*** CLOSED BETA UPDATES & DISCUSSION/BUG REPORTS V ***

Hmm ouch, if only I had farmed up for a Nova Sooner I could afford a Levi instead. 75% reduction in XP gained, 50% reduction in price (or so it seems).

It is now twice as difficult to gain exp/purchase a new ship when fighting AI (earning 25% of previous but 50% of the cost as well).

-XP vs live players is significantly more, lets not forget that in this closed beta you're not really fighting live players. In an open game, most of your opponents will be live. -Vesuvius

To earn ships just as fast as fighting AI before, we must fight players, but the whole economy doesn't appear sustainable to me <insert argument about how ships can be destroyed too easily by corvettes>. Ok so the upper tiers of Gen ships are a good bit safer from a corvette spike.... but they still cannot stay a fight!


The plus side is I could buy a F3 with the Honor I've had sitting around for a week or more

 

So a 30 CP region gives 60 xp to each player present?

 

I see the statistics button and leaderbaord button, when will they work/get activated?

 

Seems appropriate for the smaller maps, not too little or too much, but the huge ones that will take significantly longer to capture due to the CP limit and the size/locating the enemy, 200-300 XP is low.

Capturing 5 30's would be far easier.

 

Would it be possible to speed up the marine pod animation during battle. It is impossible to run in fire all weapons/pods and retreat to a safe distance in 60 if you spot/run into something on your way out.

 

*cough chuckle grin*

I've only pointed this one out months ago.

Should be addressed before open beta. Pace of combat is too slow for an individual's turn within the allotted time using a ship that has a lot of systems (due to animations primarily, movement start/stop, radar detects, and weapon/pod fire). Also, putting 6-20+ people in a single map, I've said it before, you are looking at 7 upwards to 30 minutes (or more for the very biggest maps) PER ROUND of combat! Your average player does not have 6 hours to spend to maybe resolve a sector (12 rounds of combat, and thats pretty low on the expectation to resolve a sector). I suppose you could be designing the game under the expectation that people will come and go from a fight... but I dunno, seems too long to go

@Vesuvius_SWIE

Also like I said before: The rolling XP award sequence for scoring a hull hit (or marine pod damage or possibly any 'hit' whether it awards XP or not) is what causes a significant slowdown to combat. Most animation speeds are fine otherwise (like if you q up a bunch of weapons and they miss, the whole animation start to stop and resolution of the action is pretty quick without XP award)

 

*grunts* Gotta do what ya gotta do. As always, looking forward to a wider testing group/player base. I do the same thing at work: take a turn, proof some reports or other task, repeat

It is possible to complete your turn, but you have to know exactly what you are doing ahead of time and execute it flawlessly. Unexpected interruptions, primarily the stop on detect paired with ramp up/down movements and highly mobile ships, can put a drain on your time, then there's up to 40 seconds worth of animations to go through. As long as you q them up quickly, you can go into a sort of 'overtime' on your turn (you can effectively take up 90 seconds or so during a combat phase), but you have to know how to do that and its limitations.

 

Reminds me of the good old TOH days

 

Here are the screen shots you wanted. Seems like the scanner bug is worse not better. Before I could break line of sight with planet, etc. come back around and pick the ship up again. The Exeter never did show back up, had to use counter fire, then just let AI take it out. Also I lost sight of your ship the last round before your demise.

 

These should be number 2 and 3 in reference to the last post. 1, 4, and 5 loaded ok


Looking on the bright side, even though the scanner bug is worse, something in the last update made it worse. So the problem should be easier to identify.

 

That one's real irritating and can throw off a fight or worse.

No fun at all to lose a ton of hard work, much more so when the loss is no fault of your own because you couldn't see a threat and certainly would have acted differently. There are games/bugs/scenarios where you can't reproduce something like this at will and getting someone's attention or to believe you is a chore, usually resulting in a 'thanks for the report' and maybe a fix but no compensation for your loss as a result of the bug. Some people wouldn't even know what's going on or that it's a bug. At least this one is well known all the way to the top and the game hasn't launched prematurely. I've seen what kind of damage a premature 'live alpha' launch can do.

 

more invisible debris. several hexs, screen shot of one.

edit: went back in, one end of the map is unreachable.

 

Wootsauce

What next after this beast is slain?