End Game?

[Grim.Reaper]

Hello, I've been looking around here trying to decide if I should purchase or not and had some questions I could not readily see answered.

- What is the actual goal of the game to consider it over?
- What causes your game to end?
- How do you know if you won or lost, is there some kind of victory conditions?
- Does the game pretty much go until some victory is achieved or does it end after some preset year/condition?

If all this is answered somewhere, please kindly point me in that direction. Thanks!

[Impact1986]

You can change it to whatever you want, you can have an endless game, or change the victory conditions to colonizing a percentage of the galaxy, or being the only race alive...

[EagleMountainDK]

Hi G.R,

You have the following options:

[JaguarUSF]

You can customize the percentages for the following victory conditions before the game starts:
# of colonies
# of population
total galaxy economy

You can also set a time limit in years, and a minimum time before victory conditions apply.

[Grim.Reaper]

Wow, thanks everybody for the comments and for the screenshots.  That is pretty darn flexible!
 
Reaching for credit card......must resist:)

[Shark7]

ORIGINAL: Grim.Reaper

Wow, thanks everybody for the comments and for the screenshots.  That is pretty darn flexible!

Reaching for credit card......must resist:)

Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated. [:D]

This game is supurb, one of the best 4X games I've played.

[HsojVvad]

I am curious though. Can we still play the game after a goal is reached? Like in the old Civ games, games can still be played but score it not calculated. This way I can say I lost the Economy game but won by conquering everyone later.

[Wade1000]

It could go both ways. If you won the economy game but an AI military was dominating would you continue that game to let the opponent win the domination? [:D]
 
We could assume that an economic or other victory leads to such a... lead that you can never be beaten thus you are voted/considered the ruler of that galaxy, never to be challenged.