Serondal, don't listen to these fanboys telling you your wrong, you have every right to your own opinion and every right to voice it. If you decide your wrong then say it, but don't slowly back down just because you get flamed by a bunch of guys who kiss dev butt, they won't be the people who make this game better. Geez, the fanboys on this site just can't take any criticism at all on this game, or the devs, without going into some Orwellian rage.And heflys, great constructive responses, I think I know an 8th grade girl who could give you a run for your money.

Speaking in a free form manner as he was doing and off the cusp no one expects him to be held to his literal word. At lest I don't. I don't in normal conversation in every day life ... do you?

Speaking in a free form manner as he was doing and off the cusp no one expects him to be held to his literal word. At lest I don't. I don't in normal conversation in every day life ... do you?Nope, just find it simply amusing....Particularly when the OP was serious. Eccentricity ...Not surprising.

The techology just wasn't there to make the game continue to move outside of the battle once you'd zoomed in. However if you zoomed out and played with something else and came back the battle would have progressed. You could have more than one battle zone at a time and go back and forth between them to focus fire until the battle was lop sided, sound familiar?)

There is all this talk about how Soase (Great game btw, I love it) Is the first RT4x or that it is so unlike any other game out there that it has to be put in its own box. Well I submit to you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Imperia This game is a real time 4X game where you can design your space ships from scratch like Space Empires, research INSANE levels of technology, build actual buildings on the planets (That are graphiclly shown) conduct real time combat with other empires and rather good diplomacy. It has fighter bays, missle launchers, orbital guns to defend the planets (just like Soase) with jump lanes between solar systems. The planets actually orbit the sun and there isn't any insane amount of planets per sun! I would venture to say that the graphics in Soase are only slightly better than those in Pax Imperia and they both serve the same purpose. This is only one example of a game almost exactly like Soase that existed long before it did! I'm sure there are more but this one stands out the most to me because it did everything that Soase does but, in my opinion granted, better. This game allowed you to have more than one battle going on in diffrent areas and let the computer take care of them or zoom in and handle them yourself. They are all real time (so if you zoom out and let the computer take over and zoom back in things will be diffrent) And you can have more than one battle zone! This game also had mine fields that orbit the planets.

I'm not saying Soase isn't a good game, because I really do enjoy it. I'm simply saying it isn't nearly as origonal or new as the devs would have you believe.

Basically if Stardock combined Galciv 2 and SINS = the perfectly created game.