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Skyl3lazer
Aug 27, 2007

Lwaxana Troi makes an unscheduled visit to the ship, demands to marry THE WARP CORE.



Captain Beans posted:

Any good gameplay videos of combat? It sounds really interesting and I would like to see it in practice.

I'm going to stream my first impression of the game here: http://twitch.tv/skyl3lazer

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Skyl3lazer
Aug 27, 2007

Lwaxana Troi makes an unscheduled visit to the ship, demands to marry THE WARP CORE.



Zasze posted:

When you didnt realize the game was turn based was awesome.

I was yelling at my screen hit end turn ahaha



What's the deal with the (apparent) bug that makes it so you can't choose to manually do a fight if your ship moves at the end of turn?

Skyl3lazer
Aug 27, 2007

Lwaxana Troi makes an unscheduled visit to the ship, demands to marry THE WARP CORE.



Ugly In The Morning posted:

Or fighting enemies with missiles. Projectiles take a bit to arrive, so it's possible to die from a last salvo your enemy fired. I've seen ships blow up while it's saying "Victory at such and such", but it's definitely most noticible with missiles.

I havent actually seen missiles yet, even when my ships have them they never seem to fire

Skyl3lazer
Aug 27, 2007

Lwaxana Troi makes an unscheduled visit to the ship, demands to marry THE WARP CORE.



ghetto wormhole posted:

Spend like 20 turns building a colony ship at my homeworld. Immediately destroyed by pirates that appear from thin air.

I wish pirates had bases or something they had to come from, even on a little cluster of stars that I control all but 1 system pirates will just spawn on that system in huge numbers. As an aside, how do I up the fleet numbers I'm allowed?

Skyl3lazer
Aug 27, 2007

Lwaxana Troi makes an unscheduled visit to the ship, demands to marry THE WARP CORE.



Does anyone's computer actually load turns in this save? It's begun music stuttering for me and takes like 10 minutes to load a turn


http://dl.dropbox.com/u/44893/CRAVE...0Turn%20187.bin

Skyl3lazer
Aug 27, 2007

Lwaxana Troi makes an unscheduled visit to the ship, demands to marry THE WARP CORE.



Nevets posted:

About 40% of my spiral galaxy is isolated except for one string linking me to the rest, and I am alone in my 2/5th's. Haven't explored any of the rest because the other end of the chokepoint is held by a hostile player. So I think there are definitely map generation issues that can lead to (huge) pockets of space behind chokepoints. Haven't found a single wormhole, either.

Can you discover stars that aren't linked to the system you are in if your ship sensor coverage is big enough? Seems silly to force you to travel along strings to explore once you discover warp drive, and it can bottle you up.

Wormholes are those inter-star paths that look like they've dissolved. They take 1 turn to cross but use up all of your movement points, no matter the distance.

Skyl3lazer
Aug 27, 2007

Lwaxana Troi makes an unscheduled visit to the ship, demands to marry THE WARP CORE.



Alkydere posted:

drat, this game needs a glossary sometime.

What hell are "fids"? I'm trying to figure out what my Proto-Orchids give me empire-wide besides yet another luxury resource.

Food, Industry, Dust, Science. FIDS is the sum of your resources on the planet.

Skyl3lazer
Aug 27, 2007

Lwaxana Troi makes an unscheduled visit to the ship, demands to marry THE WARP CORE.



SHITPOST.BAT posted:

Does anyone's computer actually load turns in this save? It's begun music stuttering for me and takes like 10 minutes to load a turn


http://dl.dropbox.com/u/44893/CRAVE...0Turn%20187.bin

An update on this: http://forums.amplitude-studios.com...not-progressing

"Can't pass the turn. I think it's related to a bug with the AI fleets (too numerous and some have a 13/11 cp value...), I'm stuck in an AI encounter around . We will investigate the issue. Sorry for you game... (and hello to SA people).

Edit : I manage to have this debug info: "[DepartmentOfDefense] OrderCreateFleetFromHangar: attempting to create a fleet of 14 command points whereas the maximum allowed is 13." I will pass it to our engineers. "

So apparently there is indeed a bug if the game gets large enough that it can sometimes refuse to advance turns. Be aware!

In other news, has anyone gotten flak to work? It never seems to shoot down missiles for me.

Skyl3lazer
Aug 27, 2007

Lwaxana Troi makes an unscheduled visit to the ship, demands to marry THE WARP CORE.



Kenshin posted:

I feel dumb, I cannot figure out for the life of me what technology can raise my fleet size (in terms of command points).

I've searched on the tech screen and everything; I'm just stuck at a max of 7!

They're on the lefthand part, labeled as command points or something similar

Skyl3lazer
Aug 27, 2007

Lwaxana Troi makes an unscheduled visit to the ship, demands to marry THE WARP CORE.



superh posted:

One question about this though, I always play Sophons, and I see that it's an orange tech, does that mean that it's not available for other races?

Yep, orange techs are faction specific

Skyl3lazer
Aug 27, 2007

Lwaxana Troi makes an unscheduled visit to the ship, demands to marry THE WARP CORE.



Haerc posted:

Edit: What changes when you set the galaxy age to old or young? I want to play UE in the GRIMDARK future, but I don't want all the worlds to be poo poo.

You get more magma worlds younger, and more barren later. To make up for that, older have more moon relics, and more normal relics.

Skyl3lazer
Aug 27, 2007

Lwaxana Troi makes an unscheduled visit to the ship, demands to marry THE WARP CORE.



AllanGordon posted:

So I got an event that has halved my ship speed.

Does this go away ever?

Yes, it lasts for somewhere between 5 and 20 turns it seems.

WarLocke posted:

edit: does anyone else get a CD key popup every time you run the game but then never asked to put it in anywhere?

You put it in on their website to make your account vote harder on things.

Skyl3lazer
Aug 27, 2007

Lwaxana Troi makes an unscheduled visit to the ship, demands to marry THE WARP CORE.



Wow, I'm amazed at just how awesome this game is going to be

Skyl3lazer
Aug 27, 2007

Lwaxana Troi makes an unscheduled visit to the ship, demands to marry THE WARP CORE.



BobTheJanitor posted:

Maybe I'm missing the reference. Terraforming robots that go rogue and start taking over every planet in sight is a pretty standard sci-fi trope though.

Also using youtube videos to show a block of text is just so that I don't even know what to think.

It's probably so that they can tell how many people were looking to vote on stuff, or that were at least interested in the game.

Skyl3lazer
Aug 27, 2007

Lwaxana Troi makes an unscheduled visit to the ship, demands to marry THE WARP CORE.



Demiurge4 posted:

Wtf. I started a new game on hard as sophons wanting to give myself a challenge. The first system I explore has two jungle worlds, one medium one large. The next has a small ocean world with low gravity and two large lava worlds. The one after that has 3, THREE, Terran worlds.

I can't possibly lose this game.

You're playing sophons, so it's quite possible

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Skyl3lazer
Aug 27, 2007

Lwaxana Troi makes an unscheduled visit to the ship, demands to marry THE WARP CORE.



ArchangeI posted:

Beta next Monday

Wooting so hard right now

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