Eclipse - Boardgame

I have had this game for a few years and I decided to fire it back up after a year or so has gone by. Since it was so long I started the tutorial. When it came for the first ai player to go it got stuck on thinking and never proceeded. I could touch other ui elements and they worked but it was stuck thinking. I touched the menu button and the music changed but it was still on the tutorial screen thinking. Restarted the app and tried to resume but now the interface shows all resources at 32 and it is locked up. So sad, I do not want to try getting into a game because I don’t want it to lock up and this is not a quick 10 minute game. I hope the developers read this. I hope they fix it but to see the rating go down to a 2.6 at the time of this writing it does not appear they are taking it serious enough. There seems to be a lot of complaints. Seems like all they did was update this to note that is the first edition version. Since the 2nd edition is out perhaps they don’t care anymore. But then the update before that was 4 years ago. Abandoned? I guess buyer beware.

okay, i bought this about a year ago, and the game played great. the ai was challenging but fair. all the combats played out properly. cut to 2017, there has been a couple of updates that ocurred in late 2016 since i last played. first problem, massive lag. i open the app and there is a several seconds of delay before the menu options appear. then, while playing, there's a 1-2 second delay after EVERY action. before the update, this was never an issue. during combat, there's a delay between every shot. the game no longer shows the dice rolls. you can't tell what's going on. then, the ai get broken sometimes. sometimes it gets stuck in a decision loop and just freezes. in one game, i moved my ships and then tried to undo the action and then the game glitched out, put my ships back where they were but then also left duplicates in the new sectors but then i was unable to end my turn. i could slide the button but the game would not allow me to end it. in another game, i saved the game to return to it later and when i reloaded the game, it glitched out and gave me maxed out numbers on every resource but i was unable to execute any commands and had to start over. this update broke the game completely FUBAR. the game is literally (not figuratively) UNPLAYABLE in this state. and it makes no sense, because the game was perfectly fine before. if not for this, i would have given it 5 stars, but in it's current state, i must rate it at the minimum and recommend that you do not buy it because it is broken.

UPDATE (4 stars to 2 stars): -- Latest updates fix some async issues, but have made the game sluggish and crashy. Wife and I could not finish our game. A great adaptation of a massive board game to iOS, with a few quibbles: -- Async works, but it is difficult/impossible to tell what the other players did between turns. -- Chat does not persist between sessions. -- Lack of color blind options. Not a problem for me, though sometimes the pink and orange look very close to each other. -- Space battles require too many clicks. -- Research discounts are not clear (even after playing through the tutorial). This discount is already computed, which is a good thing. So I don't understand why the research icons show little discount markers above them. -- The minus signs for Advanced Robotics and Quantum Grid were confusing. In the board game these were plus signed because you gain influence tokens. That may seem like a long list, but they are really minor things. Very much looking forward to the expansion!!!