and design ship is from Space empires :D
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Let's Play StarDrive - StarDrive Closed Beta keys
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and design ship is from Space empires :D
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Pointing and laughing.
Like the artstyle, ui, graphics, events, ship design and so on. Not to mention the fun races and diplomatic messages. Actually looks like a neat new and shinier Distant Worlds. AI and general polish can be tweaked seeing how this is a beta. I'll keep an eye out for this one. Thanks for sharing!
Just posted this on their forum: tiagocc0 bug report
I know I should look if the bug has already been reported but..
Here my list from playing yesterday the whole day.
I had no experience with StarDrive before so I got a little confused at first.
1_ It doesn't seem that built ships are reported. This can be quite confusing at first.
I know that mid late games you probably will be building lots of ships and won't want all of them reported but at the start timing is crucial and a warning should come when a ship is built, it could come with a button to turn it off so for when it's not important anymore.
2_ It took me quite some time to find the ship list screen, first I found it in the shipyard screen, later I found that the minimap buttons are actually not used for the minimap but to access all kind of lists, ship, planet, fleet and so on. It is quite confusing since I expected those buttons to be related to the minimap.
Ship list is as important as empire management, maybe a ship list button should be on the top like the others.
3_ Anomaly found and general events. It's quite a challenge to find where they happened because when I select them the map zooms in on them, when I close the window it zooms out too fast and goes back where I was. But I don't want to go back where I was, I want to check out the place where the event happened.
4_ When building a fleet I can place a ship behind the right panel (the one where I get the ship to be placed), after it's place I can't get it because the panel is above it. Maybe you shouldn't be able to place ships behind the panel.
5_ There was one time that the Ralyeh declared war on me but there were no message, I just saw their image/animation. I was playing the Drayloks.
6_ So on my last play I had a fleet of ships with missiles, a fleet with ships with bombs and a fleet of troops. I arrived at the Ralyeh home planet, deployed my troops and then.. boom, my ships with bombs bombarded everyone to death, even tough I didn't select bombard.
7_ On my first play I was with the Pollops and right at the beginning the Ralyeh appeared with an ancient ship and exploded my brains out within seconds. It was very frustrating for a race to have such a weapon right at the beginning.
8_ Sometime when going back from an alt tab the game would get stuck all zoomed in on a empty part of the space, I have to hit esc a few times to be able to zoom again and re-position myself on my home planet.
9_ Right clicking on a tech opens a description window but quits the research screen so when I close the tech description I'm out at the map. (It seems Zero already fixed this from another post)
10_ Pirates came to my home planet and destroyed all my ships, then they would destroy any ship I were to build. So I ticked off all AI options but my home planet still insisted on build colony ships.
It was quite a fight between me and the building queue because I wanted to store production to release several fighters at once to be able to kill the pirates.
11_ Right at the beginning of the game, after I explored the first star with my ship (not the scout) I saw some ships guarding a planet, I told my ship to retreat but it just ignored me, went back and got killed.
Then I realized there was a button to tell a ship to not attack.
But I think a ship should first obey my orders and then resume their AI instead of just ignoring me.
EDIT: 12_ Cycling trough the colony governor is very boring, I should be able to select them instead of just cycling and then end up passing the one I wanted and having to trough all of them again.
Well, I think that's it.
I know I should look if the bug has already been reported but..
Here my list from playing yesterday the whole day.
I had no experience with StarDrive before so I got a little confused at first.
1_ It doesn't seem that built ships are reported. This can be quite confusing at first.
I know that mid late games you probably will be building lots of ships and won't want all of them reported but at the start timing is crucial and a warning should come when a ship is built, it could come with a button to turn it off so for when it's not important anymore.
2_ It took me quite some time to find the ship list screen, first I found it in the shipyard screen, later I found that the minimap buttons are actually not used for the minimap but to access all kind of lists, ship, planet, fleet and so on. It is quite confusing since I expected those buttons to be related to the minimap.
Ship list is as important as empire management, maybe a ship list button should be on the top like the others.
3_ Anomaly found and general events. It's quite a challenge to find where they happened because when I select them the map zooms in on them, when I close the window it zooms out too fast and goes back where I was. But I don't want to go back where I was, I want to check out the place where the event happened.
4_ When building a fleet I can place a ship behind the right panel (the one where I get the ship to be placed), after it's place I can't get it because the panel is above it. Maybe you shouldn't be able to place ships behind the panel.
5_ There was one time that the Ralyeh declared war on me but there were no message, I just saw their image/animation. I was playing the Drayloks.
6_ So on my last play I had a fleet of ships with missiles, a fleet with ships with bombs and a fleet of troops. I arrived at the Ralyeh home planet, deployed my troops and then.. boom, my ships with bombs bombarded everyone to death, even tough I didn't select bombard.
7_ On my first play I was with the Pollops and right at the beginning the Ralyeh appeared with an ancient ship and exploded my brains out within seconds. It was very frustrating for a race to have such a weapon right at the beginning.
8_ Sometime when going back from an alt tab the game would get stuck all zoomed in on a empty part of the space, I have to hit esc a few times to be able to zoom again and re-position myself on my home planet.
9_ Right clicking on a tech opens a description window but quits the research screen so when I close the tech description I'm out at the map. (It seems Zero already fixed this from another post)
10_ Pirates came to my home planet and destroyed all my ships, then they would destroy any ship I were to build. So I ticked off all AI options but my home planet still insisted on build colony ships.
It was quite a fight between me and the building queue because I wanted to store production to release several fighters at once to be able to kill the pirates.
11_ Right at the beginning of the game, after I explored the first star with my ship (not the scout) I saw some ships guarding a planet, I told my ship to retreat but it just ignored me, went back and got killed.
Then I realized there was a button to tell a ship to not attack.
But I think a ship should first obey my orders and then resume their AI instead of just ignoring me.
EDIT: 12_ Cycling trough the colony governor is very boring, I should be able to select them instead of just cycling and then end up passing the one I wanted and having to trough all of them again.
Well, I think that's it.
Just got the ancient tech, those ancient power core looks great!
It seems as you research them you open access to more tech.
Built a ship full of lasers using those neat ancient power cores.
So not I have a fleet of ships with missiles, some ships with bombs and lots of troops. Let's take Ralyeh heart!
Uhh, I can build bigger ships!
Just arrived, let's deploy some troops.
WTF? It seems my bomb ships are bombarding the planet without me telling them to, there's a bombard button there, it should only bombard after I click on it.
Farewell my troops, I will miss you bunch, so sad..
It seems all buildings and troops got killed, but the population remains the same, so you can't exterminate a planet with bombs.
I guess I'm finishing this game earlier, it just ruined everything I planned. Bombs are useless and all my troops got decimated in a few milliseconds.
It seems all buildings and troops got killed, but the population remains the same, so you can't exterminate a planet with bombs.
I guess I'm finishing this game earlier, it just ruined everything I planned. Bombs are useless and all my troops got decimated in a few milliseconds.
How about we make a custom race?
The game has an option called pacing, it goes from 100% to 400%, it seems the game builds slower and research slower when the pacing is more than 100%
I will also just put 4 enemies instead of 7.
Maybe a smaller galaxy too.
It has two game modes, normal and another is ascension where races rush to conquer a planet from the Remnant in the center of the galaxy.
We can spend 8 points, suggestions?
The game has an option called pacing, it goes from 100% to 400%, it seems the game builds slower and research slower when the pacing is more than 100%
I will also just put 4 enemies instead of 7.
Maybe a smaller galaxy too.
It has two game modes, normal and another is ascension where races rush to conquer a planet from the Remnant in the center of the galaxy.
We can spend 8 points, suggestions?
A pretty normal start, I will research an economic building, since I probably won't be able to trade with other species.
Then a production building, missiles and then I will research to produce more food and finally to be able to build biospheres.
With this I can build anywhere on a planet.
Building some scouts, training a spy, setting everything on AI, minus colonization because it tends to colonize very far away where I can't protect.
Then a production building, missiles and then I will research to produce more food and finally to be able to build biospheres.
With this I can build anywhere on a planet.
Building some scouts, training a spy, setting everything on AI, minus colonization because it tends to colonize very far away where I can't protect.
One thing that really bothers me with the research is how there's no crossover between the various disciplines. Everything is contained entirely within its own distressingly small tree. It'd be neat if researching tech X in physics was a prerequisite for tech Y in energy and tech Z in Space Weapons and so forth.
dont let anything.. how to say.. god damn dont know.. just dont let them screw the game.. we need good 4xFound a great planet, it's max population is 15.8, more than my homeworld 14. Usually even terran planets just have max population 2 or 3. I will send my colony ship.
Oh boy, pirates again, ok get my money and spend it on some trannies.
Damn, there are ships guarding that yummy planet, is my colony ship fast enough? No it isn't.. poor thing.
Okay so I will change the research order and get missiles first, let's fry those guardians, it a long lost dream for me.
Found all the other races already.
And those bear sure do like trannies, they asked for a non-aggression pact.
Got missiles, it sure took a long time with pacing in 400%.
We got heavy fighters because we are militaristic, great!
The heavy fighter of humans looks great, I was able to put tons of missiles on it. but it is quite expensive.
My spy got level 10, yay, but I just spent all the money, my tax is 25% and I barely making any money.
Those Opteris got made at me because my automatic scouts entered their territory, let's go to war!
I just finished three heavy fighters and I got the initial flagship. I'm building 4 troops to try to capture a ship.
The heavy fighter of humans looks great, I was able to put tons of missiles on it. but it is quite expensive.
I just finished three heavy fighters and I got the initial flagship. I'm building 4 troops to try to capture a ship.
The governors seems confusing.
If I choose industrial type it puts 100% on production no matter what, it's giving focus to production it's just set in stone to do that way.
It seems it imports food instead of producing, I don't know where from.
If I choose industrial type it puts 100% on production no matter what, it's giving focus to production it's just set in stone to do that way.
It seems it imports food instead of producing, I don't know where from.
I was changing the first pictures from my site to my blogger account, as to not each so much of my bandwidth.
So I attacked those 5 guardians that had shields with 4 ships, my flagship and 3 heavy fighters full of missiles.
Easy! It's just so easy using missiles. Now let's send a colony ship.
The Kulrathi really liked me, even if I'm a repulsive tranny. I think that is what makes them tick! They want a trade
agreement, me too!
Found an old mine on my new colony. I need some troops to check it.
Deploying.
Thank God I deployed 4 of them, kill kill kill.
It now gives me 2 production points, nice.
Just found another good planet, even better than the one I just colonized, let's check it.
Damn, it's a pirate base, retreat, retreat!
Now, what should I do?
Exterminate the Opteris or get rid of the pirates?
So I attacked those 5 guardians that had shields with 4 ships, my flagship and 3 heavy fighters full of missiles.
agreement, me too!
Exterminate the Opteris or get rid of the pirates?
On their forum:
It seems you can kill population, but may require higher tech or maybe much more ships:
http://www.stardrivegame.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=907&p=8885#p8885
It seems you can kill population, but may require higher tech or maybe much more ships:
http://www.stardrivegame.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=907&p=8885#p8885
Star Wars Rebellion gets around that by having shields you can build on planet that make it pretty much invulnerable to anything but the death star. The only other ways to get around them are a ground invasion or by sabotaging the shields using missions (spies).
So I retreated, escaping from the pirates.
My flagship disobeyed me and I had to click for it to run away a second time, because of this it took a lot of fire but managed to survive.
I set to build more heavy fighters and troops hoping to attack the pirates later, that planet is too good to let it pass. Then..
My flagship disobeyed me and I had to click for it to run away a second time, because of this it took a lot of fire but managed to survive.
It seems all crash reports like this always show D:\Users\Cyberlawyer\Desktop\StarDrive\.. because it creates a virtual environment. That's what they said in the forum.
http://www.stardrivegame.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=940
I was particularly doing nothing, I was just moving around in the map when it happened so it seems my crash report didn't really helped much.
People there actually liked what I wrote:
http://www.stardrivegame.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=926
But I don't know if Zero (The developer) will consider it since most would require a change in their UI design and he's probably a lot more interested in squashing bugs right now.
http://www.stardrivegame.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=940
I was particularly doing nothing, I was just moving around in the map when it happened so it seems my crash report didn't really helped much.
People there actually liked what I wrote:
http://www.stardrivegame.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=926
But I don't know if Zero (The developer) will consider it since most would require a change in their UI design and he's probably a lot more interested in squashing bugs right now.
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