Comments - monsterfurby

Playing as a Magistrate (Count Tier) in the Yellow Turban scenario, no matter what happens, I seem to lose the game randomly after a while. Sometimes by losing my county (understandable, though it sometimes comes out of nowhere), sometimes through death (even if I have an eligible heir), and sometimes, the character doesn't seem to lose their county or their life but instead I just get sent to the game over screen for no reason.
I'm still trying to find out what I'm doing wrong...

Alright, having played the demo I would say I agree with the comments on polish, but also that there is a lot of potential here. The good parts first: The setting is fairly original and there is a real sense of progression, although the demo doesn't really illustrate how the universe will evolve as you play. Both ground and space controls feel good and intuitive, although using [space] instead of [e] or [f] as default "use" button feels a bit off. It would be great if the game could be developed in scale, as so far the battles could feel more epic if there was a bigger picture beyond just the run around on space station - wait for mission - do mission - rinse and repeat, wait for promotion cycle.

As for the bad parts: The game is clearly low-budget, and unfortunately that is to its great detriment. I don't mind the graphics as much as I feel the sound design is lacking. The sound effects are really weak, and some improvement here would go a long way towards a better atmosphere even without investing in expensive music. I originally had expected space battles to feel much more epic than ground battles, but it's actually the other way around. For some reason I can't quite put my finger on, the space battles lack direction and a sense of scale, while the ground battles - despite being "pile of bots charging another pile of bots" - at least give some flavour to the factions with different tactics (shields, melee versus ranged etc). I'm also not a huge fan of the art direction - especially the human fighters feel a bit too "alien" while the dropships have a more classical VTOL craft look to them. I prefer the latter.

All in all, this has a lot of potential, but it's currently really more en par with Mount and Blade's beta .600 versions (if anyone remembers those) than a full game. Nonetheless, I will probably buy it if only to fund the development of a worthy sequel, add-on or patches.

This sounds like the kind of game I've been wanting to play for ages. A living galaxy with wars that the player can influence but is not the only factor? A military career-ish progression system? Sounds intriguing. I will try it and post my impressions.

This is actually a great idea. Of course, I have close to no idea about things like this, but would it be possible to make the game use other language versions of Wikipedia?

This looks very interesting and promising, and I am considering buying the AlphaFunding version.

Are there any long-term plans to have some semblance of a "career mode" that tracks the player's and possibly campaign AI squadmates' pilot career (with ranks, killboard etc.)?

I'd love to test it out, but I have never had any issues with lag - neither with SoaSE nor with this mod, so I'm not really sure if I can contribute anything in terms of testing. Let me put it that way: the patch does not crash the game for me.

In any case, just wanted to chime in and say that I love this mod and would be really happy to see it continue.

Has anyone yet tested this for compatibility with the Diplomacy expansion pack?

Wow, you actually made it! I never thought this great project would actually come out, and now the Beta is out and I'm about to plunge headfirst into it! There goes my homework, I suppose. I'll be sure to provide you with plentiful feedback ;)

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