A few questions about Sins of a Solar Empire

I'm just wondering if this game is worth buying for single player only.

also are the entrenchment and diplomacy expansions worth getting, or should I save a few bucks and only get the regular version.

I barely touched the multiplayer, and still thought pretty well of the game. I haven't bought the expansions, but the big problem with the original game was that there wasn't much strategy involved in the late-game. It basically turned into you creating 1-3 large fleets (depending on the size of the map), and then running it between enemy systems until you ran into an enemy fleet, and then simply hoped you had numerical superiority. Because thats what usually decided the outcome of the battle.

The expansions were supposed to fix this by adding better planetary defenses and more reasonable ways to win other than simply eliminating your opponents through military means. Hopefully someone who has them can give you a better clue about them.

I've been playing Sins of a Solar Empire on and off, and I think it's a really good game. I'm not a huge RTS fan, but I wanted a space strategy game and saw that it got mostly great reviews. I think the game gets a bit repetitive at times, especially when it comes to researching the same upgrades over and over again, map after map. Overall I do really enjoy building my planetary defenses and watching the opponents trying to take my home planet, and failing... All the while I'm off conquering new planets.

Overall I'd give it an 8/10. 2 points knocked-off for repetitive upgrading routine every map. Other than that, it's great. The music is epic, the graphics are pretty good for an RTS, the interface is pretty easy to use once you've played a mission. The pirates can get pretty annoying, but there are ways to deal with them.

I am going to say it's worth it. But, just know it is very time consuming. A great game overall.

Single player lacks a campaign. You will be be playing scenarios or a randomly generated map. This game has a bit of learning curve that you can flatten out by finding some starting tips online.

EM

The game basically is singleplayer. Only played online a couple of times and that was arranged beforehand with people I knew. Also, go for the expansions and maybe check out some mods.

This game has so much depth that,quite bluntly,I don´t give two s**** about the MP.

There´s no campaign,but if that´s what you want,you can always give GalCiv 2 a go. I actually like GalCiv 2 better.