{"id":833,"date":"2008-01-10T16:33:16","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T20:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/10\/sins-of-a-solar-empire\/"},"modified":"2008-01-10T16:41:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T20:41:45","slug":"sins-of-a-solar-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/10\/sins-of-a-solar-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Sins of a Solar Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll have a full preview up soon, but I do want to keep the buzz going for Sins of a Solar Empire<\/a>\"\"<\/em>. For the uninitiated, it’s a real time 4X sci-fi game. Sort of a real time Galactic Civilizations<\/em>, which makes sense since Stardock is publishing it.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t quite sure how you could keep the careful planning of your typical 4x game in a real time environment, but Ironclad Games<\/a> seems to have done it. There is a lot to manage, and until you get into the rhythm of things, Sins<\/em> can be a little bit frantic, especially on the larger maps. But the developer makes good use of whatever space he has on screen for blinking alerts and flashing messages.<\/p>\n

It has some of the usual RTS stuff to fuss over. How do you balance income and military expansion? Do you rush for the crystals or the metal? Should I fill the population cap with builders or soldiers?<\/p>\n

But it has standard turn based stuff, too. Where are the map’s choke points? Can I use diplomacy to quiet a tense front? Do I invest in research or exploration?<\/p>\n

Just like Civilization<\/em>, it’s easy for a newcomer to just get wrapped up in the building stuff. And, just like Age of Empires<\/em>, there’s a lot of combat to watch with little bits of micromanagement. And, like Supreme Commander<\/em> and GalCiv<\/em>, you can zoom way out to get the grand view.<\/p>\n

More gameplay impressions when the preview gets published. But this is a game worth getting excited about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll have a full preview up soon, but I do want to keep the buzz going for Sins of a Solar Empire. For the uninitiated, it’s a real time 4X sci-fi game. Sort of a real time Galactic Civilizations, which makes sense since Stardock is publishing it. I wasn’t quite sure how you could keep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,41,38],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-dr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}