This game showed early promise but has sadly fallen into a deep pit over the past year. It has been plagued by extremely frequent app crashes which the development team have been unable to resolve. This coupled with appalling browser lag, freezing, and numerous bugs have led to very many players losing ships to 'lag death'. These ships take weeks of grinding to buy and compensation is rarely forthcoming.
The grind is extremely repetitive and unsatisfying and the colony work is tedious in the extreme with very little reward due to the collapse of the in game economy secondary to 'cash for points' (see below).
Many promises have been made concerning new content but very little is seen. Any changes are actually steps backwards 'bandaid solutions' which attempt (and fail) to reduce lag eg. reducing weapon firing speeds from 3 to 15 seconds.
Another disturbing trend is the addition of 'points' to be bought (in addition to monthly subs) which can be exchanged for in-game items. The items very quickly become superseded and are therefore a huge waste of real life money. Sadly players are severely disadvantaged in-game if they don't spend the extra cash.
To top this all off there has been a worrying amount of developer interference and less than ethical activity. Two developers run the most powerful in game faction and have been seen to use their privileges to their own betterment and their opponent's detriment.
For the above reasons, and many others, players leave the game at an alarming rate and few new ones join - the player base is therefore extremely small and insular.
If you are looking for a fun, fair and interesting game - Outer Empires is not for you.

-Momma Sam

-Momma Sam

.. however, everywhere outside is open game. For those that like PVP it's incredible in scope.. you are literally free to do what you want - but, for those that don't like that side of thing, there is /plenty/ of space to disappear into.

Hope that answers your question - we've catered for the PVPers, because it make a galaxy feel more realistic.. but at the same time we have safe areas for those who aren't interested (and/or are newbies).

.. however, everywhere outside is open game. For those that like PVP it's incredible in scope.. you are literally free to do what you want - but, for those that don't like that side of thing, there is /plenty/ of space to disappear into.

Hope that answers your question - we've catered for the PVPers, because it make a galaxy feel more realistic.. but at the same time we have safe areas for those who aren't interested (and/or are newbies).