Kavik_Kang

Kavik_Kang

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Reply to How do I skip all the boring stuff? in Star Control StarControl Forums

Ignore all blue and grey minerals, only worry about picking up green, yellow, and purple. Once your mothership is decently upgraded, start ignoring green and only pick up yellow and purple. You will land on a lot less planets this way, which makes the game go much faster. You'll be able to stay out longer on missions before needing to return to base to sell the full cargo hold, and you'll still have more money than you need. And the most important upgrades are the la

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Reply to Starflight 3 looking for backers in Star Control StarControl Forums

I think the massive $200 million dollar scam that is Star Citizen has made people less willing to support things like this. For $200 million I could make a dozen games, every one of them better than Star Citizen. I think those guys have mostly ruined this form of funding games through their massive Star Citizen con game. The people who make Star Citizen should be facing criminal charges for fraud.

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I love it! in Star Control StarControl Forums

I haven't stopped playing SCO since I downloaded it, very few games draw me in like that. I was hooked right from the beginning, but I had to come post here just so I could be the first person to ever say... I found a rainbow world! ;-)

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Reply to Q+A regarding Star Control and Paul and Fred in Star Control Journals StarControl Forums

Actually P&F were very obviously SFB players. SCII was a player created SFU campaign made as an arcade game. I've said enough about this already here and elsewhere, but SFB players have always recognized SCII as an SFB inspired game. This isn't a new issue too us, we liked it for the player created integrated SFU campaign that it was right from the beginning.

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Reply to Star Control: Screenshot Friday 9-14-2018 in Star Control StarControl Forums

"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." - Marcus Cole

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Reply to PS4 in Star Control StarControl Forums

PSA Announcement from the Tywom: "Please don't fire projectile weapons in space... once you shoot them, they never stop!" Brought too you by the Energy Weapons For A Safer Galaxy Committee of Tywom...

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Reply to Star Control planet names in Star Control StarControl Forums

If we are adding recently deceased friends and acquaintances of founders... Spencer. Josh Spencer died earlier this year, he created the Interstellar Concordium of the Star Fleet Universe. The ISC were the inspiration for the Xindi of Star Trek: Enterprise. As usual with anything touched by the SFU, "It ain't easy being Rodney Dangerfield" and so he never got any credit for that. It would be nice to name a star after him:-) If you skip to 8:30 of this v

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Reply to Boxed PC version? in Star Control StarControl Forums

I would think for a "boxed limited collectors edition", if you were going to do it, you would want to wait until a lot of DLC/patches had been made. Maybe even as a "final edition" after it's all been done as far as Origins is concerned, anyway.

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Reply to Star Control: Origins map in Star Control StarControl Forums

With a name like "Strife" all the way on the opposite side of the map from Sol, you should probably make sure that there is something particularly interesting that the player finds/encounters in a place called "Strife". Some players are certain to make reaching that place a priority just because of its name, you should make sure there is something there... anything interesting at all will do.

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Reply to Founders Chapter 1 Update -- August 17th in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

They could make it so the mothership/flagship thrust "holds" unless you tap reverse, which makes it drop off like the ships in Fleet Battles do. Just on the solar system map, since fights always switch too Fleet Battles where it wouldn't do that. Or, it actually could still work that way for the mother/flagship even in Fleet Battles if you want, I don't think it would make any noticeable difference too the player in a fight anyway.

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Reply to Founders Chapter 1 Update -- August 17th in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

"You always have to leave the player the option of making a mistake." - Steve Cole Applying this concept in a broad sense, I think it would be a bad idea to have a "click on a planet/moon to fly too it" in the solar system. Flying around the solar systems is a big part of the immersion of Star Control. If you take that away, players will become bored with the game pretty quickly. It will turn the exploration side of the game into a series of mouse clicks instead of "

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Reply to Star Control: Origins Prelude 1 of 13 - The Living Universe in Star Control Journals StarControl Forums

[quote quoting="post"] What I can say is that what they do is not random. It's more akin, to borrow a popular show analogy, to Westworld. You, the player, are the butterfly effect in this universe. You are the only random element in our...harmony. [e digicons]:)[/e] [/quote] Imagine if, instead, the opposite was true. That instead of being the only one random element that might alter the AI behavior, that through an effici

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Reply to Star Control: The new logon screen in Star Control StarControl Forums

[quote who="MindlessMe" reply="11" id="3722365"] Quoting levi_fellner, reply 10 Yay SinsII……. I hope my retirement home in 2088 will let me play it [e digicons]:)[/e] We'll be in the Matrix by then...lol [/quote] Na... that'll die with me and isn't coming back for

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Reply to Micronut is at it again... in Personal Computing StarControl Forums

The fact that a cell phone is a tracking device is one of the main reasons that I never had any interest in having one. Today it has become even worse. You can be certain that the NSA has the power to listen too you and everything going on around you through your phones microphone. They would also have the capability to look through your phone camera to see what they can see through it. There is no chance at all that they would not have this capability by now, they can

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Reply to Star Control: Origins - Freedom to Fail in Star Control Journals StarControl Forums

I like the "Xtails" thing. A very long time ago I made a mod of a BBS door game called "Usurper". It was a little more harsh than your Xtails, but the same concept. The two most expensive things in the store were a "Thingamgig" and a "Whatchamacallit". Neither of them actually did anything. It was so funny too me!

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Reply to Realism vs. Fun II: Planets in Star Control StarControl Forums

Most people would be surprised by what real world scientists actually believe is out there. Just using your own example of a diamond world, we already know of one... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/55_Cancri_e And suspect this star has a diamond core... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPM_37093 And are almost certain that on some gas giants it sometim

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Reply to Realism vs. Fun in Star Control StarControl Forums

I just couldn't resist... The Greys coming from Zeta Reticuli comes from a man who was known only as "Falcon". So if you think the Greys come from Zeta Reticuli, that would also mean that they LOVE strawberry ice cream... cause that's what Falcon said;-) We now resume our regular lurking...

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Reply to A few thoughts on E3 and Star Control in Star Control StarControl Forums

[quote who="Kazriko" reply="40" id="3717645"] TradeWars 2002 was similar, the game went for a certain amount of time and eventually would be reset. It was a common thing in those sorts of games. [/quote] Both Trade Wars and Barren Realms Elite are partial inspiration for Pirate Dawn, in a very "loose" kind of way. If Bionic was being honest in his demands for answers he would have read about that. But his interest in "discussion" was only to attempt to feed

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