[quote who="Darkstar076" reply="16" id="3663876"] (However if its just larger fuel tanks and a more economic hyper drive - then I am gonna mod in a fuel scoop ) [/quote] It's not just a more economic hyper drive and larger tanks. Though those are also in the game. :)
[quote who="jsboshoff" reply="10" id="3663456"] The pre order game is not available for download yet is it? Will we only get access to the beta or the pre beta too? [/quote] There is nothing currently available for download in terms of the game. You should checkout the vault if you are interested in seeing some early development stuff. More info about an alpha and beta will be coming in the future.
[quote who="The_Think_Tank" reply="105" id="3662812"] And while I may disagree with the stance on resource regeneration, I am willing to withhold my judgement until A. There is more information on planet exploration and the game's length or B. I get my hands on a planet exploration demo. [/quote] I'm all for having a design discussion on this if you disagree. The reason as to the why for this is as follows. If a player can visit the same planet ov
[quote who="maanvis26" reply="21" id="3661894"] Takes 5 minutes of that fancy producer's time to write up the schedule or to answer my question. [/quote] Multiply that by several hundred founders and that's a lot of time.
Going to chime in here with some FACTS for you guys. Right now there are: 52 planet types (same as Star Control 2). Those 52 planet types utilize the 6 biomes that are listed in the December Update. What you are going to see if different types of planets that have different levels of gameplay effects on each of them. Some may have more critters, some may have none. Some will have raging storms and volcanos that will make navigating a challenge and you will find some sterile planets as
[quote who="cuorebrave" reply="68" id="3662640"] no matter what, DO NOT make resources or Bio units RESPAWN, under any circumstances!!!!!! [/quote] What if you left 2 (Or 1 if the species is Asexual) on a planet and they repopulated?
Gas giants are something we are going to remain true to Star Control. They are not going to be something you can gather resources from.
More feedback and less regulating of where people are posting information please.
We are hard coding in that if the player is IBNobody his ship blows up after 3 seconds of traveling away from the target.
A question for all of you. How many only have 1GB of ram on your video card?
[quote]Will these be supported on PC Controllers -- IE X-Box 360/One gamepad / PS4 Gamepad when Steam supports it. [Yes] Virtual Reality Headsets -- Rift/Vive [We haven't said one way or the other] Nvidia Stereoscopic 3D support [We haven't said one way or the other] Augmented Reality -- Microsoft Hololense, when it's released [We haven't said one way or the other] [/quote]  
[quote who="Hunam_" reply="44" id="3654895"] But with this landing mini-game nonsense I bet we'll be forced to see gas giants the same size as our moon on that screen. That would suck donkey balls. If I to choose between those two I'd pick "actual" planet size over landing mini-game. Who's with me? [/quote] Calm down their champ. I can tell you that the size of the planets are not the same in the planet scan screen. You do see the size difference for each planet
[quote who="Awkbird" reply="1" id="3654549"] @Vaelzad/Frogboy: can you weigh in on how content creators will incorporate fonts? Will typefaces have to be drawn from scratch or can we use [presumably] open source fonts like these that are ready to be plugged in? [/quote] Provided that we don't make many changes to the font system you should be able to use open source fonts or any fonts you create by hand. We won't be providing any font creation tools for modding as th
Locking thread as the event is done.
[quote who="Hunam_" reply="13" id="3652729"] No critique, but a game. The rules are apparent. Guess at will. Reduced 44% Original 1280 x 321 [/quote] 12 out of 30 = 40% correct
Here is the current plan for the founder's planets. The founder's planets are going to be scattered around the galaxy. We are hooking up an achievement that you will be awarded once you have found them all. Once we have the final galaxy in place, we are going to send you the location of your planet so you can find it. It is up to you if you want to share that location with everyone else or keep your planet secret and not tell everyone
[quote who="IBNobody" reply="20" id="3651258"] And yet, the squeaky wheel is the only one getting a dev response in this thread... Hmm... Squeak Squeak Squeak? [/quote]
[quote who="TheUr-quanMaster" reply="2" id="3651270"] Hmm. Thank you for clearing my fears! Are you completely sure that the ability to play as another races ship has been preserved? [/quote] Yes, players can control other race's ships both in the single player campaign when they become part of your fleet and multiplayer super melee.
Satoru did a great job of explaining how designers evaluate gameplay ideas for games and hit the decision on this 100% on the head. Are we doing underwater exploration? No. Are water covered planets special and offer some interesting gameplay? Yes
[quote who="IBNobody" reply="11" id="3651159"] The squeaky wheel gets the oil. [/quote] The squeaky wheel usually gets replaced because it's breaking down. :)
Yes MOD tools are on the table, but when we release them is still not finalized.
You should name the planet what you would name it regardless of convention. I can promise you that we are doing more than just a couple of systems with all the player planets. Hence one of the reasons we are asking for the names at this point in development. :)
While I do read every post that is made (including Kavik's) we are only going to respond when we have something we want to share with everyone. Questions about Local MP and naming convention haven't gone unnoticed, but that doesn't mean we are going to answer every question that is put forth. Right now I think it is safe to table any answer or questions with regards to local MP. You haven't played the MP of Star Control: Origins at all which puts y
You missed my other post Hunam.
[quote who="IBNobody" reply="36" id="3649813"] They aren't answering us at all. Look at my open question thread on local multiplayer as proof. We may be founders, but I feel more like a mushroom right now. [/quote] While I do read every post that is made (including Kavik's) we are only going to respond when we have something we want to share with everyone. Questions about Local MP and naming convention haven't gone unnoticed, but that doesn't m