A great strategy game but takes a little while to learn.

At first, Solar Empire seemed very daunting. So many options on what to do yet it was still enough to keep me interested. After reading the help file, I finally began to catch on and it was a pretty fun game. What differentiates Solar Empire from other games is the maintenence system. Every hour your ships mine minerals from the galaxy which you can then sell for more money. It is a lot like Space Traders in that way but with much more community and role playing. All in all, Solar empire is a very fun game once you get used to it that has a great community.