[ColdSteel]

I won't lie. I like good games where I can find them and Stars! Supernova Genesis looks awfully promising to me if they can ever find a new publisher for it and can get it out the door (now that Empire has bailed on them). If that happens I will buy it and try it out (as I have countless others). The development team there is also very responsive to the Stars! community (like SE4) and I think it is the only game right now that can give SE4 any real competition.

I think the 4x genre has room for more than one good and successful game. Successes by more than one company just means that more of these games will be developed in the future. This is all to the advantage of us gamers.

SE4 has a lot going for it (being first out of the gate, so to speak) but it still needs to evolve with the future patches to correct some serious shortcomings and to realize its full potential. With Aaron's track record to date, I think there's an excellent chance of that happening.