IBNobody

Thou shalt not over-encumber combat with complex, global systems. Thou shalt not include puppets or space cows unless it is in a mocking manner.

[quote who="Hunam_" reply="25" id="3654649"] ^ Make sure it's not 5 screens long. [/quote] It's okay. I will create The Ten Commandments of The Founder's Forum if he does. But seriously, CB, please put Local MP as one of the Commandments. I will give you a fake internet point if you do.

[quote who="cuorebrave" reply="22" id="3654639"] I will refute your statement with one (obviously very personal) explanation: Star Control II's top down combat is more fun for me, than Freelancer or Wing Commander or NMS or Star Citizen or Elite:Dangerous or Rebel Galaxy or the new SPAZ 2. MAYBE that's just me. Or MAYBE Star Control is special for certain reasons. I'm only relating that I think we should identify what's important about Star Control II and it being so spec

[quote who="cuorebrave" reply="18" id="3654630"] ^ But why are we stuck in this whole, "Let's do what everyone else does these days" loop? [/quote] Because they don't think the old Star Control SuperMelee is a viable title in the current marketplace. It's a pretty clear message they are giving us, and it isn't a new message that they just sprang on us. No Top Down. No Point Buy. No 1vs1. No single planet. No local multiplayer. Wha

[quote who="Volusianus" reply="17" id="3654628"] 1. I definitely prefer the deck concept. This adds more complexity to super melee and counters the innate imbalance that Star Control has. Sure, this particular ship counters 4 or 5 other ships and would wipe the floor with them, but it didn't get drawn, buddy. Stack the deck? Welp, now you don't have the points for anything else, so this makes the player make more interesting choices when constructing fleets other than "14 of this

I want an alien to speak like this.

^ That is way more complicated than it needs to be. A point buy system and a maximum ship count is all that is needed. There wasn't anything wrong with SC2's system (aside from some balance issues that the 3rd party mod attempted to fix). Why are we trying to reinvent the wheel here? More importantly, why is SD spending money to reinvent the wheel?

For future reference, this is what the forums used to look like. I am giving this feedback because I'm guessing that the color themes for the board are going to be used in-game. The violet and blue clash. The UV blue-purple is too bright. I get sick of Burnt Orange.

Being my comment meat shield is worth a karma point, for sure.

Hi. I'm Nobody. I just want to watch the world burn.

[quote who="cuorebrave" reply="15" id="3654477"] oh my Lord, I can't even keep up with my current subscriptions with all these new posters! [/quote] And now you see the flaws of the system you were praising. The forum view is the one true view.

[quote who="Hunam_" reply="93" id="3654470"] Oh yeah, icons/smiles are broken too. [/quote] They weren't kidding when they said they were going to clean up the forums. We're banned from showing emotion. (And sticky post highlighting is still broken.)

[quote who="cuorebrave" reply="2" id="3654486"] Although, I really want Stardock to be careful - because if you've been reading comments on all the sites reporting on Star Control Origins after the floodgates opened today, there's MANY people who have been turned off by Stardock's expansions and DLCs in the past. [/quote] You could curry favor in the form of fake internet points by sifting through said comments and giving us links or more detail.

[quote who="Kavik_Kang" reply="90" id="3654444"] I seem to be alone in liking the Amber look, must have been those Amber monitors I used to prefer before color came along. It feels good too me because of that. [/quote] You can admit that you are a secret UT fan and love burnt orange. (UT = University of Texas, for those of you who don't follow sports.)

So... The burnt orange color scheme of the GUI was universally panned by us founders... And now it has become part of our forum color scheme. Forward Progress!!!!!!!! Or was the improvement to add UV Bluepurple and Nebula Violet?

[quote who="HenriHakl" reply="33" id="3654350"] Okay. Started the download. It'll only be another 7 hours according to the estimate. But you know you should use a decent codec and give us a reasonably sized file - it wouldn't be hard to achieve a tenth of the file size with no perceivable difference in quality. (@non-stardock: yea - don't give me that pixelation complaint blabla; you know full well what we should be able to expect from screenshots/images and videos

[quote who="Hunam_" reply="9" id="3654340"] "Dynamic response" means you "buy" ships on the fly (you don't pre-select any ships at the match start). [/quote] God I hope not. That would make matches take forever. Choosing a ship is slow enough. Choosing a ship and doing math is even worse. It isn't like local multiplayer, where you can just hit your opponent's enter key if they are taking too long to decide.

[quote who="cuorebrave" reply="13" id="3654324"] Are you against giving Karma, IBN? I was the sole person to notice your joke and not even a single thumbs up. Thanks a lot [e digicons]:P[/e] In fact, I checked - you've never given me even a single thumbs up, punk! [/quote] I spoke encouraging words to you. Are those not as valuable as fake internet points?

They all need to be playing on the same computer to get the spirit of "playing in a room together". :P Deck vs Dynamic Response: I assume that even in DR, you will point-buy your fleet ahead of time, like SC2. (Wait - We can't assume anything... WILL DR LET YOU POINT-BUY YOUR FLEET AHEAD OF TIME?) DR is the better system. Even though you are inclined to choose a counter, you are also inclined to hold certain ships in reserve until th

[quote who="Kavik_Kang" reply="29" id="3654278"] Just like you name alien ships based on words you know, you also design your computer/HUD interfaces on things you know. So the human head and shoulders to represent "number of crew" works for aliens, too. The interface is for the humans to use, not the aliens. So it really does make perfect sense. It just seems like you are losing something for no reason to change the little dots into a meter. Like other peop

[quote who="cuorebrave" reply="9" id="3654262"] There's no way the censors didn't catch "DksOut 4 Harambe" Did they think it was short for "Ducks"?!?!? If you did this, IBNobody, I will destroy you. [/quote] I did do this. Congratulations for being the only one to notice. (But to be fair, I only did it to the list I copied/pasted. I wanted to see if anyone was paying attention.)

[quote who="cuorebrave" reply="23" id="3654235"] **POOF! From out of nowhere...** Hello, my pretties...... [/quote] You're late. The party's over. We're going back to bickering.

[quote who="Kavik_Kang" reply="21" id="3654209"] They should be some kind of individual icon, something like that modern "head and shoulders" icon you see for bathrooms these days. It seems a lot better that way, seeing each crew represented. If some ships have 30+ crew or something just put a circle around the icon, make it slightly bigger, and that icon represents 10 crew. [/quote] Are you assuming crew gender / species? You need to check your privilege. /S

[quote who="SavageMind1" reply="19" id="3654200"] Would it be too time consuming or difficult to create a demo build of super melee from each camp really scaled down two ships to choose from and let us try both camps versions for battlespace and game physics and give feedback? [/quote] They aren't going to do that because camp 1 super melee is "done", and they are going to give us that first. They may be banking on us liking it enough t

[quote]I imagine many of you watched the No Man's Sky debacle. I can't help but think they could have avoided all that pain if they had had a Founders Program. [/quote] And kept up communication afterward, which you guys do too. [quote]We are anxious to get Super Melee out to some of you since we have that part done from a technical point of view (multiplayer and such over the Internet). [/quote] <span styl