I thought that it might be worth it to repost my post from the PI forums here:
Oh, and here's the screenshots:
https://imgur.com/a/wAJgu#uOWK0iIOkay... let's try to see what we can find out from the screenies, shall we?
- Map is 2-Dimensional, stars are connected with preset routes. There are different types of star, and something that looks like a cartoony black hole. System map is in 2.5, maybe 3D.
- There are a number of resources: Some kind of ''Power'' (lightning bolt), some kind of ''Gem'', a cartoony atom (Science?), Green globe (Growth?), and a cog on yellow background (Industry?) these three only show the increase, seemingly indicating that they're not resources that can not be stored. Then we have what looks like some kind of control cap. After that, some kind of resource that we have zero out of zero of. Most likely something rare and important.
- In one of the later screenshots, the ''Power'' resource is replaced by a ''Credits'' resource.
- Time goes by as is traditional in PI GSG games: One ''tick'' is 1 day, and there are five speeds avaiable.
- There's a picture of a cute robot. Our advisor? Our overlord?
- Our nation symbol is in the top left, as is traditional for PI GSG games.
- The combat seems to be freeform: Maybe the 1-day ticks are only for the economical simulation, and ships fly around and fight in true real-time.
- Missiles and lasers exist.
- Construction ships and Science ships are examples of civilian ships.
- Ships have hitpoints
- There are ground forces
- Planets and moons are classified according to environment.
- Borders seem to be projected out from systems - most liekly there is some kind of ''Influence'' mechanic where the borders are ''pushing'' against each other. Overall, I must say, I actually feel a bit disappointed. Maybe I shouldn't draw too many conclusions from these images, but it just looks like Stardrive, Star Ruler, GalCiv, and Space Empires put into a gigantic mixer. I don't think there's anything wrong with that type of game, but I really am not interested in another one of those, and I expected something else from PI.
Maybe I'll change my mind when we get to know more.
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