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Star Dominion

August 29, 2008 –
February 10, 2009
This entry was deleted.

Here is its eulogy, a collection of the kind words written about it while still among the living. They shall live on forever in its place.

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Flash RTS like first Warcrafts and Starcraft.
Mine resources and build defense systems, research new technologies, train units in order to attack enemy bases and capture resources controlled by enemy.

Some units have special abilities including:
Sniper Shot (Phantom)
Stunner (Capital Ship)
Radiation (Capital Cruiser)

Enjoy and tell me what you think about it!

Reviews

This is good,but sometime those geniuses at adobe better come up with a right click feature in flash!

This is like starcraft except you were creative with it.

I love RTS's, and I have great respect for anyone who undertakes the project of a Flash game in the genre. This game is a good effort, but it falls short in important areas. I downloaded this game so I can play it at my leisure, and I managed to get past the abominable level 2; in fact, I got to about level 5. I have spent a long time figuring out what is good and bad with this game. I'm not meaning to be a jerk -- I like this game a lot and I want it to improve, it has so much potential.
First is the control scheme. It's clunky and bothersome at times, smooth and sleek at others. The most problematic issue is that you use one mouse button to move anywhere. Click a droid, then click a building you want him to go to; he'll stay put and you selected the building. This is frustrating at times. Also, cursor seem to prefer buildings over units, and it's hard to select a droid next to its factory.
Second is resource management. I like the scheme's premise but it doesn't work. Your resource gain is SOOOOO abominably slow that you can't build a unit for a minute, which in an RTS is an eternity. To fix this, you have to permit more than two gatherers in an auger at one time. This would increase your resource income enough to allow some actions to be done. I recommend a limit of 4 or 5.
Third, the difficulty of the campaign. The problem is that the levels seemed to be poorly layed out. Your base is at the bottom centre of the map -- the enemy is completely around you, with 6 augers under their control, 20 buildings for unit production, and who-knows how many power generators. There needs to be decrease in the amount of enemy buildings, or some script to prevent enemy attacks every minute or even to prevent them from teching up.
The part that needs fixed the most, however, is the balance. Coempire is completely boned when fighting Arnorians, no question. Droids cost 50 met, 5 gas <-- eliminate the gas cost, they aren't worth that. If you spam Droids, then Phantoms, Irregulars, War Dogs, and Freedom Captors will be sent against you in always higher numbers. Your Droids move faster with research, but that only helps a bit. Rhino Tanks are awesome in some situations, but the Ironclad trumps it one-on-one, and with multiple Ironclads you can destroy a Coempire's entire ground forces. Siege Tanks are great, but really expensive and slow to build, so I have no time to make them (or money). And the Coempire end-game units aren't very good.
Meanwhile, the Phantom has Sniper Shot, which, for 20/10 resources you can almost INSTANTLY kill ANY unit. A Capital Cruiser is the only unit I've seen that takes 2 shots. It's ridiculous. The Freedom Captor is so cheap it isn't funny, so spam it and you win the game. I recommend:
- Give Droids more attack and armour, reduce cost.
- Increase cost of War Dogs
- Increase cost of Irregulars by five or something.
- Increase cost of Phantoms by twenty or so, and increase cost of Sniper shot.
- Increase cost for Freedom Captor
- Increase Rhinotank armor
- Add more Upgrades. One stat bonus is great; having 3 would increase survivability enough to stand a change against the CPU.
THose are the things that I can think of at the moment. In conclusion, I have to tell you that I like this game, but I'm disappointed with aspects of it. Do what you see is best, but keep in mind that I know what I'm saying and Arnorians are overpowered.

This is so cool! I mean, its almost like starcraft!!!! Make more!!!!

you game suck so much make a better one ok

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3.55 / 5.00