yeh but reaching the goal without going through the game isn't excatly fun.
By that point it felt like pointless grinding, unless there is some wondrous revelation that catapults the game into a new level, it just feels like the same thing over and over again. I don't play games out of a desire to perform an endless series of simple, repetitive tasks and get hassled constantly...
Your empire never changes, your enemies never change, there are only about 5 different missions, and they are all pretty similar. The movement between worlds is too slow for something that dull and repetitive. You can't explore, your empire is too needy, and it takes too long regardless. You can't empire build, your empire gets exponentially more needy, and there is no payoff. you can't develop your civilisation, aside from grinding your way to better tech there really isn't any avenue for it. The only remotely entertaining thing about empire mode after the first few badges is terraforming, but unless you like making collages with featureless shapes or trying to have fun with animal varieties while constantly being frustrated by a grinding-imposed cargo limit and getting to play a simple game of 'pin the tail on the donkey' with the atmosphere even that holds almost no entertainment value. I went to the centre of the galaxy trying to escape, turn out it was a trick, there is no escape, I should have gone in the other direction and floated through deep space until I ran out of air...
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