Avorion or X4 Foundations?

[Landshark]

Sounds like both games are very similar. Any reason to buy one over the other?

[TheDeadlyShoe]

avorion if you like building legos
x4 if you like building trade empires

[Lady von Titz]

This is an extremely good question hmmm... I'd say hands down Avorion, there are minuses to Avorion but it's cheaper, better game

A. Whilst it is in beta, you can pick it up for less the £13.59 [your equivalent currency] where as X4 is £39.99.

B. X3 is a far better game than X4

C. You can build your own ships, and guns on Avorion, use them and publish them on Steam, you can also build your own space stations, if you don't want to you can subscribe/Download another players designs.

D. Avorion has decent Mods [though the dev's did an update screwing up some mods and pissed off the mod community] and ones that works make the game flow better should need them

E. You can go it alone in single player or join a multiplayer server on Avorion

F. Whilst there is a story, you'll find that you'll bump into mostly you can just do what you like

G. Weapons go from naff to devastating in Avorion and you either pick them up from [the shattered hull of] enemies, create them or buy them.

H. You can capture ships [however it's something I need to learn about as you have to follow r.o.e to capture a ship]

I. Like The Deadly shoe says you can build empires on X4, there's an active trade system on X4 as well, one sector short on materials and you've got said material you can make a killing, however you have to put in the work. an all day-er, not so much with Avorion whether it's an hour or a day you put in what you want, it's can be throw away, or days of dedicated play.

J. You can build a fleet of dedicated ships for different tasks [with captains assigned to them] you tell them what needs doing e.g mining [trading is in all honesty just not where it should be yet] then sell it and make money, or patrol sectors get paid for taking down pirates.

There are other pluses and minuses but I'm glad I bought Avorion as I was disappointed X4.

[Mr. T-XP x64 Crosby Edition]

FYI, this dev is quick to get hostile about feedback/blame players for bugs.

[LordPunisher]

From a single player perspective (X4 is only single player)

X4 has the potential be become much more than Avorion, but its in a really poor state right now. And I don't think that will change anytime soon.

Avorion is more limited in what it tries to be and if the important elements in this game (building/designing, the rest is largely grind) is your thing, then I would advice Avorion over X4 right now.

[nosrepatsuj]

The Correct Answer is 100% X3 bigger and more versatile and less buggy then X4. Avorion might end up great some day but for now the lack of a fully functioning oos equivalent makes it rather limited give it functioning auto traders and stream line the factory production and Avorion could easily end up better then the x series but its a long way off from being there.

X4 is a bit of a disappointment its not a terrible game but you need to fight it tooth and nail to get the most out of it. Its massively over complicated economy has a bad habit of breaking at random and you can end up having to can long running saves because the AI derped up and the economy fell apart.