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If you ever do make a sequel (and you should) could you please make it easier to distinguish which hexes are part of which orbits? Knowing that sort o f thing is crucial to planning but it gets really difficult to tell on larger maps.
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Battlefield control FTW. On the last fight, I got their gate and most powerful ship stuck on the outer rotation when (thanks to my ships) neither of the outer two rings could rotate. Because of where they were, their most powerful ship couldn't do anything of significance, and they couldn't summon anything that wasn't stuck behind purple rocks. They only had one other ship, a drone, so I just sat there and took out their base. 5/5 - exceedingly awesome strategy game that I would love to see more of in the future.
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Imagine if the intelligence behind a devastating allien invasion was actually celebrating with "weeee"s and "yay"s. My god...
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LOL the one guy is HILARIOUS here is a few quotes : "I AM GOING TO LIVE BASTARDS, the humans are trying to attack us. how cute. wait. Ffff, cultists vs survivors. lets pick a side, help it, and after we win betray it. wonderful. the cultists sound fun weeee!
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the rotating field is really nice, and i enjoyed it quite much. the only thing that disturbed was the plain dumb cpu :-/ somewhen i got lost in circle rotation when i used 3-4 starcores :P but still: spu is no match at all
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one great idea to expand the game is put moons in with the planet basicly undestroyable asteroids cause other wise its too easy to just destroy all asteroids then use long range ships to destroy the enemy
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Good idea. But I cannot concentrate on predicting how the field will change for my next turn. Could you paint the circles in different colors, so they are easier to recognize?
On the other hand... I played until level 7 Human and Sodinar winning all without much thinking. Maybe the AI sucks?
So, my advice is: help the player in planning the future (sorry, no idea how) and enhance the AI. Else: gfx and sfx are great work!
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Sodinar. The orb is an effective combat unit, probably the best for brute-force fighting. The nexus is an incredible asset, sort of a counterpart to the missile frigate. Because of how its attack works, it can fire at asteroids and hit any ships behind them. The pulsar is not useful at all. It either needs to be able to attack things, or to be able to irradiate tiles without traveling on them. The starcore is good on some levels, because it lets you re-align resource and health tiles to make them closer to your warp gate. The quasar's special ability is impressive, but if you can build enough orbs to make it effective, you already have the upper hand in the fight, and the quasar won't make a big difference.
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Klosians. The aurora is the best Klosian unit, easily so. It lets you secure resource tiles very early on, and on some levels, you can even get a couple hits in on the enemy warp gate in the first turn. The ion core is not that useful. With all these asteroids, you never get to take advantage of its straight-line feature. The singularity is little more than a portable punching bag, not worth using. The phaser is effective at attacking groups, but it needs a much higher health or it'll be destroyed as soon as it attacks. The mothership is... Useless. Easily the worst ultimate ship.
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AI issues aside, the ships need balancing out. Here's how it is right now.
Humans.
The fighter is a versatile combat unit. Good for early on in the match.
The logistics ship is excellent for letting the stronger ships keep taking hits. Its high number of moves also lets it hold down resource tiles early in the game.
The missile frigate is hands-down the best human ship. It can fire from around corners and avoid counterattack, but is also capable of taking a real beating and staying in the fight.
The defense platform is good for area denial, but with one tile range, it can't cover a lot of area. It'd benefit hugely from having a default range of two.
The juggernaut is probably the most cost-effective of all the ultimate ships, but two missile frigates and a logistics ship would be preferable. It should either be able to regenerate health on its own, or have a much higher health.
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in the second battle, around the 3rd round i lkost the ability to make ships because clicking on a hex stupidly toggles (instead of showing) the ship menu, and a glitch resulted in the ship menu being out when i wasn't placing a ship (i couldn't interact with it). a few turns later, a single empty hex didn't move with the rest, and i couldn't interact with anything than the one that didn't move. i couldn't even quit.
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The game features a unique and interesting (albeit headache inducing) battle system. My major gripe would be the story. "Story mode" is a poor descriptor, as the story reads like a history text book. Possessing no actual characters, the monologue equates to little more than "everyone hates you." If you were to make a second star relic, id suggest multiple planet systems. Contrary to ChickenBoogey's post, the only major bug I can find is the ability to heal 1 point over max health with an upgraded logistics ship.
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Awesome game, very original. It needs a better AI though, it doesn't take full advantage of its units' abilities. Also, game balance could be improved. Klosian >> Human!!!!!
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cool game. Just came back to it and enjoyed it again. Difficulty levels could be improved. Would love to see it expanded. Wish it had badges.
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Very buggy! Crashes quite often. Once the game randomly gave me control of the enemy. Sometimes it just freezes up on my turn. Creative idea, but I can't give it more than one star if it doesn't work 30% of the time!
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i have a battle strategy and 1 request battle strat: be sodinar, in the beginning spam frigate thingys when you get quasar just spam about 8 to 10 orbs, keep them close to warp gate then buy a quasar and charge the base with all of them.
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lol the klosians call sonidar the ancient ones but theyre hilarious and dont seem very "ancient" some quotes are: oh look the humans are attacking how cute oh f ffff ,I AM GOING TO LIVE BASTARDS , vets pick a side and after we win betray it wonderful the cultists sound fun weee, its time for betrayal muwahahahaha, OH I WILL BE THE HERO OF OUR PEOPLE well screw you hippies
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I found a bug and I sent this message to Kongregate. If you are the developer or a player, please read:
"When I was playing with the Klosian race a bug happened. I say bug and not glitch because I couldn't keep playing. I summoned a Mothership. When I had enough energy to summon a second I couldn't. I couldn't summon any other ship because the menu where they were supposed to be vanished! Please fix ASAP, I want to finish the game."
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Great game indeed. I just finished human campaign. Keep up the good work. There is room for a lot of improvement and I know you're competent to do it a lot better next time.
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A sequal would be wonderful as I think that this game is exactly what everyone wanted in a turn based space game. The gravity rotation per turn idea really does sound unique and is a unique game play mechanic. It's very awesome, but as some of the people have said it is too easy, if the ai gave you more of a challenge it'd be very fun. For right now, I still give this game a 5/5 and encourage the creator and other game makers to look at this game and consider a sequal, it's so great and has so many possabilities.
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amazing game. I really like the option to destroy orbital repair station in case the enemy is using them to cream you.
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The orbit mechanic sets this apart from the other games and i am astounded at the quality of this game, i would normally expect this type of game on a disk but for a flash game this rocks
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The human upgrades are pretty useless, at least in the low levels. I never use the Logistics Ship or the Defense Platform, why are half the upgrades for them?
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you should tell about all races ships specialities before i'll play for them)) if i could only know that quasar could kill my base with one shot -11dmg))))))