I am eager to try out the game. But I usually wait for a while for the bugs to get fixed. How is the game release like? Is it stable? Fun so far?

I have played for hours and hours and while the game has struck my curiosity, now that I have reached the space age, curiosity has worn off and now tedium has set in with me vainly hoping that if I keep playing things will get better.

The game is very stable with it only crashing once after 10 hours of play and not crashing since with about 10 hours of play after that.

I'm working on the review all this week so check back for it... maybe next week.

I agree space stage comes pretty fast, once you get there things slow down BUT on easy mode space is a doddle once you figure out what you are doing, One good spice run on my systems will net me around 20 mil, the planets take care of their own defenses now apart from against the the grox... I just run over them every so often to replace any turrets they may lose.

Early capital will come from running missions, but you need to learn how to invest that! Things that are important to earning money is learning how to terraform planets up to T1 status, learning how to affect the temperature and cloud cover and making sure you have a good stock of seeding animals and plants is vital. Keep your colonies close knit, and keep on top of the spice selling, some spices sell for 50,000 a unit! never sell spice for less than 16,000 a unit. When you look at systems on the galaxy map they will tell you what spices the planets in that system produce, dont carry coals to Newcastle, if a planet makes red spice dont try selling them what they already make . Also pick new planets for the more valuable spice types!

Once you unlock the terraforming "rays" for your ship terraforming is incredibly easy. My "stock setup" for a new planet is 3 cities, each full turreted 1 factory 2 houses and one entertainment complex in each city - properly laid out so the factory is connected to the two houses directly and the entertainment to one house and the city centre. I then place a spice box to increase spice storeage to 30 units and a "uber turret" which will take care of all but grox invasions. DO NOT pay for repairs, if you are fighting on your own planet let yourself die you will clone to your nearest system (the one you are currently in) and you can just keep coming back at the enemies till their dead.

Different empires sell equipment at different prices and different ranges of equipment shop around! To start with peacefull contact is the best idea. I did find eliminating nearby enemy systems helped reduce attacks to the weaker pirate attacks (enemy systems show up with a large red circle claiming the space around them!

Always repair and recharge at the home base to begin with where its free, fight with lasers they are very effective and dont cost anything but "free energy" to use. The big bombs are fun toys for later when money is no longer any sort of issue. Then you can start to really conquer the galaxy . Ive reached the top ranking on the progress meter, but I still havent unlocked all the equipment yet

Ive had fun setting up a secondary mini empire down in grox territory near the centre of the galaxy, I still need to do more flying trips to unlock the 5th drive system though as at the moment the reduced range in the grox homeland is preventing me from finding a good route to the centre of the galaxy.

Seems like theres plenty more to do yet in the game, I think space is probably the best part of the game once you know what everything does and how to play the system. My first 4-5 hours in space I preffered the tidal pool stage! But I restarted a new species straight off at the space level, and went for a more balanced rather than outright hostile approach. I took the time to learn about terraforming.

^ Applebeer here provides us with a textbook example for an unqualified and useless statement.

(Sorry; had to be said)

Game ran great, no crashes. However, after about 4 hrs I was bored. I guess if you like Sim's type of games you will love this. If you are looking for action then you may or may not.