9/20/2023 0 Comments Stardrive 2 sector zero review![]() ![]() And every colony is another point of attack in the larger web of hubs and stops for your supply ships to visit. More colonies mean more industrial resources and research assets, but you have to feed all of those colonists or you can't properly exploit a planet's resources. You can raise taxes on the populace empire-wide to pay for that upkeep, but higher taxes slow down industrial production and research. Building a massive fleet might discourage invasion, but there's an upkeep cost for every added ship in your empire. Systems tie into other systems in smart ways that establish constantly shifting costs and benefits. This sort of give and take, and the tangible sense of satisfaction inherent to those decisions, defines StarDrive at a fundamental level. In the shipyard, you can select a basic structure for a ship and outfit it per your preference down to the power conduits running from the energy cells or nuclear reactors to every weapon or navigation system, but you have to carefully manage cost, performance, and speed if you want a ship you can use, instead of a thing that remains outside of your ability to construct it. You're not just directing your empire's priorities, you are an architect of at least some of its technology. StarDrive seems determined to let you do this your way. You do this by building colonies and ships, and by researching new technology to travel further among the stars, all while dealing with the hazards and wonders of each randomly generated universe. The basic goal of StarDrive is to colonize new worlds and to advance your species' influence in the galaxy. These can be tweaked when selected by the player to customize their civilization in particular ways, but you can't make a godlike super-race - you'll have to balance huge benefits with equally large trade-offs. Each race has a default set of strengths, and for several, weaknesses as well. There are humans, but the real character comes from the strange menagerie of other races - the plant-based flower people, the cybernetic insects, a warrior-poet race of bear-people, and more. There are eight races just entering an era of faster-than-light travel, discovering deeper space and other solar systems and galaxies for the first time. Instead, Zero Sum has built a universe and its fiction. ![]() StarDrive places you in the role of architect and engineer as well as ruler ![]()
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