actually the biggest real difference (so far) is that in stars! it's a spreadsheat controlled game where there IS an uber race design and UBER ship design etc. and if you don't follow em and the enemy does your going to lose unless of course the enemy is a strategic nincompoop of course in which case you just got lucky lol.
but seriously I see people comparing the two games a lot and I just don't see the comparison. (aside from the fact that both are great games in thier own right.) but dominions is by far the more balanced where you can play ANY of the races and have an even chance of winning (as long as you don't totally barf on your dominion design but even if you do it's possible to make up for it with good sound strategy) it really is hard to really make a totally unplayable "god" in dominions but in stars it's the opposite it's hard to make a playable "race" hehe.
I guess it's the relatively large number of players per game and PBEM styles of the two that seem to mak epeople want to compare them
[ January 14, 2004, 21:07: Message edited by: DimmurWyrd ]