DEVs please: Is "speed" ability bugged?
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Hi,
I've been trying in several other threads for several days now to get an official developer's response about the speed racial ability.
Specifically, the text sais you get a +1 or +2 parsec per turn increas for I believe either 3-4 points (+1) or 8 points (+2), but your ships do not seem to move any faster. Some have suggested it is a +10-20% increase, but that seems like a worthless skill in comparison to the high purchase point cost:
For as much as those abilities cost, they need to do more than 10-20%, because even at 20% for EIGHT points, you would not see any benefit until a given ship could move at 5 parsecs a turn (A scout with 2 speed techs researched). With the +1 bonus, a ship would have to be able to move TEN squares a turn before it got any bonus? Can a ship ever even move that fast in this game (mine never have)?!?
Can some developer PLEASE give us an official word on whether or not this is a bug and if/when it will be fixed? Thank you.
--Soulfire
I've been trying in several other threads for several days now to get an official developer's response about the speed racial ability.
Specifically, the text sais you get a +1 or +2 parsec per turn increas for I believe either 3-4 points (+1) or 8 points (+2), but your ships do not seem to move any faster. Some have suggested it is a +10-20% increase, but that seems like a worthless skill in comparison to the high purchase point cost:
For as much as those abilities cost, they need to do more than 10-20%, because even at 20% for EIGHT points, you would not see any benefit until a given ship could move at 5 parsecs a turn (A scout with 2 speed techs researched). With the +1 bonus, a ship would have to be able to move TEN squares a turn before it got any bonus? Can a ship ever even move that fast in this game (mine never have)?!?
Can some developer PLEASE give us an official word on whether or not this is a bug and if/when it will be fixed? Thank you.
--Soulfire