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Skyward Collapse / Re: Best description of the game ever. :P

« on: Today at 03:06:42 PM »

Yea, banking is good for when you  need those actions.  If you're going to go over cap just spend them on stuff that produces more incense or moonstone or sunstone, etc.  Iirc that only expands your personal options without increasing faction power directly.  I may be mistaken about that though.

The only problem is then you have to fight the temptation plop out a dozen myth units just because you can.

That's how I lose most of my matches.  The same thing always happens to me in Sim City.  Go figure.   

But what if you plop them out evenly?

Where's the !!!FUN!!! in that?

No one wants to watch a perfectly balanced see-saw.  We want to see the fat kid make someone get airborn! 

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Skyward Collapse Strategy Discussion / Re: Building resource dependency list

« on: Today at 02:14:05 PM »

One of my first heli-sims had a cardboard that you can place over your keyboard!

Seems like a lot of TI-99/4A did the same thing.  Or was that C64?

Anyway, great job on the resource chart.  Since it's a holiday weekend here at work and most folks have left already, I think I might "borrow" the plotter for a jumbo size wall poster for my office.   

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Skyward Collapse / Re: Best description of the game ever. :P

« on: Today at 02:10:35 PM »

Yea, banking is good for when you  need those actions.  If you're going to go over cap just spend them on stuff that produces more incense or moonstone or sunstone, etc.  Iirc that only expands your personal options without increasing faction power directly.  I may be mistaken about that though.

The only problem is then you have to fight the temptation plop out a dozen myth units just because you can.

That's how I lose most of my matches.  The same thing always happens to me in Sim City.  Go figure.   

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Skyward Collapse / Re: Suggestions from Steam users

« on: Yesterday at 11:33:02 PM »

EDIT:  Wow, so far, as steam comments go.... nothing bad so far, really.   I seem to recall that both Valley games were getting some nasty comments at the start (with people being so divided on those 2 games), but so far this one doesnt have any of that sort.  A little confusion from players on some aspects, but that's it.

And that's a good thing, lol, as I tend to find that the Steam boards for LOTS of games are often filled with "BLARGH ARGH THIS SUCKS" right from the start.  Actually, I cant think of one I've been to that isnt...

Looking good so far though.

Yeah, I was really surprised by this.  Maybe the trolls just haven't found the board yet.

It's also pretty high up the Top Seller's chart.  Probably too early to call it either way, but it seems to be doing pretty well so far!

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Skyward Collapse / Re: 1.0 out for alpha testers. Edit: 1.001 now

« on: Yesterday at 01:27:32 PM »

Congratulations on the release!   

I can't wait to get home to check out the release version

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Skyward Collapse / Re: I know it is too late to say this

« on: Yesterday at 08:10:47 AM »

Yup, that sounds like a good plan to me.  Will implement today.

And there was much rejoicing!

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Skyward Collapse / Re: Skyward Collapse Alpha 0.990

« on: Yesterday at 12:35:56 AM »

Atlas Shrugs

• The world is jostled, and all of the land that is just outside of the radius of each town collapses into empty space.
• Thanks to mrhanman for suggesting.

My proudest moment! 

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Skyward Collapse / Re: Rock Paper Collapse

« on: May 14, 2013, 03:09:32 PM »

RPS' and IndieGames' commenters really seem to automatically hate Arcen for some reason.  I thoroughly believe that you could take a masterpiece of gaming (something akin to Super Mario Bros. 3), slap Arcen on the title screen, and those people would piss all over it.  Without bothering to play it, of course.

If you clinically marvel at the herd mentality, it becomes much less infuriating.  Then again, I'm just a member of the 'Arcen' herd, so what do I know?

To me it's like trying to choose between the guy who doesn't ask for much but can be a very picky and a lying bastard at times vs. the guy who asks for a lot and is hard to please but isn't quite as picky and stays pretty honest.
Both don't sound good so it's up to you to choose who looks like the lesser evil.

What an odd analogy. 

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Skyward Collapse / Re: Cataclysm ideas

« on: May 08, 2013, 04:24:17 PM »

Atlas Shrugs!  Several tiles are destroyed by a violent earthquake, mostly concentrated around one town center or another.

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Skyward Collapse / Re: Player Feedback requested - New Tutorial

« on: May 08, 2013, 02:00:23 PM »

* Trade and diplomacy aren't available in the first game.

Maybe I misread something in another thread, but isn't trade going away?

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Skyward Collapse / Re: Cataclysm ideas

« on: May 08, 2013, 12:30:41 PM »

Vengeful Developer!  The game's difficulty increases suddenly for the duration of the cataclysm because too much winning is going on. 

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Skyward Collapse / Re: Cataclysm ideas

« on: May 08, 2013, 10:13:58 AM »

Black Death!  A plague wipes out 75% of all dudes in a town.

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Skyward Collapse / Re: Biggest improvements needed - discussion thread

« on: May 08, 2013, 08:23:24 AM »

I was about to post in the other thread about more explicit direction being needed.  A list of objectives, along with a more helpful UI and tutorial.  That's mainly it, other than polish.

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Off Topic / Re: Ender's Game: The movie

« on: May 08, 2013, 08:05:58 AM »

I won't refuse to see it, but I certainly won't watch it in the theater.  But then, very few movies are worth that trouble. 

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Off Topic / Re: Ender's Game: The movie

« on: May 07, 2013, 10:06:16 PM »

If I let an author's/actor's/musician's politics get in the way of my enjoyment of a particular book/movie/song I'd hardly ever read/watch/listen to anything.

That said, I think there is little hope that an acceptable movie adaptation can be made of Ender's Game in today's Hollywood.  I mean, it looks like they showed the destruction of the bugger's homeworld in the trailer.  WTF? 

Still, as one of my top 10 sci-fi novels, I hope it's awesome!