Questions about general mechanics

Hi guys, I have a few questions before I sync money into this.

Some quick back story. I kick started Planetary Annihilation and was completely disappointed. I"m a big fan of supreme commander, sins, and most 4x turn based games (and completely hooked on Warframe ). So my questions lean in the directions of those games.

1. Can you turtle in this game? I love the shields and base building of supreme commander.

2. Is this going to be sport oriented? Like how Star Craft has become. Its no longer fun to play with friends versus AI. I still play supreme commander with friends (basically weekly), as well as sins every once in a while. We always AI stomp. Not interested in fighting players for the most part.

3. Any interesting mechanics coming to the meta units? Possibly anything like what Conquest: Frontier Wars does where you can assign hero's to your groups?

4. The video makes it seem like lots of CPU cores is the only way to go, is an I5 good for this game?

5. The maps look huge. Are they going to wrap? Another thing that sounded great, but ended up being terrible (like in Planetary Annihilation).

6. Will the DLC stop me from playing with friends? If I at least have it can they join my games so I can enjoy it, or am I punished by any players that don't get it?

7. Micro transactions? I feel nickle and dimmed from elemental. (thinking of all those $5 mini-dlc's....)

Thanks for any feedback.

Rig I would be playing on:

I5 3.4ghz

16 gig ram

1tb game drive (7200 rpm), ssd primary drive

GeForce 770 GTX 4 gig

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Frogboy

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Hi there.

Some quickie answers:

You can turtle but not to the same extent as you could in SupCom.
No. Servo is more of an e-sports game. Ashes is more like a Sins of a Solar Empire / SupCom style game.
We'll be going into great deal soon on Meta units.
It is purely number of cores that matters, not the speed. If you have DirectX 12, the game will run better on that on a core I3 than it would on a Core I7 on Directx 11 (assuming you have a decent video card).
No wrapping. Flat maps.
DLC will not stop you from playing with friends. The current intent (though no promises as it's an engineering question) is that when playing with friends you'll all have the same stuff (lowest common denominator).
NO micro transactions. Though, we do plan to have $5 DLC because it's a good price point. But new units, new maps, etc. are a pretty different beast from horse armor.

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Thanks for the answers. I've loved Stardock for a few years and hope you guys keep making great games. This looks like it has the potential to become a great game, I look forward to becoming a founder.

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