Ask Rob

[poxxy]

1.) How in depth/how much more improvement is there to come to space combat/soldier combat? Can we expect to be flying the larger space crafts in all 3 dimensions? Are their plans for a 'prone' position for soldiers?

2.) Have you considered adding speed/turnrate -for ships/turrets- upgrades for ships that the CEO can research?

3.) Mining/research posts are pretty weak, do you plan on adding upgrades for the mining and research posts. To explain further, this could be as simple as a mining post II, which has a larger docking bay, stronger shields, more defense ect. 

4.) In the early aspects of the game where resource gathering is it's most essential are there any plans to have executrons play a larger role? (Such as flying/microing mining ships). 

5.) Currently, capturing a mining or research post is pretty messy -at least for me-. Soldiers immediately run to the control room with no regard to enemy units. If one does capture a post, repositioning the soldiers in a way that makes sense means just spreading them around the control room since the enemy will run right past your units and take control of the post. What is your vision for how soldier battles unfold at mining and research posts? 

6.) Have you considered different options for the coolant resource? At no point in time over my 10 hours of play has coolant been a concern. (Personally i think this secondary resource is wasted and might as well just not exist. Possibly making coolant a cost for researching tech)?

I paid $25 for the game on steam and have enjoyed the game for roughly 10 hours thus far. Looking forward to putting more hours in and testing out future patches, thank you!

[Rob]

1. Ships will remain on the same movement plane as you get lots of collision which is a bad thing, robots hide behind crates and run away if shot.

2. The research tree is under development so always happy to hear new ideas.

3. New mining station is on the way, if its weak then you should protect it better with deployable defence platforms and ships.

4. They should be able to get into mining ships already, although ive heard they dont unload their goods if the executron is in them.

5. They should be hiding and taking cover behind crates, usually one makes a break for it too.

6. Was thinking on making the coolant a bit more of an issue by making it drain more when you boost power to things, balancing thing really

[poxxy]

1.) That is admittedly a bit disappointing to hear, could you define 'collisions'? How do you anticipate flying a fighter/other starship will change over the course of early, if at all?

2.) Given that your team is small (from what I've heard it's only you) are you willing to reveal specifically what in the research tree is being worked on/considered at this moment in time?

3.) Is the new mining station a research upgrade or an asset change? -Will likely create secondary post about this-

4.) I nor was either of my 2 friends playing with me able to get into a mining ship, possibly a bug? Is there any benefit from having players operate mining ships?

5.) In my experience whenever I docked or was docked by a transport ship full of troops the AI would run past all enemies straight to the control room. If it was a player they theoretically could have just self destructed the mining outpost and I couldn't have done a thing about it, unless I had an overwhelming amount of bots in the mining post defending. The reason I express concern is because there is no reason this wouldn't be standard in PVP meta since it can be done so easily. [bots don't seem to chase down enemies which is a big problem]

6.) No further questions.

Thanks for the timely response!

[ghoulhound83]

I think all ships should go 3D movement wise... And keep collision as a strategy move...why? The blasphemy! ...well I think if you add a feature in ship combat such as targeting specific spots on a ship can render it destroyed or damaged.

1#. Engines - target this to completely destroy it and render it useless till repaired ( repair unit in future? ) Or it survives but is damaged ranging from light - medium - heavy .. each tier of damage results in a loss of speed and % determines the tier level of damage.... Can't collide if you can't move or move fast enough.

2#. Shield generator - Destroyed and Shields won't come back. Light, medium , heavy ( tier levels ) damage will determine the % at which rate Shields come back.

3#. Weapons system - destroyed can mean that A.I will have a hard time aiming.. where as light, medium, heavy damage will determine what % rate of fire.

This is just a couple off the top of my head, and yeah keep collision.. with ships...

To keep collision off from a base, just make it to where ships can be at a certain distance... Or research weapons with EMP systems to stop it...

I can see collision being a problem in a game with infinity resources and what not... Then so be it.. have a ranked match setting for normal game players.. I promise you that colliding their ships would be the last thing they would considering how resources get late game.