First 2 days I was playing as though it was elite dangerous - sitting in the cockpit of my fighter doing missions.
Then I bought a couple of miners, and suddenly the game became like football manager. I was shuttling employees around, giving them piloting seminars and asking them to take up positions around the playing field. I spent so much time trying to fit the right miners in the right systems.
Then it became space engineers, I started building solar power stations and fitting components together.
I then got a few destroyers and frigates together, and suddenly the game is now Homeworld. I'm playing in the map mode and F2, giving formations to my various fleets, positioning them to intercept xenon fighters, moving destroyers around to take the aggro off of them when fighting multiple xenon K. It is amazing! The ships respond to my orders almost all the time but of course there are AI problems here and there.
I spent so much time on the map screen, my kids started taking their coins and moving them around the dinner table saying these are my spaceships. So I spent some time to work out a strategy with my kids about which xenon sector I should destroy first. Red chips were xenon destroyers and blue chips were my own. We came up with a strategy and then over the next few days executed it, moving my destroyers out of Antigone space to help the Teladi in Fires of Defeat. We destroyed all the xenon stations there. My kids were super happy that their strategy worked out.
I can't believe one game can have so many different genres put together. It's like the final space game."
So cute I wish I could frame it
