im with u as the lack of a campaign nearly made me sell the  game until i found some cool mods that add new stuff

Umm I think this thread is very very old news. I'm pretty sure Ironclad said that Sins 2 will have a campaign. If that is wrong then yes I sign this too. I want to know who or what is chasing the Vasari!

You play the campaign once, maybe twice, HOWEVER, the content, if the campaign is well crafted, affects how you see the factions when you play them.  I like a campaign that adds life to the backstory.  I also like, perhaps as much as a good campaign, faction specific and/or plotline driven events that significantly affect outcome and are related to backstory.  If the Vasari put up warp tunneling devices, but there was a chance that something dark could come rampaging through (not necessarily attacking them always).  If there was a chance of the Advent getting a proposal for psychotropic drug deals, having significant affects on pirate activity, income, and possibly some affect on culture spread rates.  I. for one, loved things like the planet Orion, Antaran attacks, and the like.  It made your *race:custom* race, even, feel like it was a part of a greater galaxy.

I agree, i don't play multiplayer beacuse to be competitive with the kids or the adults with no life, I would have to quit my job and do nothing but play this game. Either that or get my butt kicked every time. Not much fun there.

I've never played a game that doesnt have at least a simple single player campaign. If they wanted to be different then they should have printed that on the box. [No Single Player Campaign] It is assumed that these type games have a single player compaign of some sort.

The reason for a single player story line is just that... The story...  I feel like i have been stolen from... cheated... ripped off... it sucks cause I can't take it back and demand my money because its software. Also they said it would have a campaign with the last patch... but that didnt happen either....  More dishonesty... 

The next time they put out some software, I don't see myself standing in line to let them take my money a second time...

Is this not true?  If it is why did the original author make this thread?

Not saying against it, but please research before you make threads.  Like any new game engine, you need to make sure the engine works correctly before you can make a great game.  I mean look at Starcaft 2.  They are releasing it in 3 different games.  You can still play online, with any race, but only 1  Campaign has been almost fully completed so far.

Though again, back to my main point

If this is true why was this thread even made?  If you want to talk about how they should make a campaign for this game, that is an entire different story/thread.

I do not support this petion, as the devs already said they plan to include a campaign in the next game/sequal.

I'll tell you what im for, Im for more story, I don't give a hoot how i get it, i just wan't it. Ill admit, I would like to see a campaign, and i don't think it flop like it does in other 4X games, particularly because this is not like other 4X games, but thats beside the point.

HOWEVER. There are other things that i think should be solved first. For instance, i hate the diplomacy setup of this game, that needs fixing. The research is to much like your run of the mill RTS for my liking, and the whole point of that small rant was to show that other things need taken care of first.

Perhapst the best way to handle this would be to do some small web books to flesh out a story line. make a map, some characters, a plot (already done it seems like) and off you go, theres a story. Point is, I am an advocate of games as art, and any game that is this good needs a good story to go with it. It doesn't need to be any thing like campaigns we've seen before, im rather scertain it won't be.

Picture this, The campaign starts in a small system, and as things progress, we work our way seemlessy out of that system, with a few cutscenes telling us what is going on. The other thing is that it could take the form of a loose campaign. Ill give an example. Admiral whos-his-face needs us to protect a system for so long, and that is the pbjective. in any other game, you would build a big defence, but lets say you aren't that kind of person. Lets say you go to the enemy and destroy their forward base. OOpla, mission complete. The devs could further this by making a branching storyline, the different paths to victory result in different plotlines.

Sorry for the long winded ness of that post, i look forward to a response.

As far as I'm concerned, with no campaign I may as well have just stuck to the demo.  I made an ass of myself by assuming such a game would have a campaign for each race.

Call me an old fart, but the lack of campaings is a big enough dissapointment that Sins, despite its spectacular graphics, will probably remain uninstalled.

I think it would be cool to have a campain with cut-sceanes and what not but I think it would be hard to do with this game. 

Absolutely.

I have a feeling that a truely awesome single player mode for Sins of a Solar Empire would catapult it into the realm of StarCraft and would in all likelihood make it even greater than StarCraft was, perhaps making it an earlier competitor for Star Craft 2.

Seriously, Sins' multiplayer is so awesome; all it lacks is an epic first person storyline.  The intro video talking about the three races and everything is such a teaser too, because it sets up such an epic background plot that you just want to dive right into a first person story.  If the first person story could be like StarTrek Armada, where you got to play a first person story from each of the different races, it would be even more epic.

FINALLY!

A campaign should be the #1 project right now. Playing solo gets old, and playing online with random people is always just a lame ass spam rush, and not really fun at all. I only play with people I know. All of you that are critical of the campaign idea, something is wrong with you. If you spend some time reading reviews of SINS, the lack of a solo story mode is the #1 complaint out there, and would do the most towards increasing sales of the game. Like mentioned before, 90% of all rts games out there have some sort of single player story mode, the best ( and most successfull) rts games have the balence of a fully functioning game environment, player created content, a STORY mode, and a good online mode.

For all of you that love nothing more than rushing people to death online, consider this: Story mode will sell more games, and bring in more victems to the online game for you to take advantage of.