I agree.  I had down time in between games before Dragon Age came out and I fired up Sins for the first time in months and played 4 games.  It was even funner then I remember it.   To me that is super value in a game when I can play it 2 or 3 years later (or 5-6 yrs later) and it still feels fresh and fun.

It still amazes me that Im expected to pay £30 for a 6 hour game and £30 for a 60 hour game. I don't remember how much time I've spent in Civ, GalCiv, Mount&Blade, Sins, X3 or Arma1/2 but those acount for less than 1% of my game purchases but WAAAYY more play time.

Fun games are probably the best value for money on the planet.

What's wrong with Frogboy? He's not trashing Stardock!

But yeah, Sins has been my best game purchase ever. I've spent hundreds of hours on it.

I'm not so sure about that.   I'm thinking of something else that's fun, that's free....   Of course it may not be free when you factor in the cost of dinner, horse carriage ride...diamond ring...kids....

I havent played sins in soooooo long but im planning to come back to it again.

But when i think about it. I never got bored of this game before. Its just that games are hard to find on multiplayer or they sometimes take up too much time. Thats all.

Well maybe it just isnt your type of game. What do you like to play?

Well, I started with Starcraft, which I played a fair bit but was never very good at. Then I became a beta tester for a little-known indie RTS game called Strifeshadow, and eventually managed to become reasonably good at it despite starting out as officially the second-worst player in the community. The game never caught on and LAN play never worked properly, but it's still my all-time favorite RTS game. Last I heard, they were willing to open-source it if someone was willing to go in and rip out all the proprietary networking code for them.

After that I got hooked on Tribes 2 (complex team-based strategic FPS), then Mechwarrior 4:Mercenaries (mech combat sim), then Jumpgate for a few years (MMO space combat sim). After that I moved to Civilization 4 and Guild Wars, gave up Civ4 for GalCiv2, tried Team Fortress 2 for a few months (it made me miss Tribes 2), and now I'm having lots of fun with multiplayer SupCom over LAN. Oh, and every once in a while I become completely obsessed with Dwarf Fortress.

Everything I've heard about Sins makes it sound like I should absolutely love the game. 4X strategy? Great. Epic space battles? Awesome. Huge Russian-flavored space fleets? I don't even have a word for that one. 

But when I try to play it...

I should probably just log on to multiplayer and ask if anyone would be willing to walk me through a match or two. Pestering the devs to add a "make unit tree icons not all look the same" option wouldn't hurt, either.