[quote who="Vaelzad" reply="41" id="3605506"] Quoting cuorebrave, reply 39 Am I alone in hoping the Tywom don't make it into the game in their current incarnation? It just doesn't seem like an incredibly detailed and beautiful creature like the other, squid-like race *name withheld*. This makes the Tywom sad. They a
[quote who="Hunam_" reply="35" id="3605463"] Dec 2 2015. Left Sol in Gamma Pegasus direction. Had to slow down to fight off a pack of annoying Tywom. [/quote] Am I alone in hoping the Tywom don't make it into the game in their current incarnation? It just doesn't seem like an incredibly detailed and beautiful creature like the other, squid-like race *name withheld*. There's nothing inspiring or intriguing about it, and almost no detail. I was expecting
[quote who="prodigalmaster" reply="31" id="3605326"] I know, right? Exploration based games are really swallowing their own tails all too often these days. [/quote] OMFG, WHERE IS THE JUFFO-WUP MILITARY BASE IN FALLOUT IV!!!!!!!!!!!!! I MUST GO THERE! Juffo-Wup fills in my fibers and I grow turgid. Violent action ensues.
[quote who="Volusianus" reply="46" id="3605304"] 4. A-HA! Tricked you! The secret FOURTH element is CUT ELEMENTS: These things did not do much to enhance the player's experience, or may have gone so far as to be detrimental to the game as a whole. These should be dealt with. Severely. They should also be forgotten. Severely. [/quote] Bahah - I literally laughed out loud a bit here! So, you're *obviously* referring to pretty much every single thing tha
[quote who="prodigalmaster" reply="7" id="3605282"] What other stuff I'd like to see return? Multiple dimensions of space and time. They were emphasized a lot in SC lore, along with the strange creatures inhabiting them. I loved QuasiSpace, would really hope to see more things of that general nature. Maybe a unique race that has its home in Hyperspace this time around. [/quote] Omg, me too!! That's what kept me up countless nights! Wondering just what swa
[quote who="Lone_Utwig" reply="3" id="3605250"] Yeah, what about Vux Beast? Or some fun places like Velpecula canstellation? Ultron? And maidens... We need maidens [e digicons]:)[/e] [/quote] The Vulpecula constellation should still be able to be included! It's a real constellation! Actually, to my knowledge, at least the vast majority of constellations in SCII were based on real ones. Vulpecula, Cassiopeia, Orionis, even Procyon! Others were named for famo
[quote who="Lone_Utwig" reply="44" id="3605202"] Quoting cuorebrave, reply 42 Honestly, we're over thinking this now. I think, no matter what, we should use Star Cobtrol II as our model. When in doubt, just go with the original! Because now we're talking power ups and enemy scaling and multiple versions of each ship, and upgra
Never lose hope.
This brings up an interesting point though - were you a hardcore player of SCII, Myst, etc., grabbing your notepad to religiously catalogue your adventures.... because you WANTED TO? Or because you had no other option?
I miss my indomitable Clear Spindle, my intriguing Aqua Helix and the aptly named Rosy Sphere, damn it!!! Can those make a return?
I know the fact that the aliens aren't returning has been a talking point for awhile now and I don't want to start on the merits or pitfalls of that. But what about OTHER stuff? Will we see the Hellbore Cannon? Quasi-Space?? Tzo Crystals? Rainbow Worlds? An Ultron? A Sun Device? Are ANY of these things fair game? What do other people think, or want to see the return of? What would you miss?
[quote who="prodigalmaster" reply="8" id="3605082"] I wonder if there will be something like a quest compass in the new SC. If so, I hope we'll be able to turn it on or off, based on preference. It would spoil the feeling of blind exploration for me. [/quote] Please God, No! Just reading this comment about the possibility of having a damn "quest compass" (most recently applied in Fallout 4) made my stomach tense up in hatred and rage. Having Fallout lay out a cool m
[quote who="The_Think_Tank" reply="14" id="3605083"] @ cuorebrave I think you are falling down a slippery-slope (although a valid concern), and I think that the above feature could work very well if implemented with a help system similar to SC IIs system, where you could tell the kind of minerals on a planet simply by its color.
[quote who="Hunam_" reply="2" id="3604965"] ^ Pics or didn't happen. [e digicons]XD[/e] [/quote] LOL - I swear. But if you think I'm going to go through about 80 boxes in my garage to find it, you got another thing comin' buddy! One day I will, though. And I'll post it here in all its glory. And you'll weep.
Honestly, we're over thinking this now. I think, no matter what, we should use Star Cobtrol II as our model. When in doubt, just go with the original! Because now we're talking power ups and enemy scaling and multiple versions of each ship, and upgradeable alien race weapons and so many other things. What worked in Star Control II? That's the question.
I still have my binder! We mapped out every object and every location for every quest, as well as each home world, rainbow world and the approximate location the quasi space portals would spit you out! It was one of my best video game memories. As for how to translate that to a non-automated system within the game? Yikes. I got nothin'.
I'm torn now. I never used other race's ships, but I remember being SO proud once my flagship was awesome enough to destroy entire fleets. I don't want to lose that sense of accomplishment! But I also don't want to invalidate the entire recruitment part of the game... It's tough!
[quote who="dogchainx" reply="15" id="3604387"] Quoting gabryelx, reply 13 I think logs and ruins are a great idea, anything that continues stkry or backstory. Especially with precursor artifacts, there's a treasure trove of possibility. I'll never forget that initial moment of intrigue in SC2 for discovering that
[quote who="Meleemike" reply="9" id="3601041"] What would also be cool is having certain upgrades for your ship, requiring certain combination of minerals. Like, let say you want to add photon torpedoes weapon system upgrade to your ship as a crazy example. And to do that, you needed Iron, Gold, Platinum & Mercury. You would need a certain quantity of each mineral to make that happen. Not to mentio
[quote who="Kavik_Kang" reply="22" id="3604259"] I agree with those who don't want to see small incremental improvements in ships. In this arcade type of environment more dramatic improvements are more appropriate. For example, instead of the 10% damage increase you might get in a flight sim in this kind of game you uprgade to multifire instead, and shoot 3 shots instead of one (or something like that). If there are going to be ship uprgades, they should be more alo
[quote who="oghla" reply="51" id="3604167"] @cuorebrave: It's perfectly coherent if you integrate the concept of sarcasm. I'm not trying to insult anyone; if you don't like what I'm saying, it doesn't make my post "flaming". I get why you're excited. I got excited once over SC3 and got punished for it. So, I'll wait and see, now. But you? You think it's worth it? If it ends up being another SC3 piece of scrap, are
[quote who="oghla" reply="44" id="3604123"] Get people excited, launch a survey to select the founders then tell them they've been selected! OH JOY! 99$? Sure, I'll pay 99$ for what *might* be another SC3-type flop. I'll pay 99$ to see crash before others. Or I'll pay 99$ to help steer it in the right direction; 99$ for the honor of working for you, sure. You got a great read on the crowd, there. So many people are excit
[quote who="HenriHakl" reply="14" id="3604088"] I'm in favor of going one step further: it bugged me a little that there was only ever one type of spaceship per alien race. Even if they look the same, I'd expect it to be possible to have different ship loadouts (and I also do not want a case where a new better design supersedes a prior design - the variations should factor into my playstyle, or what I'm trying to defeat, not be a ramp up in power). [/quote] <p
You misunderstand, @Ibnobody! I was super agreeing with you! Stardock needs to do SOMETHING about the sidekick ships because I literally never found a reason to use them before! I WANTED to, but the flagship was too OP... so, we're in agreement, big time!
[quote who="Hunam_" reply="13" id="3603948"] Quoting cuorebrave, reply 10 Super happy to be involved. Glad to see some humanoids got in here, and even more glad to see the design doc state that there will be NO HUMANOID ALIENS ALLOWED! Weeee! No humanoids - meaning no this: [
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