I’ve been playing Space Empires V recently, and it’s really fun. It helps quench my thirst for a good 4X space game . I started on the series with Space Empires IV, and I liked it enough that I bought both the regular edition and the gold version when it came out later.
One of the coolest things about SEV is the way it handles data files. Just about everything in the game is in a text format that’s so simple than an idiot can parse it and mod the game. Whenever I’ve found something I don’t like in the game, within five minutes I had it fixed by either A) discovering there’s a preference to change or B) finding the data file and changing the values.