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Questions and Comments about the Beta

Posted on Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Some of my observations for the Beta.  I haven't been over a lot of notes, so I don't know if something has been implemented or is still being worked on.

 

1.  There needs to be a popup prompting you to upgrade your starbase when a constructor reaches it.

2.  There's no way to rebuild your survey ship  if yours gets destroyed, without making a custom design.

3.  There needs to be a way to eject a constructor from a starbase.

4.  Please increase initial ship speed and range.  On a Large galaxy it takes forever just to even find your opponents.

5.  It may just be me, but having the various terraform-type techs only upgrade one tile at a time is extremely annoying.  Especially with the incredibly long build times for each project (~20 manufacturing still takes 38 weeks for each ultra-terraformer).

6.  Fleet disbanding/ejecting, and upgrading individual ships in a fleet is buggy-sometimes you can upgrade, sometimes you can't. Sometimes you can get the ship to move, sometimes you can't, etc.

7.  Auto-upgrade ships option please.

8.  Approval and economy are really weak in the early game, with few upgrade possibilities.

9.  Auto-Upgrade projects is nice, but I would like to be able to choose to simply build the latest version of a project, instead of building the basic version, then upgrading.

10.  There's no quick way to see if your civilization's economy is in the positive or negative, and by how much.

 

Questions:

1. Is there a way to see a single ship's logistics value?  I can see the fleet total, but not the individual ship.

2.  Are there resources that improve your economy/morale/military, etc?

3.  What do the current resources do?  I'm mining Elerium, Durantium and Antimatter but I don't see any options to use them.

4.  Are there going to be trade goods like in 1 and 2?

 

Bugs:

1. I'm unable to do Soil Enhancement, and any of the Terraforms (including Ultra-Terraform) on certain planets.  Mostly, they seem to be class 20+ but I've had some 19's with this problem.  Clicking any of those build options just highlights the initial colony.  I am able to do the Habitat Improvement, and Orbitals.

2.  I'm crashing to desktop at turn 544 no matter what I do.

3.  I'm an Elite Founder and I don't see my star name in the StarNamesText.xml