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Post by Cory Trese on Aug 7, 2012 0:41:17 GMT -5
Have had a few requests for a ship listing, took the time tonight to extract and format it for everyone int PDF format. Enjoy! Attachments:
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Post by starfixer on Aug 7, 2012 1:34:26 GMT -5
This is why I donated. The determination you have for improving the experience for players is uncomparable to any other delevuper.
EDIT: Woah. What the... how did you know I donated? That was fast.
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Post by Cory Trese on Aug 7, 2012 1:39:36 GMT -5
I made the connection between your e-mail address on the forum and your e-mail address on Google Checkout.
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Post by starfixer on Aug 7, 2012 1:58:55 GMT -5
Oh. Well anyways, this is really going to help me decide what ships to get in the future. I never knew there was a 30 hull ship that was fast and had 150 crew. You should sticky this
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Post by shallowthought on Aug 18, 2012 12:48:23 GMT -5
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Post by Cory Trese on Aug 18, 2012 13:46:20 GMT -5
I will send the next version as both PDF and Excel spreadsheet. Andrew just turned in two new SWEET ship artworks so I'm going to do an ST release today with updated help files and new ships
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Post by shallowthought on Aug 18, 2012 14:28:30 GMT -5
Thanks cory That google docs spreadsheet is editable by anyone so just paste it there if that's easier.
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Post by starfixer on Aug 18, 2012 16:44:00 GMT -5
I will send the next version as both PDF and Excel spreadsheet. Andrew just turned in two new SWEET ship artworks so I'm going to do an ST release today with updated help files and new ships Are they big ships? The super-carriers aren't that big.
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Post by Cory Trese on Aug 18, 2012 16:55:08 GMT -5
I will send the next version as both PDF and Excel spreadsheet. Andrew just turned in two new SWEET ship artworks so I'm going to do an ST release today with updated help files and new ships Are they big ships? The super-carriers aren't that big. No, for graphics reasons all the ship images are about the same size. Some of them sit a little smaller inside the tile for the ship (like the escape shuttle) but for the most part the ships are roughly all the same size. The intention isn't to show scale with the map, just to give a nice abstract graphical representation.
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Post by starfixer on Aug 18, 2012 16:59:58 GMT -5
No I meant big like big armor, hull, crew. Like the titan carrier, resilient cruiser, harbiner carrier, obliterator cruiser, etc.
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Post by Cory Trese on Aug 18, 2012 17:05:28 GMT -5
No I meant big like big armor, hull, crew. Like the titan carrier, resilient cruiser, harbiner carrier, obliterator cruiser, etc. They'll be big ships, for sure -- but they won't break the rules of the game. Anything we add will be within the game's design parameters. We do a lot of math to ensure game balance, especially within the ship populations. There is a Google graph around here somewhere that shows the amount of work that goes into that in a graphical sense but I couldn't find it. Anyone remember that trend chart that shows the groupings in a scatter plot? I think it would help starfixer appreciate the amount of work that goes into the ship balancing as well as explain some of the hard and fast rules we adhere to in that regard.
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Post by shallowthought on Aug 19, 2012 14:26:08 GMT -5
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Post by Cory Trese on Aug 19, 2012 14:30:27 GMT -5
Yes! That guy seems to be gone by his analytic posts were FANTASTIC. This is one of the things I worry about Google Drive -- what if he deletes those files someday? They'll be gone for all of us
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Post by grävling on Aug 19, 2012 14:48:58 GMT -5
I stickied that post since I think others might want to read it. I hadn't before, and thought this was pretty cool stuff.
The problem of data owned by other people in the cloud is a very real one. We had a rather horrible situation a few years ago when a colleague died, and we discovered that we were reliant on a set of data that we were told we could not legally access any more.
Can you email that person and see if he can make a backup of his files and send them to you?
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Post by starfixer on Aug 19, 2012 15:05:49 GMT -5
Wow that's pretty cool. There's only like ONE ship with 45+ hul though. And there's been a lot of new small ships lately. I think its time for new ships like harbinger carrier (50 Hull), resilient cruiser (37 Hull 27 Armor), Titan Carrier (300 crew) and carnifex cruiser (250 crew 42 engines 42 sails). Even the dreadnought, although a 40 hull ship, had only 100 crew and even less cargo.
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