Its an old argument, and been asked for many times before.  I think the point is that either you spend ages on really complex and detailed campaigns (remember that Ironclad is a very small company - or at least they were when they made Sins) or you copout with a handful of games on different maps with a few cutscreens that really aren't worth the effort.  They probably figured that seeing as Sins is designed as a skirmish game (quite a skirmish on some of the bigger maps!), it wasn't really worth it.

It's games like this one from last night that maintain my enthusiasm for the game and encourage me to keep playing.  Of course, this one was in online multiplayer a competitive team game experience a single player could never have in a campaign.

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/362988

Eh, IMHO. It already has one.

It has serveral. All you gotta to do is RP a bit yourself.

Then we need to get together sometime, cuz im the same way.

And you should of joined our attempt at a Role Playing leauge. Sadly its died out.   I still got my site for it thought.

The thing is with campaings is that they take too long, unless tech prices come down and the income rates go up, there is no way we can really have campaigns, games are already longer than they should be in multiplayer...

hmm personaly I dont think the game would be well suited to a campaign, it was obviously designed as a massive (and I think primarily single player) skirmish game and thus making a campaign could be hit or miss

They have said before in interviews that they want to do a campaign. They really do, but they hate the current way RTS do campaigns. As soon as they figured out a way to tell the story like they want it told, you will get your campaign.

I disagree with this - in fact, I think it'd perfectly suited for a campaign.  For me, the best thing a campaign can do is, if properly designed, act as a tutorial mechanism.  The campaign is laid out in a number of chapters, each of which gives you specific goals to accomplish before reaching the next stage of the game.  Each of these chapters has an increasing number of options made available to you, so it walks you not only through the storyline, but also the tech tree and the available ships, upgrades, etc.  This is then expanded upon by creating three separate campaigns, one for each of the races - similar to the three story lines available in Starcraft (each building on the other) or Supreme Commander (three alternate outcomes).

In the end, the game works well as it is, except for the pitfall that you have to keep playing over and over again to teach yourself all the different ships, capabilities, tech trees, contermeasures, economics, etc., which could have been nicely laid out in a campaign.  (For example, I've been playing for over a year, and just discovered what the "Embargo" capability reallyis, and why/when I would want to use it - a minor chapter/mission could be "use your ship's embargo capability to sneak past the starbase and destroy the media center")

All I know, is that Homeworld was the greatist (and still is) RTS of all time.

And I know that it wouldn't be the same if it didn't have a campain.

Same goes for Starcraft, not as good as Homeworld, but it is still classic, and would be significantly less of a game if it didn't have the lore provided by the Campain.

I imagine sins is the same way. That a campain can only add lore to the images we see, signicangly enhancing the experience.

this is why i started writing short stories for SOASE. i try to make them as vage as possible, and just concentrate on the events in the short story so that no one else has a hard time coming up with their own stories. or even trample on the already known battles and histories of the three races. Although I am thinking about creating my own summary of how the three have interacted since the war has began. Since all three Races can buttheads so to speak. its only logical to assume there are many ups and downs in the fight for TEC held space. As there is in any war. And the Short Summary at the start of the game really doesnt hold much of a candle to the Histories or the Emperioral standings of any of the three Races. Ill probably stop short of explaining what has been chasing the Vasari as it probably will come to explain itself in the later additions to the game.  I do have my assumptions of what it truly is. but I think the DEVs have bigger better plans for the Vasari Storyline.

It's OK.  Everyone who is new suxxors at first.  You just have to be determined to learn the online game and stick with it and endure lots of losing in order to get better.  As I try to tell people, you kind of have to change your criterion for having fun from "must win" to "will be a huge pain in the ass, will try to get tougher and tougher."

Since each game of Sins involves you starting your empire with one planet and conquer the whole galaxy over and over, each game is sort of a small campaign in itself.  If they do make a campaign, it would have to be radically different from the current skirmish-style mode, probably involving smaller star systems, starting with more planets, and most importantly scripts and triggers!