I think we're going to have that direct ship control no matter what since they decided to have a console option. For non-melee, I could foresee having both arrow-key movement as well as click-to-move. Other games have done it.

Click-to-move in melee? No thank you. You'll break what we like about the game.

I can only concur on the direct ship control. But I would like to point out that SC II had click-to-go-there in the form of autopilot. Not in combat, of course, but it made it possible for me to actually go grab a glass of milk and pretzels while the ship was going from Earth to Alpha Cerenkov, for example.

Absolutely! If feasible, dual control schemes would be ideal. Please as many people as possible!

But for me, I just loved that personal ownership of my starship that comes with the direct control. I was piloting that ship myself! Making mistakes, even! Being able to take over hyperspace travel manually to avoid or outrun a black hole (enemy encounter) that wanted to swallow me up? Overswinging a planet and having to turn around - and then, with practice, eventually nailing it every single time? Piloting that lander like a champ? And of course the super-melee... Ah, good times.

After playing Ur-Quan Masters, twice, I feel I can give some feedback for the new Star Control game. I will preface this by saying that unlike others my favorite part was making an alliance of different civilizations to fight a great evil, not exploring the galaxy or the battles.

Regarding the old lore. I am completely fine with new alien species, I'm not even that attached to the old ones. One thing I would like is more interactions with them. In 2 you basically found them, learned of their problem and then fixed it The exception was the Zop-Fot-Pik and even then it was one extra event. For examples there could be two that are enemies and you could play mediator between them.

Speaking of Zop-Fot-Pik, in the new Star Control could we receive messages at our ship? I lost the Zop-Fot-Pik in the second game because I never got the message when I was at the starbase. And then I picked to do a tour around the sector looking for rainbow worlds, and some other stuff.

Super Melee. Will battles in single-player also take place in a solar system? And will they be 1vs1 or with multiple ships? I'd appreciate an option to speed up or slow down battles, I thought they were a little too fast.

Planet Exploration. Will there be resources gathering? I was not exactly a fan of it. I think it would be best if you scanned planets and make a note of those that should be mined. Then again considering the amount if space debris, there really isn't any good reason to mine planets. The Oort Cloud alone could probably sustain the space industry for centuries.

Ship Customizer. Will we also be able to modify fleet ships? If not their appearance at least be able to upgrade them. Maybe an experience system would also be good.

Exploration. I'd like to mention some my grievances. One, when exiting planetary orbit screen and you intersect with another ship after conversing/fighting you would be back at the planetary orbit screen, this once happened to me three times in a row, it was extremely annoying. Two, you were essentially blind and had no idea where to go, especially at the start, what I would suggest is if we have a starbase could it be upgraded with scanners and tell us if any systems had something interesting. And lets be honest most of the star systems in 2 were not worth visiting, especially since you were on a time limit, which the game didn't tell you about.

Speaking of the starbase, I'd like it if it too could be upgraded, see above for one idea, or change appearance on what species we are allied with. Or just have the ships from different species fly around it.

In 2 all research was acquired from the Melnorme trader, I think it would be better if it was spread around from different sources, allies, study of precursor artifacts, study of the wreckage of enemy ships, etc.

I think an in-game encyclopedia would be a good addition. You could learn some things from speaking with aliens, but the encyclopedia would be more detailed. Like the Codex from Mass Effect or the Civpedia from Civilizations.

Regarding mouse vs keyboard, controlling the ship directly didn't make me feel like a captain, that's mostly because I imagine the captain ordering where to go and the pilot taking us there. That said I am for both control methods being supported.

Almost done, last is a pet peeve of mine. I know a lot of science fiction writers treat sapient and sentient as having the same meaning, but they don't. Also the word race, it's an informal rank, consider using species or subspecies.

Thanks for reading.

I played a game, a looong time ago where there was information that was only in the encyclopedia/help/whatever... it was not vital but a "nice to have". So it gave you a great incentive to go and read the lore. Don't ask me what game, though. It is buried in my memory banks. But it is associated to oooooolldddd games.  Maybe it was even the (shudder) paper manual, I can't recall.

I would like it if the lore was deep and detailed.  Build a universe and let us play in it. Let us get immersed  And if you make mistakes in your lore, like FF & PRIII did, it will only allow us to discuss about it for eons to come

If it is going to be released through Steam then I am not interested.

I have Galciv3 via Steam.

My computer crashed and now I cannot get it again through steam.

Games are tied to your account, not hardware. You are able to install it on any computer, of course make sure said computer is capable of playing the game you want.

GOG!!! 

All you need to do is reinstall steam, log into your old account, and download the game.

the only way you can't get your game is if you log into the wrong account, which people often do while insisting they don't have an alt. If I had a nickel for every time someone 'insisted' they had only one account but then found that 'other' account afterwards, I could buy back the entire Star Control license from Activision

1) That's not true.

2) By choosing to not ask for help from those that can help you, I get the impression that you enjoy feeling robbed, and don't want to solve the problem.

Steam Support related discussions should be in another thread?   It's starting to get off topic.

There is always a great balance between holding onto the past, and reaching into the future.

I think anyone "on board this train" of the Star Control reboot should accept that there will be differences.

Differences are good, its a fresh exploration - I love it. I mean, I LOVED the original games.

But it's OK if the game makes a few tweaks here and there, to brandish a great story.

Question on the Ship Customizer

One element of ship design that I kind of love, is the thought of upgrades and cosmetics not necessarily matching. For example, a ship that looks like a rust bucket waste carrying vessel.... but is actually a state of the art speed machine.

Upgrades: Hate to draw a similarity to a car racing game, but what I like about games like Asphalt 8: Airborne is the upgrades to acceleration, top speed, handling, body strength, and "nitro". While those upgrades follow something you can purchase, you can acquire technology which provides even more improvements like a second tier of upgrades. I hope that the game has this element?

Boarding: I wonder whether it will be possible to introduce a kind of "mortal kombat - fatality" move. By this I mean, during the space battles when the enemy's ship is down to 10%, there should be some way or slightly more complicated attack that gives you a chance to board that ship. So rather than it exploding, not only does the enemy ship potentially survive (whatever resource that involves...) but you get a chance to steal enemy technology or secrets.

Question on Writing

I hope there will be opportunities for founders to have a very tiny input into some small writing somewhere (aslong as it's approved by Chris and the team)? That would be so good.

Thanks!

Nigel