Is this a fun spess game? I also heard Stellaris might be good,

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TELL ME WHICH ONE IS BETTER

>>379068692
>>379069112
Gameplay on both is damn good.

Endless has better factions with actual story lines.
Stellaris has more choice in how you play, and a modding community.

>>379069250
Which one has better space combat?

>>379069314
Both are more about fleet composition and ship design. Neither allow direct unit control in combat.

>>379069513
So both are just autoresolve type things? That kinda sucks. I was hoping at least one of them wasn't just a space painting simulator.

Are there any new space games that are more like Sins of a Solar Empire?

>>379069314

There aren't really any tactics involved in Stellaris combat. Everything is just you building your ships/fleet and setting up stations and hoping you prepared properly.

>>379068692
>buy

Well you missed out with Stellaris. Could've gotten it in the Monthly bundle for $12 then used the 10% off discount to get Utopia.

>>379069878
it's not like it's possible to include tactics in Stellaris' combat given the scale of the game combined with it's real time nature

>>379070270
There are some things you could do like general orders with fleet stances ("avoid engagement with the enemy trying to stay out of weapons range", "avoid engagement with the enemy but bombard enemy with ships using bombardment behaviour computers") or longer combat such that it's feasible to execute maneuvers like flanking without your first engaging fleet getting annihilated because Lanchester's Laws before the second fleet even enters the system.

Plus, ability to design ships could involve a layer of depth if it wasn't for absurdly terrible balance (naked corvettes are cost-effective against anything but a custom counter even when you suffer increased maintenance from being several times above fleet capacity, and even ignoring that the viability of a lot of weapons is suspect even against the things they are supposed to counter).

>>379070957
longer combat isn't feasible though, I just came from a war in heaven where the final battle was roughly 1.5 million total fleet power clashing (AI on both sides was actually competent enough to start piling on the ongoing battle) and took over an ingame YEAR to complete

another problem is that its fairly difficult to introduce terrain factors to a space based game which is one of the primary tactical elements in other paradox games

there are some options like you mentioned that could happen, sure but it's fairly difficult and would require a lot of balancing to be anything other than a detriment

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