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Post by Cory Trese on May 2, 2014 0:06:33 GMT -5
Transport Ships can mount Boarding Pods and Shuttles (for Ship combat) and Drop Pods / Landing Ships for Planetary Invasion.
Planetary Invasion consists of several phases. You'll have the option to Bombard, Land Expeditionary Forces or Full on Invade.
Xeno worlds will mount a stiff defense, including Radiation, anti-ship and anti-troop defenses.
As Choco says, you have to be careful with a bombing strategy -- that which kills Xenos also destroys quality.
There are troops up the tree, both as Ship Systems and Colony Upgrades. Transport Ships will be able to pick up and drop off Troop Units.
FDF, as you know from TA, aren't mobile -- they actually including housing and do a good bit to help the economy.
However, again, as you know from TA they're susceptible to corruption, xeno cults and bribing the local Star Traders.
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Post by Brutus Aurelius on May 2, 2014 5:49:29 GMT -5
Them damn cultists have peashooters compared to Narvs  |
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Post by captain nemo on May 2, 2014 10:24:01 GMT -5
I thought the video was very good. It was useful in getting you started. I also printed out the google docs info.
just keep going the way you are everything looks good so far.
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Post by ChocoCrowbar on May 2, 2014 10:53:14 GMT -5
Xeno worlds will mount a stiff defense, including Radiation, anti-ship and anti-troop defenses. Guess there's no Geneva Convention with the aliens then... |
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Post by Cory Trese on May 2, 2014 11:31:38 GMT -5
Xeno worlds will mount a stiff defense, including Radiation, anti-ship and anti-troop defenses. Guess there's no Geneva Convention with the aliens then... There is an agreement, signed many thousands of years ago ... an agreement to bar no holds, ban no weapons and fight without mercy. |
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Post by Lesleyr on May 4, 2014 5:58:18 GMT -5
Read the instructions, watched the video and am still confused.
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Post by Officer Genious on May 4, 2014 8:03:49 GMT -5
What confuses you?
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Post by fallen on May 4, 2014 15:26:33 GMT -5
Read the instructions, watched the video and am still confused. How can we help? |
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Post by slayernz on May 4, 2014 18:46:07 GMT -5
Training video was actually VERY useful - I tried playing the game without the video and was as lost as a monkey sitting in a 747 cockpit. I did find it funny hearing fallen's pronunciation of the various factions though - I've been saying them in my head for so long that hearing it said differently is just weird  Haven't read the instruction document though - that's next on my to do list. well not "next", but one of the things I will do sometime soonish |
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Post by johndramey on May 5, 2014 7:01:12 GMT -5
I did find it funny hearing fallen's pronunciation of the various factions though - I've been saying them in my head for so long that hearing it said differently is just weird I was very happy to find out that I've been saying the names just right, haha. Curious if you guys have any plans for making a video tutorial for tbe finished game? Might be a fun project for one of us to try our hand at  |
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Post by Lesleyr on May 5, 2014 7:58:57 GMT -5
Regardless of whether a video tutorial is included or not a good manual is a must. Something along the lines of the Star Trader's manual which is nicely referenced into sections.Perhaps even breaking the video down into more easily accessible bits.
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Post by fallen on May 5, 2014 9:41:10 GMT -5
Lesleyr - we agree and are continuing to work on expanding that GDoc toward a fully fledged manual. As you can see, it has a long way to go. One of our goals was to answer questions from the alpha testers on the forum and then port that text into the GDoc. Are there specific things you're stuck on that we could answer and add to the document?
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Post by Lesleyr on May 7, 2014 4:25:28 GMT -5
Getting the hang of it. Set it on easy and preservered.Thanks for the offers of help.
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Post by contributor on May 7, 2014 6:12:49 GMT -5
Training video was actually VERY useful - I tried playing the game without the video and was as lost as a monkey sitting in a 747 cockpit. I did find it funny hearing fallen's pronunciation of the various factions though - I've been saying them in my head for so long that hearing it said differently is just weird Haven't read the instruction document though - that's next on my to do list. well not "next", but one of the things I will do sometime soonish I also liked hearing the pronunciations. I've been messing them all up. I have say that the pronunciation of caDAR only confirmed for me that they are a race of inbred frat-boys who are so fixated on their own torpedoes that they're completely ignorant of how far they are falling behind the other factions. |
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Post by slayernz on May 7, 2014 16:41:41 GMT -5
My brain's gonna stick with my pronunciation - I'm going to call it the Cat Dialect!
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