Good fun, if you've got the time
I really enjoyed this - it wasted a good half an hour of my lunch break today. It's quite slow going at first, but once you get into it there is a fun little RTS game lurking in here. I got at far as taking over 4 sectors, and would have gone further but ran out of time. Not sure if it saves my progress locally or not, but if it does then I'll play it again later. If not then I probably won't bother.
A for effort
I agree with the others that this could use some work. The computer opponents are insultingly easy and the unit AIs are extremely thick. They do this annoying thing where they kill one enemy and then start to wander around.
Don't get me wrong, this is in no way a bad game. I understand how much work goes into something like this and how tough AI programming can be. It's just not as good as it could be. I'd recommend spending some time researching game design and the like.
Oh and shadowdragon86, you need the long range scanner building to upgrade your minimap. Spend some time actually playing the game before submitting a review.
Destroy Earth!
C'mon you have got to be kidding me... It wouldn't let me destroy Earth! I even tried firing at the other planet from multiple locations trying to make the missile just barely curve enough to strike Earth. This would truly make a nice alternate ending to this game!
despite the crappy AI, this game was great!
fix the AI issues, but outside of that you did a perfect job.
the upgrades worked smoothly and made sense. you had lots of ship types, though most of them are useless.
to be honest, anyone who had trouble beating this game really sucks at games.
skirmish mode is somewhat useless, as all you have to do is make a planet destroyer and BOOM you win!
tips:
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- do mine right away, along with boards for mine upgrades. once you do mine, send out like 10-15 ships and upgrade as much as possible for mine stuff. by the time the enemy first strikes, youll have tons of resources to defend.
- use artillery ships. they wipe out enemy ships fast. no ship is better for defense and makes for good early offensive ship.
- planet destroyers are only available by the last three boards, but boy are they fun. use them. otherwise, use command centers strongest ship to destroy the enemy and buildings (same for last board, cuz you cannot destroy new earth).
Not bad RTS take off
I like this flash space based rts. The music matchs great with what the author intended and the game plays pretty smoothly.