Cool Game, Some Bugs and Inputs

[Firemozzi]

Hello Koonschi

 

Great game so far and i respect your work, especially if you managed to do this all alone and i think, this game has a potential to get as lot attention as minecraft.

 

however i found some bugs playing your awesome game

 

If you have a special Ship like V formed and you press T to get in to your Drone without slowing down, it is possible to kick your self away with Warp Speed. I managed to get 300 km away with my Drone of my Ship. Porting to another Zone and back helps you to not fly 300 km with your ship, but would be nice if your Drone is "protected" to get kicked so far away.

 

Also a bug is, you can build really long ships, and if i mean really long i mean it.

you can build a 1x1x5000 pile and place it flat to your ship, and on them another 1x1x5000 pile and another, so your ship is like a hammer; like this:

 

 

body --> o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I <-- turret here       

              ' <-- power engine

 

if you manage to build a ship like this, and its really cheap, you have a really buggy environment.

you have distance to nearly everything 0 km, which is absolutely logic, because your ship is really long.

Also you can turn your Ship at the very edge of the ship really really fast around. Also if you collide with something on the Edge, you get force kicked back really extremely strong  which als can crash the game i guess somehow.

also i tried to place a turret at the top to attack ships while not being "there" really, due my ship is 30 km long and how the enemy ships react to a ship like that, but i could not manage to get a enemy ship in the range of the very edge of my ship, due its hard to control a ship like that :)

 

I dont know it this is intended to build ships like that, its sure fun to try out but maybe it could be prevented by making exponentially higher costs of material to the distance of the "main ship".

 

 

Also another and last "bug".

i guess you can exploit the Drop Rate of "chips" by building ships out of iron and just destroy them by yourself. It's just possible, if your own ship has really lot of single parts which can all explode. im not quite sure about this, but i guess it's possible.

 

also Some inputs for the Game:

 

- I personally would also like biger Asteroids, and a lot lot more of them. i would like to see a really big field of just asteroids, some very smalls and some very big ones with like 100k iron which are really rare or something where you can farm the hell out of them (or millions or even higher with a hell size) .

Also at the moment, it seems not possible the come further in the Game just with "farming", which i personally would really enjoy. Maybe you Can buy some new lasers with the Material. or more efficient ones first, and the next tier. correct me if i am wrong here.

but However, Farming is for a lot of people really fun.

 

- Spaceship Crafting is Really cool, but more turrets means more fun, but i thought i had read, that that will be coming soon! (cool!)

 

- Also A Possibility to Control more Ships at the Same time and a auto farming module, which would be really really expensive, would be great as well, so you can switch easy ships to farm at different locations at the same time.

 

- Maybe also we can find some cool materials sometimes even in iron. like gems ,a "diamond" or some material, which is rare but has a tiny chance to drop. And to go further you can build cool engines or better weapons (special weapon in this tier) with that materials :)

 

 

Maybe you can use some inputs, but i'm sure you have already enough work to do.

Also i would be interested in helping you somehow if possible, if you want just add me on skype, firemozzi. like making models, doing Art, bringing ideas or something. of course for free.

I got an education as computer scientist in switzerland.

 

Best & Cheesy Greetings from Switzerland!

Firemozzi

 

 

 

[koonschi]

Hey there,

 

I'm glad you like it!

 

If you have a special Ship like V formed and you press T to get in to your Drone without slowing down, it is possible to kick your self away with Warp Speed

This problem is even present with all kinds of objects. The physics still behave a little weird when it comes to very big objects colliding with very small objects.

 

Also a bug is, you can build really long ships ...

This is a difficult problem. Generally I'd like to give the player as much freedom as he wants, but this kind if ship is obviously ridiculous. I will have to think about this.

 

i guess you can exploit the Drop Rate of "chips" by building ships out of iron and just destroy them by yourself. It's just possible, if your own ship has really lot of single parts which can all explode. im not quite sure about this, but i guess it's possible.

Thats possible. There will have to be some kind of check to prevent this - Although it is not too profitable. And in the future there will be traders for weapons and upgrades.

 

Thanks for reporting those! I will adress them as soon as I can.

 

Concerning the proposals of gameplay changes:

I personally would also like biger Asteroids, and a lot lot more of them. i would like to see a really big field of just asteroids, some very smalls and some very big ones with like 100k iron which are really rare or something where you can farm the hell out of them (or millions or even higher with a hell size) .

So, you mean bigger asteroids with more resources, or bigger asteroid fields?

 

In the beginning of the game there were only big asteroids and no small asteroids at all. The current solution of the game is there, because I personally found it not too much fun just sitting there and mining that one big asteroid, just waiting until the numbers are down to 0. I found it more exciting to fly from asteroid to asteroid to mine them one by one. But I guess there would be ways to include those bigger asteroids more often though.

 

Asteroids with hundreds of thousands or even millions of resources would be a great idea - but I think they shouldn't come to the player for granted. I think players should earn them somehow - maybe by clearing the pirates guarding such a titan of an asteroid.

 

If you meant bigger asteroid fields: There are some technical issues that prevent me from implementing fields with huge numbers of asteroids - the game would not run on older hardware at all. So that's most likely not going to happen.

 

Spaceship Crafting is Really cool, but more turrets means more fun, but i thought i had read, that that will be coming soon! (cool!)

Yup, that's in the making right now.

 

Also A Possibility to Control more Ships at the Same time and a auto farming module, which would be really really expensive, would be great as well, so you can switch easy ships to farm at different locations at the same time.

You can already build multiple ships and fly them. A better way of controlling multiple ships is coming though. Auto farming will later be done with crews, I was thinking of introducing officers who would control your ship for you. There is one downside though: The game is a client-server game, and the server workload might go up very rapidly if players have auto-mining ships everywhere. Right now sectors are unloaded after some time when a player isn't present.

 

Maybe also we can find some cool materials sometimes even in iron. like gems ,a "diamond" or some material, which is rare but has a tiny chance to drop. And to go further you can build cool engines or better weapons (special weapon in this tier) with that materials :)

That's a cool idea, I haven't thought of that yet. I'll see what I can make of it!

 

Thanks for all that input, it is highly appreciated.

 

Also i would be interested in helping you somehow if possible, if you want just add me on skype, firemozzi. like making models, doing Art, bringing ideas or something. of course for free.

I got an education as computer scientist in switzerland.

 

As for helping me directly, I'm afraid there is not too much you could do right now. But you can play the game, find bugs, post them here and spread the word about the game.

If you want you can have a look at modding - sector generation and stations are done in lua - I'd be happy to provide you with information concerning that. The API still lacks a lot of features, though.

[DoomAngelBlade]

I personally would also like biger Asteroids, and a lot lot more of them. i would like to see a really big field of just asteroids, some very smalls and some very big ones with like 100k iron which are really rare or something where you can farm the hell out of them (or millions or even higher with a hell size) .

 

Well. You better make variety of asteroid fields\belts. From small ones to huge ones.

Also about guards for these big asteroids:

a) Pirate ambush.

Pirates have nearly no use to these asteroids because pirates interest is in getting what is already done!

All they can do is ambush.

Who will not want an asteroid with so many resources? Everyone will. Pirates can use that and put hidden probe somewhere and if someone will arrive to mine it - they will get the signal and will warp in to start their business!

b)Independent mining corporation.

A station\huge ship that already mine that asteroid and have their patrols\towers deployed and guarding it.

c) You are not first!

-OH MY GOD! I FOUND AN HUGE ASTEROID

-What it contains?

-I dunno.. I dunno.. It's so BIG... Oh my god!

-Scan it seriosly

-Ye scan it.

-Wait a second.. I'll do it... FUCK YEAH! IT'S OGONITE!

-Ogonite? Really Ogonite at edge of-

-YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! WOHOOOOOO FU-

-Can you not spam public frequency?

-Just tell us where you are

-NO WAY I WILL TELL YOU! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT. IM RICH

-Come on tell it!

-Tell it seriouly.

-Do not spam public frequency!

-IM RICH! IM RICH! BABY! OH YEAH!

-Yea yea. No spam. Im out.

-Hey guys maybe he is just joking from us?

-NO IM NOT JOKING! CHECK 3 sectors left from station TO SEE IT

-Thank you dumbass

-FUCK!

[suddenly lotsa of civillian\independent ships warp in to take a piece of asteroid.]

 

Maybe also we can find some cool materials sometimes even in iron. like gems ,a "diamond" or some material, which is rare but has a tiny chance to drop. And to go further you can build cool engines or better weapons (special weapon in this tier) with that materials :)

 

This gives an idea of refining.

You don't mine metal in it's pure form. You take a piece of rock and refine it.

The result is random... as there can be junk rock, ore, gems, liquids or an ship that was mining too but got smashed in asteroid by another asteroid :D