Thoughts on the Beta
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Short and sweet - I haven't played the game too much yet.
1. The music is awesome (better than in galciv 2).
2. I love the epic scale of the game. I love how other star systems seem really far away and how phase jumping to them takes minutes and minutes. It really helps create an epic sense to the game.
3. Automation options with your ships is cool.
Some things that could be better:
1. better sound effects and graphics with weapons!! Laser sound effects just don't sound right.
2. Don't like how you have to waste time hovering over each tech with your mouse to see what it does. This is probably unavoidable. Oh well, I guess you just have to memorize the tech tree. It would be nice if at least during single player games against computers, if the game pauses when you are in the tech screen. A basic suggesstion would be to include a tech tree in the retail version.
3. I don't know if this is a bug, but when I traveled to another star system, I noticed that when I went back to my home star system, everything suddenly got real dark. It was hard to see stuff. A bug???
4. It would be cool if when your ships are in battle, you could have a cinematic camera option (if you can afford the time!!!) Where you see ships duking it out like the automated ship battles in galciv 2.
5. Customizable ships like in galciv 2!!!! Here is my suggestion: obviously you couldn't do this during play. However, outside of play, before you start a game, you could take time customizing only how your different ships look. So you can customize in the same way as in galciv2 with all the options, but only how they look. In other words, you create your scout frigate, capital ship, etc. Again, not in terms of functionality (weapons, defense, etc.) but only in terms of how they look. You could then also customize your race name and other stuff, race abilities??, and use any JPEG to represent your race leader (would need approval before multiplayer games so that people don't have nude pics, etc.
Thats it for now, I will add to this post when I think of more!!!
1. The music is awesome (better than in galciv 2).
2. I love the epic scale of the game. I love how other star systems seem really far away and how phase jumping to them takes minutes and minutes. It really helps create an epic sense to the game.
3. Automation options with your ships is cool.
Some things that could be better:
1. better sound effects and graphics with weapons!! Laser sound effects just don't sound right.
2. Don't like how you have to waste time hovering over each tech with your mouse to see what it does. This is probably unavoidable. Oh well, I guess you just have to memorize the tech tree. It would be nice if at least during single player games against computers, if the game pauses when you are in the tech screen. A basic suggesstion would be to include a tech tree in the retail version.
3. I don't know if this is a bug, but when I traveled to another star system, I noticed that when I went back to my home star system, everything suddenly got real dark. It was hard to see stuff. A bug???
4. It would be cool if when your ships are in battle, you could have a cinematic camera option (if you can afford the time!!!) Where you see ships duking it out like the automated ship battles in galciv 2.
5. Customizable ships like in galciv 2!!!! Here is my suggestion: obviously you couldn't do this during play. However, outside of play, before you start a game, you could take time customizing only how your different ships look. So you can customize in the same way as in galciv2 with all the options, but only how they look. In other words, you create your scout frigate, capital ship, etc. Again, not in terms of functionality (weapons, defense, etc.) but only in terms of how they look. You could then also customize your race name and other stuff, race abilities??, and use any JPEG to represent your race leader (would need approval before multiplayer games so that people don't have nude pics, etc.
Thats it for now, I will add to this post when I think of more!!!
