EXACTLY
this is what i wanted to say with my poor english(we need this forum in german)

Ah and another one, some ships disapper to fast when the explode.
It looks like:
ship
no ship
explosion

The explosion seems to come out of nowhere and i only noticed that at little ships.

I agree, it might make psidar more appealing to research, as it is it's easier to just drop a scout one/two jumps ahead so you can see the enemy jumping in and have even more time to react (if you spend a lot of time zoomed out, anyway, since you won't get audio warnings).

It might create some confusion (especially for the 2-jump psidar) if large fleets start showing up on the empire tree while still 2 jumps away (and might not even end up attacking you). Perhaps add "En Route" and "In Battle" labels so that people wouldn't panic/get confused thinking there's already fighting when there isn't.

Hi all,
I saw the gameplay video (WWW Link).
I notice that the ships destroyed disappear, but if remain a debris convertible to resource?

Bye

I'm pretty sure that this has been mentioned in previous phases of the betas but since it is still an issue I think it bears repeating:

When a capship is set to "hold position" and you right click on a hostile planet, instead of bombing it, the ship will translate that as a move order: "move to planet." This is pretty irritating when you forget that a ship is set to hold position and you want it to bomb that planet.

There is a scuttle button (mapped to 'H' I believe). You select a structure and then click on the little red bar at the bottom-center of the UI.


The TEC also have a "probe" ability that can be researched for their scout frigate. This ability plants "remote sensors" at a planet and grants vision of it for a period of time after your scout has left the planet.

you know, maybe the scuttle function should be more accessible. I understand, you dont want people accidentially pressing it, but seeing how many people miss it, it seems it is just too easy to miss in the first place. how about,if you make it more central, you have to give a confirmation? in hw you could press crtl s and then you get a (imo uber cool) warning to confirm the order by pressing again.

There should be an option where you can set if a team can win a game or not
(If teams are set to not changeable, that option should ne set to yes).

What I mean with that is, that all players in a match could be allied, but the wont win till there is only one player left....
Ive played a three player match and allied with both, they did the same thing and we all won the match... that shouldnt be.

I hope you understand what I tryed to say

The Scuttle button is going to be mentioned in the manual and probably in the revised Tutorials. If someone still misses it after that, it's their fault.

I believe it was mentioned officially that the research/diplomacy UI is getting some loving. I don't know what exactly will change, but in general there has been a lot of feedback about info cards and such lacking in the description department, so making an educated guess, I'll say that the more info part is something we have a good chance of seeing

Yeah, bigger planets and stars (and associated grav wells) are what most of us wanted.

Hi, i've started to play beta 4 only couple of days ago so not much at the moment but still couple of things:
1. Sci-fi-wise, i guess it's unlikely that any star empire would upgrade their frigates, cruisers, and battleships, but forget of upgrading their fighters, don't you think?

2. Also i guess alot of gamers would not only like to see their empire grow size and might-wise, but also would like to see their new technologies be represented visually, couple new turret-ports, or shield lights changes appear after new tech research would be sooooooo nice to see!!! This is also valid for planet developement and battleship level-ups. )))

3. More random events please...pirates don't last long, you know! Here is a couple ideas....wander-in higly advanced alien space-ship with strange techs onboard which you can research if only you could defeat (or maybe even befriend) it!
Space creatures!!!! Wandering asteroids(lost space stations of unknown origin in long forgoten and seemengly empty sectors(found only by scouts with special eqipment for example)) - capture them and use for your own good! Maybe even large space objects(dead planets or stars passing by and brinig wealth or destruction). Solar flares!!! Bursts of space radiation! (These would force you to look more cearfully after you planet defence upgrades in early part of the game).

More to come, thank you for listening!

P.S. Anyone thought that normally spaceships in this kind of thechnological level sci-fi books have manuvering thrusters? Err...like those of Starfury fighters in Babylon 5 or lets remember Larry Niven "Moshkits" dilogy... Visually watching ships using manuvering thrusters would be so awesome! Oh yesssss!!!

Sapienti Sat.

Thanx for info! Apriciated! And for the fighter upgrades? What do you think? Would you like some?

About the graphics, i'm not really a proggramer or digi graph designer, but still we do see quite alot of graphics changes through the beta to beta stages changing, don't we? May be some minor change can be done? Heh...at least let me hope man...there too many games which great ideas were brought down due to graphical dulleness and underdevelopement...not that i'm trying to say this one will be, but there's never too much to improve on some visual representation, you know? )))

there are weapons upgrades that affect fighters (and other for bombers I think), I'm not sure if the health upgrades affect them. maybe a "maneuverability" upgrade would work, by which they have a better chance of avoiding hits. sth to be explored, but there certainly are options in the current build.