Phoenix Review

[Darth Hater]

Hi Matrim,

Thanks for this review. Phoenix looks very interesting.

My one question is how does the game design and or purchasing model throttle the ability to purchase victory via the pocketbook? Is it something where the physical time spent playing lots of starbases would prohibit domination via ducats or are there other mechanisms to keep folk from gaining tremendous advantage over other active players via trump towers? Are most of the advantages of the paid features narrative or military?

Thanks for your time and introducing us to this game!

-Cort

As has already been suggested by Monkeyx, you cannot exactly bank roll your way to the top in this game, but you can certainly run a more significant power position (read paid starbase positions) if your are freely able to discount economic cost. However and it is a big however, power within the game affiliations is already held and as a new starting player your unlikely to find anyone who will hand over the crown jewels, most affiliations will give you a start from which you can forge your own path to glory. Also worth mentioning real life cash cannot help you build from nothing to be a power player and taking something from scratch to the scale of the existing power positions will literally take you years real time. Finally for me and most importantly, there is no victory as such to be acheived, there is no endgame, no roll of the credits, the format is entirely open ended, you can set yourself conditions and targets to achieve, but acheiving them merely opens you to more possibilities. The most redeeming feature for me is the role play this format provides and the community of players who play entirely in the spirit of the game.