Homeworld vs Sins of a Solar Empire

Having played both games, I can say I prefer Homeworld due to the 3 dimensions - Everything in Sins is on 1 plane. I also think that Homeworld has an excellent campaign and story, as opposed to Sins which hasn't got a campaign to speak of.

Sins is cool for epic battles and long-lasting "skirmishes (if you can even call it that)" though. Plus, it has many more units, an extra faction and more faction diversity.

Homeworld, of course.TheCrazed420

Homeworld is the best space RTS. :)

"Homeworld for story" lol, I get it.

Sins is a better game overall. A few visual mods help it out, especially making the combat more dramatic. And Sins uses 3 dimensions as well - you can command your ships on the tactical overlay to move vertically - so that argument is moot (doubled by the fact that, just like in Homeworld, movement on this axis is largely useless).

I was never very fond of space RTS games. For me, RTS games are about war. War is about men dying in terrible agony. It may seem a little morbid, but it's part of why i like RTS games.

Sins is equally spacey, of course, but I don't think of it as an RTS, because it isn't.

Sins has my vote.

It's hard to pit thest two against each other, they have totally differnent types of game play. In HomeWorld you have goals and missions.. no resouce farming. If you were to pit this game agianst another, World in Conflict would be a better opponent.

Sins is a straight out mirco manage RTS. No story, no goals, you do what you want, when you want it. I personally have not played a game yet that i would compare this too, other than possible Starwars: Empires at war. Both have the same type of objectives, you take a planet, build resource gathers, and you can fight in battles, Sins just elminates the going to battle system, and is always live.

Homeworld was better due to the time it came out and the invations it brought with it... But sins is getting there, with it being a new twist on RTS. but i will go with homeworld

even though theyare both space & starship games i think there is a lot of differences - Sins is a 4X/RTS hybrid imo, and homeworld a more traditional RTS

i did like them both - though Sins probably squeaks the victory because i didnt like the 3d nature of homeworld. i didnt think the fact you could move on 2 planes (horizontally and vertically) added anything tactically. i prefer the single plane combat of sins.

and for people who lamented the lack of a campaign they are adding one in the expansion pack. read what i read here

"Homeworld for story" lol, I get it.

Sins is a better game overall. A few visual mods help it out, especially making the combat more dramatic. And Sins uses 3 dimensions as well - you can command your ships on the tactical overlay to move vertically - so that argument is moot (doubled by the fact that, just like in Homeworld, movement on this axis is largely useless).

alexmatusiak

Im in total disagreement here. While in Sins you can use the vertical plane, it is useless because of the lack of battle tactics. In Homeworld, there we're many situations where I used both the vertical and horizontal planes to vary my attacks and minimize my casualties.

If Sins had tactics , it would be a much better game. The fact that you just basically watch the battles is a major con.

*edit* And people saying Homeworld was a traditional RTS must not have been around when it came out. It was anything but.

[QUOTE="alexmatusiak"]

"Homeworld for story" lol, I get it.

Sins is a better game overall. A few visual mods help it out, especially making the combat more dramatic. And Sins uses 3 dimensions as well - you can command your ships on the tactical overlay to move vertically - so that argument is moot (doubled by the fact that, just like in Homeworld, movement on this axis is largely useless).

TheCrazed420

Im in total disagreement here. While in Sins you can use the vertical plane, it is useless because of the lack of battle tactics. In Homeworld, there we're many situations where I used both the vertical and horizontal planes to vary my attacks and minimize my casualties.

If Sins had tactics , it would be a much better game. The fact that you just basically watch the battles is a major con.

*edit* And people saying Homeworld was a traditional RTS must not have been around when it came out. It was anything but.

If Sins had tactics, the game wouldn't really work properly except in 1v1 games, and even then it's questionable. When you're playing a game with a few hundred planets, you will often find yourself fighting multiple battles at the same time, and microing them is impossible. If you had to make use of 3D space, if there was zonal damage - stuff like that, the game just wouldn't work because you can't be everywhere at once.

On people saying Homeworld is a traditional RTS, they might mean it relative to Sins - because Sins is more like a real time representation of a turn based strategy game - so, in that sense, Homeworld is a traditional RTS, while Sins is not.

[QUOTE="alexmatusiak"]

"Homeworld for story" lol, I get it.

Sins is a better game overall. A few visual mods help it out, especially making the combat more dramatic. And Sins uses 3 dimensions as well - you can command your ships on the tactical overlay to move vertically - so that argument is moot (doubled by the fact that, just like in Homeworld, movement on this axis is largely useless).

TheCrazed420

Im in total disagreement here. While in Sins you can use the vertical plane, it is useless because of the lack of battle tactics. In Homeworld, there we're many situations where I used both the vertical and horizontal planes to vary my attacks and minimize my casualties.

If Sins had tactics , it would be a much better game. The fact that you just basically watch the battles is a major con.

*edit* And people saying Homeworld was a traditional RTS must not have been around when it came out. It was anything but.

very different games imho. there both RTSs, but the scale of sins dwarfs that of homeworld. sins also has a big empire building element where as homeworld is, in alot of ways, more like something like C&C (though homeworld is far far better than that imho).

if i had to choose one...it would be sins by a nose. despite lacking a campaign, the game is very involving. so many things in so many places can happen at any time. i wish it did have a campaign mind (cmon the expansion :D).

Having played both games, I can say I prefer Homeworld due to the 3 dimensions - Everything in Sins is on 1 plane. I also think that Homeworld has an excellent campaign and story, as opposed to Sins which hasn't got a campaign to speak of.

Sins is cool for epic battles and long-lasting "skirmishes (if you can even call it that)" though. Plus, it has many more units, an extra faction and more faction diversity.

aliblabla2007

One dimension? What game did you play? Sins is just as 3D as Homeworld.

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Having played both games, I can say I prefer Homeworld due to the 3 dimensions - Everything in Sins is on 1 plane. I also think that Homeworld has an excellent campaign and story, as opposed to Sins which hasn't got a campaign to speak of.

Sins is cool for epic battles and long-lasting "skirmishes (if you can even call it that)" though. Plus, it has many more units, an extra faction and more faction diversity.

Cabal23

One dimension? What game did you play? Sins is just as 3D as Homeworld.

No its not.

Homeworld 2 was amazing. I bought it by mistake.

Sins was okay. Pretty much regretted my purchase though.

Homeworld doesn't appeal to me, but Sins is one of my favorite strategy games.

I also think that Homeworld has an excellent campaign and story, as opposed to Sins which hasn't got a campaign to speak of.

aliblabla2007

Im in total disagreement here. While in Sins you can use the vertical plane, it is useless because of the lack of battle tactics. In Homeworld, there we're many situations where I used both the vertical and horizontal planes to vary my attacks and minimize my casualties.

If Sins had tactics , it would be a much better game. The fact that you just basically watch the battles is a major con.

*edit* And people saying Homeworld was a traditional RTS must not have been around when it came out. It was anything but.

TheCrazed420

To me a series with a good story line like Homeworld is much more preferable than a game of endless Space battle. Another thing is Sins is a 4x-like game with real time events everywhere, making it hard to catch up with all and will easily lead to a mess which is unalterable.

I guess I'm in the minority........but Sins for me......

oh, didn't even realize this was an old thread....

I love sins. Though I was really confused seeing this thread made by a banned user. How did the person even find it?