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by Ethan Steele 10/09/2008, 7:15am PDT |
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The Humans have somehow found invisible webways to travel along and travel the fastest of all races when going along those paths, but have no FTL when travelling anywhere these lines aren't, so fingers crossed the RNG doesn't fuck you over by having your home planet unconnected from everywhere! Also no refueling whilst in the network, so you better be able to make it one jump!
The lizardmonkeyguys are just old school Star Trek warp ship, they just go really fuckan' fast and that's how they go faster than light!
The bugs have no FTL drives for their basic ships, but they have have special ships which are warpgates to any other gateship that has been deployed and their home planet. This is pretty slow and annoying for the bug player, but when a bug fleet turns up you better destroy every single one of his gateships or next turn you have got the best his fleet has to offer getting teleported in a single turn to your planet. It's not fun fighting off a ton of terrible early game ships only to find out next turn that he has in face been upgrading his ships and now has the toughest and largest ships in the game coming at you.
The dolphins have the coolest one, because it's the only one that effects them in combat too. They teleport like the bugs, but thousands of times a second over tiny distances. In terms of travelling this means when they are near a planet (at the start and end of the journey and maybe in the middle if your path is crazy) they travel slower, but over open space they make huge jumps per turn that get them places fast. In combat this means fighting them in deep space is a nono because the ships are a lot faster and more manouverable than your ships because they have no intertia and can turn on sixpence and don't get rocked so easily by certain weapons. Near planets though they're sluggish, still the fastest ships in the game, but a lot easier to hit. On top of that because they're teleporting all the time there's a tech that upgrades it so sometimes your weapons will just miss! It's cool though, their ships are made of toilet paper and a solid hit with pretty much anything with destroy them and the shotgun-style turrets will blast them across map if they have a damaged engine.
I dunno about the expansion races, weaselmonkeys use the nodelines like humans and I dunno about the birds because they're like 2 days old, but they're probably kind of broken like the weasels were.
Also this is like my first 4X game and I am terrible at it, could this be down to game or am I just terrible at 4X?! |
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Coolness vs. Playability: Sword of the Stars First Impressions by pinback 10/08/2008, 6:01pm PDT 
just make it so you hold one button and then move the mouse a little NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/08/2008, 7:23pm PDT
oh and theres other ways to fix those issues and keep the full 3d map by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/08/2008, 7:27pm PDT
Re: Coolness vs. Playability: Sword of the Stars First Impressions by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/09/2008, 1:42am PDT
It's about immersion... by pinback 10/09/2008, 1:47pm PDT
I like the differences between the races locomotion LORE/GAMEPLAY by Ethan Steele 10/09/2008, 7:15am PDT
It's the game. It becomes a complete mess if you expand too much. NT by Fortinberet 10/09/2008, 11:23am PDT
Apparently some of the other galaxy shapes are easier to deal with by pinback 10/09/2008, 1:26pm PDT
It's not an issue of the map, it's an issue of the dumb-ass CNN ticker status re by Fortinberet 10/09/2008, 2:43pm PDT
The expansions fix the ticker thing, but you are right by pinback 10/09/2008, 3:20pm PDT
I haven't picked up SOTS: The Crow but it was still in there in Born of Blood by Fortinberet 10/09/2008, 3:53pm PDT
I saw a screenshot that had news updates in a news window or something NT by pinback 10/09/2008, 4:08pm PDT
Those came default, if you click on the ticker it opens up a window in the top r by Fortinberet 10/09/2008, 4:29pm PDT
No, I mean I saw a news window which listed all of the events chronologically NT by pinback 10/09/2008, 5:41pm PDT
All the "slight irritations" were design decisions by Fortinberet 10/09/2008, 4:28pm PDT
I declare this thread a Who's Who of terrible posters by bombMexico 10/09/2008, 8:09pm PDT
Curses, will I never be clean?! NT by Ethan Steele 10/09/2008, 8:27pm PDT
4x is a difficult genre to talk about. There are three things I don't tell chick by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/09/2008, 9:55pm PDT
And when you do spill the beans, don't call it a "Bulletin Board", gramps. NT by Fussbett 10/09/2008, 11:27pm PDT
SPILL THE BEANS YOU BEAN FACTORY WORKER WITH PARKINSON'S NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 10/10/2008, 2:09am PDT
"Heh, I ever tell you about Umberto? Whoo boy" NT by ICJ to his ladyfriend 10/10/2008, 9:20am PDT
bombLackies NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/10/2008, 12:20am PDT
Okay I take it back by pinback 10/10/2008, 12:45pm PDT
Out of desperation for a sci-fi game I bought the ultimate collection off Steam by Fortinbras 05/14/2009, 10:51pm PDT
Questions about this series by Mischief Maker 05/18/2009, 12:33pm PDT
Re: Questions about this series by Fortinbras 05/18/2009, 1:24pm PDT
An update to my Born of Blood-era bitching, mostly positive! by Fortinbras 05/18/2009, 2:00pm PDT
Also I figured out the trick to a successful start-up by Fortinbras 05/18/2009, 3:06pm PDT
Final expansion releases in June: Argos Naval Yard by Fortinbras 05/28/2009, 1:11pm PDT
Nope! by Mischief Maker 05/30/2009, 7:39am PDT
Re: Nope! by Fortinbras 05/30/2009, 7:35pm PDT
Re: Nope! by N 06/04/2009, 11:08pm PDT
Argos Naval Yard is out, and you can get EVERYTHING for 16$ on Steam by Fortinbras 06/17/2009, 6:43pm PDT
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu by N 06/19/2009, 10:41pm PDT
Whoa whoa WHOA I'm not taking the fall for this shit! NT by Fortinbras 06/20/2009, 12:38am PDT
Fufufufufufu *helicopter* NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 06/20/2009, 1:58am PDT
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