Well if you are looking for a campaign. There is none. Wait for Starcraft 2.

I have heard that eventually there might be a campaign in one of the expansions, but thats rumormill talk.

But this game is awesome and while a campaign would be nice, I like them as well, the multi play and skirmish do an excellent job of entertaining you.

So if you are needing a campaign then Im sorry, but you will have to miss this otherwise well developed and fun game.

I would still recommend this game a must buy for any RTS fan.

Great game but no campaign.  No campiagn in Entrenchment either.

That is one thing I never thought about. When I am done with a campaign of an RTS Im bored with the game. This is not so with sins. Especially with a strong mod group.

Thank you for your replys.

I really need a good campaign, just skirmish is boring...

And i also dont like multiplayer...

Guess i'll wait for a expansion with a good campaign

Just to wade in on this - I wouldn't let the lack of campaign put you off.  Think what a typical mission in a space based RTS would be: destroy this, protect that, wait for reinforcements then go do whatever.  Sounds like another day in the Sins universe!  I mean okay, there's the reward associated with revealing the plot (if it's a good one) and at the moment, that's very much something that's left to the imagination.  They sort of set the backdrop, introduce the factions, then you kind of fill in the blanks.

But the gameplay?  I honestly don't believe it suffers due to a lack of campaign.  There are missions all the time!  Like when your outermost colonies start getting chipped away at by enemy/pirate attacks, and you have to get your main battle fleet there in time to prevent the outpost from being lost, but in the process another faction takes advantage of you being distracted and leaves your homeworld in tatters.  So you end up being pushed back to one of your other planets, all vengeful and super pissed, and you might even rename if after your old homeworld in honor of it lol it's fantastic stuff if you just let your imagination go wild.

All of this said, IC could use the current Sins experience to introduce the 'players' (Advent, TEC, Vasari) and the game mechanics, then create a storyline that incorporates them all as an added bonus later on.  For now, I love it as is

I did that.

Nope, still want one, and i won't start playing again without one.

There are people who need a story to have fun, no matter how great the game might be without one. You might be able to talk them into buying it anyway but they will be dissapointed and bored.

Why dont i write my own novel and read it afterwards? Unless you have alzheimer that wouldn't be much fun...

And to the multiplayer-topic. More than 70% of the hoseholds worldwide don't have the proper internet-connection to play online.
Others, like me, don't see the difference between a annonymous opponent in the internet and the AI.
I only play Multiplayer against friends in local LAN. That way i can throw chips at him if he annoys me in game...

On the other hand if you have a fast internet-connection and enjoy bashing "strangers" then you should buy the game. But if you are expecting a ,sort of, interactive Sci-fi movie you should not.

Most RTS games have campaigns with missions following the same model over and over again:

- Defend objective X against Y (for Z minutes)

- Search&Destroy

- Raze The Enemy Base(s)

- Do everything/anything above within X minutes.

- Do everything/anything above.

I think since a single Sins game already fulfils most of those objectives above there's no real need for a campaign unless you are missing some sort of narrated story. You can already grasp alot of background by playing different factions. I wouldn't mind a campaign per se but considering my experience with RTS games in the past I'm not really missing much.

Someone mentioned DoW2: Basically campaign and skirmish/mp part are two wholly different games but that's probably the only way how to properly narrate a story even though I rather dislike splitting a game like this.

Yes, for the most part, each and every game you play on sins IS a campaign.  YOU are the faction leader, you dont need somone telling you what to do, you are the one telling every one else what to do, deciding what kind of relationship your going to have with other factions, how and where to expand your empire, making your plan to take everything else under your control.  You make your own objectives, having someone else telling you what and where to go and do would take away from the effect that its your empire.  And that is what sins is about, building YOUR empire.

I honestly don't understand the people that are saying that a campaign would be pointless, or that we should make up a story in our heads while we play and if we don't we're just lazy or lack imagination.  Maybe I do lack imagination.  With as good as Sins is (and it is one of the best games I have played, ever, in any genre) I think a good campaign is the one major thing this game is lacking.

That being said, a campaign would have to be designed very very carefully, and would deffinitely have to add to the experience during the game.  There is such a rich back story and so much potential for a well-written campaign story, though, the game SCREAMS for one.  I think if any development team can fit a campaign to the expectations of fans and players of an exsisting game, it's the folks who made Sins.

Oh yeah for the development team, please consider putting in a campaign!

I HATE campaigns in RTS games. They usually suck and they provide less freedom then normal games.

Sins is great, it does not need one. Better diplomacy in the next expansion should satisfy most of us.

In fact, I hate RTS campaigns because I play Sins. I don't miss a story mode at all.

Sins is marketed as a RT4X, not as an interactive Sci-Fi movie. Why would anyone expect that? Its got NOTHING to do with Sins.

  Honestly, I would have to say I'd love to see a campaign as well.  While the game clearly doesn't *NEED* one to be good, I just happen to like stories and would like to see a fully elaborated one (beyond the intro vid) for this game.  And, of course, the mapping support to create our own for others to play through.  Something, I expect, is actually a pretty tall order in truth, but I'm more then patient enough to wait for one to come out.  I'll just continue making up stories in my head as I play, and continue toying with/tweaking/merging various mods for my own amusement in the meantime.

(Someone above mentioned the political expansion.. but I can't seem to find it to quote...  Oh well, I'm *definitely* looking forward to that one.  The current politics/diplomacy is so very lacking.  Especially if you compare it to something like Space Empires'.  It'll be nice to have more to do there.)