Sins of a Solar Empire

[Metzer]

Best rated and selling 2008 computer game according to IGN. It's a RTS and it looks pretty massive. Anyone have this and would they recommend buying it?
Also, any sort of performance issues if a computer isn't up to par?

[arkinia]

I downloaded it and played through the tutorials. Like any 4x game, there is a lot of menu interfaces to get use to so you can manage your empire without much thought. Seems like it has potential and if I ever get a chance to play more PC games I intend to play some more.

It runs really smooth at max settings on my machine. My video card is weak, like a 7800GT, but I have a Quadcore OCed to 3.6Ghz with 4gigs of ram and vista 64.

[Ryas]

Arkinia, are you water cooling or air cooling? I'll be getting the Q6600 Quad Core as well, and probably the Zalman 9700 CPU fan/heatsink. It's only 2.4 stock, but from what i hear 3.0-3.2 is easy, but 3.6 on air cooling might be difficult.

[arkinia]

I'm on air...running a Thermalright Ultima 90. 3.4 was easy, first try....3.6 took a bit of tweaking.

[Renn]

game is fucking awesome. No campaign mode or anything like that, it's purely scenario/multiplayer stuff. I'd compare it to Star Wars: Empire at War's campaign map system, except that all the combat takes place real time on the map, Homeworld style. It's good times, definitely.

[Metzer]

Thanks, I've been looking at some Youtube video of battles and what game-play is all about. Looks pretty exciting. Seems like a lot more strategy is involved than say, starcraft/warcraft, which is the extent of my strategy gaming experience goes.
Well I played Simcity and shit like that too!

[Metzer]

So I went out and bought it. Seems massive and I like that. I'm really interested in the large scale solar system set ups. I enjoy this macro managing type of game, but with the micro stuff as well.

However, I've only played a little bit, but the game itself seems a bit..slow paced?