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basildazz2 days ago (1 edit)

Exactly the comment I was going to go for, I suspect DEV is attempting to stall progressing for the player or increase the difficultly, but in fact this simply makes fitting a space ship frustrating.


I would rather the waves of enemies be of greater quantity or quality and I need a little fortune within my build to progress.


A couple of other issues I am currently finding are that my ships are only going within ANY weapons range, if told to close all the way in, medium and hold position will sit on the map not contributing in any manner.


The other issue is the hover pop up box on ships in the setup screen can be a bit of a pest, I quite often need to right click or drag scroll the screen to remove it, allowing me to select objects that would be hidden by it. I would suggest making it a little more reactive and rapid in its appearance/disappearance, or relocating the bounding box for this, off to the side of the screen. 


Edit:- Of course the game is still fun, I am glad to see active development, I had seen many iterations previous to my initial foray in December then it went quiet for a while. So Bravo! 

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a_marks2 days ago (1 edit)

Hi, thanks for your comments and inputs. The shop behaviour is not meant to add difficulty or influence progress. The idea is to give players more useful options instead of stuff that is not fitting the current build at all, which is very frustrating and was one of the most brought up issues in earlier versions. The feature should help the player and make the fitting of the ships more satisfying. It's simply buggy at this point and makes the process even more frustrating instead. I'm aware of that and I'm working on it to fix it.

I'll put out an update fixing this and the weird ship behaviour you are mentioning asap. That's another new bug, making the experience a bit frustrating in this version.

The behaviour of the popup box can be influenced by tapping the health bar. It makes the box disappear and decides if the box pops up on selecting a ship or not. I'll change the default setting to it not popping up and add a tutorial step for it, so players are aware of this feature.

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basildazz2 days ago (1 edit)

I guess as development progresses, deeper insight into the statistics may become more relevant, for now 'muting' the pop up would be good.


As to the shop, I wonder if, as we are offered three options, would it be possible that you can match one option per tier (Grey, Green & Blue), putting quite a substantial mark up on higher tiers, you could perhaps offer goods that are not yet unlock from the full item list, presuming that the shop engineer has sufficient expertise in the offset, to fit an item the player is not yet qualified. this would also allow you to open new items to the player at a more steady pace if you desire, as the item on rare occasion still becomes available.


edit:- I have my first cruiser  👍

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a_marks2 days ago(+1)

With the cruiser you should also get more higher tier item choices. They are partly tied to your fleet: more advanced ships brings you more advanced item choices, which again, should make the equipping more satisfying over time. I think I'd rather avoid forcing different tiers to show up every time and rather make the system smarter in general, offering you fitting modules in fitting tiers to make you feel the progress.

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