Bringing in the colony and the way we get Mars ore makes
me feell more involved with this age. Taking down provinces while seeking the Mars
ore, does feell more of having an clear goal. Rather fighting an war for fighting an
war. The colony brings the entire mission more to life and makes it also more
intressting in my oppinion.
Back at home in the main city. The city seems to turning into an classic Amarican
town during the cold war's space race. To be more acurate it turns more into the
places that where quickly build for breenging all the peop together that the states
needed for the expansive space race. While the militairy gives the feelling that this
space race is more intensive. In wich whatever can be ussed as an wappon, or
converted into one, will be. The houses, culture and supp buildings adding to this
feelling. It's pretty sad that we have only 1 of each for the main city (not counting
the diamonds ones). For the next Space Age I would love to see a few more
variations in houses, supp and culture for our main city, if possible ofc. Into the
colony it really feels like Mars. The colony appears to anything but a nice place
to be at, in the beginning. An town build in an hostile wasteland on an allien planet.
However when progressing the colony becomes for developt into an industry.
Turning the wastelands into and industrial city in space. What is an very nice thing
to see.
All 3 parts of the game: main city, cmap and colony gave the feelling of kinda
reversd War of the Worlds. Where we are leading the invation. Instead of fighting
off one. I imagined it happening like this on the mothership:
Robotic announchment: Planet Mars in side, all units prepair for invation...
High ranked mil. officer: General the units are ready to leave the mothership. We
can start the invation now, hehe
The general: Proceed
On wich the invation begins and the quest for getting Mars ore starts. In wich the
first armed conflict of the red planet and the first interplanitairy war begins. To me
an more meaningfull war. In wich the goal is clear: getting the sites of Mars ore for
us and making sure we can proceed. The same could have been said about AF
and OF yet sadly due the lack of deposits on the map (wich could influence the
output of the ports of both ages) would have helpt out giving more the feelling of
beeing evolved into the conflict.
Overall I'm very happy with this Space Age. The aspects of the Main city, colony
and cmap all together making it a nice expirence. Something I missed during both
the expeditions in the Arctic and Oceanic Future. While for the VF it wasn't that
much bothering me. Since the cmap did make up for lacking the great stuff of SAM.