[Cyrien]

I have also played Stars! and SE2, SE3, SE4, and just about any other space based type game of the genre you care to name with only a few exceptions.

I tend to see SE4 and SE3 (which still to my mind has a few features better than the SE4 Versions, oh well) as being better than Stars! I played that one for quite awhile and it is a great game. But I simply think that overall SE4 has the better system. I won't guarantee that YOU will like SE4 better than Stars. But I would say give the demo a try at least and based on that you should get a pretty good idea as to whether or not you will like SE4 as a whole.