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eRe4s3r:
It didn't get any less shallow.. no. In fact, the changelog from 0.52 to 1.0 must be the shorted in the history of beta to release changelogs. But they say they will continue development.. we'll see

Cyborg:
And it is that shallow gameplay which reduces the value to about five dollars for me.

BobTheJanitor:
I haven't tried it since the official release. I actually took some time off starting a while back so as not to burn out on it before it came out. From what I'm hearing though, it's not quite as polished as one would hope. But it's little things, like enemy ships being named MEDIUM_TEMPLATE_03 and so on. Nothing game breaking, but it's sort of jarring for a game that was so polished in alpha.

I'm still a little annoyed at some changes they made to add penalties to expansion. The larger your empire gets, the more of a happiness penalty all of your planets get, which just strikes me as a very ham-fisted balancing mechanic. Why do people on Rigel IV care if there are colonies on Zipzap VII? It's light years away, the two systems have nothing to do with one another. I get that they want to make it harder to play a fast expansion strategy, but there should be some more interesting ways to do it. Make new colonies more of a resource drain for their first few years, then a balancing bonus for a few years after that so that fast expansion cripples your empire but slow expansion remains productive, or something. Then at least you have interesting options. Right now it's just a binary question of whether you have researched the appropriate happiness bonus techs and spammed them all over the place or not.

Anyway, I'm sure I'll get around to playing this again sometime soon. My latest distraction has been Crusader Kings 2, so I need to go and imprison my scheming cousin now.

Moonshine Fox:
So this "Admiral Edition"...what is it really? I don't understand what half of the stuff you get with it is supposed to mean.

BobTheJanitor:

--- Quote from: Moonshine Fox on July 11, 2012, 09:21:38 AM ---So this "Admiral Edition"...what is it really? I don't understand what half of the stuff you get with it is supposed to mean.

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Mainly extra voting clout on their site, I believe. They post features for voting frequently and the highest voted determines what they work on next, although supposedly the other ones will still get into the game even after losing the vote, just that they will be lower priority. With the higher priced version, you get 1000 votes instead of 500 votes. You get 100 votes just for signing up for their forums (although those votes aren't added to the votes you get for buying the game). Why they couldn't just use 1, 5, and 10 I don't know. It would make the vote totals a lot easier to read, that's for sure. One of the current things being voted on looks like this:
1594900 Points  715400 Points  1610300 Points
Yes, they don't even have the decency to use commas. Look at that at a glance and it's hard to tell which is winning, how close the vote is, or anything. Anyway, I rant for no reason. That's what the points do.

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