Fun Game – Galaxy on Fire™ - Alliances Review

4 stars is the highest rating from me unless I'm completely blown away in every aspect to give a 5. This game is very fun to play but has a bit of a learning curve-which is good because it means it has a lot of depth and complexity to keep full time and hard core phone gamers busy and entertained. A huge PRO is that you have 3 home systems which cannot be attacked and you can build and stage your attacks from there. This is a nice feature balanced by the fact that moving stuff from and to these planets can take time, and the more stuff you move, the more cool down time your jump gate has between your home system and vulnerable planets before you can use it again. Another cool feature is you can set your Carriers to "Avoid Combat" mode even on your vulnerable planets and load them up with all your troops and best ships if you go offline-making fleetsave unnecessary (as long as you don't mind losing the planet and come back to fight another day since you didn't lose all your stuff). A major complaint on my part is the sheer number of planets you need to control and maintain to be competitive. I have 10 or so right now but really need closer to 15-20 to really get into this. Everything on each planet maxes out at level 20 and it can get cumbersome managing them all. You can easily steal a high level planet from another player and have an instant infrastructure and tons of RSS which comes in handy when you find an inactive player when building fast. If you take from an active player be prepared to have it taken back as it is almost impossible to defend every planet to the extent needed to keep it from someone determined to get it. Also even if all your planets are close to each other, the time to move between planets is very slow but the playing field is even for everyone in this regard (farther planets take even longer of course). All in all a very strategic and fun game but I am still building my empire and have not yet had any real conflict. My server seems rather peaceful and maybe even a little dead but it's nice to grow in. I'll see how it goes once I poke a few hornets nests!
Review by Baca on Galaxy on Fire™ - Alliances.