If turn-based/real-time Sci-Fi Strategy Games are your thing than you’ve found the right place. With Sidius Nova we want to immerse you in a fierce struggle between Aliens and Humans on your mobile device. The game consists of two parts: map and battle. On the map you command your Mothership to explore, collect resources, build and spawn ships and construct Warp Gates to outsmart your opponent. The battles are action-loaded skirmishes between fleets where you use the ships you built to push back and destroy the enemy. The right type of strategy is key here as each ship has different attributes that make it very powerful against others. If this sounds promising then have a look at the different tabs and sign up to our forum.
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Nov 27 2012 Anchor | ||
Sidius Nova Beta initial feedbackversion 0.10.1 (1)I'm still getting my feet wet in the game, but I've noted some initial areas that could use some work. I haven't gotten far enough to really get comfortable with the strategy and as such, I'm focusing on more on some details that stuck out with my initial experience. It's a very promising start, and I'm interested to get a better feel for all of the game's mechanics and strategy. In the mean time:
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Nov 28 2012 Anchor | ||
Hey airhead3, Thank you for your feedback! How does the game feel after playing for a bit? Have you unlocked a few new items in the Research Menu? Regarding your points: |
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Dec 5 2012 Anchor | ||
The more I play the more I appreciate some of the depth that I feared wasn't there (turn-based map elements, for example); it has the appearance of simply an over-world map to explore, but the positioning of fleets and mothership, action points, probes, etc. move it into more interesting territory that is not entirely evident initially. I'm still feeling a bit behind the situational awareness curve in the real-time battles (I would love to be able to zoom out to see the whole map - I'm sure I try to do this several times in a heated battle only to be disappointed). If not the ability to zoom out (or maybe in addition to), icons on the edges (both left and right) providing a bit more information would be helpful. I tend to lose track of enemies that are farther left to my current view, and expect to see a chevron on the left side similar to the indication of enemies on the right edge. If those indicated the kind of ships and order (maybe like miniature icons of the ships in a sort of simplified schematic miniature overlay), that would help understand what's going on. (I also loose track of where my ships are, too, but I fear the display would get cluttered to try and indicate all of that in the margins. I've unlocked the probe, the laser ship and the warp (though made the mistake of restarting on a harder difficulty, so progress has slowed considerably!), and appreciate the introduction of new elements to incorporate into your strategy. That being said, it seems a bit out of place to have the Research button on the main menu, and not accessible within the game view (there is the Buy Now button after you earn enough research points, but no way to go back and research later without saving and quitting the game to get to the main menu. The text/font I was referring to specifically is the story element text (white text on dark background) the font in question also appears in the in-game elements such as ship types. I found myself having some difficulty in discerning some letters in the story elements. As I play more, I'm finding that with fleet management, I appreciate the lack of the 'sticky' select, since I'm moving several different fleets around. My initial impression was just based on moving the mothership. That being said, one thing that I still find myself doing accidentally is when I have a fleet close to the mothership, I typically select the mothership to build ships, then select the nearby fleet to move it somewhere else. Of course this tap on the fleet after the mothership has been selected means that I inadvertently move the mothership onto the fleet, since the mothership was still selected. Normally, when a fleet is more than one planet away, tapping the fleet will deselect the mothership, so I think that is why I expect to be able to do that when the fleet is close. Not sure the best way to avoid this, but perhaps a confirmation before merging fleets/mothership. It seems I'm frequently merge when I intended something else. (Could still just be me, of course!) One minor graphical quibble: when either mothership is defeated and crashing, it appears the victorious ships are flying over the background layer that makes up the mothership. The end effect is that the ships are traveling through the mothership rather than behind it. (Don't file this as a critical bug by any means!) I have been enjoying the game - as I discover more I appreciate it more, which is a great sign. I hope that still comes through all of these comments. |
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