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Reply to December 2015 Vault Update in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Hunam_" reply="24" id="3610666"] ^ He can not be sitting so high above the controls. Doesn't make sense. He's standing and he has second set of forearms/maybe arms tinkering with controls. [/quote] Ok, I can see how you would think that. I assumed he was sitting on a dais and the screen projections were the controls. You are assuming that the dais is just a command console with unseen controls. That idea is fair enough and equally possible.

Reply to What do I play while I wait? Good to scratch an itch and help me come up with ideas? in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="sendingsignal" reply="11" id="3610624"] Oh, I did play Space Rangers. It was fun for a bit but kind of flat. Things were fun enough, combat wise, to get me through Space Pirates and Zombies. The writing in SPAZ wasn't great either, but it didn't feel as flat as Space Rangers. The visuals at least had more personality, I think. It's hard to imagine Xenoblade X with even faster movement - it's realllly fast, honestly. And I haven't even gott

Reply to December 2015 Vault Update in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Hunam_" reply="20" id="3610588"] I see it like this (didn't find legs [e digicons]:([/e] ): Reduced 44% Original 1280 x 720 [/quote] Still have trouble seeing the second set of arms

Reply to What do I play while I wait? Good to scratch an itch and help me come up with ideas? in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="sendingsignal" reply="7" id="3610350"] Just upgraded my PC as well, but I'll probably wait until everything is released in a package for Fallout - I'm currently playing Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin edition for the most part (and a bit of Xenoblade Chronicles X). [/quote] I'm holding off on Xenoblade Chronicles X until someone hacks the Wii U and adds cheat codes (memory edits) in to boost movement speed. Xenoblade was fun, but it was e

Reply to December 2015 Vault Update in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Vaelzad" reply="14" id="3610499"] Hmm... I'm very confused on the feedback. I didn't realize that 8 eyes, 2 arms and 4 legs and a head in the shape of a clamshell was humanoid. [/quote] It doesn't look like he had 4 legs or 8 eyes. And his head is just a giant headdress. EDIT: This is the pose he looks like he has. <img src="http://cdn.makeuseof.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/gaming-injuries6.jpg?2a35c0" alt="" wid

Reply to December 2015 Vault Update in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Awkbird" reply="6" id="3610443"] I also hope this alien concept is a reject. It's very nice artwork, as has been the case with all the concept art, but there are just so many forms of life that could exist and I am so tired of the lack of imagination in portraying aliens in games as if the only kinds of fictional spacefaring races must have two arms and two legs with bilateral symmetry and a traditional head. [/quote] While I agree with your assessment and ge

Reply to December 2015 Vault Update in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Volusianus" reply="3" id="3610432"] I think they meant nothing that's IMMEDIATELY humanoid. The beard is clearly just part of the christmas theme. Really, just try to imagine it without the beard and it's not very human at all, even if it's "humanoid". [/quote] I wasn't talking about the beard. I know that's fake, especially since its hung around the back of his head. It looks like a humanoid alien, sitting on a chair with his elbows o

Reply to December 2015 Vault Update in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

I LOVE it. I'm a big fan of angular art style. I like the HAL9000 lenses on the headpiece, but the frowny frog at the crest needs to go. Also... I thought they said no humanoids....

Reply to Happy Holidays from the Star Control Team! in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

Merry Christmas

Reply to AI Difficulty in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Alverez" reply="1" id="3609913"] Onboard with you until here. Are you meaning something along the lines of 'beat the normal ai to unlock the next difficulty' or having some of our player-character ships be piloted by the ai? I like the first one but I don't see the 2nd option as having a place in SC (or games for that mater, I don't like self-resolving battles.) [/quote] I was talking about optionally letting the AI pilot your ships in

AI Difficulty in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

One thing I like about Stardock is that they are averse to having their AI cheat. I hope this mantra continues in SCR. Background: In SC1 and SC2, AI piloted ships would do the same amount of damage and consume the same amount of energy as normal ships. The AI setting increased the pilot skill. The ace AI became very skilled at using the secondary ability. For example, an Ace Supox knew how to strafe in between an opponent's firing angles, and an Ace Druug

Reply to A dream of mine in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Hunam_" reply="1" id="3609550"] 010110010110010101110011001011000010000001110000011011000110010101100001011100110110010100101110 [/quote] Translation: "Yes, please." Edit: And I would want other star systems and features as well. Black holes, pulsars, etc.

Reply to The planet design in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Hunam_" reply="138" id="3609540"] Asking for a couple of concept pics is greedy?... Ok.... [/quote] You aren't being greedy. :) Consider that the window to get this stuff to us this year may have elapsed. I'm on vacation now, and I suspect many of the team members at Stardock are as well. Either we'll see a Christmas surprise, or we won't see anything until mid January.

Reply to Question on Solar System Map & Combat in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Volusianus" reply="3" id="3609421"] I'm gonna be honest, I was hoping hyperspace would be a sort of gauntlet arena, with those constant energy bolts firing everywhere. Like the asteroid fields in FTL. [/quote] Would those hyperspace squiggles damage you if you weren't in combat? They would have to, I guess. That would be okay, especially if there was an upgrade that blocked them from damaging you.

Reply to How would you like your new Star Control story to begin? in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Volusianus" reply="10" id="3609486"] Crushing your foes with an iron fist (tendril?) is reserved for hardcore players, breh. [/quote] I'll crush any opposition I have in order to be able to crush my opposition in game. :P

Reply to The planet design in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

The worst thing that could happen is that someone figures out that Strawpoll.me votes can be spoofed by changing the host IP or by voting on a cell phone...

Reply to The planet design in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="TheUr-quanMaster" reply="132" id="3609386"] You misunderstand. I was making an example to prove my point. I was talking about a metaphorical poll, to serve as an example. I wasn't referencing the real poll at that point. [/quote] But I was. You want people to vote, but the polls are buried at the end of a long forum thread. You'd best start a new one.

Reply to The planet design in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="TheUr-quanMaster" reply="127" id="3609279"] It is sent to everyone. [/quote] Well.............. I don't know about that. This particular poll is buried in 6 pages of forum posts.

Reply to Ringtones and the NDA in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Maogan" reply="1" id="3609253"] Mwahaha! Break the NDA by using their tantalizing ring tone and become an indentured servant intern until the game is published! They are Druuge through and through! StarDruuge. [/quote] Fixed it for you. :P

Reply to System Defenses in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Kavik_Kang" reply="7" id="3609274"] This wouldn't make it any of those things. The player doesn't own or build these defenses, the AI does. They could be used as little or as much as the designers see fit. [/quote] This made me wonder if the game will have a separate combat view. If you encounter a hostile orbital weapons platform around a planet, how would it shoot you as you cruised the solar system? (I posed the combat/solar system view que

Question on Solar System Map & Combat in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

It was mentioned that combat will take place in a fixed arena that will be a representation of the solar system. (Multiple planets were confirmed... What about the star?) Will there be a solar system view that is separate from the combat view (ala SC2)? Or will combat take place on the solar system view itself?

Reply to Higher Difficulty = Higher Rewards? in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Hunam_" reply="23" id="3609263"] ^ Should we get a Frustration Setting then? Higher frustration = lower reward. [e digicons]XD[/e] [/quote] You joke, but this IS how most difficulty sliders work. [quote who="Myzimensi" reply="22" id="3609228"] I don't see the need for difficulty settings to exist, to my mind they're one more thing that can be botched in making a game. [/quote] Sure. That's a valid argument. The only

Reply to Higher Difficulty = Higher Rewards? in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Volusianus" reply="21" id="3609226"] Except that there's totally precedents of games that cut major chunks of story if you aren't on the hardest difficulty. [/quote] Sure, there is precedent for developers doing all sorts of dumb things and getting away with it. Look at EA. Are we supposed to like it? Unfortunately, I wasn't a Founder in any of those games you mentioned and didn't have

Reply to Ideas for scanning planets. in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Vaelzad" reply="6" id="3609143"] The current plan for scanning a planet involves actually scanning the planet and being able to filter on the resources and objects you find. From there you will be able to choose the landing location you would like to try and land at. While you will be able to scan and see many things from orbit you won't be able to get specifics until you visit the planet and visit them up close. As an e

Reply to Higher Difficulty = Higher Rewards? in Founders Starbase StarControl Forums

[quote who="Tovanion" reply="18" id="3609072"] IBNobody, you're thinking only in terms of game mechanics, which inevitably leads to power inflation, a skewed arms race, and the rest of the consequences. Try to think outside the box. [/quote] Sure... Sure... But some of the ideas you proposed do affect the game. (Your firework idea was good, though.) A different secondary ability: If it changes how a ship can fight, it changes the