On Patents: What happens if you get Perpetual Motion and Cold Fusion. Does it reduce the water usage then? I assume also that Energy Vault (power storage) becomes worthless if you then get Cold Fusion patent (use water instead of power)
[quote who="kryo" reply="3" id="3521502"] if you're raring to play. [/quote] Raring? I took a vacation day that day (well, I had to use it soon anyway)... for an early access game... that I preordered. What is wrong with me?!?
I'm curious, what source language or tool was used to develop Offworld. I thought I heard Soren mention Unity on a video, but it was a passing remark. I ask, because you're a small team and were able to do something great. I'm currently a programmer for business stuff, and I'm kind of curious how the gaming side works.
While not an official rep, someone commented in the following post, that the recording was lost: https://forums.offworldgame.com/461107/page/1/#3521493
That's my question. How will I get it?
So, I preordered, and I wonder how the game will actually be delivered. I will be looking for it expectantly. Will it be a steam key by email, or do we need to sign into Stardock to get it? I can't see it being actually through steam as mentioned on the pre-order webpage, because I didn't enter any steam credentials.
I've heard Soren say you can play at a lower speed when playing single player. I'm not sure if that slows down the actual game, or just the economy, since I'm also waiting for Feb. 12. You can also pause in SP.
Next one is up. I don't know where #2 is... [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjxFF0bfSD0[/video]
Speaking of that Axis. I wonder how the multiplayer works. Is there a lobby or something?
Thank you. Looks great.
Thanks for the reply. So, does competitor A buying a bunch of my stock, drive up the price that competitor B has to pay, or maybe even more important, does me buying stock A, by itself, make the next block I buy more expensive?
I'm also in the preorder bucket right now, so hopefully someone with more play experience corrects me if I'm wrong. Stock doesn't appear to work as in the real world. Your company hasn't issue 10,000 shares that you or someone can buy up until they're gone. It looks more like each company can buy a certain number of shares (or maybe percentage blocks) in each other company until the buyout button is available. So, for example, you might be able to b
I think the only question that came to my mind, was, how much are the engineering upgrades. Maybe that was somewhere, and I missed that too.
I said this on the reddit, but really good post. Even with the interviews, the "rules" blog post, and watching the gameplay, I still had questions. For example, how do you know you should shut off an iron mine. How much is it really costing to run it. Now I know, not that I can play this yet, but I'm pretending in my head. Give this guy Karma +.
There are replays? That's really cool. I'm on the preorder list, so I'm only living vicariously through everyone else playing, and I hadn't seen anything about replays yet. Yeah, being able to pause the replay would be really nice, if its not in there.
The whole stock value thing seems strange to me. Like a previous poster, I haven't played yet either, but I have trouble seeing how the buyout makes sense in real numbers. If I have enough stock and cash to buyout a competitor, shouldn't it be naturally impossible, without the need for black market chicanery, for that guy to buy me out? My total company value exceeds that guys company value. How can he possibly afford to buy me out. He would have to have
I don't play it. I pre-ordered, and I'm as excited as the OP for the release. However, this thread will only cause everyone who read it to say, "Me too", just in case someone who reads it has the ability to give out early codes. Instead of a thread full of, me too's, I say, let's end this now. By the way, not everyone who makes you feel bad deserves a derogatory name calling.
Everyone who pre-ordered will be in the same boat. I call for locking this thread. It doesn't add anything, to well, anything.
That's good information. Thank you. I wonder if that will result in unexpected strategies, like driving fast cash gains, by abandoning life support commodities, including power production, to generate larger quantities of cash only commodities while funding needed life support purchases through debt. Oh well, that's what early access is for.
I've preordered and watched the gameplay videos. One thing that puzzles me is how debt works. I get that its 5x as bad vs. cash for your stock price. But as I watch Soren J. play, I can't figure out the pattern. Why have any cash on hand if you have debt. Are there certain things that require cash on hand, and won't let you go into debt to purchase? Why not let someone just go into debt then to purchase? It doesn't look very intuitive
Stardock also accepts Paypal if you can attach another payment method to that.