[Resident Alien]

Was thinking of buying it but I couldn't get the demo to work for more than a few minutes at a time.

From the small amount I saw of the technology research and ship building it was very simple and without the options in SE4.

I liked the concept of the combat resolution (but didn't get to play it enough to come to a final conclusion), in that it wasn't super detailed but did provide more imput than full out strategic resolution.

Personnaly I never play tactical resolution in SE4, in my opinion when you get to mid game and end game there are far too many battles going on to bother resolving them in detail. But something with RFTS simpliicity might be workable late in a game of SE4.