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Our race of Founderlings must be amusing to our galactic overlords. It's not enough like SC2! Change it! It's too much like SC2! Change it!

Nice. Glad to hear that it is mod-ish and has a melody. Thumbs up.

Oh, that was a great way to play. I'm hoping for a co-op campaign.

You meet a race of aliens that claim to be the founders. They are an ancient race that had spent eons analyzing a parallel universe. They have come to idolize this universe, and the race's leaders are attempting to recreate it. But... They have to change elements of this universe, or else the denizens of this parallel universe will come to our universe and destroy everything. The founders are currently engaged in a doctrinal conflict. Members of the ra

[quote who="Tovanion" reply="13" id="3607220"] Facing my GF, mother or cousin in combat? Assuming THEY would be interested, still Meh. When I want to play with friends, we have a D&D session, play Vampire:TM or play Carcassone or another board game. So Meh, Meh and re-meh. [/quote] That's too bad, but I understand. SC2 was predominantly a single player RPG. Yet SuperMelee plays to the crowd that likes to play video games in

If I could craft a solar body, would it be called starcraft? (I'll show myself out now.)

[quote who="Tovanion" reply="10" id="3607160"] Back to the question from the OP: If I wasn't a founder, I wouldn't shell a dime for a new ships DLC. To me, Supermelee is not such an attraction. I'm in for the exploration part, the dialogues part, the humor and the aliens. Combat during exploration? YAY! Combat for the sake of combat? Meh. [/quote] What about combat for the sake of playing with friends and family

[quote who="TheUr-quanMaster" reply="56" id="3607118"] This may seem off topic, but its not. Will there still be winning ditys? Unique music played when a ship wins a fight? This is a part of what made starcon2 combat great! My 3 favorite winning dittys- Androsynth: http://www.sa-matra.net/sounds/starcontrol/Androsynth-Ditty.mp3 Chmmer: http://www.sa-matra.net/sounds/starcontrol/Chmmr-Ditty2.mp3 Melnorme: http://www.sa-matra.net/sounds/starcontrol/Melnorme

[quote who="GnarlyFurtardo" reply="6" id="3607003"] If a DLC is a ship pack or anything else that may alter melee or multiplayer play, then it shouldn't be allowed for use in multiplayer unless all participating players have it. [/quote] I agree with this 100%. DLC ships should only be playable via network multiplayer if everybody has access to them. This is doubly true when the DLC ship is the best counter to a non-DLC ship or if the DLC ship is best-in-class overall. I

[quote who="Vaelzad" reply="3" id="3606980"] Well the truth is all the $99 founders don't have worry about it because if we do any of that you guys get it for free. [e digicons]:)[/e] [/quote] I'm looking out for the nonfounders! :) [quote who="Giskler" reply="4" id="3606988"] Ehhhh, I would rather see them adding whole races as DLC rather than just ships. Kind of like what Firaxis has done with extra civilizations for Civilization V. We don't

[quote who="Xenove" reply="1" id="3606922"] DLCs are just because developers could not finish the game and thought it would be a smart idea to sell those parts as DLCs. So you plan in making a game with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, but budget and time only allowed for A to D. So you wrap it up and announce E, F, G, as DLCs and charge for it. [/quote] Well... The alternative is that the developer does not get paid. At the end of SC2 (which went over budget and took 2 years

We started talking about DLC ship packs in the Timed Quest thread, and I wanted to continue a tangent thread here. Would you pay for DLC ship packs? To be clear, these would be new ships/aliens only and not new quests or single player content. Pros + More SuperMelee ships !!! + New ships would have new abilities Cons - DLC ships would not be as useful in the single player campaign - DLC s

[quote who="Volusianus" reply="33" id="3606892"] I think microtransactions have gotten a bad reputation. In some cases, it's well-deserved, especially when you're only buying one or two things, or buying consumables. No, what I'm referring to are transactions for packs of ships that aren't enough content to be called dlc, but too many to be considered a microtransaction. Does that make sense? [/quote] I understand what you are saying. Though... The ships woul

[quote who="Volusianus" reply="30" id="3606869"] So play it again. I've put literally 3k+ hours into Fallout 3/NV, way more time than I care to admit in WoW, (I'm only at 113 hours in Fallout 4 right now). If the game isn't compelling enough for you to want to do well, what's the point of playing it? For clarity, I'm not trying to be hostile, I'm legitimately curious. [/quote] I know you're not being hostile. Neither am I. We are founder

I hope many of the tracks have a strong melody. A nice atmospheric background is okay for some parts, but the melody is what keeps me listening to songs. Atmospheric = Star Control 2's New Game Intro Movie Song Melodic = Star Control 1's Intro Music. (Dadadada-Dadadada do de De de de de Dadadada-Dadadada) I want a few melodies that are so strong, they get stuck in my head for a week! I also hope that races can have keep tha

[quote who="Island Dog" reply="7" id="3606773"] Anything posted in the Vault or Founder's forums cannot be shared. No screenshots, videos, etc. that might come out. You can of course talk about the game, but Founder's topics should stay in the Founders forums. [e digicons]:)[/e] [/quote] If there is a screenshot from the vault (or eventually the closed alpha) that I want to mark up, how would I share it on the forums? I need to host it some

[quote who="Xenove" reply="48" id="3606688"] Hey its the future! Just install Evernote version 900913 into the Captain's computer and presto! With all the features like autotags, 3D tags, monster tags, and Juffo-wup tags! [/quote] Evernote plug-in support would be a novel idea... ...But please limit it to Evernote. I don't want the game to give me the option to tweet, post to Facebook, Pin on Pinterest, or other such nonsense&n

[quote who="HenriHakl" reply="1" id="3606709"] It doesn't even have to be a formation of small ships. Imagine a hive-like alien race where you can talk to the queen - but the "ships" are actual insectoid space-capable drones that fly in formation. [/quote] That works too. It would be akin to the Chmrr+Zapsats or the Exquivan+Barriers. [quote who="GnarlyFurtardo" reply="2" id="3606729"] Aside: I used a swarm tactic to easily defeat the Guardian in MOO2 ear

[quote who="Xenove" reply="28" id="3606686"] Yes that is a good idea. Have the timed mode as a hardcore mode to unlock a special bonus! [/quote] Well, that backfired on me... I was actually arguing that if you give hardcore mode a special bonus, people who wouldn't normally like hardcore mode would play hardcore mode just for the bonus. They would get frustrated and stop playing the game altogether. Not everybody wants to put 20+ hours into a game only to fail it

[quote who="Volusianus" reply="26" id="3606639"] HOWEVER I don't think my previous point was clear enough: if there's a super secret reward that's incredibly rare, the player playing with hardcore conditions should have a higher likelihood of acquiring the elements necessary to complete it. Hard work should be rewarded with more than just "bragging rights". [/quote] Those bragging rights are pretty big, though. That's what drives people to play the hardcore m

[quote who="TheEchoInside" reply="11" id="3606628"] And the lack of mention of a writer on the team, as of yet, does worry me. [/quote] They announced it was Chris Bucholz of Cracked.com. Here is his work. I kinda want to write an article entitled, "7 Ways Chris Bucholz Could Screw Up the Writing on SCR." In jest, of course. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. Meanwhile, I&#

[quote who="Tovanion" reply="17" id="3606607"] OK, OK. I'm getting off my soapbox. [/quote] I'm getting on my soapbox, and I'm bringing out the big guns . " If there was one thing I could go back in time and change, it would be to remove any timed quest from Fallout. I just didn't like the false sense of urgency. I also felt like the player had the sense he had to rush through the gam

We are derailing this conversation... Can we move it to the Timed Quest thread? That's where you'll find my reply.

[quote who="Volusianus" reply="15" id="3606594"] Ultimately, the best experience comes from letting the user choose how complex or simple they want their experience to be. I'm of the mind that suuuper special things should require a bit more effort to achieve. Besides, the difficulty modes was just a suggestion. A suggestion that can be expanded upon. These could be presets, but ultimately have a series of checkboxes you can check to customize your experience. [/quote]

[quote who="TheUr-quanMaster" reply="9" id="3606588"] This is true. But the audience as a whole will have never herd of the original game. They have not played it for 20yrs, in fact they may have never played it. If this game is successful why would anyone want to make a game based on an old story line from a game that few remember or care abt? Why would they make a sequel that meaning would be lost without context from the original? Why not instead make a sequel to this star control? Ho