Infinite Lagrange 17+

I normally don’t play mobile strategies for long. They get boring quickly to me, especially the pay-to-win aspects. This game isn’t like it. Sure, you can use real money, but you can also play without that. You have your own starbase and send out mining ships to get resources while expanding and building up the base. You also do research and build your fleet to fight pirates or other players. I like that the game gets the scale of a star system better than many others. A single system is HUGE, it’s basically a server, although you can travel between them through giant stargates. The visual style is very industrial. Not many flashy colors or impractical designs. Somewhat reminiscent of Homeworld, especially the music and the background chatter.

Combat is automatic and pretty much involves ships floating in space and shooting at one another. Only fighter craft maneuver. But I like that you can have multiple fleets engage the same enemy and it actually has an effect. Fleets automatically organize ships into battle lines. Typically your ships target lines in order, but if a second fleet were to flank the same enemy, then that second fleet would be able to attack any enemy

I honestly expected some pretty lazy cash grab with a cool skin. But the game is a bit deeper and a lot more interesting than I expected. And it is fun just watching your ships sailing through space and fighting.

That being said, they really, really need to improve how you get blueprints for new ships. You simply will not be able to beat players who have better ships than you, and it is just comical how many times I’ve waited days to finally get another blueprint only to find out I’ve pulled the same ship everybody starts with AGAIN and just have to settle for some points I don’t need anyway. I barely have any of the available ships too, so it doesn’t make sense I keep drawing the same few I have if they’re all equally likely. And it’s not really like you can buy them in a sensible way either, so I don’t get why they are so against giving you ships you can use. I’ve hit a wall now where my base is upgraded to its max, but I just don’t have enough ships I can build or ones that are particularly good. So what am I really supposed to be doing?

I do want to keep playing this game, but it is getting harder and harder to find the motivation as I’m running out of tech boxes I can get, and keep redrawing the same handful of ships the few times I finally do get a blueprint.

In the game there are about 9 base expansions you can add to your base, each with a different building or access to a new kind of ship. I am currently on base expansion 4 and I have only played for a day now. The game moves along fast so you can experience the actual open world and attack other players and such. The battles aren’t just over in a flash either and you may constantly find yourself having to upgrade your ships to defeat an AI that is level 3 near your base. I have not spent any money on this game and I am having a blast. It however is not one of those games where you can stare and interact with things left and right. For example, one of you create a fleet with more than one ship, you cannot split the fleet to attempt to take out more than one enemy faster. You have to plan ahead and make however many fleets you need. I have yet to fully experiment with this feature as of about 20 minutes ago my game seems to be completely glitched. Whenever I tap on the app it takes me into it and then right as the loading screen pops up the game turns black. It doesn’t crash or freeze my phone, it just goes black and stops loading. I don’t know how to fix it other than uninstalling and reinstalling. Thank god I paired with my Game Center.