It also means that a lot of your conflicts are over tangible resources tied to a specific place. This means you're searching for key resources, adapting ship designs based on what's available, and building mining stations for specific purposes, not just eating everything in sight. They can be delayed by a docking queue, scared off by a nearby skirmish, attacked or even actively boarded and seized. These traders aren't just a pop up or invisible convenience their cargo comes from civilian ships that actively transport and mine just as you do. Alternatively, your shipyards will automatically buy them from AI traders. Each ship is comprised of dozens of components, which in turn are manufactured from specific resources that must be mined from planets, asteroids, or nebulae. you know the deal.īut Distant Worlds (DW and DWU are synonymous now, the latter including all its expansions and the former discontinued) went in pretty hard on simulating an empire, at least economically and logistically. Meanwhile, more abstract resources gradually unlock new technology. You'll turn many of those resources into ships that can expand and protect your holdings, and often take them from AI sides doing the same. You start with a single settlement, in this case a planet, and must build scoutships and resource extracting facilities on your planet and other bodies within your star system.
Let me relate both why I admire Distant Worlds, and why I don't think its sequel will do what I want.
I might as well put this upfront: I don't think I want the same thing most players do. The second was more troubling: What do I want from a modern 4X game?
The first is that I hope the upcoming Distant Worlds 2 is the 4X I want. This is The Rally Point, a regular column where the inimitable Sin Vega delves deep into strategy gaming.Īs I entered a second hour of trying to hammer Distant Worlds Universe into a playable state on Windows 10, two thoughts occurred.
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