Ready to Rock

If you like sim games, and you are not familiar with Galactic Civilizations II, head on over to the site and check them out. It's from Stardock, which produces a lot of great third-party software - inventive and useful stuff you've probably never heard of but need right this minute.

Anyway, GalCiv2 is a middling-to-good sim, not quite on par with Civ4, but stable and challenging enough to hold your interest for the 20-30 hours or so it takes to play a complete game of galactic conquest. Where it really shines, though, is the shipyard. GalCiv2 allows you to design your own starships from a host of components. Here are a few asteroid-themed ships I put together using a mod that allows you to do that sort of thing.


That's just the colony ship. Here are some others:
Deep Sounder Recon Craft
Iron Determination Mining Tower
Terminus Station
Steel Workshop Construction Platform
Meteos Cataclysm-class Troop Transport


And here a few older ships from a previous version:
Starseed Colony
Stardust Merchant
Quasar Defense Drone
Ion II Escort Fighter
Echo Drone
Sunflare Destroyer
Nova Mk1 Battleship