A quick heads up to devs! I have just installed DA, but when I launch the game from file "DALaunch.exe" I get the launcher screen with only option to Install the game even if the game is installed and ok in stardock central. When I run the "GC2DarkAvatar.exe" file the game boots up normally. A small thing, but can cause confusion to some.
DA was released to pre orderers early
Awesome, utterly awesome! I was preparing myself for a basic boring and very drunken weekend but now I have DA to mess with! Thanks SD for early delivery, nice to see pre-order people threated nicely
I have been waiting UFO:AL like a rising moon, that games demo really convinced me that Altar is getting better with is UFO series. I dunno exactly is it RTS or TBS. It has kinda system like Defcon, you can speed up time, slow it down or Pause fully. MTW2 was a huge let down for me personally and wont be buying CA games anymore, atleast not before reading the forums. The game is basicly RTW with new graphics and thats it. CA really should take an example of developers like SD who can c
DA seems to building up nicely. I really enjoyed the Beta and looking forward to seeing all the new gfx and AI boosts the final version will bring. The beta DA experience has been 80% pure fun and love most of the enchantments, but with good there are also few bad ones. 1. No pictures of land combat? If you guys have not doned anything for land combat gfx it will be major let down. Not only did not the land combat get any improvements (like ship combat did) but it seems gfx was left unt
Mid night for me too Could somebody ask about UI changes for me? Thanks in advance.
In my opinion GC2 could use alot of this kinda UI tweaking. The information could be distributed much more easily with tweaks like these, good stuff. Instead of pumping more and more features I really hope SD realises that before they add stuff, they should make the UI more "people" friendly.
I started playing Go about a year ago and its a fantastic game. Definetly a game I would recomend to a AI programmer.
I think I read Brad in another thread say that they were going to do a "phased" rollout for the pre-order folks in order of the date we signed up. Very intresting, I was just wondering about this. Good thing I pre-ordered early
Something like this would be really welcome, never thought about this one myself. I hope UI got all the loving it needs in final or gets in updates to come. GC2 UI sure had issues, but I could live with them. Now with all the added stuff coming with DA, those UI quirks are starting to catch my eye even more. I love a game with alots of options but not too informative/illogical UI can do alot to hinder that enthusiasm. Like some said, diplomacy screen has been quite bad UI wise
Actually GC2 is littered with these kinds of illogical little quirks. No doubt its because the team is pumping out new features and they have limited human resources. But I would like all these little annoyances dealt with before SD starts implementing new features with patches. To sum it up: SD please spend as much time as needed to fix these minor quirks before start implementing new stuff. I love the new features ofcourse, but some of these illogical quirks make the whole product fee
Glad to see somebody else take intrest in UI also! I have been rather dissapointed by the lack of intrest in UI development by these forums. People do seem to be rather excited in discussing balancing issues and other features, but there are hardly any threads about UI. The only UI enchantment I see in DA betas is the thing where you can choose which direction you can launch ships from orbit. Hardly anything that blows you mind off, but lets hope SD adds more enchantments to UI as they
1. Combat enchantments. More complex ground combat for sure and maybe formations on ship combat. 2. More weapon techs, just plain old rocket/laser/mass driver are getting boring as hell. I would like to see turrets, targetting computers all these kinda things. Basicly anything to make combat more appealing. 3. Get rid of SB micromanagement, most lamest thing in this game. Darn, I actually have more wishes in my list than 3. I agree with arstal that diplomacy parts coul
getting 10-20,000 rp a turn from a single planet by arranging 16 starbases in four sectors around one planet with max research facilities, tech capital, etc. Would you consider this an exploit, or would it be possible for the AI to plan something like this? Man thats insane! Starbases giving planetary bonuses are nice and all but its these kinda
Well something needs to be doned to Espionage system IMHO. I did have a little voice in back of my head whispering that checking out planets without actually planting spies was too easy. I do not know which way of handling this problem would be the best as I think the whole Espionage system at its current state is way too shallow. The whole espionage scheme can be wrapped up in the following phrase, disable building, nullify another spy. This really does not get me too excited
Yeah, Iam hoping SD has whipped the artist good so we can get some nice eye candy. There is a post floating around with high resolution planet skins. Now I think every planet should look like that on default
More complex ship/ground battles will appear in GC3 Iam sure. Iam tad dissapointed that ground combat does not get any love at all with DA. Or so it seems with latest beta. New graphics for ground battles would atleast be a start After all ship combat has gotten through many different kind of combat resolving mechanism in the past. I was hoping with DA that land combat would get bit mor
I basicly love everything DA is bringing to the table but I do have gripes about some of the new features or features that did not get implemented. 1. Land Combat is way too shallow for my taste. I was hoping for total overhaul of this part of the game. 2. While espionage is fun and all but it too feels bit shallow. There is not enought stuff to do with them. Just sabotage or counter sabotage. 3. New threaties are nice but I really was looking forward to some deeper di
Great news, latest beta still has couple races hulls based on Human jewelry. Good to hear the final version has unique ships for each and every race.
I like most of your suggestions, hopefully devs read this. I would like to add one more thing to tech trading annoyance list. AI seems to throw all their techs for treaties, sometimes you get ridicilous amount of techs for trade/research treaties.
The pirates one is such an event, since it utterly destroy the AI and almost remove all the point of building ships until you can tackle the pirates Ah exactly this was what I was looking for before. And basicly what I meant by balancing was that the AI does not seem to be recovering from some Mega Events at all. In my couple games with Pirates M
No there is not. This is something I have been toutting out since the beginning of DA beta among other UI stuff. Lets hope the fix comes with DA final. If you like you can check out my UI thread and see if there is any other issues annoying you Maybe we could get devs to fix em: UI thread
I guess people are not bringing balancing stuff up that much anymore. They have all been discussed in lenght after the latest beta was released. Things that I remember are these: 1. Mega events need some balancing work. How often and when they happend etc. Personally mega events seem to be ok to me, however I have not played huge amount of games with latest beta. 2. Some AI players fail to build up even defensive military. There can be players with zero military ships during mi
What about ground forces? This is personally the most intresting feature of DA. If only it will be implemented
Darn!! I do not wish to overplay current beta because of unbalancing stuff etc. Well guess the final is worth the wait, all new graphics and stuff. Going to be long month or so
