Oh yeah, btw, SoaSE is glorious looking even now, after four years.

It'll still be glorious in another four.  Tell me it's not beautiful when you BRB an enemy frigate fleet

Well, the thread title says "Does Sins Feel Dead?"

Yes, for more reasons than the OP gives.  If a hyped up game comes out and doesn't deliver or worse has tons of bugs, crashes and balance issues, gamers have little patience and move right on.

Deleted Endless Space; are you out of your mind?  If I'd have been paying better attention, I'd have bought that.

OK How about this...A civilian spacedock structure( think hotels in space)and a civilian cruise ship that transverses them. 

Destroying them or saving them would reap HUGE diplomatic points...

Seeing other life besides warships would make Sins feel more alive........ 

Well, I heard rumours that some Americans took tourist trips to Darfur so that they could say they'd been to Darfur, and people would assume that they were charity workers and they would look good. Dunno if the stories were true though.

Don't anybody move...  I'm going to make popcorn and read this thread again...  That was an awesome read.  

So far I like Gal Civ 2 better than Endless Space.  Though the interface in Endless Space is really pretty.  Maybe it's like when you're little and you eat ice cream for the first time.  Thereafter that's what ice cream tastes like and nothing else ever quite measures up.

If you are looking for something different look at Legends of Pegasus!

I have a board game called "A Game of Thrones". Nothing ever happens in your territories. What matters (except for some random events affecting all players) is what your enemy might do and what you'll do. Sins of the Solar Empire is that kind of game - you plan own moves while at the same time you try to predict possible threats. That alone is enough to fill the game to the fullest extent. At least for me. I've been looking for something like this game for quite some time. I am a leader and strategist at heart.

Shogun 2 was too shallow to me at some point (and not really alive). I can't even call it a strategy game anymore, after I played Hearts of Iron 3 and Crusader Kings 2 I realized that scale of conflict matters. Dawn of War 2, StarCraft 2... They are all tactical games.

I am searching for an ultimate strategy wargame, where you can't create single, ultimate strategy that'll allow you to dominate the entire conflict (it's stupid and worse - it's boring as everyone is making the same set of moves, it destroys ingenuity and ingenuity is the core of the strategy).

• I lost heart to StarCraft 2 when I've discovered it's all about manual skill and memory (to remember timings and building order), not real strategy.
• Dawn of War 2 was very nice to play as a single unit on the battlefield was able to turn tides. It allowed to play in any way player liked. It also had great atmosphere of the 41st Millenium.
• Hearts of Iron is good, because it relies more on strategy rather than on manual skill. 

After playing a match today I had that feeling I didn't feel in years: "So many possibilities!". I hope Sins will remain in my "strategy wargame" folder after months and years of playing it. It holds great promise. It brings hope.

So SINS is sitting in middle of the freeway... reminds me of Frogger.  Splat.

SINS is the kind of game that can be anyone's cup of tea.  Start moving your 2-3 capital, 300 point fleet in group jump formation, walk away to make tea, comeback and disable group jump and sip tea.  It can be rather teadious.

2-3 safe jumps to do... make some scones from scratch.

As a modder, I hate to encourage them, but that sort of thing is actually pretty bad for multiplayer RTS games.  It would suck if in Supreme Commander something happened to screw up one of your bases that was completely outside your control and ended up costing you the game.  A simple four-level Off/Low/Medium/High option bar like we have for the other settings like resource rate and build speed would solve the problem for the MP players and give SP players what they want.