Fangorodrim.zip (v1.48)

1. The FE has a minor bug where after you use it, all future ships purchased try to hide under the mothership. One trip to the FE corrects that behavior. When all the slots are filled you can stack ships in order to move them around.

2. The EMP is a lot of fun! I don't think its overpowered.

3. The sectors are 30% bigger. I hesitate to make them too big because then its a long trip to engage warp.

Thanks for the link! I'll check out these pictures tomorrow. I don't mind using them as long as they are not copyrighted.

I haven't played the game (sorry!) But from what I've read, I've got a pretty good idea about the game, and have a suggestion as to how to improve the waiting game, before colonizing new sectors:

Make a probing/exploring mechanic, in which you have to send out probes in order to find resource nodes. You could have the choice to automate them (less reward/greater risk), or to control them yourself. Essentially, my idea would be to send these probes to another sector, steering them around and avoiding hostile detection, whilst stealth mining asteroids, and hiking back with the loot.

This would create a passtime (so to speak) that could fill out (and speed up) the void between colonizing sectors.

Fangorodrim.zip (v1.49)

I implemented your change requests. The dreadnaut has a lot of weapons, but the Mako's strafing ability is still extremely powerful. You can fly circles around the aliens and never get touched. Anyway, I hope the aliens aren't too fast now. The tank ship (aka "Defiant") is unlocked when you find the laser. This will be tied to the neutral alien in a later version, but I wanted you to get a chance to play with it. The neutral alien and resource zones are not trivial changes. Hopefully, I'll have something by the weekend.

Great idea! Nothing like awesome art to bring an idea to life. How would you prioritize these goals:

1. resource zones

2. neutral alien

3. repair ship?

I haven't seen the reordering of the formation. Try to reproduce it and pay attention if it comes after loading, warping, or some event like that.

uhhhh the repair ship! this is really wasent what i had in mind, but its good non the less, even better.

i thought the repair ship will cruise along with you and slowly repair the ships next to it, like at 2 health per second, but this way its really nice to leave something back "home". will it be possible to make it constantly patrol the buildings and get to hide at sight of an enemy?

as i saw that repair ship that stayed back home, a thought came to my mind, a 5th ship - a sector defence ship that will patrol around and aim to intercept enemy ships in the sector, it will be much weaker than the def drone, but its mobility will make it maybe more plausable if buildings will get spread out.

did you change the defiance? it feels much more balanced - minor glitch - when you hover it, it says repair ship in the title.

about the encounter - it starts really great. the first contact is perfect. but i kinda missed them on sector 4, would have been nice to see a battle between 4 of those against the wraith and its companions and you comes along and save the day.

as for priorities, my personal preference is to finish the peacefull aliens, then get to the invis ships. i am eager to fight against an alien who would do more than just go straight at you and die to my all mighty defiance/cruiser combo.

i also think the formation editor should have a bigger icon, seperate from the build menu.

btw - if you agree on the sector defence ship, heres the painting i just did for it. if you dont like the concept, save the ship, we might find something usefull to do with it.

multiple fail

seems like something is buggy here, the last posts i made doesnt show on the forum, i can see them here, just wondering if anyone can also see them. (its a bunch of double posts and the original one featuring feedback and another painting.)

Fangorodrim.zip (v1.54)

-You can now complete the Frenlees mission in sector 4.
-Ghost alien (aka Wraith) found in sectors 6 and 9.

With all of these complicated changes, it takes me longer and longer to playtest each version. Several days in fact as I have to test each ship type, before & after save/load, at different phases of the process (e.g. Frenlees mission). I'm not complaining, I'm just trying to explain why these versions are taking longer to publish. I think I need a QA department...

I'll do some more testing in easy mode and see if I can reproduce your observation. However, you should never see the frenlees on the small map, just not enough sectors to make it work. As far as difficulty, sometimes I lose the mission in sector 4, especially when 2 Juggernauts show up. That's why I always save the game right before a battle like that. The next time, maybe only 1 Juggernaut shows up and all Frenlees survive. Btw, the EMP works great in sector 4!

Your fleet can track the Ghost, but their ammo should never hit him while he's in stealth. Killing the ghost is easy. You lay some bombs in his path and pop, pop he's gone.

Strafing is disabled on the Dreadnaut. Are you sure you were using Mako?

I can't think of any graphics we need now, but I'll let you know.

I just tested the Mako and strafing seems to work. I can fire all guns, strafe in an arc at the same time. I changed the strafe keys from CTRL to Q/E a few versions ago.

Thanks louist! I give burningpet all the credit because players haven't complained about the graphics for a long time.

The next version will give you Defiant automatically on the small map (great idea!).

the new kamikazi ship

the old one