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Gothars

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Re: Expanded Battles
« Reply #225 on: October 24, 2015, 12:49:46 PM »

Nah, it was there from the beginning. Maybe your vid froze or something. I don't  think you even can change YT videos without re-uploading them.
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Re: Expanded Battles
« Reply #226 on: October 24, 2015, 05:59:15 PM »

Yep, 6-way battles.  Also, multiplayer is confirmed!  In fact, Starsector's campaign will be transitioning to MMO-style!

Oh boy, I can already feel the spiders and fetch quests.

what the heck are you talking about..if I want a space mmo I just play Eve Online
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« Reply #227 on: October 26, 2015, 12:30:40 AM »

Yep, 6-way battles.  Also, multiplayer is confirmed!  In fact, Starsector's campaign will be transitioning to MMO-style!

Oh boy, I can already feel the spiders and fetch quests.

what the heck are you talking about..if I want a space mmo I just play Eve Online

I think they are joking  ;)
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Re: Expanded Battles
« Reply #228 on: October 31, 2015, 12:20:35 AM »

So, what's the word, on the new update? Things have reeeaaaalllyyyy died down.
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« Reply #229 on: October 31, 2015, 04:34:07 AM »

Are you kidding? The hype train keeps gaining speed like it has never before.

There is no official ETA, but it's any day now. (but it also could be a few more weeks.)
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Re: Expanded Battles
« Reply #230 on: October 31, 2015, 02:24:45 PM »

ANY DAY?!?!?! OMG I'M GONNA DIE!
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Re: Expanded Battles
« Reply #231 on: October 31, 2015, 04:37:05 PM »

I would call that unfounded speculation. As always, the answer is SoonTM and there are no actual dates or deadlines until it's released. I also would suggest this means it's about the point where this topic is locked ;)
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Re: Expanded Battles
« Reply #232 on: November 02, 2015, 12:12:00 PM »

In regards to expanded battles, how many factions can join up against one target? Could the Player, a Hegemony fleet, and a Luddic Church fleet all gang up on a Tri-Tachyon fleet?
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Re: Expanded Battles
« Reply #233 on: November 02, 2015, 12:15:59 PM »

Sure, but they'd both have to be hostile to Tri-Tachyon, or friendly with each other, and neither is true at the moment.
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Re: Expanded Battles
« Reply #234 on: November 02, 2015, 07:31:43 PM »

Sooo... Hegemony got better relationship with Tri-Tachyon, right?
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« Reply #235 on: November 02, 2015, 08:14:31 PM »

I can see how what I said might be a bit confusing; what I meant is neither of "both hostile to Tri-Tachyon" and "friendly with each other" is true.

So, no, no thawing of relations, although one might consider the current hostilities more of a flare-up of a cold-war style conflict than a permanent state of affairs.
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« Reply #236 on: November 03, 2015, 02:53:26 AM »

although one might consider the current hostilities more of a flare-up of a cold-war style conflict than a permanent state of affairs.

Mh, I wonder what could have caused that. I hope something story relevant for the play to discover ;D
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« Reply #237 on: November 03, 2015, 03:07:13 AM »

although one might consider the current hostilities more of a flare-up of a cold-war style conflict than a permanent state of affairs.

Mh, I wonder what could have caused that. I hope something story relevant for the play to discover ;D
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« Reply #238 on: November 03, 2015, 06:33:36 AM »

although one might consider the current hostilities more of a flare-up of a cold-war style conflict than a permanent state of affairs.

Mh, I wonder what could have caused that. I hope something story relevant for the play to discover ;D
Tri-Tachyon chairman lost ?500,000 to the High Hegemon Administrator in a poker game and refused to pay up.

I bet it was probably more like 50. ;)
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Re: Expanded Battles
« Reply #239 on: November 03, 2015, 08:22:56 AM »

Way late to the party here and didn't have time to read through everything, but just wanted to comment on the officer portraits. I thought it might be nice to have a rank insignia corresponding to their level and/or faction importance followed by the officer's name in place of the portraits.  They seem a bit too large, even taking them into stock for that being a busy screen.

Even with a revamp, I think it could get pretty burdensome to have enough character portrait variety to convey personality, and then if the portrait is distinct enough, say on a faction leader, then it would end up as a picture the player would probably never take as the faction leader would own that face.  Maybe if there were a modular system of face portraits.

I think just putting the name in there with a rank or icon, growing in size and detail to represent how badass he is, would go a long way. You will ways remember "Gen P. Burnman"'s onslaught overdriving into and demolishing your flagship, rather than face 17 of 50 from the list.

Either way, the more campaign stuff brought into the combat the better, and seeing the people you interact with at fleet level directly in game really, really goes a long way in connecting the two phases of the game together.
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