About Spaceship Tycoon:
Some friends and myself picked this game up for a small lan party we were going to do over New Year’s. We were all a bit ambivalent about IF this game would be fun. Disparaging comments were made about the graphics. We even argued about the merits of buying from Steam or directly from the game creator. So some time in the morning of Jan 1, we booted up the game and muddled our way through getting a server up. We didn’t bother with the manual (a few of us did while we tried to figure out how to get our main screen turn on) since things appeared fairly straighforward. We settled down to our command stations, and since I didn’t scramble for a specific station I was pegged as Strongly recommended Played many hours outside of steam. Best “Star Trek” game ever! Dont let anybody -or the graphics for that matter- fool you, this game is pure joy! Lan / internet, it doesnt matter (lan is king though 😉 ) Give this man money, he deserves it. I would recommend a minimum of 3 players. Game can run on a potatoe, so even Glados could join the fun. Just play it like it is, or sprinkle in a little bit of Roleplay. Its awesome either way! First of all, I would like to correct a common misunderstanding. You do not require 6 people to play. Each ship has 6 roles that can be filled with “up to 6 people”. Having one person take care of one thing makes it really comfortable and this is the way, this game is meant to be played. But it is perfectly possible for 3 people to have the responsibility of 2 stations, and fly the ship with its full potential (in a single instance of game client). I have 4 friends that got comfortable with the game, and now we’re running comparatively easier set games with 2 separate ships (3 and 2 people per ship). Sometimes I like playing the game solo, even though it’s hard to do so and possible only under lower difficulty settings. I’d say having 5-6 people per ship is ideal, but with 3+ people the game is absolutely playable. Second false information all over the place. You do not need a separate pc with its own copy of the game to be the server. Go in the Steam/Steamapps/Common/Artemis and run artemis.exe. First window should be set to server mode. Now run it again, and make the second window the client. I personally connect my huge TV to my laptop and become the server, use the TV for the server screen (which is also the outside view of the ship), and use my laptop screen for the client screen (which is the screen of whatever role I’m filling). Entering ‘localhost’ will connect to the server running on the same machine. I realize that this is more like a troubleshoot, instead of being a review. But in the process of deciding to buy the game, I immediately recognized how awesome this game is. The questions I had were the ones I just described. You don’t need this review to know that this game is awesome, it’s already all over the place. What you need to know is that the most frightening part of the game (6 people minimum thing), is actually incorrect. Also; it is possible for up to 8 ships to play Co-Op or PvP modes. Talk about awesome.
