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Reply to Response to Art Style in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Talonious" reply="42" id="3692777"] That art style is a poor choice. [/quote] I should clarify: I don't have a problem with the art style. I don't love love it, but it's fine. I just did the various photoshops because people were asking for them and I'm a bit bored at work right now. Although if I'm being honest I do like the dark grey uniform look over the cheerful blue original, but the original is fine too. The only thing I actually do d

Reply to Response to Art Style in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

Here she is with a short neck. I may have made it slightly too short :-) (although it does highlight just how long and giraffe-like her neck is in the original)

Reply to What can be stated outside the Founders' zone? in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="TenkoTAiLS" reply="8" id="3692743"] as long as we dont end up going down the Star Control 3, or StarCon route, and as much care is taken in every Star Control project Stardock undertakes I'll be there to buy it [/quote] You already have, if you're a lifetime founder...

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[quote who="Rhonin_the_wizard" reply="32" id="3692631"] I think the commander looks better with the black uniform. [/quote] The dark uniform isn't anything official, just something I knocked up in Photoshop. On discord there's also one where I gave her the black pants and yellow/gold top of James T. Kirk :-). I was just playing, really (although I tend to agree that IMO the dark grey/black looks better than the cheery blue uniform of the original).

Reply to Solutions for Screenwrap in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="29" id="3692602"] Do you know the odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field? [/quote] Well, it depends if you're in Star Wars universe or the real one, because in the real universe "asteroid fields" are extremely sparse. In the one in our solar system, the average distance between any two asteroids is 2 million miles (about 8 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon). Seems like the SC:O universe is going to be

Reply to A question I didn't want to ask in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

Well, as for not getting to play the beta, you were never given a timeline when you signed up. Patience is a virtue. Besides, that time is now - you will be getting a key in 2 days time on the 19th. As for your first point, Stardock has never made any secret of the fact that this is not a direct sequel to SC1/SC2. It's a different universe in a related multiverse. That's been part of the mantra all along, and if you missed that, well, that's on you. It couldn't have bee

Reply to Tech question... in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

And if I can get all Monty Python for a sec, my first modem 300baud. 1200 would have been luxury to us... ;-)

Reply to Tech question... in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

You'll be fine. A lot of netcode still used in games was designed back when people still had those 14.4k modems! Some more modern games will be expecting more, but 2 up and 10 down is absolutely fine - anyone who designed a game that sent so much data that that wasn't enough would a) be a bad coder and b) be preventing a massive chunk of the potential customer base from playing the game...

Reply to Tech question... in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

Oh please, that's still faster than a lot of the planet has to contend with, and they do fine. 10mbps isn't ADSL/fibre speeds but it's still pretty reasonable.

Reply to Upcoming Star Control news in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Kavik_Kang" reply="31" id="3692075"] I have a version of exactly this game that I call Mission, because I am from the only group of people who understand how to make this work, and can tell you with certainty that it would be a big mistake for anyone who doesn't understand how this type of combat works to attempt it. [/quote] Seriously dude, your ego is just painful.

Reply to Ur-Quan Masters in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="chapel976" reply="25" id="3691908"] or Starflight... [/quote] Starflight is still one of my favourite games of all time. The story and twist was freaking awesome. There was clearly a lot of Starflight and SF2 love that went into the development of Star Control. But man, the way it saved the game by saving over the game exe itself, so if your save corrupted you were totally fucked and couldn't even start from scratch unless you were smart enough to have ma

Reply to Ur-Quan Masters in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="DarkGildon" reply="15" id="3691826"] Frogboy, Like you said, most people playing SC:O will not have been born when SC1 was released. [/quote] Dude. Stop making me feel so old :-(

Reply to Upcoming Star Control news in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="2" id="3691352"] Paul and Fred have stated they intend to return to the Ur-Quan timeline and do a proper sc2 sequel someday even if it is a side thing they do. [/quote] Prophetic words there, Brad. How long did you know about their announcement yesterday beforehand? And if it's not too personal, how do you/Stardock feel about it? I mean, I'm sure that like the rest of us you're excited about a true SC2 sequel, but it does kind of take

Reply to September Vault Update in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Rhonin_the_wizard" reply="19" id="3691313"] Another thing I would like to see is enemy fleets made of different ship types, in SC2 the alien civs were rather isolated and you only met fleets with ships from the the same alien species. The Scryve are described as having an empire with multiple client species.[/quote] Brad mentioned that there will be different versions of each ship in the adventure game. So unlike SC2, you might meet the Scryve and instead of just bein

Reply to Playable Alpha For Founders in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="martoq" reply="29" id="3691190"] Really wish I could figure this out. I paid for the Founders Edition, but have to verify through Discord. I'm on Discord but not sure what I am supposed to do exactly. Just wish they would give a direct download link if their is a playable client out. [/quote] There isn't yet. A very small group of founders have the alpha in order to do very initial testing (like, there are about 15 of us). If you want to have a chanc

Reply to Star Map Editor in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

Legendary. Keep up the good work!

Reply to Wait...have I been here before? in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

I agree the captains log should show the pins you have dropped, and there should be a way to annotate the log with special locations. So I could write in the log "found an awesome planet with a bunch of resources, go back and get them later" and click on the planet in the starmap and it would put the coordinates in the log for me. Then later when I read that entry, I can click on the coordinates and a pin would drop onto the starmap to remind me of where the planet was.

Reply to September Vault Update in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote]PSS- There's too many guys with four arms. Tywom, MenkMack, Phamysht, Trandals, Measured and Xraki. Too many. [/quote] Meh, not really. Almost every species on earth shares the same basic genetics of having 4 limbs. In some they're all legs and in some they're two arms and two legs. You can go smaller and get 6-limbed insects and 8-limbed arachnids, but almost everything else has 4. So I don;t have an issue with a bunch of alien races being 6 limbed s

Reply to Star Control September sneak peak! in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

It does look awesome, but there's one thing that has seemed slightly off to me. It's taken a while for me to click what it was. Every ship has a really brightly colored trail. I actually find this somewhat distracting, is there any chance we could try it without the colorful trails to see how it looks by comparison?

Reply to Origins vs. Eternal & Infinite in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Hunam_" reply="36" id="3688282"] You know what's complete nonsense? Your mum. [/quote] What are you, 8 years old? Grow up.

Reply to Origins vs. Eternal & Infinite in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Hunam_" reply="31" id="3688270"] Nobody here signed up for SC1. There's about 10 founders who played SC1 and 5 of them don't even remember what it's about. [/quote] Now you're just pulling complete nonsense out of your ass. How about you just stop?

Reply to Playable Alpha For Founders in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Dopu" reply="23" id="3688100"] For me personally, I'm MUCH happier and engaged now that I can access the discord server because It's very hard for me to engage on the forums, I'm just not adept at it, and have a (relatively) hard time navigating the medium. So having multiple avenues of approach to the community seems at worst a bit frustrating, and at best quite diversifying. ^-^ [/quote] No, you're missing my point. I'm not saying not to use discord, I'm

Reply to Origins vs. Eternal & Infinite in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="DarkGildon" reply="23" id="3688229"] Basically, this is a deviation from what the majority of SC fans like about SC, myself included. This is not about being given "new cool stuff", it's about receiving entirely different stuff. [/quote] [quote who="Hunam_" reply="24" id="3688230"] I'll just mention that if I wanted to play SC2 4x, I'd buy GalCiv3 and install this mod: [/quote] You guys DO understand that Star Control was a strategy game before

Reply to Origins vs. Eternal & Infinite in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Hunam_" reply="17" id="3688049"] ^ Some just don't get it. Oh, well... [/quote] No, I get it. I just don't get why you're salty. You're already getting a "Star Control 2" adventure game. It's one that lets absolutely anyone make new content for, and as we all know, there are going to be a bunch of people making very cool stuff for it. Now you're being told you can ALSO get a "Star Control 1" strategy(lite) game mode AS WELL and you're upset b

Reply to August Feedback in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="2" id="3688032"] The landing will matter a lot if there is lava or acid pools. Also, gravity and wind affects how easy it is to land. [/quote] Hmm, OK, that's fair enough. I'll reserve judgement. I just think that out of all the times I've ever seen that sequence, I've never seen anyone land perfectly in the target, so if it's always going be frustrating... But yes, obviously I should have remembered local hazards etc which need to be