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Good game, needs a patch or two

» Pros

Near perfect implementation of 4x space strategy.

» Cons

Bugs
Bad interface decisions

» Review

Great game, minus the bugs. The first patch cleaned up some of the more annoying ones, but there are still crashes on a seemingly regular basis. There are also some bugs with the ship designer, I've found several instances where my ships lost pieces when saved - particularly when designing a freighter using many of the pylons together.

Also, some stupid interface choices. You cannot use your arrow keys to scroll the map, instead having to mouse over to the edge of the screen.

Also, when selecting ships, it automatically selects multiple groups. It would have made much more sense to let you select multiple via holding shift. This is especially annoying when dealing with multiple groups of ships in different squares. Sometimes, you'll click on an entirely different group of ships not realizing you still had some ships in the old group selected, when you issue your move order ALL the selected ships move, including the ones you inadvertantly had selected.

All in all, a good game that could be great if they would clean up the bugs and rethink some of the stupid interface decisions.