I do play MMO Games, at the moment it is LOTRO I have played and actually paid for City of Heroes and Everquest as well. I have beta'd several other games and passed on most of them. It's very hard to recommend MMO's to other people as they all have a certain flavor that might be enjoyable for you but not someone else. Plus,many still charge for software (full price even) which I still think is ridiculous considering the monthly fee.

For me an MMO for 4x strategy games would probably not be very compatible. I am not sure what would be offered that would make me want to fork out 60 dollars plus a monthly fee for a "mainstream" type release. If its' F2P, then it tends to lack something I consider essential and that is an AI. I don't have much experience with the less RPG side of MMO's but a lot of them are PvP which I imagine is easier to create. I mean why create a lot of content when you can throw out a bunch of things and let other players provide the challenge? I enjoy Co-op in my strategy games and thus far, not seen much outside of PvP and brief alliances in the current offerings.

I am not 100% against it but after Cities XL's offerings, pretty skeptical about the idea of paying a monthly fee for these types of games.

No.

After wasting 3 years of my life on everquest, I will never play a game that requires me to play monthly.  They take up too much of my time and in the end you get squat.  

May no be space but I thought you were going the real time 4X route with Society?

I still look forward to that game!

mmo-ish 4x space game: http://www.nicelycrafted.com/todc/index.html

tried it out for a month a couple years ago. originally it was 24/7, which lead to me being stupid and losing sleep by waking up every couple hours to check on the game, i think theyve since made it limited by the number of hours a day you can play. was kind of interesting. games lasted a week to a month, kind of like pantheon in demigod. no monthly fee now.

Frogboy, that's a lame response, don't you think? Like at least post a link to where you've discussed this before if you have. But just giving a blunt "no" looks pretty bad.

I believe Brad mentioned an MMO at some point.

Hopefully not. I'm desperately antisocial and hate having to play games over the internet.

I know a few "mmo space strategie games". but either they are not "massive" multiplayer or are so simplified and slowed down that they suck.

NOOOO.

Here's a space MMO that looks absolutely astounding.  Just not released.  Stardock may be interested in what some of his development journals have to offer.  It's quite amazing.

http://www.infinity-universe.com/Infinity/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=33

I always wanted to play everquest and WoW but there was a big problem; I refused to pay for online games. Seriously it was a miracle I even picked up demigod, well at that time I didn't know it was an online game. I just thought that it was a regular rts/rpg/action game with a story, a plot, and too chicks with big boobs lol.

This Infinity Universe game looks interesting..

The 4x MMO games I played so far are: Astro Empires, Cosmic Supremacy and OGame. OGame (web-based MMO) is too simple and dry for my taste. Astro Empires is also a web-based MMO but has more substance. Cosmic Supremacy is a light weight client MMO and is a very interesting game. The impression I got from CS is that its like playing a MMO Master of Orion 2 with some CIV economy elements (special people). Really deserves a look at. All these games are free to play (with paid extras).

Has anybody here played any of these games? What other space strategy (web-based) MMO games do you recommend having a look at?

[blog]: Space Strategy Games Sector