Astro Empires

The game itself is fine... it would even be fun, but the community sucks a big one. Now I find out that the reason it sucks is because some of the long time players are cheating. Some are admins.
I have 2 paid accounts on two different servers and encounter the same $#$$%$ players and guilds who make life miserable... DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME... you will hate it after the first 15 levels when you become constant FOOD for the #$^#& monster accounts and guilds. I am going to close my accounts and waste the money I spent... I suggest EVERYONE stay away and let the %^$&%$ players have it all to themselves. And let it die!

Admins and their friends will befriend you and turn on you for credits in a browser game. They prove consistently that they have no morals and it is pathetic because it is just a browser game. You will constantly be fighting players that use multi accounts and are way higher level than you. They are cowards that are afraid of a fair fight in a game. Complete waste of your time and money.

Admin are TERRIBLE. Game is plagued by cheats who feed themselves with multiple accounts, share accounts with guildmates and try to dominate others and kill the game. They're main players pay for upgrades and they're friendly with the admin/developers and get away with this, while new players are instantly farmed, punished, or banned if they try to do anything against these cheats.
Why do I care?!? The saddest part of this game is the core gameplay is solid, addictive and can really challenge your brain when played properly. It needs updating more, it needs modern 2FA or something to get rid of the cheats and it needs a developer who cares about their player base and actually getting more players. Ffs developer just sell this to someone who knows how to run a game and provide customer service. Before your world implodes with your arrogance and pathetic bias!

This game is like the Vikings in space. It is a math strategy game about profit & loss, where players attack, pillage, pirate & recycle other players stuff for profit and use those profits to improve their empire. Aggressive Players can grow a strong empire fast. It's a survival of the fittest type of game. If you have a weak mental this game isn't for you. My advice for new players is join a guild on Alpha server or the newest server and visit AE community discord channel. There's a channel designated for new players wishing to learn more about the game. Activity is key in this game. It's browser based so can be accessed by phone or computer. I prefer phone but more features are available if you play by computer. As I read through the negative reviews trashing on game it made me wonder if those players were farms and never learned the fundamentals. Players that get farmed typically have a "my way" approach that leads them to get farmed server after server. Don't blame the game, it's balanced for free accounts. It's like $30 a year if you choose to upgrade which gives you a few extra features.

I've played this game over 15 years and enjoyed it very much. Until one enemy player started to fake report my guildmates of using multiple accounts. Even the evidence of my guildmates wasn't even enough to keep the admins from saving their accounts which they build up for 15 years. When the admins were asked for proof for banning, they simple gave nothing and said another admin has the proof. And that is done to players who play your game for 15 years and pay every year for a yearly upgrade. In the end, my guildmates sent proof and no $#*!s were given. They showed us none and still got the accounts deleted

Fun fact: the fake reporter still plays the game and continue to harras other players and accusses them of being multi's.

Stay clear if you dont want to get screwed over by the admins.

I played this game for 3+ years and then I forgot to sign in after 15 days. And yup all the time and money spent gone. I was just starting to build my first Dstar..

Astro Empires game is a good game. My complaints is in how they ban people from playing. Two of us in the same family play the game, so we play on the same LAN. They then say it is account sharing because we have the same ip address. Our only option was to have upgraded accounts so we could continue playing. So we then pay for the upgraded accounts. Now a few months down the line the suspend us again with the same reasons. This is just a money making scheme, where they give family members the option of playing together by making them pay, and then suspending them once they receive payment

A scam - Astroempires is a great, fun multiplayer game which I have enjoyed playing for nearly two whole years. Only two days ago, they suspended my account and a friends who shares an IP with me for no valid reason. We were not cheating as they suggested, and subsequently they have been rude and unhelpful.
I have spent over £50 on that game and two years of my life and they have deleted it for no reason which is against their terms.
I am considering taking legal action as even though this matter isn't that significant it is the principal and this is FRAUD.

The admins are bad, the game is somewhat outdated, and the community is shrinking.
However the game's core mechanics and gameplay, along with it's lack of "Pay to Win*" make it the best of the pMMORTS genre. (Persistent massively multiplayer real time strategy.)

There are some cheating factions, as another review complained. However they are small in number and the cheating has greatly decreased in the last year and a half due to various circumstances.

This being said, you NEED to find a guild if you want to compete/ enjoy the game, it's a social game not a single player game, and from what I see above most of those players tried to solo the game, and thus got destroyed. Don't do that.

(*Upgrades are essentially pay to play, and are not needed all the time, only when big hits are made to build new bases)

I can say a lot about AE. I played it over a year, including 1 year upgraded. Actually, it had much potential. But there are countless problems. In the end it's a endless disappointment like the most other online games.

Apart from arbitrarily support, cheating and scripting, the game itself is affected by massive micro-management. If you want to play active and successful, you have hundreds of appointments ingame where some little thing has to be clicked. It's a bad handling and a waste of time, cause it wasn't completely dev'ed.

As a result, you need a mass of time and often the whole day is determined by it. You don't play AE when you have time. You have to direct all your daily scheduling to AE. It's important to remember, that it takes much time to learn this complexly game anyway, and it takes time to socialize ingame too.

Furthermore, there is a problematic relationship between free acc's and upgrade acc's, as well as inactive accounts and NPC's. Personally, I find the community degenerated, the few active players in 2019 consider it like a private playground.

All these problems aren't resolved by joining a guild.(!)

This is unacceptable today. At least, AE doesn't deserve to be called "MMO". Why the dev's do nothing is speculation.

Only a place for gaming addicts and loosers without real life. Ultimately - keep your life and time and never try it.