One of the best game I have ever played, but has so much potential.

I have been following you since solar max 1. I absolutely loved solar max 1. I loved its simplicity, yet the complexity that could emerge from said simplicity.

Solar max 2, only impressed me even more.

But there is one thing I hoped for ever since I played solar max 1.

That thing, was multiplayer.
I dont think you realize truly how much potential this game has.

What if you made a another game like this, but it was three dimensional, and just as beautiful. Similar to the aesthetic beauty of EvE Online.

And when you first start off, your are one tiny metallic super intelligent dust particle. But this dust particle can produce other dust particles, but requires resources to do so.

So at first you mine tiny asteroids in the belt of some floating planet in the dead of space. And you collect resources to build another dust particle. Then you the player, now becomes 2 metallic dust particles. Then you mine asteroids faster due to more miners, thus you collect resources faster, and thus you reproduce faster.

Eventually you become this massive but in comparison to the smallest of planets, minuscule metallic dust cloud. Consisting of over a thousand dust particles.

Eventually you become large enough to take on whole planets, extracting their resources to build more dust particles.

Then you become so large, you can finally take on and extract resources from the behemoth structure at the center of the solar system. The Star...

By the time you take the whole solar system, your cloud of intelligent metallic dust consists of over a billion.

But there are other solar systems out there, hundreds of billions, all orbiting a super massive black hole at the center. And there are hundreds of billions of other galaxies, some twice as large as the one you are in now.

But last, there are other metallic dust clouds out there, all competing for dominance over all the universes matter.

And if everyone of your metallic dusts get destroyed, your account gets deleted, forever.

In this game you could also control the exact location your dust cloud/clouds could go. You dont HAVE to go to asteroids, planets, or stars. You could strategically place clusters of dust in the dead of space.

This is my perfect dream virtual world.
It would have a pure, simple, and beautiful user interface. The structures such as planets and stars would look gorgeous. And the camera can zoom far away from your dust cloud, all the way across the observable universe.

Ok yea, maybe the above is a bit much. Probably wont see something like that for a few years.

But my point still stands, there is so much potential this game has, most of which, deals with multiplayer.

I also recommend you look at a iphone game called auralux. It is similar to yours, but has some interesting features that allow for greater possible strategies.

The main advancement I like in auralux, is that it allows you to control specifically where your units can go. You dont have to go to planets, you can position them in more strategic locations. You can also select the amount you want to control by highlighting which ones you want.

Another game i recommend you take a look at, a very new game as well (like made a week ago). Is called planets multiplayer, made by a guy named play zone.

The game was programmed by him, and only, him.

Maybe you could team up with him to make a better game (my dream game).

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