Comments - Radon18

Ok got a good play in and I have to say I am impressed. I like the gameplay for the mostpart but a few things really need to be adressed. and i know this is a beta and its a long way from final ballancing but you really really need to take another look at mission penalties. I thought that if i failled to do a mission in the alotted time it would give me a one time negative mark on my review or maybe a short period of negative influence like 5-6 reviews worth. Not only did the negative marks stack they persist until you complete the objective. The mission in particular that i was up against was the mars takeover mission which had a starbase on it that obliterated 2 LCs 1DD and 2FFs in a single turn, leaving me with nothing but one DD. Yeah that was the point I rage quit. I think you should allow transplanetary travel at the DD level it would go a long way to helping with the early game and wouldnt leave you reasearching half the tree while waiting to do anything more than sit there waiting to get killed.

The only other thing I thought needed work was the ship icons. You really need to have different ones for the two species and whats better they could be in full color if you couldnt mistake them with the enemies!

I do have a few suggestions for you that arent something you have to fix like the above two.

I love this campaign its awesome! BUT you should see about expanding the game map a little to nearby earth systems. To be honest it really does not make sense that a species has to have warp drive to tool around their own star system. (Fusion drive would have about the same level of effect your warp drive does as far as moving around a star system)

Making fighters relavent to late game and adding in carriers that can spawn them would be a nice touch but its not necessary.

MInd Posting how you enabled the Terran hulls?
Thanks in advance!

Yo mind posting how you enabled the Terran hulls?
Thanks in advance.

Hate to bug you guys but any idea when we can expect the next update?

Liked the Ground combat and the mini maps.
Really wished you had fixed the Crusier crash bug tho.
over all a good patch i guess.

ok last post for today. ive found that there is another CTD error when trying to save Cruiser designs specifically. i dont think this is the same ship save bug, as the other one was almost random, this one happens every time i try to save a cruiser design.

Sorry for all the posts i just wanted to let you know that the Failed startup crash was definatly caused by a bad ship design. after deleting the bad ones the game started up fine.

The game is already being run as Admin but it has no bearing on the crashes. And thanks for the ship deleting trick. I would post the crash info but the game closes them when i try to alt+tab to see them.
Do you plan on including the ability to rename/delete ship types in the game? If you arent i would recomend it its very time/labor saving. another thing i would also recomend is the ability to save race profiles so that they can be loaded at the start of a game rather than have to make a new one every time a new game is started.
and lastly have you ever thought about reducing the size of the fighter classes having a heavy fighter nearly the size of a frigate kind of breaks immersion, also the sprite for the military transport makes little sense to me shouldnt it look akin to a heavy armored freighter rather then some kind of fighter? but those are just pet peeves and you have made a trully awesome game!

Thanks i managed to figure it out and thanks for including that in the next patch.
also i seem to have new issues i inconsistantly (but still often) get a CTD That seems to be caused by the save system. as it only occurs when im saving a design or game. Also this error then causes the game to no longer start up properly and CTDs on startup after the first error, and can only be fixed by reinstalling the game. any idea of what might be causing this?

need a little help.
when i start the game its off the screen up and to the right and i cannot use any of the upper menus
anyone know a workaround for this?
or has encountered this error before?

does anyone know anymore user launch options besides the -ui one?
Ive looked everywhere and that's the only one i find.
specifically i need one to force a game to run in fullscreen.

greetings i was wondering about your game star apocalypse. how far along is it and if you needed some ship concepts. my friends tell me ive got some good stuff. if at anytime youd like to take a look just emial me.
adress is DustinraydonFarmer@yahoo.com