How does this compare to..

[CTHOMP]

X3?
I always felt X3:TC or X3:AP were about as close as you could get to Eve single player.

Thoughts?

[momoguru]

close to eve offline, not as heavy or complex, but still some meat on the bone. never played X3 so i cant say. I would check out a recent stream or my youtube channel.

[dk8290]

I think the X games get more into economic situations if you want and I felt they tend to be slower feeling in ways (docking and lots of menu diving makes the X games feel more time consuming in that way imho). In he X games, you are inside your ship's cockpit primarily (and you fly and fight from that point of view whereas in Astrox Imperium you are outside your ship and select targets.

I'm going to say that Astrox feels a bit more like EVE but somewhat more intuitive from what I remember about EVE.

X3 is a similar genre as Astrox but it's feel is different (I haven't played it in quite a while). I just remember it being much slower feeling than Astrox Imperium.

[Tanvaras]

Astrox is more closer to Eve than X series. If you like either game but want it a little more easy to get into and actually feel like you got something done in 30 mins of play time, Astrox is a game to get!

[Arquebus X]

The X series and Astrox are roughly in the same genre (space sandbox with an emphasis on trade and resource collection) but they are focused on different things. The X series is about fleet and station management; by the mid-game you could run the whole thing from a fixed point in space and never fly around anywhere ever again.

Astrox does allow you to have other ships (as mercenaries) but you don't have direct control over their behaviors, and they're not independently acting in other sectors. At this time there is also no station building or management, though it's my understanding that this is coming.

[CTHOMP]

Bummer, so you dont get to collect ships in Astrox or command fleets. Is there any sort of campaign or story to follow along with sandbox gameplay?

[momoguru]

just to clarify

you CAN collect ships. you can fit them with weapons and upgrades, then dock them and fly another ship. you can own unlimited # of ships. you can fit them for different task (combat, mining, exploration).

Merc are different, you hire them, they fly with you. You CAN command them. you can set their targets. you can adjust the formations, and you can set them to auto task, where they will do their own thing.

Mercs are NOT like a RTS game where u band box and command like that.

storyline is coming.

[CTHOMP]

Originally posted by momoguru:

just to clarify

you CAN collect ships. you can fit them with weapons and upgrades, then dock them and fly another ship. you can own unlimited # of ships. you can fit them for different task (combat, mining, exploration).

Merc are different, you hire them, they fly with you. You CAN command them. you can set their targets. you can adjust the formations, and you can set them to auto task, where they will do their own thing.

Mercs are NOT like a RTS game where u band box and command like that.

story line is coming.

That's good.

I may have to give this a look. While I do have X3 stuff to still finish, and plan on playing X4 at some point (if they ever get the game functional), I think Astrox sounds interesting. Perhaps some youtube viewing/research is in order.

[GlassDeviant]

It is often said that EVE Online is "spreadsheets in space".

IMNSHO X3 is micromanagers in space.

Both Astrox games are similar to both of these games, but with the unnecessary extreme levels of detail removed. As has been said, they are "EVE Lite". I enjoyed EVE, especially in the early years, and I still love X3, but both Astrox games are games that I can take in as many chunks of any size I want to at a time. You can't really do that in EVE, and you get very little done in short gaming sessions playing X3 which is much more of an economic simulator that needs to run for a while to accomplish much.

[chemistal]

nOTHING (ooops, caps was used for AB, sorry). Nothing incommon between X3 and Astrox. Well, they are space games. X series is just a crutch (or using left hand when alone) for people waiting between The Elite and Elite Dangerous. It is about flying in space and roleplay.
EVE and Astrox are about grind, time waiting and building blueprints.
Star Citizen is about stealing money without a product.

[GlassDeviant]

Originally posted by chemistal:

Star Citizen is about stealing money without a product.

Bitter? Salty?

Strange, I've been PLAYING Star Citizen for over a year now. It's almost like an early access game. Oh wait, another way it's like Astrox Imperium.

[Arquebus X]

Originally posted by chemistal:

X series is just a crutch (or using left hand when alone) for people waiting between The Elite and Elite Dangerous.

Hah! For me it was the other way around. I played Elite Dangerous until X4 came out.

[Talion The Tark]

so will there ever be station building so that we can manufacture stuff like in eve?

[GlassDeviant]

Something like it.