You can use science points to research new technologies that convey various benefits to your entire fleet. You can use energy to buy new ships and power-up their weapons, armor, and special moves. Of course, your rivals are trying to do the same, and while you can make peace treaties with them, you’re not going to be able to win if you make friends with everyone.Īlong the way, you can spend your resources improving your fleet of ships. Help them out enough and they’ll join your federation, increasing your available resources and inching you ever-closer to victory. Every planet has some problems they need you to solve, and by doing so, you increase your affinity with them.
You commandeer a small fleet of ships, traveling through the stars to different planets. Though this takes place in the same setting as Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth, don’t expect complexity on that level. Its design leans more heavily on the former than the latter, but those who found Ace Patrol to be just a bit too slimmed down will probably find Starships more to their liking. At its core, this is essentially a mash-up of Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol (Free) and Civilization Revolution ($2.99), games that are both quite familiar to iOS strategy fans. Sid Meier’s Starships ($2.99) has the veteran game designer’s fingerprints all over it. The problem with his name becoming a brand, however, is that you can’t be too sure with any given release just how much of the game is Sid Meier the designer versus Sid Meier the marketing tag. It’s an odd outcome for someone who seems to be a relatively low-key guy. So it is that after just a few more games, nearly every game Sid Meier had a hand in, and a few that he didn’t, carried his name. The game was a massive hit, and while publishers generally don’t like to canonize developers, they’ll make an exception for just about any rule if the money looks right.
I’m not sure how or why his name ended up in the title of Sid Meier’s Pirates! ($2.99), but it might have simply been to help make the somewhat generic title more unique. There are a lot of reasons for that, depending on which period we look at, but one of the bigger exceptions to that is the name of Sid Meier. Even today, it’s rare to see a developer’s name affixed to a video game title.
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