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Post by hlo on Jun 19, 2014 8:48:26 GMT -5
Canned Ships = pre-made ship designs that come with the game
I know you can customize the designs to whatever likings. However I like to know what came out of the box? Instead of getting new players frustrated, it will be nice to list the pre-made designs and what are the researches that need to make to build them. I see the Xenos have a "Planet Killer", do we have something similar out of the box in the canned ships?
P.S. Some of us like to create monsters with the Ship Designer in ST but others like to stick with the pre-made ships. Unless the Xenos are designing on the fly, we the human players should have a collection of stock ships that cover the needs of the game.
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Post by fallen on Jun 19, 2014 10:43:43 GMT -5
Every time you unlock a new ship hull, a canned ship should be provided. There are some reports on other threads (http://startradersrpg.proboards.com/thread/8304/canned-assault-fighters) that this is not working for 100% of the ship types.
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Post by hlo on Jun 19, 2014 11:01:27 GMT -5
Every time you unlock a new ship hull, a canned ship should be provided. There are some reports on other threads (http://startradersrpg.proboards.com/thread/8304/canned-assault-fighters) that this is not working for 100% of the ship types. Can we know what research item will lead to which canned ship? Unlike the old PC days when I played Civilization series where I can click fast to find whatever I need in the research tree; doing it on my smart phone touch screen is not that easy. Especially most of the doings are done in a moving commuter train. It is impossible for me to reference some other paper where I could have written the info down. Maybe we can modify the ship design screen to show the yet to be researched ships greyed out. If we tap on them it will tell us what they have and which researches we need to get them. |
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Post by fallen on Jun 19, 2014 11:03:36 GMT -5
hlo - interesting suggestion, as they are spread around a bit. We will take a look at someway to make this more visible, perhaps a visual queue on the tech tree itself. I took #4X-2473 for this one!
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Post by hlo on Jun 19, 2014 11:22:33 GMT -5
hlo - interesting suggestion, as they are spread around a bit. We will take a look at someway to make this more visible, perhaps a visual queue on the tech tree itself. I took #4X-2473 for this one! Thank you sir. I considered myself the expert gamer with 30+ yrs of experience and good chunk of those spent on turn-based strategy 4x games and classic hex based war games. If I am having trouble getting the hang of the game, imagine all those people who have downloaded ST4x but are not on this forum. They will be frustrated to say the least trying to figure these things out on complex games that the Trese brothers make. This is no Candy Crush, Mystery Manor or Angry Birds you guys are making here. P.S. I do hope we have way more players (Elite or free) for ST4x than the forum mob here.  |
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Post by fallen on Jun 19, 2014 11:51:18 GMT -5
hlo - long years of game experience can help and hinder. It's been an exciting launch with lots of feedback all around. Thousands of excited folks, as far as I can tell. We'll keep working to improve. P.S. the forum is always a very, very small sliver of our community. Join us on Facebook, Twitter, or the 10 other forums where we maintain threads and conversations with folk on a daily basis. And all of those pale in comparison to the traffic in our personal emails
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Post by En1gma on Jun 19, 2014 12:05:50 GMT -5
fallen are these other forms as active as this one? It would be great to see what even more people think about your games and read up on some more player's thoughts! Do you have any links you could share? (I post enough here, lol, I just want to read more players ideas  )
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Post by fallen on Jun 19, 2014 12:12:36 GMT -5
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Post by En1gma on Jun 19, 2014 12:37:52 GMT -5
Renewed respect for Proboards- those are awful, in terms of navigation and interface!
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Post by ncaoa on Jun 19, 2014 15:03:37 GMT -5
Maybe we can modify the ship design screen to show the yet to be researched ships greyed out. If we tap on them it will tell us what they have and which researches we need to get them. Great idea. That would really help new players. Here's a list if you need them: Fighter: At start(Canned Strike Fighter))Assault Fighter at Fighters 3 not working.(Canned Exo Scout at Starship 5) Transport: Starship 1 (Canned Colony Ship)(Canned Military Transport at Planetary Invasion 1) Cruiser:Starship 3 (Canned Wolf Cruiser) Carrier:Starship 4 (Canned Paladin Carrier) Heavy Carrier: Starship 10 (Canned Heavy Carrier) Has two glitches right now. 1. Researching requires Planetary Construction 9. 2.Canned version does not appear. Battlecruiser:Starship 11 (Canned Battlecruiser) Canned not working. |
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