About This Game Take command of humanity’s last survivors and rebuild an empire among the stars. In this immersive turn-based strategy game, you must lead the refugees of the great Exodus to a new home in hostile space and build a new galaxy-spanning civilization. To survive in the dark reaches of space, you will have to fight to protect your people, control rival factions, and unlock lost technology.This challenging civilization-building game expands upon the universe of the original Star Traders RPG. As the leader of a splinter group who have fallen behind the main fleet, you have no choice but to settle nearby habitable worlds, stake your claim and try to prosper.Your forces will face hostile aliens at every turn and your fleets will do battle in a challenging tactical conflicts across the solar systems. As the waves of stellar conflict wash across your empire, you’ll face invasions, devastating planetary bombardments and need to exact the same on alien infestations to expand your empire.Within your own imperium, you must manage your economy, political realm, and technological research. The squabbling factions vie for power, unable to lay old rivalries to rest. Only your deft political maneuvering can build treaties and harmony over discord and war. From the helm, you must also construct a mighty economy, one capable of surviving the devastation of war and the attacks of political adversaries. A sprawling technology tree lies before you and your choice of technologies will determine the strategy of your galactic civilization. To survive, you’ll need to overcome some of these challenges, to succeed you must master them all.Grow a ragtag band of survivors into a new galactic empire.Protect your colonies of galactic refugees from alien attack.Employ devious political and economic machinations to expand your domain.Use spies and espionage to get the upperhand on your enemies.Research and build incredible new ships, weapons and technologies.Trade with a vast universe full of rich, dynamic characters.Explore the galaxy and uncover its many secrets.Multiple difficulty levels and customizable map sizes.Risk everything to rescue refugees and keep them safe.Take control through the strategic use of spies, economics, politics, technology and advanced weaponry in the most engaging, expansive and intense turn-based sci-fi title. Rebuild the human civilization from the ashes of interstellar war to become the galaxy’s ultimate leader in Star Trader 4X Empires.Snag a Two PackThe Star Traders Two Pack includes two copies of the game - one for you and one to gift to a friend. The second copy is at 50%! Share your strategies and epic war against the alien with a friend today!What's in the Box?Star Traders: 4X Empires includes the full tech tree, and both the Alta Mesa and Hyperion Ship Skin Packs. As we continue to expand the game, new technology, ship skins, and factions will be released to you free of charge in our weekly updates. This games does not contain any chargeable DLC - all present and future content is included in the price.Entire Tech treeAll game mapsAll 6 classic FactionsAdditional 3 Great Clan Factions (Alta Mesa, Moklumne, Zenrin)All 9 ship design types 7aa9394dea Title: Star Traders: 4X EmpiresGenre: Indie, Simulation, StrategyDeveloper:Trese BrothersPublisher:Trese BrothersRelease Date: 18 Nov, 2014 Star Traders: 4X Empires Download Complete Edition The classic 4X strategy format, brilliantly realised by the Trese brothers. Excellent developer support for any issues and quality game play.. This game plays like many of the older TBS games, like Alpha Centauri, and its ilk. It has a vast tree of technology that progresses pretty intuitively, but the controls and gameplay itself is rather hard to master.Once you figure out the basics and get an understanding of how the game progresses and works, It becomes easier to work through the game.It essentially centers around colonizing planets that then become their own centers of production. Each planet has a "quality rating" that determines its potential for use. Lower quality planets will end up being burdens on your empire, while high quality planets will be the center for constructing your fleets and providing income.Planets have a "resource" called population that is not so much usable, but must be managed to keep the empire from falling apart. Higher populations require more management to keep happy, but come in handy to protect planets from capture.One you figure out that you can research higher levels of buildings for your colonies, the game becomes significantly easier to manage the lower quality planets, and to capitalize off of the higher quality planets.The game generally culminates in a match to invade and bombard each others planets, with the option to completely destroy the planet (by reducing it's Quality rating), or by reducing the planet's population to zero. You have three invasion options: Bombard (which has a high chance of lowering quality), Invade {which has a low chance of lowering quality), and Scout {Which may not always lower population, but never reduces quality!). Systems recover 1 population per turn, so to actually capture a system, you have to really have a big fleet.The game is clever and addictive, and overall I suggest it to any fans of the old Sid Meyer's stuff.. This game should be renamed "Star Junkies". For one there's no trading done in this game, at least no by the players. Second the only way to keep the population of your colonnies happy is to give them a steady supply of a drug called Spice... Dune much?But that's not really what makes this game worthy of a thumb down: It's because the game is either incomplet or horribly balance. Which is sad because it has potential.For example in the tech tree, which is actually one of the cool thing about the game. You literally have to research space port level 4 before you gain access to the tech to get space port level 2, which is the next tech. There's no valid reason to downgrade your space port by the way.But the worst for me was the population management, you have none. Population growth you see is random in this game. You can colonise a world and have its population doubled the next turn, which is a roughly less then a week. Cool you might think, more people can only be a good thing. Think again, while this is one of the 4x game with the least population management I've seen in my life it is also the one with the most unforgiving consequences for overpopulation. Once a colony is overpopulated it start losing moral, when it's low enough it start sinking money like there's no tomorrow. It kind of calm down end game, but it drains a lot of the potential fun out of the game for a long while.*Edit* Add random game crashes mid-game. :(Besides that: - The combat system was ok - The ship design mechanic simple while still interesting.- The UI is simplistic, but not inherently bad.So in short there's way better 4X space game out there, way way better.. A rather deep 4X game based in the 'Star Traders' universe created by the Trese Brothers.Unlike other 4X games I've played, this one has 3 races of peoples trying to colonize planets deep in space, and they HATE each other. Your role is the leader or overseer of them, and politics play a huge role in this game. In addition to trying to build the colonies, research a huge tech tree for economic and weapons tech, build up a defense system and fleets of different ships, you have to worry about the different races spying, going to war, barring trade with each other. All have negative effects on the overall economy.There are several difficulty levels, tons of maps, and 9 different races to choose from. Really good value and replayability from this alone.Ship customizing is quite detailed, allowing you to build about 10 different ship types, and customize engines, shields, crew training and more (once you have researched the tech). Ok, now add to this the ability to add one or more alien races to the game, all with different personalities and tendencies (more aggressive, etc...), and they are trying to kill off all of your planets. Late in the game, you are tinkering with the economy, politics, research, building, moving ships, attacking the enemy, invading their planets, repairing your vessels, and more on EACH TURN. Quite complex and fulfilling. Fortunately, there are several Let's Play vids now available on youtube, and the Trese Brothers forum is active and full of helpful players to learn strategies, ship build designs, etc...While the graphics are 2D and a bit on the simple side, I can whole-heartedly recommend this game. Frequent updates are the norm with Trese Brothers, so UI improvements, new tech tree options, features, balancing, etc... happen on a regular basis.. I do love this game. I really do. But I've had technical issues where the game is unlaunchable on at least 3 different occassions. Cannot recommend a game that does that.
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