I'm thinking something like the YARRRRson Empire.

Very excited to start off as a small pirate faction in the pre-hyperspace era, sounds very entertaining to me!

Looks like a pretty entertaining gameplay style! I guess I'm going to have to invest once this comes out...

Yes, your prices ARE hurting your sales Matrix Games. They did just that earlier today when I didn't buy your Distant Worlds series.

<t> Bleek I completely agree with your assesment of the (somewhat) ridiculous price on this game. They're probably scaring off a good amount of possible sales and another portion is probably just pirating the game to test it out. <br/>
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Matrix must have the mentality of companies like Adobe ...