Well I've got about two hours logged into Stardrive, and I can already tell it is probably the single greatest thing to happen ti crazy sci fi nerds since being able to name an obscure plutonian moon. (Acheron should've won)
Of course in stardrive you can name and create all your space fleet, so naturally my empire was the USCM and my flagship the USS Sulaco
Anyone else got this title and enjoys it? I've found no flaws so far and im sure itll get snaffled up by some big games company once it gets a bit more public. Good game, needs publicity.

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It didn't get very good feed back from critics and players so I stayed away from it.

The one 4X game I have prepurchased and have access to the alpha/beta of however is Star Lords which is shaping up to be a very real reimagining of Master of Orion 1 and 2. The company developing the game is a small Portuguese company called Arkavi Studios (formerly Neogen2 Creations). The game is $20 to purchase if I recall correctly and it gets you immediate access to the alpha and future releases including the full game.

http://starlords-game.com/main/

The developer forums:

http://arkavistudios.com/community/index.php?board=5.0

Preview on Space Sector from last August (been a lot of additions and improvements since then):

http://www.spacesector.com/blog/2012/08/star-lords-alpha-first-look-preview/