ryanmsmith

To further troubleshoot the error I've run up against (some custom designed ships lock the game up once they are finished being built), I got rid of all my custom designs, leaving only my custom base designs, and played a cakewalk game on a tiny map. I still got the error when deleting a ship component in the designer where the space numbers grow to serveral digits in length. I was able to build custom constructors and freighters, but my fighter lock

I really haven't had any problems until last night. When war was declared on me, I ramped up research on a few techs to get some of the fighters I had designed in previous games. Once they were available, I bought one and hit the turn button. This seemed to put the game into an endless loop that it never recovered from. I repeated this a number of times with different ships. Once I was able to design a new ship using a custom base design and save it ov

I really haven't had any problems until last night. When war was declared on me, I ramped up research on a few techs to get some of the fighters I had designed in previous games. Once they were available, I bought one and hit the turn button. This seemed to put the game into an endless loop that it never recovered from. I repeated this a number of times with different ships. Once I was able to design a new ship using a custom base design and save

My shipyard is getting out of hand! If I haven't researched all of the right techs to get some of my previous designs, I'll build new ones. And then, when the techs are researched, my previous designs pop up without my notice. The list is getting very long! I suggest an expandable tree list structure for the shipyard, with ships perhaps grouped by hull size and function or by some other user-defined parameter. That way, if I want a large

Nah, the promise of a ship editor is what sold it for me. This isn't really my genre, but I don't dislike it, either. I don't think I would have bought the game without the editor. I'm glad I did and I'm enjoying the whole game more than I thought I would. Thanks for putting my "Cactus" up there! -Ryan

I just have to comment on how great the sound is. If you don't have surround speakers, get some. After finishing the mixing of my band's album, I plugged my studio monitors and 100-watt stereo amp into the rear-channel of my Audigy card and placed the speakers directly to the left and right of my normal seating position. The front channel speakers are a Logitech 2.1 system. Anyways, enough of that. The background music makes use of all channels a

Here's a little defense drone platform that I call "the Cactus": It's pointy.