Star Pirates is a worthy addition to the growing list of online strategic games.It is a simple to play game with intuitive controls after you have gone through the rules section once.It uses all the formulas as any other empire building game but the gameplay here makes for a slower,more strategic experience. Although you don’t get to shoot at your spaceships with a M16A2 Rifle in your hands but its fun and engaging regardless.
In this post apocalyptic universe,as soon as you enter the game, you take the role of the captain of a small sloop in mars station. And don’t forget to pick through the space debris every hour.In this game collect useful items, get money which you can deposit in a bank so that you can use that virtual money sometimes later .You can do research,attack enemies,join a fleet and make use of their offer and services and much more.You can gain benefits by referring other people to the game.Don’t forget to visit the forums for additional help.
There are a few base resources which gets recharged by itself at various rates. There’s Energy, used for combat, research, and a few other tasks, Research is used at twice the rate of Energy in order to increase one’s Weapons, Engines, and Shields stats, as well as Fuel, used for salvage forays, asteroid belt exploring, and moving betweenmajor stations.Star Pirates also offers a system of buying points with the money you have.The combat system works efficiently and simply and is one of the strengths of the game.Weapons stat increases damage, shields stat reduces damage done to a ship, and engines stat does two things:
- it increases hull points temporarily based on one’s advantage over their enemies’
engines stat .
- increases chance of a surprise attack (dealing a lot of damage).
There are also Officers, which give additional bonuses to ships in exchange for 10% of their gold and experience (the latter of which is used to help level up the officer to give better bonuses). The game overall is very much engaging, quick to learn and simple to play.So get your gang ready and dive into the galaxy.
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Game is crap waste of time…
The game is initially fun to play for a text based game – 8/10
Problem begins as it takes longer and longer to move up levels – 6/10
The large amount of Upper Levels (level 40) are totally invulnerable to any attack from lower levels (your stats are 2,000 for attack and their’s are 20,000+ avg.).
Combat System 1/10
The main problem is the Upper Levels are full of bullies who delight in onlining (puts player in shipyard for up to 12 minutes where they are very limited in what they can do, esp. the ones with limited cash). You get 1 hourly search per hour to find cash and items (based on level). The bullies love to online players at the hourly to delay their searches. 0/10
Admin does not seem to care and their are a lot of players who quit because of this.
Searches are based on level so a new player may have 10 chances, while higher levels have 70 +. Guess who finds nearly all the valuable items. 2/10
Game was fun for 1st couple of months, but invest your time and RL cash elsewhere.
Overall 3/10
Wes
A lot of fun, especially if you are in a Fleet. Admins offer support to all players, free like me or paying. That’s nice.
No part of the game is locked out to free players.
The biggest problem is one of expectations – a lot of my fellow freeplayers have a false sense of being entitled. After a while, they whine if they don’t advance as fast as what the paying players get. They do not buy any points or upgrade (it’s $4.50 a month but I am not able to, but I did trade cargo in game to another player who has bought it for me) or do the IPSOS surveys and then whine it “takes too long” to level up or that after 3 months they can’t beat someone who’s been playing for 2 years. That’s pretty lame on their part.
If like me you’re willing to play harder and more frequently you can definitely make progress. Social element is really strong. I’ve never had problems with “bullies” in the game and someone once said they’d keep my ship in the shipyard after a raid – good luck with that, there’s a lot of ways to avoid that.
I have seen some really obnoxious players get attacked a lot as the social element’s pretty strong. I don’t mind seeing those ones leave. At all!
Hello,
This is Admin ArrBilly from StarPirates. Thanks for the review Bishwajeet. It’s always appreciate when a player who likes, or dislikes, the game gives honest feedback.
“Admin does not seem to care and their are a lot of players who quit because of this.” As ommapirate said, we actually do care, and it’s a function of expectations. We make the game so open to free play, that it’s surprising to players when they don’t get everything.
Interestingly paid players like the fact that they can’t just buy their way to the top. They have to work hard too; and there is always a function of luck. Some newbies do indeed find powerful items at the start of their career. But it’s not too common
There are lots of things for free players to do as well, and for all levels to engage in game — even in fleet wars for example things the newest player can help contribute to the win. And the social side is the most important of all.
If you’re bored in the office then try it out; we’re safer than Facebook and have more social interactions too !
Cheers,
AAB