoO 1 better.

[RGBVideo]

I second Kassi, except for Imperium Galactica 2, which I haven't played (read some reviews, though).

[Maniac]

ImpGal2 sucked IMO. Imperium Galactica I is much better!

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by skywalker
That's why I put the MM warning in. Plus he wouldn't be out more than five bucks probably.

MM isn't the most of Rebellion's woes. The interface is so ludicrously cumbersome I have to wonder if anyone actually sat down and played the game prior to release. The build and travel times are agonizingly slow, the fleet tactical combat is horribly uninteresting, the planet maintenance system is crap, and the game simply fails to capture a real aura of the SW universe. It's as if they designed a (bad) space conquest game and then just slapped SW graphics and terminology on it.

The only things I found good about Rebellion that I'd like to see transferred to other games were the fleet and ship nomenclature system and the character missions.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Maniac
ImpGal2 sucked IMO. Imperium Galactica I is much better!

IG2 has one huge flaw in that, by the late game, the vaunted tactics of fleet combat are rendered moot by the super-huge ships you can build which are pretty much immune to smaller ships and fighters. So you can just build up one massive fleet of 300 or so ships and fly it around, demolishing every enemy fleet you encounter. Worse, the way combat works means that even if your fleet of 300 encounters and enemy fleet of, say, 150 ships, the enemy will be totally annhiliated and you will suffer minimal casualties. That makes a superfleet pretty much unstoppable.

However, IG2 has superb graphics for its day(the tactical combat graphics really shine), an engrossing atmosphere and storyline, and probably the best GUI I've seen to this day in a 4X game.

[DinoDoc]

This would really be easier for me to do if you would list a few Good Space Strategy Games you liked already.