Feature List
24bit 3D rendered graphics.
Support for 1024x768 and greater resolutions.
Turn-Based and Simultaneous Turn Game Play.
Detailed Real-Time Tactical Space Combat (and a combat simulator to test your designs!).
Detailed Real-Time Tactical Ground Combat (and a combat simulator to test your designs!).
Ability to completely design and customize all of your vehicles.
Detailed Empire management: Research, Intelligence, Politics, Construction Queues, Vehicle Design, and more.
Detailed game setup: Victory Conditions, Restricted Technologies, Galaxy Layout, Player Configuraton, and more.
Large Galaxy: 100 solar systems with 15 planets each.
Randomly generated map for every game (or load an existing map).
Discover: Black Holes, Nebulae, Binary Stars, Trinary Stars, Asteroid Belts, Gas Giants, Cosmic Storms, and more!
Huge Technology Tree: Over 6000 tech levels, 500+ components and facilities.
Detailed Race Creation: Unique ship models, race picture, racial traits, technology, history, and more.
Completely customizable game graphics: Create your own planets, stars, vehicles,etc.
Completely customizable data files: All game information is in easily editable text files. Create your own Components, Facilities, Vehicle Sizes, etc.
Completely customizable AI players: Create your own AI players with unique traits, styles, and speech (even script the AI yourself!)
Game comes with 14 unique races to play or customize (or just create your own!)
Right-click menus return!
Advanced Political features: Protectorates, Subjugated empires, trade game items, claim territories, form alliances, and more.
Random Events: Rebellions, earthquakes, supernovas, industrial accidents, cosmic storms, and the occasional plague!
Why does this smack of 1999
Did Derek Smart have anything to do with this?