Comments - LordShaggy

Really excited about the optimization patch. The new set up runs a lot smoother! Can't wait to get it in your hands!

Hope everyone is having a great week!

Just reaching out to potential ArkCo Recruits. Please come hang in our IRC and check out our forums. As you can read from looking through these discussions, we try to be as active as we can be. We welcome your thoughts and what you want to see in the project as it progresses =D

Remember Sunday nights around 9:30 est time is the live stream with the devs!!! Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Also, I don't find your post offensive, you just wanna know some facts about the game since it is still under development. Thank you for taking interest!

Also, did you not try try the "beta guide" tab in the launcher? It gives you a direct link to a youtube video I made to walk you through starting the game up.

Mik3k, thank you for understanding the stage of the game. I know you've seen my other post most likely, but I do invite you to come hang out in our IRC and participate with the community. We are very community driven.

- The reason you have to do the double start up has to do with being built from the ground up as multiplayer. Without going into it too deeply, it means even in single player you are interacting with the server the same way it would multiplayer. But when we create the single player version, the easiest way to explain it, is that the server is then emulated. But we need testing with it not in an emulated state.

- Yes, there are no sounds in the game currently as sounds can some times give superficial good feelings about a mechanic, something looks, ect. We have been very focused on mechanics, function, and feeling of the game and it is easier to point out things that are wrong with no sound. But we have been amassing our SFX for deployment when the time comes.

- Please feel free again to contact me any time in the IRC for any other questions and I also am more than happy to do any interviews and answer questions.

1: Not including special micro biomes, currently there are 5 major biomes. (We plan to add more in the future but want to keep focused as a very small team)
2: This is a harder question as some of it is intrinsic to the genre but there can be more leaning. The game will have a more (man/woman) vs Nature feel. Especially since your first MEGA goal of the game is to terriform/biostabialize the entire world.
3: We are working on the logistics about steam keys. There is always hidden red tape to deal with and it is under major discussion.

If you get the game, please come out and hang in the IRC and take part in the community. We want to be a community driven experience and we listen a lot. At the moment I'm still recovering from a pretty nasty flu, but normally I hang out int he IRC a lot. Hope I helped answer some of your questions.

Hey! jeremiah. I would suggest coming and hanging out the IRC and talk to some of the people playing the game. We have not created any fake accounts, and we do have a 9 actually i just can't remember which row it is on. We are extremely active with our community and you can tell here in comments we do our best to reach out.

We are still working on the logistics of steam key upon greenlight. But it is something we would like to do.

Thanks ratblood! I am glad that you enjoy our style.

That is absolutely fine legend, considering our games are only similar in genre but fundamentally there will be lots of difference as well. I feel, that it will be a very different experience, but you are absolutely allowed your opinion. Thank you for stopping by, and maybe down the road we can convince you otherwise. =D thanks again for giving us a look!

Yangusis, while I'm not a (fanboy) you might consider me biased as I am one of the devs. But tell me what it is you find interesting.

That is a really weird way to bring it up, though I understand you want to get more information before you consider buying. Why don't you come visit the live stream tomorrow and I will answer any questions you might have and show you live gameplay. I would love to hear your thoughts on what you think might "loosen" up the vibe and where you think the monsters seem un-intuitive?

We are very big about listening to our community so please come.

It's ok KDR, I think we are on track to solving it =D

Hey KDR, wanted to update you that we have tracked down what we think is the problem and investigating a solution. =)

We plan to optimize it and try to get it down as far as we can. But currently minimum specs are around :

Operating System: WindowsXP, Vista, Win 7
Processor: dual core
Memory: 1GB
Hard Disk Space: 900 MB
Video: 512mb Video Memory
DirectX®: 9.0c or Greater

But that will change as we do more optimizations

Well I would be biased. I would say jump into the IRC and talk to some of the other people in the beta. To make your choice. As far as single player, you don't need internet to run localhost. All you need internet for is for authorization currently, which also does some auto bug tracking to help us track down inconsistent bugs.

Mega, you are right it is a bit convoluted at the moment. But it's the structure we need in order to properly test the game ATM.

On a tech side, single player will function exactly the same as multi-player with a internal buffer. But, we need to ensure multiplayer aspects are working completely first before we add that element. Or we could get inconsistent bugs that would be specifically related to that set up vs the other one. Which would take away time for the core development at this point. We most certainly plan to stream line that process down the road. Please bare with us during this point in the beta, we appreciate your support!

mega, also if your having any more problems head to playedgeofspace.com and go to the IRC link at the top. That will fire you to our community IRC. They can help with any issues. Steam and I also hang there very often to help sort out issues and answer questions

bowser, we have the core set up for construction, crafting is coming very soon. We have been focusing on ensuring things that can cause problems like (lots of enemy scripts running at once, networking, ect) before moving back over those things. In short, we have been making sure our foundations are rock solid. Come hang out at one of my sunday streams or visit the IRC if you have questions or want to see more that is not necessarily "live" on the beta right now. =D

We love feedback, and I would love to hear your thoughts on the video and what you think would make things better in the future. We are a very community driven game.

In the eternal words of yo gabba gabba "Try it! you might like it!"

Motoki, I would say it is reasonably able to be played single player. We just released a blog on our forums about how to run in batch mode, which will help users with less beast machines run the server and game same time. You will lose the capacity to use any of the server controls, as we have not introduced any slash commands yet. But you would still get to experience all of the automated systems working currently. Really it's a perspective thing Motoki, what do you consider reasonable.

Thanks Dbn! I'm gonna try to get a help tab up on the launcher to help starting and control updates for the beta and such =D