Sins of a Solar Empire looks cool and all, but... I'd like to hear when that game I bought from you guys is going to be released. You know, the one I pre-ordered last year that was going to be released in december, then january, then... when?

Come on guys, 5 month delays are ok if the final product is better for it, but you've been quiet for a while now and a lot of us paid for this thing already.

I dislike GalCiv 2. Haven't tried Sins yet (must upgrade first) but from Brad has said and showed the focus is on macromanagement just like SupCom which makes micromanagement like in Company in Heroes and Dawn of War not worth it.

Haven't tried SupCom and CoH either but will when I have upgraded (yeah, my computer is pretty old....).

If you've tried Majesty, then imagine the ability to spend a little gold to be able to manually control one hero for a short time. That would be awesome.

As you may see by now, I'm more of a Dawn of War, Diablo 2 and Age of Wonders guy instead of GalCiv 2, Civilization and SupCom guy so I'm not the typical 4x guy but from you said about "I have a pretty serious set of conflicts between my interest in detail and my aversion to repetitive clicking, and I have some hopes that the Stardock folks can give me satisfaction in the long haul" I think we like the same type of games.

I guess that a modern Master of Magic with great depth is what we're both looking for

Quiet? They released a new beta last Thursday and Brad's posted 3 dev journals since, what more do you want?

And you do realize that Sins wasn't developed by Stardock, right, just published by them?

We did the same thing with GalCiv. Things seemed to have turned out there.

In the meantime, let me finish washing your wind shield...

By Azura by Azura by Azura! Its Frogboy! I can't believe its you, posting here, next to me...

I had expected to find a Demo button in my SDC interface.
Neither I like to give my data to websites. Hope you'll add it to SDC.

Interesting thing happened: The first game I played on the demo lasted 4 hours and let me conquer the entire map. It wasn't until my second game the following day that I noticed there was 90 minute limit, whereby it started affecting me. Ugh... unfortunately I've got no way of buying the game available to me.

Great to see a demo finally released. I am really impressed by how much you can scale the graphics to suit old machines. I know Brad talked a lot about this before the game was released, but it is amazing to see it in action, basically being able to change a planet from a very finely detailed model down to a pixellated blob if required. It's shaped up pretty well on my 4 year old machine with rubbish GeForce 5200 graphics card. The AI seems fine as well despite what certain whiners have said, the computer players developed varied fleets and I managed to get destroyed within the 90 minute time limit on one of the scenarios, with two Normal difficulty players.

Overall, seems like a great game. I still want to hold off on purchasing until my computer is upgraded later this year so I can experience the game in all its glory. Will look at PM 2008 in the meantime since it seems to have very low required specs.

After registering using www.slopsbox.com    on gamespot all I get is

"You don't have permission to access /sd/C2ZYhbmefArZdFnJrOGcUXgOCJrDzIZfMYoKVIhBJBxDnOWOkkLXQHZMUJhAzTbhQWzyrWAtHx-eSmV48AYTD0JDaQeEZgdP/d4/gsc/strategy/sinsofasolarempire/Sins_of_a_Solar_Empire_Demo.exe on this server."


Edit : Download its working now...so everybody use and abuse of slopsbox when asked for an email for registering ! The activation email is perfectly arrived in the fake email I created and I suppose all the spam they will send after also. If later I need to return on this site and I dont remember I can create a new account easily.