How Much Will Planetary Annihilation Cost at Release

from the impression i got from the most recent live stream, the galactic war will be a seperate metagame on it's own with the PA engine tied to it.

It wont be a scripted single player game as normal games have it will be more of a random generated single player game like what some RPG's have with randomized replays of the same style game just changing the order and names of things to collect and or kill maybe even changing the map too.

Since the game is procedurally generated i see why they decided to go with a procedurally generated single player game too.

I hope i can buy custom commanders, not commanders with upgrades, just for look's and personality.
An example would be like the commanders now just more of them maybe in packs or indivually depending on the time and effort put into the art to make it look good.
No extra STATS just visual differences walking styles bullet colors, and so on.

I'm 90% sure Uber has said they won't have purchasable Commanders. It's kinda pointless to have purchasable Commanders since anyone can mod the game for free and add their own Commanders.

I may be getting this confused with community speculation though, I can't remember. I learn so much about the game on the forums and whatnot that it all kinda runs together.

Agreed the community can add their own commanders if they wish .
But >> I'm nowhere as good at making models and art as Uber and other community members.
Not only that but making them takes TIME and hell EFFORT .. lol,,, so it's worth it in the end to pay maybe a dollar or 2 for a kickass looking commander better than what i could ever make myself.

Please no DLC type content. I'd rather they wait and bundle it all together as an expansion. By "it all" I mean any new content they plan on releasing. Commanders, Gametypes, Units, Planet types. Everything.

I also agree here too with the Freebie content in future updates, but i also think there should be a shop for custom art commanders that are not DLC but more like personal item's.

Not sure if i have explained myself correctly.

You will probably want to read this;

PSA - What Galactic War actually is

In short, it's not a traditional single player and has a extra functionality beyond 'single player' setups.

Mike

I really hope they do Skyrim or Red Dead Redemption sized expansions. I'm guessing Uber will have a lot of free updates.

I'd be fine with paying for large updates to PA though.

my impression from that is a game similar to Star Wars BattleFront 2's galactic war metagame.
Turn based meta game where the main game engine is used to capture locations on the larger meta game map ..

Only PA will generate a new map every time instead of using the same layout.
And generate random planets in systems in each part of the bigger random map.

I understand and I do not believe that is healthy for the game. Not to mention I don't think Uber want to do that as well, I could be wrong. It just hasn't worked for their past games and proved to be too expensive.

I am also not too sure about different outfits/body art for Commanders. It would just seem out of place too me. I think just the basic color options are the best way to go.

Also game patches =/= expansions. "Updates" are free and often if needed. "New Content" is not that. at least.

better explaination of my last post.

you have a large map of sectors
in each sector is a system of planets
you fight over a sector using the RTS engine,
If you win you own that sector. if you lose the opponent owns that sector.
then you go back to the larger map of sectors and it's updated per round,
then you pick next sector to battle over.

Do you play a lot of MNC or SMNC ?

edited..
I also see your point too about it being something that could also ruin the game

Not recently. I used to but I don't see what that has to do with the topic?