GalacticWino

Just curious... do you actually play this game or just postulate theories here anonymously? If you are one of our more recognized players... why not do the commuinity a favor and post with a nick-name that indicates you have some real experience playing with the veteran players rather than just trolling?

I like the recent increases to fuel costs although I haven't quite adapted successfully (yet). I hope it will lower the confusion threshold for newcomers to the game. For most people, our natural base-building instinct (based on standard business logistics) is to avoid shipping things too far. This should make for more compact colonies where it is easier to figure out who's territory is who's. Howerver, with the current game mechanics, I see a few balance tweaks that might be in o

Magic, I'm online now. I can play tonight. Tomorrow night is a no go since I have a project to get done. Thursday is a no go since I like to watch the debates. Friday would be fine.

Magic, i'd rather play this weekend. I can stream at 720p.

I'll play (for comic relief)

Hey Seilore, It was me who did that to you. Don't get discouraged... when the game is released, or if you play more now during prime-time hours (3pm-9pm east-coast usa, 5pm-1am europe), you will get more diversity of opponents. The match-making system will improve once the game is release and there are more live players to match skill levels better. I was able to upgrade to HQ2 almost instantly only because I was playing the Robotic faction. This factions starts with more

Just playing the devil's advocate: I'm assuming Mike is realatively new to the game. However, he has impressively hovered around rank #4 or #5 for a week or so in the QM system. Unless he was as pathetic as the rest of us and spent most of his spare time watching mohawk or zultar streams, he would have no reason to believe that he is not one of the best players. This highlights a major problem with the ladder favoring raw number of wins (or even percentage of wins) over an ELO

Here are some videos from the group sessions. The titles of the videos describe some of the common themes that occured during a dozen or so games we played. Some of my stream of consciousness commentary here is probably PG-13+ so I apologize in advance for my potty mouth while gaming :) <li class="feed-item-container yt-section-hover-container browse-list-item-container branded-page-box vve-check " data-sessionlink="ei=uwpRVqfYJ8r2uA

Surely this isn't intentional: AB comes up in one of those beloved random auctions. I win the auction, but in doing so.. my debt goes from C to D range. Now the lovely UI decides I should not be able to see the AB I just bought becuase I'm in D levels of debt? Or is it by design that I am forced to just let my opponents win all auctions any time I am at a C/D debt borderline? Sigh...

I think game length might have increased on average by 10% or so, which I think is good for the game since people are now using science/pd/engineering lab earlier rather than just rushing for offworlds. I suspect this was intentional based on some comments Soren made in one video. Frankly I think they might not have increased game length enough to please the masses though. If you take a look over in the Steam forums, nearly every other post in the Offworld forum is complaining about "too much

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Damnit. I really wanted to get one more loss, just so my numbers would be nice even multiples of 50. I rememeber a good friend turning down a QM just so his numbers would stay pretty... no telllin' who... you guess [e digicons]:)[/e] . Lol, guess that says a lot about this ladder. The 2nd place guy (undeserved) wants to give up a loss to a stonger player, who would prefer to keep his even numbers rather than crush me like he is quite capable of.

Gameslayer, are we still on for Thursday evening? Morgan mentioned you might prefer Wednesday. I can't play Wednesday. In truth, this is shaping up to be one hell of a week. So, if you have some sort of celebration Thrusday, how about Friday instead? I can play at our agree time Thursday, but would prefer any time Friday/Sat/Sun after 5:00 GMT.

Kingmorgan and I would like to team up.

Sunday 10/25 Challenge: Fastest time set (Day 6, 10:50) by robbing my AI partner blind. He's still on HQ1 when I get to HQ5 on day 3. This is the last time I'll ever do a daily challenge with an AI partner. It seems the optimal way to play these things is to treat your partner as nothing more than an extra power plant, aluminum mine and iron mine. http://www.filedropper.com/replay_3

I agree on everything black magic says about font sizes and readability. I don't mind the smaller black market box since it saves screen space. I would prefer if the black market text stayed white all the time to keep it legible. The first aesthetic priority for me would be shrinking the size of the left hand panel by 30-50% (including tucking the new advanced building buttons undernearth the resource panel). I like the new features they built into this interface (stock chart

Good old fashioned OW rush for the Saturday 2v2 challenge beats the nearest time by 9 hours (Day 6 17:20 for me). 1 thing that was interesting was my decision to use the sole adrenaline boost I won for from an auction on some water tiles instead of the offworld. The offworld price nerf is a welcome change. http://www.filedropper.com/replay_2

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Sounds fun. Attached is the one I posted where I did the polar opposite strategy you did. I had no debt vs. your D rating. I went for pleasure domes and a balanced economy vs. your OW rush and hacker array. Your time crushed mine (5 hours faster), but i think it's fair to say your AI opponents were even stupider than mine :) Regardless, I think it's nice to see that so many strategies are becoming viable, indicating the current game state is approacing balance.

Oops. Thanks, I think it's fixed now. Although, I can't imagine why you of all people would watch my video :) I made it for the masses who haven't had a chance to play around in B7 or might have even missed B6.

I made a walkthrough video of one of my daily challenge sessions which features some of the recent strategical changes from beta 6 and beta 7. I paused to describe most of the new features: interface, game winning conditions, meta-game considerations, etc. I guess it's aimed at the improving intermediate player or strong player who has been away for a couple months. Let me know if there are adjustments I could make in case anyone might benefit from a follow up video. https://youtu

Please reset the ladder and implement a more competetive scheme before the game is released. I believe my current stance as #2 on the ladder is a clear indication that it does not accurately reflect skill level. Although I have a postive win record against a few of the top ten players and am improving, I know that i'm just an intermediate player, who is nowhere close to the skill level of other active ladder players like Cubit, BlackMagic, and InSync whom I only have 1 or 2 wins against.<

The AI seem to be trigger happy on Nukes and Mules for some reason: http://s22.postimg.org/nzgwjwbbl/Mule.png