Really I should have reviewed this one earlier. I'll start by saying that Sins is a great game. There are plenty of strategic options while at the same time having something that other 4x games lack; simplicity. In Master of Orion, Space Empires and their like, it's one thing to manage one planet, two, five and so on however when the number of planets hits 80+, things become complicated. Civ 2 and other empire building games suffer from the same problem. While Sins doesn't have an AI assistant to build and develop for you like Alpha Centauri and Civ 4, you can offload the specifics of your instructions onto the computer.