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Best feature of 0.6.2a
« on: January 20, 2014, 08:16:38 PM »

I know a lot of us have been playing "starfarer" for a while now, but I think the feature most worth the time invested in development time in this patch is the little tutorial messages. I got this for my brother for xmas and im sure he will enjoy it when he can get some free time to play. But it lead me to think that im familiar with the features of the game, but new players may confused without some guidance. Great work.

of course everything is awesome about the patch but that stood out above the rest =)
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Re: Best feature of 0.6.2a
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2014, 12:26:32 PM »

Best new feature are the new ships, especially the Heron and Hermes.  Honorable mention goes to the flight deck upgrade for the Astral.
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Re: Best feature of 0.6.2a
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2014, 12:28:46 PM »

I agree about the tutorial / help messages; and that wasn't a "little thing"- Alex had to put a lot of work into that :)
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Re: Best feature of 0.6.2a
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2014, 12:58:33 PM »

I like the re-balanced CR and malfunction systems best. A bit of a shame the related UI didn't get updated much.
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Re: Best feature of 0.6.2a
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2014, 01:30:51 PM »

The Monitor for me. I named mine 343 Guilty Spark and went around in only that, annoying the CRAP out of my enemies! Now if only I could get her sing song voice...
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Re: Best feature of 0.6.2a
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2014, 01:55:22 PM »

I say the performance, that 5-10 extra fps felt like so much more
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Re: Best feature of 0.6.2a
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2014, 03:30:54 PM »

I say the performance, that 5-10 extra fps felt like so much more
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Re: Best feature of 0.6.2a
« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2014, 03:41:34 PM »

I have to go with the FPS boost too, not because most of us needed it, but because it shows there is optimization there to be done in the first place. after having played a few mods a version or two ago and it crippling my machine even with more than 8 gigs of RAM its good to know that hopefully that was a bug and the full game when it has those things like mining and player owned fleets the game still won't need much RAM to run.
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Re: Best feature of 0.6.2a
« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2014, 04:38:42 PM »

I say the performance, that 5-10 extra fps felt like so much more
This and the new ships were it for me.
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Re: Best feature of 0.6.2a
« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2014, 06:32:59 PM »

If every patch from now on means a new hound-ish ship, i will be happy forever.
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Re: Best feature of 0.6.2a
« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2014, 08:17:57 PM »

Ha! I'll second that.  :)

EDIT: I'd love to see all the fighters implemented too. Claw, and escorts.
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Re: Best feature of 0.6.2a
« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2014, 09:25:19 PM »

If every patch from now on means a new hound-ish ship, i will be happy forever.

would make sense too, a fast cheap frieghter that can outrun all large threats and capable of defending itself? Can imagine the sectors are full of them, and its variants
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Re: Best feature of 0.6.2a
« Reply #12 on: January 22, 2014, 04:09:43 AM »

Heron. I absolutely love that ship, it's exactly what I've been dreaming of for a long time. Now we have a full house of carriers in game to match up with WW2 carrier class:

Condor - Bogue class escort carrier
Slow, civilian cargo ship converted baby carrier. Good for adding some teeth to convoys. Slow speed and lack of defence limit its usability in major fleet actions.

Heron - Independence class light carrier
Military grade small fleet carriers based on cruiser hull design. Fast and capable of fleet action. Can be massed to create full on carrier task forces when large fleet carriers are not available.

Astral - Essex class fleet carrier
Full sized fleet carrier designed to work as heart of a carrier battle group.

Odyssey - Ise class battleship (after 1944 reconstruction)
Hybrid battleship / carrier
« Last Edit: January 22, 2014, 04:12:49 AM by Temstar »
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Re: Best feature of 0.6.2a
« Reply #13 on: January 22, 2014, 07:43:19 AM »

It's released. That's always a good feature for an update to have.
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Re: Best feature of 0.6.2a
« Reply #14 on: January 22, 2014, 04:56:03 PM »

Oh i know a good feature about the update, and it wasn't advertised in any way, must fall under the category of "more bug fixes". It's that the community showed back up in full force for at least a day or two. And is much more active in the week or two following the update. That's a good one.
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