Suggestion: improve tutorial regarding "speed run"

[jknut]

It was not clear to me that there was a "speed run" goal.  I thought the enemies would be finite (like HoS) so I took my sweet time finishing the first time through Deck 12 (53 turns!).  Needless to say, my hit points were quite low.  My second time through Deck 12, it took me 12 turns.

I would recommend improving the tutorial to make it clear that the player should try to reach objectives as fast as possible.

[Cory Trese]

We went back and forth on this -- the story and dialog is very urgent -- Luthor is being overrun, the ship is burning.

We did test the game with auto-defeat after X turns in place, so at turn 20 you'd loose -- but we decided to really focus on making sure it was clear to the player that they should try to reach the objectives as fast as possible.

We've done that pretty well, without directly saying anything about turns. Maybe we should be more explicit about it but I am not sure about auto-defeat or that statement yet.

Thanks for the report!

[anvil]

I had the same question.

Is there a penelty for not finishing in 15 turns?

If so, it seems it should be stated somewhere. This is a similar issue as in HOS, red hill storerooms, which I think you added more dialogue

[beuns]

May 26, 2015 12:48:36 GMT -5 anvil said:

I had the same question.

Is there a penelty for not finishing in 15 turns?

If so, it seems it should be stated somewhere. This is a similar issue as in HOS, red hill storerooms, which I think you added more dialogue

I think there's a reward if you finish under 18 turns but no penalty.

Cory Trese : maybe a turn counter could help with it turning orange when it reaches 15 turns and red at 18 ?

[ntsheep]

Fallen said in this thread that a turn counter would be in the works,

startradersrpg.proboards.com/thread/11440/

[beuns]

I know that dear ntsheep but I think that adding a color to it can help understand that time is limited.

[fallen]

beuns - cool idea, we've added it to the list!

[beuns]