So basically AngleWyrm cheated to get around the handicap. I'd call that cheese factor. Maybe stellar cartography could be made into a very cheap tech as well as becoming a pre-requisite?
Its the other way around, 18:00 CET, 17:00 GMT.
Also we are now into balancing stages. We can give useful feedback on actual gameplay now.
It's really quite staggering how different these textured ships look to the untextured models in Beta2. I'm grinning like an idiot at the possibilities.
I think my knees just gave out. The rendering looks better than I was allowing myself to hope for! I'm liking the underslung weapons inside the rings. I take it that's one of the new human hulls, it looks the business.
Without adding a sub-game for combat (such as the master of orion series) I'm not sure how planetary defences could be integrated effectively. I suppose a planetary shield might force the attacker to bombard for a turn or so until it is overpowered. Say a shield generator could withstand 40 points of damage, a fleet would either need a combined attack strength of 40+ to knock it out in one turn (invade turn on 2) or the fleet would have to bombard over co
Not a bad idea to force the AI into researching it. As it is the AI knows where the good planets are and we have to fly blind, making stellar cartography into a pre-requisite for something else (advanced scout ship modules?) would make them research it as well as we do.
Concerning Textures, we're working on getting 3 out of the final 5 styles of ship completed and into Beta 3, textures and all. We also got some cool specular lighting into the rendering system, so ships in general look 100x better IMO. Can't wait to see what you guys have to say about the improvements! ooooo
We will be hand selecting a few active beta testers to take a sneak peek at beta 3A which will be out in September. I'm wondering what exactly that is. <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center bgColor=#FFF394 class="m
I don't know about WoW, but EVE-Online allows one player to control as many accounts as they want to pay for. About six months back the developers CCP even offered a 2 for 1 deal, giving anyone who wanted one a second account free for 6 months. That naturally makes sense for them in the long run as after 6 months of developing a characer alot of players would opt to keep the character after their free 6 months expired. My brother and half of his corp did just that
I think those crashes are related to the heap errors that CariElf has been working on. From the updates it sounds like beta 3 won't suffer from that like beta 2 did. Just dont ask me what a heap error is, I'm trying not to dwell on those fine details!
Everyone must be getting bored with the same old Beta 2 bugs if they are all jumping on a new bug report this way. It must be just about time for Beta 3. Right Stardockers? Soon? And the news did announce beta 3 as approximately 1 week away. Magic. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/smiles/Cool.gif" bord
IMO ALL MMORPGS suck, however I have to play at least one. So far not one that i've tried has been good... Why do you hve to play at least one? If you don't like the genre don't play it.
Sounds funky. Not to mention buggy.
Try thinking of the arrows as moving the camera, not the ship. You are roating the camera around the ship, and the ship is static.
So, does that mean all the starbase building is out or just that targeted on resources? No Starbases are completely different to space debris.
Could you try to give some pointers on what feedback you are looking for from Beta3 please? What feedback do you not want at this point? Perhaps just before you roll out Beta3 you could tell which features aren't implemented yet to avoid all those unneccessary "diplomacy is broken" or "I've researched battleships but cant build them???" threads. Might save some hassle down the road and get people to concentrate on the right stuff.
There was no scheduled releases between the last build of beta2 and beta3. Beta3 is tentatively scheduled for the end of August as far as I know. Personally I suspect it will be the begining of June. Stardock have taken the time to fix the deep rooted crash bugs in beta2 and to put in most of the core features that were missing. According to the beta schedule beta3 is pretty close to a fully equiped build of the game where the real balancing kicks off a
In a couple of weeks my brother is going down to London to meet about 10 members of his EVE-Online Corporation. These guys chat to each other using teamspeak everyday and many of them have been doing so for well over a year. I think that's great, for them its no different than talking to a friend on the phone.
I wonder if we could get an update on this thread. What is the estimated release for Beta 3? What should/shouldn't we expect to see in it compared to beta 2? What feedback is Stardock looking for in beta 3? Judging by the schedule posted back in February we should be looking at an almost complete build in terms of gameplay. Am I right in saying that or do we need to bear anything in mind?
Where there is a mean looking guy with a shotgun, 2 creepy blank staring zombies, a thing with a chainsaw and another marine firing a machine gun. Sounds like a lot of game boxes I have seen on store shelves. Come to think of it, it sounds like the comic book covers I used to see on store shelves when I was a teen ager, in the 1950s.
If your 12 year old kid comes running up to you with a copy of Doom 3 or Grand Theft Auto...if your not smart enough to LOOK AT THE BOX...you deserve what you get... Take one look at the Doom3 cover art. The parent that doesnt bat an eye lid at that snarling thing on the cover needs to ask themselves some serious que
If all embassadors were replaced with androids, the issue would just go away.....hmmm...
I think I won't join another guild, not in Wow anyway. So far been burned by 4 guilds, and it hurts bad. Can't see myself playing the game for long thou since there's no reason really if u have no guild :/ I'd say to Astax, persevere. There's bound to be a group out there you'd like. I don't play WoW, I play EVE-Onl
Now seriously, a female warrior race could add more good taste and interest to the game. Why good taste? Warrior women wear very tight leather or bikini's, everyone knows that! Ok, Xena wears that breast plate which forces up her....umm.....so thats why its called a breast plate. <TABLE cellpadding=8 width=
