How does this compare to ISG?

[Imortalin]

Interstellar Space Genesis? I am looking to buy a new 4x space game and torn between these two. I am leaning toward this game because I read ISg is very slow... Please let me know...

[Vasquez]

Polaris Sector is "slow" es well.
I own and like both.

Polaris is way more focused about military and Fleet Management. You will spend a lot time Designing Ships and fleets and organize Carrier Groups with houndreds of fighters. Polaris also covers ground combat with a variety of units.

ISG is more straight forward in that regard.
The maximum possible galaxy in ISG is also way smaller than the Max Galaxy Size in polaris if that matters to you.

[Imortalin]

Thank you so much...

[fred]

What do you mean with slow?
I have also both and I would recommend also both.
Polaris Sector takes longer than ISG!
You have to manage so many things here,and its about logistics (ships getting to the point where you want them) while in ISG you have more insight about the planets. PS is not that much caring about planets I would say...

[Firov]

I can't speak for ISG, but I can say that the ship design in this game is deeply, deeply annoying as it has an arbitrary "tetris" where modules take up a certain size and shape, and they can't be rotated, leading to much frustration every time it's time to design new ships or upgrade old ones... Which is often.

Because the non-sensical nature and complexity of the ship design "tetris", the AI also cheats and is totally exempt from it.

Anyway, whenever I come back to this game, that's what always ends up driving me away again.

[fred]

I can not second this. the things are shaped this way on purpose and you have to think much to find out how much is fitting in the ship. but it is always not taking that long and it did not bother me.
it is someway hard to get into it.

by the way, I am still waiting for distant worlds 2...

as a side note, i can recommend space empires 4 :-)
easy to build the ships, cheap, and hard to master, at least thats my opinion.

right now it costs 1,99 in the deluxe version...

[Agent Wigggles]

I dont understand what Firov all ship design systems are arbitary in any game.
I will add that the different compotents require different resources. So if you find your empire to be short on anything in particular can also be forced to be selective which compotents you use.
And a lot of the weapons arent straight replacements.

[ChuKoe]

I find the ship design my favorite part of the game.