Endless Space was always a divisive title, but I loved it and still have it installed. I’m glad Amplitude has survived long enough to make a 2nd attempt. It could be a great compromise between player control (unlike auto-resolve) and late-game-battle-overload (unlike tactical systems). Aside from being a bit nonsensical, the obvious gameplay problem was that I couldn’t use the convenience of build queues for my planets because I had to micromanage each planet on a strict schedule).I also liked their idea (again–if not the implementation) of the card-based battle system. Thus, you maximized production by not building anything for 4 turns followed by building a bunch of stuff on turn 5.
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(E.g., the environmentalist robots could earn ‘interest’ on unused production up to a cap. But they didn’t do quite enough to make the races feel distinct, and some of the alternative mechanics were a bit half baked IMO. Tgb123:Endless Legend was my GOTY for 2014, and it’s safe to assume they’ll take some of the things from that game that worked, like unique factions playing differently.I haven’t tried Endless Legend yet (it’s near the top of my wishlist once I’ve cleared some backlog), but I really liked the factions in Endless Space–at least in theory.Especially after the DLC added a few extra races (like the environmentalist robots that lived in floating cloud cities), they were pretty diverse and creative. The battle system didn’t work for me, but it was fun to play through with the different races.All I’m saying is that even with the flaws I enjoyed it. I’m not sure about Star Ruler 2 though.I know Endless Space didn’t have good AI, and despite the UI looking like it was good on the surface, it didn’t always present all the information in a clear way. Much better than Beyond Earth, Sorcerer King, Disciples 3 - yeah I know some of those are different style games.
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I had more fun with Endless Space than many strategy games. I was thrilled and surprised to see 2 new inexpensive pieces of DLC when I got. Vaulters - Let's Play - Endless difficulty - Endless Space 2 - #1. For, as the Endless technology to handle it was lost, new races will have. At the time of the Endless Space game, Dust is only known as a rare and priceless resource created by the Endless that appears to give almost god-like incomprehensible powers to its users.