This game needs a lot of work still..

[Handbanana]

So yea. Get rid of the card system entirely. Its a bad system. Turns are already limited by your resources so there is absolutely no reason to throw RNG on top of that. Too many dead turns happen in a game. Cards you literally can't play. Explore cards are dead after the first week. If they want to keep it the hand size needs to increase to like 5-7 and you no longer discard your hand. New ways to draw and discard cards to give people more choice instead of just sitting there spamming end turn.

Construction also probably needs to be taken off cards. Again its too important to be left to that level of RNG. Just allow people to build on planets using the limited resources they already have. If they don't have the support or maintenance resources they literally can't even use the card so what is the point of having the card?

The entire tech system needs to be thrown out and reworked. Not only do you have to spend a card and resources but you also need to build structures to have the capacity to use it and then your choices are RNG and there is no clear path or goal or destination to work toward. There are a lot of techs that are good for one race and useless on others and you have no control over which you get.

The trade system is stupid. The ONLY way to get money is to trade with another race? Really? That is beyond idiotic. Also money is brokenly overpowered and needs to be adjusted.

The diplomacy card just gives you the option for diplomacy. That is insanely boring. There needs to be more to it. Bonuses or negatives for each card you play.

Culture is just boring. You put it on a planet and move on. A few races interact with it but most just ignore it as it doesn't really do anything that you care about. The culture points you get toward victory however need to be nerfed. Probably shouldn't be rescorable.

Espionage cards are fine. You can probably throw out every other card system in the game and just leave espionage cards as what you draw and let players use those to influence the game.

[Niko Bellic]

Dude with 14/15 negative reviews knows better, yeah.

[UnderKingDuck]

Originally posted by Niko Bellic:

Dude with 14/15 negative reviews knows better, yeah.

I would not say a user past review history would discredit their feedback. I mean I can understand what the OP means cause some players will not like the random RNG systems, but overall I don't think it super bad and I don't think the devs will be changing it.

[tgb]

OP is obviously an expert on game design. I can't wait to see what he comes up with.

[Dr. Husten]

He is not totally wrong. The card system is fine in general imho but yes, espionage and culture need a complete overhaul as its not really useful (at least it wasnt for me)

[Name]

Originally posted by Niko Bellic:

Dude with 14/15 negative reviews knows better, yeah.

most of his negative reviews lack depth and seem more like vocal whines but OP's post does seem to have some plausible credibility here. for $15 i'm willing to take the risk. It seems to be a fair price, but who knows. I'm not a paradox shill, and I never could get into stellaris due to the massive time sink that it was so this concept here does look interesting and for the price - well I can't pass that up.

[brassring39]

Originally posted by Niko Bellic:

Dude with 14/15 negative reviews knows better, yeah.

I look for reasons why NOT to play "buy" a game, If I reaches three reasons, I'm done with it. A game mainly based on range is 3 strikes. It should be by choices. Off wish list. Thanks OP.

[Medicus]

Originally posted by Niko Bellic:

Dude with 14/15 negative reviews knows better, yeah.

he is a troll or dumb. He wants a different game and whines about it here :-)

[Medicus]

Originally posted by Dr. Husten:

He is not totally wrong. The card system is fine in general imho but yes, espionage and culture need a complete overhaul as its not really useful (at least it wasnt for me)

Culture is the strongest strategy right now. I reocmmend play it a bit befor judging.

[Option]

"Completely trash a game you've made and make the game *I* want."

[Strategy Informer]

I think we need to remember this game is really closer to Sid Myers Starships than Stellaris and that is by design, its streamlined to play in a short amount of time. I agree with some of OP's statements but this needs to be kept in mind. Starships was a good game for what it set out to be but people wanted/expected more. I think Nexus is going to have the same issues.

[Handbanana]

Originally posted by Niko Bellic:

Dude with 14/15 negative reviews knows better, yeah.

The only point of reviewing a game is to let other people know they should avoid it. That is far more important than leaving a review saying the game is good.

This game is early access now. This is when they need to fix all the glaring flaws with the game. I played about 20 hours in the beta with a group of about a half a dozen friends who normally play Stellaris together. We chose to give it a try because of the name alone. Based on that experience none of us chose to purchase the game after the fact. That is very telling.

Also based on the concurrent players being less than 200 I would imagine nobody else purchased it either.

If they are going to brand the game with Stellaris they need to ask what Stellaris fans want. The obvious answer to the question is not whatever this is at least in its current form.

[Handbanana]

Originally posted by Cockelstein:

Originally posted by Niko Bellic:

Dude with 14/15 negative reviews knows better, yeah.

most of his negative reviews lack depth and seem more like vocal whines but OP's post does seem to have some plausible credibility here. for $15 i'm willing to take the risk. It seems to be a fair price, but who knows. I'm not a paradox shill, and I never could get into stellaris due to the massive time sink that it was so this concept here does look interesting and for the price - well I can't pass that up.

Most of my reviews have multiple paragraphs explaining why the game is bad. What depth are you looking for exactly? Yea there are two or three that are single line reviews because the game doesn't deserve more time than that. You want to try again?

[Astax]

I am a long time player. I do agree a lot of what OP says has merit, and it is well thought out. I also feel the game "struggles" with being a part card game part board game with finite resources and part grand computer game with endless possibilities and building glut.

The card system led to many weird issues I struggled with such as abilities that add cards to the deck being very bad for you, and abilities that increase your draw being very good.

[Niko Bellic]

Originally posted by Handbanana:

Originally posted by Niko Bellic:

Dude with 14/15 negative reviews knows better, yeah.

The only point of reviewing a game is to let other people know they should avoid it. That is far more important than leaving a review saying the game is good.

People like you are the main reason we have plenty of adult/trash games, because they sell well. For instance, there’s one in the popular new games right now. Everyone can turn on troll mode and say that a game is bad. You could literally say that about every game on Steam if you wanted to. But if most of your posts are like that, it means that you’re a troll. You don’t even try to support something great and give it credit - but you’ll make sure to ruin new games, even if they’re pretty innovative. Only trash games and adult games don’t need player support.

I think there’s room for improvement in this game, but the concept is innovative and fun enough to say this game is pretty good as it is for people who are looking for multiplayer. It’s almost impossible to have real ranked multiplayer in games like Stellaris and Civ, and this simultaneous-turn system is a huge innovation. If you can’t understand it or don’t need it, that’s okay. Go play games that you prefer, but don’t pretend you’re an expert who can decide which game is really ‘bad’. You’re just a negative 14/15 troll, lol.

[Handbanana]

Originally posted by Niko Bellic:

Originally posted by Handbanana:

The only point of reviewing a game is to let other people know they should avoid it. That is far more important than leaving a review saying the game is good.

People like you are the main reason we have plenty of adult/trash games, because they sell well. For instance, there’s one in the popular new games right now. Everyone can turn on troll mode and say that a game is bad. You could literally say that about every game on Steam if you wanted to. But if most of your posts are like that, it means that you’re a troll. You don’t even try to support something great and give it credit - but you’ll make sure to ruin new games, even if they’re pretty innovative. Only trash games and adult games don’t need player support.

I think there’s room for improvement in this game, but the concept is innovative and fun enough to say this game is pretty good as it is for people who are looking for multiplayer. It’s almost impossible to have real ranked multiplayer in games like Stellaris and Civ, and this simultaneous-turn system is a huge innovation. If you can’t understand it or don’t need it, that’s okay. Go play games that you prefer, but don’t pretend you’re an expert who can decide which game is really ‘bad’. You’re just a negative 14/15 troll, lol.

In fact most of my posts are not like that. Did you even read the entire post or are you just trolling? You are the only one in here making baseless accusations and acting like a troll. Nothing about this game is actually innovative or new. Fun is subjective many would disagree. Its all derivative and old. Simultaneous-turns has been done before. Look at every other post in here saying this game reminds them of exactly TI or half a dozen other games that have done exactly what they are trying to do poorly.

The entire point of a review score is for the consumer. The important part is for the consumer to know what to avoid and why. That is literally all the matters. Its up to the consumer at that point to reach out and do more research.

People like you are the reason we keep getting mediocre and bad games. People who think they owe some type of loyalty to a corporation that doesn't care about you or know who you even are after your credit card clears.

Have you preordered your $100 Diablo 4 expansion pack yet? Don't forget to do that.