Now that the successful spin off games has taken off.... one moving to XBone, the other got the first expansion pack and hailed as 'what civ beyond earth' should have been... but competition has came hot in the Space 4X side with Star Drive and GC3 released... perhaps it is time for Endless Space 2... bigger and better, incorporate elements of the spin off and throw in better ship design and battle control as well as a campaign story mode that utilize the masseffect level complexity of the ES universe and co-develop by the community....

Seconded. Also, I would be interested to know if they would keep the current lane movement system. And I definitely think that a campaign would be excellent, perhaps taking place a few centuries after the first Endless Space. One thing that got my attention was that Endless Legend's gameplay seemed had much more lore, background and depth to it. The same should be done in Endless Space 2

Also worth noting that Endless Legend lore IS Endless Space lore. ES2 will probably expand on EL.

Yeah I hope for an ES2. While ES is good, that are still so many things that can be improved. Many of which would just be better off making a new game that trying to revamp an old one. While I love the cinematic flare to it, and hope it's as pretty looking in ES2, I hope combat becomes more in depth than pick your formation, targeting, battle cards and watching the fireworks. Also based on my post here, empire-side mechanics could be changed to prevent fleet spam abuse. Or alternatively do away with it all and have your ships in the actual star system like Sins of a solar empire with the turn based elements of Endless legend/Last federation. Now that would be cool.



Also diplomacy in ES could use some love. I have not played very much of endless Legend, but I heard it improves upon the diplomacy issues ES had. I would like the AI to take your resources into account when making a deal and should not be as offended when you refuse a deal that is obviously in their favor. They should expect to get refused or offer much in return if they ask for a resource and it breaks my monopoly on it or have a near monopoly on it (or offer me another resource that I'm a near monopoly in so I could get that bonus instead). And asking for a strategic resource that I have only one unit of is not an option, etc... Adding the ability to renegotiate a lopsided deal would be awesome thing to have. Another thing that peeves me off is that the AI factions will seem to run the same. They will out of the blue declare war on me because they are running out of space for their people, which is a believable action for the hissho or UE to do, but I should NOT be getting that message from the automatons.



Lastly faction diversity. Lore, aesthetics, and trait wise amplitude has got it down. But their tech trees are pretty much the same. I think there should be much more than 10 or so faction specific techs you can research. Also I saw one guy say that there should be little nuances for each faction like altering the UI and adding special background music for each faction like starcraft.



I want Endless space 2 to fix the problems endless space had, have the 4x improvements Endless legend made (where applicable) and do what endless space does right better. Call me idealistic.

I never actually played Endless Legend(but I still bought the game out of pure respect) since I'm only into conquering star systems rather than fighting for a small planet



I took a look at it and I must say that the game is really really good. Music, graphics, art, gameplay... I mean if I actually liked usual 4X, I would be playing that game day and night. And I think EL helped Amplitude a lot, they probably doubled their fan base and now more people know their name, trust their work. I hope they use that experience to give us a much better Endless Space 2.



I've been waiting for ES2 for quite some time. I hope we get something in the near future.

Endless Legend was a big improvement in design, and I would love to take those lessons back into the space 4x genre (which is my favorite).