This game looks like other 4x strategies, but it isn't. You shouldn't compare it with MOO2, PAX gameplay is different: original ship design planner, original diplomacy-espionage window with possibility to buy absolutely everything from your allies and steal from your enemies (planets, technologies, ships), true RTS: you can switch game speed from 1 to 6 or press pause button (so you can freeze the time and give as many orders as you need). Map and ship movements between the stars probably the same as in Ascendancy game. One exploit allow you to become a pirate: 1) Maintenance of the ship depends on equipment price. If your scientists didn't develop this equipment, maintenance price would get + sign instead of -. It means you can have endless amount of the ships and profit on it. 2) You need full technically advanced ally to buy last modifications of the ships. 3) You shoudn't develop any ship equipment to make ship maintanance profitable.
