Astro Empires

If you are the type of person that is highly competitive, have questionable morals, are satisfied with delayed gratification, fine with browser based games and are okay with toxic people, this is most likely the game for you!

As a grunt you will spend the majority of your time keeping queues full and chasing guild mates and enemies for rank. There is a community discord to sh*tpost and opine on most relevant servers and a variety of non—game related topics.

There is a learning curve getting comfortable with the game dynamics and best min-max but a good guild can get you squared away quickly.

For people who want to eventually lead down the line, there is some high level strategy and politics involved. But you must have unshakable mental stability and an ability to navigate skeevy allies, foes and newbs. If you experience mental breaks easily, avoid leadership at all costs. Alternatively, play this game to test the mental stability of your guild leadership.

If you are prone to addiction, this game may be an inescapable blackhole for you.

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Its just another tick game which gets worse the more you play it. Admittedly, upgrading your planets and queing up fleets is fun. Watching numbers go up is somehow entertaining. But the game as a whole is just broken. There are good untis and bad units, there ar ecertain ways you HAVE TO BUILD or youre just going to get anihilated. It makes the variation of ships and structures in the game meaningless.

There are penalties for attacking players lower level then you because it would be terribly frustrating if thye didnt etc.

The admins are just corrupt. They ban you for anything and they give free accounts and perks to thier friends who are playing. You have to join a guild, give out sexual favors or be butt rammed by everyone around you. Its the online space game equivalent of being in a supermax prison for murder. Its ridiculous.

I give it 2 start however for a couple of innovative things I saw that more games should have.

1) Your bases and planets are never "destroyed" when attacked, they are "Occupied" by another player. You can still build up (even make ships to fight back) and do everything else but the occupier is taking a percentage of your income while he occupies you. This is a great feature of any game like this as it makes it so that even if youre being butt rammed by god level players... your game isn't destroyed and you havn't lost your hard work. Your fleets are still wiped out however.

Even so, I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone who isn't versed in Mafia Politics.

... they banned me for sharing an IP with a friend who lives in a different apartment than myself, I have a LAN(CAT5) wire running from my place through the window down to my friends place downstairs! I'm upgraded and we follow their senseless rules needless to say. I have made 5 IP sharing requests but they will not answer them... account sharing is strictly against their rules but how could they ever know if 10 people are sharing an account on a non-shared IP? Their rules have no legal grounds according to my lawyer and he is right!
So, I am taking legal action against this company... they seem fraudulant in nature and I'm not saying this because they banned me... I'm saying this because there is no customer support and they took money from me and I keep getting serverbot messages to either upgrade to play or forget about it if I don't! They took money from me and thats the bottom line!

I spent almost 5 months playing AE to see if this game is as bad as many reviewers had described. Sadly, they were right. I'm not new to these browser strategy games, so in the 5 months I played very thoughtfully in building and investing in research to gain technology. I built a sizeable respectable fleet for my level. In AE, you can see what your tech level., fleet size, economy level is compared to other players. I was attacked by a player who was only 1.2 levels above me and he wiped me out because as big as my fleet was (over 10 cruisers, 600 fighters/bombers, 20 destroyers), he had over 25 battleships. I know he must had cheated because I did the math and there was no way any free playing player at his level could had generated enough in game resources AND time to build 25 battleships. If I had put every resource credit my empire generated into building battleships, I might had been able to build 4. I should had suspected this game very early on because there is a ticker-tape like announcement of major battles on the game page where losses are displayed between players in the battle and you can see the big cheaters have fleets of over 2,000 ships with losses just as high and they constantly battle it out everyday so how are they able to build thousands of ships everyday? Simple - cheating.

Development team & customer support are unlike anything I've encountered online.
Bans, suspensions & fines are handed out like candy based on assumptions & the dev. Teams preferences for play even though those infractions are not in the rules.
Proof or evidence for a ban or suspension is never provided.
You just have to take their word for it that you did something wrong.
Appealing never works & my own experience is that when successfully disproving a claim the reason for the suspension gets changed.

They use circular reasoning in replies to explain the necessity of suspensions.
But these are never based on facts. For instance suspensions for script usage are handed out on deduction as they can't directly detect the newest generation of scripts. If you are online to "long" you must be using a script, if you pick up debris that someone shares you must be transfering credits. If you log on in several places or from a phone you must be sharing accounts cause your IP changes to much.

In the last 2 years all server have lost half their players due to suspensions and players leaving due to the unjust nature of the majority of the suspensions.

My advise: stay away

Once upon a time this was a great game and i very much enjoyed playing, however with the opening of its new server Pegasus, ready made guilds, underhanded tactics including account hijacking, blatant abuse of multi accounts, innocent players banned due to being set up by said multies, this game has died of player induced cancer and admins refusing to listen or take action.
As a new player you have zero chance even if you're crazy enough to pay for an upgrade.
It's the same experienced players that start in pre arranged galaxies with their pre made guilds and just lay waste to everyone else in what seems absolute record times now.
If you don't believe me, just do a google search for astroempires reviews.
The AE Forums i no longer read because of the utter imbecile rubbish and name calling that gets spewed forth makes me feel ill.
I'm about to delete my last remaining AE account, knowing i will never return.
For those not convinced, you're welcome to join and find out for yourself BUT! Be warned, play a free account until you're over level 30 and if you've survived that long and still find the game enjoyable, then by all means pay for an upgrade and good luck.

The GM's actively support Jewish Supremacy

The game itself isnt deep at all and whoever recruits the most people wins the server, once the server is broken you have to start again on another