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[Chiefwaffles]

Sid Meier's Starships was just announced.

In the game, you'll control a fleet of starships as you journey through the galaxy to complete missions, protect planets and their inhabitants, and build a planetary federation.

2K adds that the missions you'll take on have their own unique maps, featuring "dynamically generated tactical combat" that should boost the game's replayability.

2K also teases that Beyond Earth and Starships will feature cross-connectivity for people who own both games. The developer isn't talking specifics, but says that this integration will "enhance and expand upon both game experiences."

A turn based strategy game where you control a fleet of ships (seemingly not a civilization, though. Not directly, at least.) and go around the galaxy post-Beyond Earth with a series of goals.

According to the description so far, seems to not be "reskinned Civ 5" like Beyond Earth, and more its own thing.
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PC, Mac, and iPad versions were announced.

As you trek through the stars, you'll be challenged to expand your federation's influence and reach. You'll also amass futuristic technology and take part in turn-based combat using a deep roster of customizable ships, some of which you can see in the image gallery above.

[Bouchart]

So is it going to be like Sid Meier's FTL or Sid Meier's Space Pirates?

[Astral]

iPad version

Hopefully this is an offshoot, and not an indication of the final product, otherwise it's going to be Civilization Revolution all over again: a cheap, dumbed down game not worth the loss of complexity.

[Orange Wizard]

Yeah, hopefully they don't dumb it down too much. I miss my Civ IV micromanaging!

In any case, PTW in case it turns out okay.

[IronyOwl]

iPad version

Hopefully this is an offshoot, and not an indication of the final product, otherwise it's going to be Civilization Revolution all over again: a cheap, dumbed down game not worth the loss of complexity.

Given that it's been announced a few months before it'd have to be released to be on schedule, I'm not terribly hopeful.

On the other hand, it was supposedly worked on by Meier himself, so the odds of it being "small but neat" shouldn't be too bad.

[Rakonas]

So is it going to be like Sid Meier's FTL or Sid Meier's Space Pirates?

Both of these sound awesome.

[MarcAFK]

Honestly it sounds like beyond earth but with the scifi bent and full unit customisation of alpha centauri.

[Anvilfolk]

Colour me interested!

[EuchreJack]

iPad version

Hopefully this is an offshoot, and not an indication of the final product, otherwise it's going to be Civilization Revolution all over again: a cheap, dumbed down game not worth the loss of complexity.

iPad, not iPhone.  So it is geared to run on a tablet computer, not a phone.

It would be nice to see an original project from Firaxis for a change.  Hopefully, they will shamelessly steal from similar indy games in the past couple of years that were based on similar themes.  Create something more refined than the half-complete mess that usually results from this concept.

[Furtuka]

 ptw

[Bouchart]

It would be nice to see an original project from Firaxis for a change.

No, they need to remake Covert Action.

[MarcAFK]

Am I wrong in thinking an iPad is just an iphone with a bigger screen and battery?

[~Neri]

No, it's exactly that. Maybe slightly better CPU.

[MarcAFK]

To be honest though, it's fucking terrible getting a decent UI onto a screen that small, apart from that and the restricted environment of the os, iPads are so much more capable than the majority of how they are used. I wish I could get my old snes/ ooold windows games running on it.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

The announcement got me excited since I was (unreasonably?) expecting Sid Meier's Pirates! but in space. I pretty much lost all interest when I found out it was a TBS which may very much be a mobile port.