my first game, some suggestions/bugs

i'm halfway playing my first game and saw a few things that might need some attention:

* Times of building or research don't always match with the actuall time needed, my first research needed 3 weeks but was finished after 1. when i was looking at the planet i saw a building needing 1 week to finish, after 1 week it needed 0 weeks to finish and after 2 weeks it was finally done. i saw this more than once.

* i'm playing one of the new races and i have like no idea what superability i have, i know what my oppononts have cause you can see that if you are adjusting your enemies b efore the game start. but what do i have?

* sometimes when i double click on a planet to get inside it takes me to the ship screen.

* my starbase just dissapeard, no clue why, i wasn't at war with anybody.

* the espionage slider is gone, but when clicking on a enemy planet it still says i need high espionage. how does this work.
also i had agents on a drengin planet, after i removed them i still could see there planet. but i also had a few agents on another enemy world, after i removed them i couldn't see his world anymore.

* even though stardock said i shouldn't do this, i'm thick headed and went ahead and wanted to remove every spy in my worlds.
well i started to first put spies on drengin worlds, he returend the favour.
after i removed all my spies from his planet he kept on sending spies to my planet even though we were now neutral with eachother and he was at war with soembody else he kept sending spies to me...why

also, only the drengin empire sended spies to me, and i removed them when i could, but he made more spies than me, how can this be? he didn't even have half the income that i have and i was at 100% spies from the start.
(this asuming if a spy is red in the spy screen its from drengin)

* somestimes spy agents come to late, or to early.
it said i new spy was created but didn't get it untill after 1 turn.
also it said drengin send a spy to my world, but i saw 2. one i couldn't remove one i could, the next turn i got the notification that the other one was send and now i could remove that one to.




so far this has been a very enjoyable ride
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Reply #1 Top
this is a repost since i posted it in the wrong forum i believe, if not i am sorry.

ok i just finished the game.

* metaverse hasn't been updated to handle games from DA, atleast it didn't let me post my game. gave an error.

* one of the new races is the very same in abilities as the drath, this is boring

* i do not want the camera to move to a ship everything one of my ships runs out of move points (is there an option for this already?)

* plz make it so that all my ships also move all at the same point just like the AI ships do. it will make life easier in very big maps with lots of ships



well thats it for now.
move on to another game

ps: my previous comments about the spies is incorrect, it wasn't only the drengin that send spies to me, so scrap it, so far it seem to work fine.
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* plz make it so that all my ships also move all at the same point just like the AI ships do. it will make life easier in very big maps with lots of ships


Options -> Interface -> Ship Movement -> uncheck "Follow auto pilot ships"
Reply #3 Top
Stardock should keep DA posts off the Recent Posts list.

It reflects VERY VERY BADLY on the absolutely stable and well done version Dread Lords 1.4.

All beta testers are smart enough to go directly to the DA forum.

Mystic and everybody else should try thinking before writing subject lines.
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but but...this is the DA games forum?
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ignore post, my bad
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oh yea, minor races don't work
i selected 8 minor races in a medium map, didn't see any.