It's a spy drone, it gives you vision on that sector for a little while.


change to weapons range auto attack, its the same thing.


S'what fighters are for.

I think the Marza's autocannon can target fighters... good with incendiary shells.

A last thought. I like the earlier-mentioned ability in the game to target groups of enemy ships by using stacking in the pips window, but I prefer to view my own ships non-stacked. Is it possible to make it an option that only enemy ships are stacked?

Massive, do you have any ice worlds? Crystals are found in abundance at ice worlds. The problem being that ice worlds seem very rare...

This is something that's already being looked at for the next update. The galaxy generation is a bit messed up and not creating enough arctic planets.

The scout in game should have its speed doubled.... it is a SCOUT after all...

 

This is why we reduced the range on gauss. It was too punishing to arrive in a system and get pounded and not be able to do anything about it. Now you can arrive with LRM's or bombers and take them out. However, fighters can be used to counter the LRM's and bombers so a good mix of gauss and hangar-defense is important for a successful defense.

- Retreating ships using the left bar.

When ships are selected

When mouse overlays the left bar.

Please show next to each planet - number of jumps required to get there.

This way , I know which planets are one jump away inorder to retreat my ships at a quick flick.

Often the only way is to do the "zoom out" way.

Thanks!

I expected as much given the nature of the business and the open beta system in place right now. I'm used to closed betas and private groups. Oh well thanks for the reply anyway.

Hey guys.

Awesomeness in a game, and it's only the beta. Salivating at the idea of what we can do to it to make it all the more impressive.

My two cents worth:

1. Logistics has been a fine way to make planets an ever more important resource and has forced me to change my typical style of play in these games (usually sit back and then demonstrate my idea of "overwhelming force"), and while the consensus seems to be it a little too restrictive, I enjoy the fact that I need to adapt to the characterstics of the enivronment I'm presented.

2. I'm having the same problems with crystals like some other - ie: not enough and even with black market tech prices are up around 2-3k for 100 and my production can't support either construction or research let alone both... hopefully the ice world fix will help with this. Interested in how much the rate of metal/crystal income drops when asteroid is depleted.

3. While the pirates add an interesting aspect to the game, I feel that the AI are supposed to be the main adversary, and on medium all I seem to be doing is fighting off one or two pirates attacks and getting scouted every now and then by the AI who really aren't all that serious about kicking my tush. 5 piece fleets are about all I'm seeing come at me from the AI compared to the 20 piece pirate fleets currently kicking my tush. And I currently have the highest bounty on my head - so who are the AI killing? Pirates are fine if they are more random than systematic. Also please stop them killing worlds as fast as they currently are - The fleet sizes are fine, but maybe amp down their siege ability.

4. Transit lanes (forgot the proper word) are very hard to visualise in a large game with max systems/planets and provide a very easy way to become confusing. Maybe interlink the nearer ones instead of the spider's web I have no hope of planning a valid strategy through. (refer earlier picture posted)

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The galaxy generator seems to have taken a step back in gameplay. For example, I started a Large Galaxy game (with teams of 2-3-3-2) and 9-10 of the players started in the same system. It also has a tendency to create overlapping and confusing phase paths like so:



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Least researched techs - higher ones! also role-specific cruisers
Most researched techs - anything that will get me crystal or money/inprove my ability to kill stuff (ie. weapons/shield buffs)

Love your work,

Shaun

around when will the patch come out?

No set date on when the first Beta 2 update will be made available, but it could be this week. We haven't decided on when or if we'll be making the other two races available during testing.

For what it is worth I think if you do make them available you should force people to select one race version to test, stand alone, to put the other races through the paces as we are for the TEC. Then have a select group test a full functioning version with all three races. That way you guys can still maintain the air of secrecy to some degree and still keep the flavor of the candy in the jar until the official release.

OK. What is your position on stand alone race testing for the other races like the TEC?

I think releasing them all at once would be best. A lot of the feedback so far has been gameplay-related and not TEC related.