Craig Fraser

Craig Fraser

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Reply to UI in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

MxM111. Thanks for your feedback. As I mentioned, we will be looking at making the ships more exaggerated so that they may look more distinguished from one another. We hope to move beyond basic symbol style, which we started about a year ago - perhaps find an acceptable middle ground. Keep in mind that we have three races to represent. I understand everyone has differences in their ability to see objects on screen and we'll do our best not to exclude anyone in our final implementation <img sr

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Reply to So Addictive in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Glad you are having fun MAX! 1. I think the tutorials should talk about slots more and let the players know they have to upgrade in order to build more and more space structures. I started playing the game and it took me a little while to see that I had to upgrade in order to build more hangers or cannons. For sure. Also, we will revisit the generic text messages that come up - to direct you to specific planet upgrades. <div c

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Reply to Cruisers in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

What exactally does the command one do? I really wanna see the little robots that come out of the UFO thing, but I have yet to see them. Look very closely - the tiny little droids come out in a weaving group. They are fully modelled and textured. There are two different droid types - depending on the ability you are using

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Reply to UI in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Lordkosc, Our ships symbols were originally basic shapes long before beta 1. We weren't impressed by the look and changed them to ship representations. The problem with basic shapes with this many ships is you are forcing people to learn a little symbol language. On the last pass we exaggerated key features on each ship to help out. We also made the empire tree ships (on the left) the same as the main icon ships.(They used to be 3/4 view). We may need to revisit this, possibly enlarge. <br/

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Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire Beta 2 Date Announced in Sins News Sins Forums

Hey Maz, Vasari and Advent will not reveal their malevolent faces in Beta 2. The TEC will will need to find balance among themselves before instigating race wars. The research tree will be distinct for each faction, including exclusive topics.

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Reply to Kol as too... sissy. in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

The KOL Battleship is one of oldest models in the beta. You can expect multiple revisions of this ship before release. The final size is unlikely to rival that of the Sova or the Akkan, however it's appearance will be 'battle hungry'.

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Reply to Just Missed it in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I think stardock/ironclad do an awesome job at listening to the community for suggestions. Can't wait to get in beta 2 and thumbs up to stardock and friends. Thanks We'll be happy to have you on board for Beta 2 and look forward to y

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Reply to here i am in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Thanks Danielost. We'll defintely have a look at this behaviour when we get to the AI beta.

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Reply to First impression in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Thanks Fuzzy Thats great to hear - we definintely want the game to feel very accessible with plenty of depth as you become more experienced.

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Reply to Grave Concerns in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

We definitely want (and need) your opinions. We were happy to release 3 patches already - all from excellent forum feedback! Larger beta changes can take considerable time - not always something that can be put up on the fly. We are not holding back or ignoring anyone - we are just working hard to process, evaluate, and implement the tremendous load of new ideas that our beta testers provided. Thanks everyone <IMG src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Congrats.gif" align=

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Reply to Beta Issues in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

7. Backup has arrived, this is very annoying when I hear backup has arrived and it's just trade ships or other non-combatants. This will be improved. 8. Cultural spread doesn't seem to shift properly. I build some centers on my border planets and while I did have influence lines spreading from that planet the planets behind it were still the enemies color. I haven't notice this behaviour

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Reply to 2 issues in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

The red floating globes over ships which appear after a research field - they look ridiculous , please consider removing them . Can you please provide a screenshot. Thanks

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Reply to jumping too fast in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

I find the rapid jumps extremely annoying. Addressing this issue has been a high priority for us. Before we had space lanes it was even worse - ships were flying in an out of everything planet, and the weakest players would just hit and run forever. We are currently working with a model that will be a big step towards resolving this. You'll hear more on this later

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