Sins of a solar empire

[XLjedi]

Originally Posted by FAdmiral

I just got Sins, (found it cheap) Don't like it as well as I did GC2. What i really
enjoyed was creating my own ships from scratch (not in Sins) What I am really
looking for is a space game that you can visit all planet surfaces and do stuff
on them like in the old Starflight 1 & 2 games....

JIM

That was the only thing I thought it was missing too... building your own ships is cool. I gotta go look at the website and see if anything has come out of the modding community with regard to ship building. I'd be content to build ships and import them, I wasn't always happy with how that ship builder thing worked anyway.

Maybe someday we'll be able to play a space sim that allows for flying from space to planet surface, and actually landing and/or docking. I sorta hate those "dock" buttons... The best one I've played with regard to spaceflight is Freelancer. I love the way you can see a planet waaaaay off in the distance and then you jump into a trade lane and you start warping toward it and you can actually see it getting closer. Cruise engines are cool too... you don't need to take a trade lane, you can actually fly to a planet if you don't mind it taking awhile.

Incidentally, today you can find Freelancer for $10 at Target amongst the bargain software section (those disk only racks).