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Slizarus
12-26-2006, 11:15 PM
In tutorial 3, I seem to have run up against a bug..
After the objective to make a factory, I get nothing.. so I proceeded to destroy everything on the map and then had to quit out.. oddly, when I quit out it said "Now, create another gene factory" maybe that was the next objective, but I never heard it during play.

in a Lan game against computers..

Running over to the Derelict raiders as Marines, I destroyed them then used reconstruct on Carcass.. it came back with the same lopsided model after an extended reanimation scene with purple circles surrounding it.. it was operating as a light fighter with 4 gene slots, the icon on the select screen was as a marine light fighter.

I'm enjoying the game.. trying it out, tinkering around..
But some mechanics are a hassle.

I Need to be able to reset the camera view.. I love the sights, but when repositioning the view with the mini map, it's frustrating the actual origin of view is right where I clicked, meaning I have to click quite a bit before what I actually want..
Perhaps centering the view at that location rather than putting the origin there..
Hope that makes sense.

Invasion...
I like the idea, but it's amazingly confusing, there's no countdown, no visible sign that it's working, or when you're being invaded, no sign which fighter is being invaded "Your Retribution is targeted for invasion" Which one? How do I stop it? I have the invasion gene on him, how do I use it to stop them?

They can steal my ships, but I wait several minutes and nothing happens when I try to invade..
Getting a new station especially.
I assume the NPC bases are there for a reason.. I try to steal the local defiance base, but nothing happens.. I set on Omniship on it for so long that the defiance has been reinforced once going on twice.

The Trade unions... how do I interact with them?

And what is the function of the Patrol?

I know this is a beta, and I feel priveleged to test it, I love the idea and the implementation is rather fun thus far, but a great deal needs to be clarified.
Even if the Trade union and Patrol functions aren't yet implemented, can you tell us of their future purpose?


Also.. any future differences between Light, Med, Battle Cruisers, etc?
So far all it seems is their HP amount and Gene slots.. is there an innate Armor?

Thanks for any answer and fixes to the bugs.
Look forward to invasion working :) I want to dominate the universe :)

Slizarus
12-27-2006, 01:04 AM
Can't edit oddly enough.. but I've found the Invasion bar.
:)
For others looking to this thread and not knowing it themselves.
Apparently Only fighter ships (Not Mothership) can Invade.
Invasion progress takes the form of a yellow bar, and as it fills up you're closer to taking the unit or station. On the Unit screen, the yellow bar is also on them.. I still can't yet figure out how to repel boarders as it were. But unfortunately, since I discovered how to work it, no one has tried to invade me.

I love making alliances, buying genes and units.. The call to arms (requesting your ally to help you) Doesn't seem to work quite right..
At best I seem to be getting one light fighter from him on most attempts..
He also likes to swoop in a steal the corpse's genes and then thank me for my help.. It's almost funny :)

Garspm
01-04-2007, 04:34 PM
same thing happened for me, must be a bug

GoldBar
01-05-2007, 02:20 AM
Yes, camera is sometime annoying you should be able to fellow some ship and are to small even in zoom mode but then you cant see the map.

Invasion, is the tutorial ends you capture the last defiance thing?
it should be.

Wolfman
01-05-2007, 06:00 AM
Thanks for the feedback. BTW you can attach the camera to any in-game object by double-clicking on the object, or by pressing the 'F' key (focus camera on selected object).

GoldBar
01-05-2007, 11:30 AM
wow, its was 3am, sorry for typos.

Mordaki
01-07-2007, 03:40 PM
Prevent invasions by having higher level invasion genes on your base or destroy the ship that is invaing.

chimaera
01-07-2007, 05:56 PM
In tutorial 3, I seem to have run up against a bug..
After the objective to make a factory, I get nothing.. so I proceeded to destroy everything on the map and then had to quit out.. oddly, when I quit out it said "Now, create another gene factory" maybe that was the next objective, but I never heard it during play.


same problem here...