Posted March 30, 2016
LordZeplin: If you're running this on a 64-bit OS, then I highly recommend running the 4gb patch located below
Ah, is THAT why it literally took 10 minutes to load the battle when I fought the Swarm mothership? I must say, this game is fantastic, and plenty hard to figure out. Good thing there is lots of good threads on it in the forums to help, as sadly the wiki just copies the game text and offers very little insight, and the tutorial videos are little help.
I'd say it's as awesome as Masters of Orion 2 + the battles of Sins of a Solar Empires. The tutorial set me as Hivers my first time around, and after researching later people say they are one of the worse races to start as, but now I'm stuck on them and do terrible as any other race. :)
So far I'm managing to win my first game on normal difficulty, with a moderate starting bonus. I'm quite fed up with the human's nodes this round, especially as I didn't get the node detection tech. :)