Although this games has an interesting system of building your empire and defeating others, this game could use a feature that would allow players to jump right into combat and not have to go through the building your fleets and etc. What I want to see in this game is not just a empire building strategy game, but I want to be able to go from the menu straight into combat which not alot of 4X game have. But thats just me...

I don't really think this kind of thing would work for Endless Space very well, as it's the tech race and development of your fleets that drives the engagements and makes them compelling. A sort of Skirmish mode would basically just be a rock/paper/scissors affair with the three kinds of weapon/defensive systems because it's a given that everyone would just take the highest level tech available.



If there was more depth added to the tactical combat and more options for ship equipment or buffs then it might make for a passable mode, but I'd rather see effort focused on the core game. There's always Gratuitous Space Battles if you need a quick space combat fix

mrxnapkins wrote:
What I want to see in this game is not just a empire building strategy game, but I want to be able to go from the menu straight into combat which not alot of 4X game have.

Isn't the whole "empire building strategy" what this game is about? I agree that the combat system needs to be improved, but not at the expense of the game as a whole. I think White_Mage makes clear why this would be a less than compelling idea:

White_Mage wrote:
... it's the tech race and development of your fleets that drives the engagements and makes them compelling.

Maybe what you are looking for is a game like x3: Reunion (or any of the other versions of the x-universe games).

White_Mage wrote:
Gratuitous Space Battles

Yea, that's pretty much what you're asking for

I great way to implement this would be to have scenarios. The community could build a scenario where you are, let's say the United Empire, and are surrounded by the Cravers. At the very start of the game you have a couple of fleets running, some colonies, some heroes etc(all decided by the maker of the scenario). Then the goal would be to save yourself from the Cravers and destroy them. Again the victory conditions could be decided by the maker of the scenario. The system is flexibe(and similar to civ).

Scenarios have potential aye...

And after all, as the game will be moddable, I can see people offering mods in the form of scenarios where your constraints aren't the same, the victory conditions aren't the same and so on.



As for simply jumping into battles, well for me it wouldn't be a 4x, just a space battle simulator. Nothing against those, but not the same kind of games.

Cloud wrote:
I great way to implement this would be to have scenarios. The community could build a scenario where you are, let's say the United Empire, and are surrounded by the Cravers. At the very start of the game you have a couple of fleets running, some colonies, some heroes etc(all decided by the maker of the scenario). Then the goal would be to save yourself from the Cravers and destroy them. Again the victory conditions could be decided by the maker of the scenario. The system is flexibe(and similar to civ).