Comments for Planets Gone Rogue!

Thanks for playing & completing the entire campaign! I'm sorry that you encountered the problem with the laser gun, I just tried a boss battle in my development environment with switching to lasers just before the battle and everything worked as expected, so I'm currently not sure where this is coming from. If more players report this and / or I'm able to reproduce this problem I will fix it in a future update.

Thanks for playing and sharing your thoughts about the leveling system! I understand what you mean, but I don't agree with you 100% that it is meaningless: You are right with the line being pushed to the right, but from my experience it is possible to catch up with that line quickly by avoiding enemy planet signals while scanning on the way as far as possible. With a bit of luck you are able to catch up with the line wihtout or maybe 1-2 fights, which means that the higher you are in the planet level, the easier it is for you to advance from your starting position.

Thanks for sticking with the game until the end! At the moment I'm trying to answer every comment so the players know I have read their comment and I really considered the suggestions they are making. I hope I will be able to keep this up, but I'm getting a lot of feedback on various platforms and it is eating up a serious chunk of my dev-time already. =) Regarding your suggestion: It is right that it is possible to heal up by scanning carefully in non-dangerous areas of the galaxy, nibbling off fields one by one. I would not consider this an exploit since you need to leave enough "non-dangerous" fields behind to be able to employ this strategy. It happened to me more than once that I tried to heal up this way but I had only fields with skull left on the left side of the map, so I don't think it is an dominant strategy that will make you win automatically all the time. But I will keep an eye on this and adjust if more people report / comment on this being an exploit.

Thanks for playing, and good to see you did not give up despite dying multiple times, that is the right attitude for this game. =) I have stated it somewhere else before, I would have enough ideas for a sequel but I have not decided yet what game I will create next, so stay tuned. ^^

Thanks for playing, and I'm very sorry you encountered this issue! The tutorial can be a bit misleading during the upgrade screen, since multiple players got stuck like you experienced it. I have just uploaded an upgraded version which now treats the buttons on the upgrade screen a bit more restrictive, so you can't buy / sell anything until you are supposed to according to the tutorial dialogue. If you press "continue" in the main menu, you should be able to play this part again and then complete the tutorial. Again, I'm sorry you encountered this issue and I hope you will give the game another chance.

Thanks for playing & commenting on your experience with the game! Your comment shows that you took your time to discover the game mechanics which apparently paid off in the end, well done! Thanks for all the praise, I think the game still has some issues but it is great to hear that players are already enjoying it in its current state.

Wish no further, I have released an update just now that added a "skip" button in the lower right corner. If you find the time, please comment on the other things as well so I have chance to fix these too. Thanks for playing & commenting!

Thanks for playing and the positive feedback! I'm currently working on an update for the game that still has not fully been tested yet, but it should arrive soon.

Thanks for sharing your experiences with the game! Discovering the weapons, finding out what they do best and dying in this process is part of the Planets Gone Rogue! experience. =) I hope it was not too frustrating and you'll give it another try soon. Thanks for playing!

Thanks! I noticed apparently nobody was using the Google Play button to check out the android version. I thought that people could mistake it for an static image that does nothing, therefore I added the wobble effect and some funny text to give it more attention.

Thanks for reporting the bug! I think you are referring to the railgun? Or do you mean the plasma gun? If it is the railgun I could imagine that this is rooted somewhere in the calculation for the partial damage for the planet, I have to double check this. I hope you did not find it too annoying and thanks for playing!

I think it is fun to find a working strategy, but I think this game still has some balance issues, for example players have told me multiple times that the rocket launcher is too powerful. But there is an update in the works that will address this along with other issues, and I'll try my best to deliver more updates until the balance is right. But thanks for playing and the positive comment!

Thanks for playing and commenting!

Thanks for spending so much time with this game and not giving up on it despite the difficulty issues mentioned earlier!

Thanks for playing! I got diverse comments on the difficulty so far, some people think it is way too hard, some think it is too easy once you have figured out a working strategy. I think different difficulty settings might be the answer for this, however I have to think of something to make such a change working together with the scoreboards, I guess I'll have to set up additional scoreboards for hard and easy difficulties.

Thanks for playing! Do you mean a better balanced difficulty in general or do you mean the possibility to switch between easy - medium - hard? I'm currently working on balancing the game according to player feedback and I released the first update today that addresses some of the suggestions people are making in the comments. I could also imagine adding a difficulty setting in the options, but then I would need to adjust other things like the score reporting as well, so I can't promise if I will be able to squeeze that in in the next updates. Thanks for the feedback!

Thanks for reporting this, I have to double check the tutorial to make sure you cannot buy things before you are supposed to to avoid this situation. If you start a "new campaign" from the main menu you should be able to redo the tutorial and avoiding the point where you got trapped. Thanks for playing, I hope you'll give it another chance!

Thank you for playing! As I wrote in an earlier reply I was worried people might have difficulties finding a good strategy to survive long enough to see the end of the game, so I'm glad you wrote this comment. =) I have not yet decided what kind of game I want to make next, but I have a lot of ideas that did not make it in this game, so it is not completely impossible that I'll make a sequel one day. ;)

Sorry you encountered such a difficult planet early on. :( I hope you will give it another time some times, the enemies and the galaxy layout is different when you start a new game, and you might encounter planets with different weapons at the beginning. If you do encounter a planet with missiles again, I would suggest saving all so your shields (or other defensive weapons) to deflect the missiles, and maybe concentrate the fire on the missile weapons until they break. Thank you very much for playing and your constructive feedback!

May I congratulate you: You are the first person ever who has completed the game! (I can tell from the "campaigns completed" high score). Thanks a lot that you put so much time into this game, I feared that nobody would be able to complete the game because they either would lose patience or would have difficulties developing the right strategy to upgrade their planet. Because you completed the game early on, I'm a bit more relaxed now since you have proven it is possible to beat it for someone who is new to the game. You rock! ;-)

Wow thank you, you are too kind! I was not sure what to expect when I uploaded the game and it is great to hear that people actually appreciate the long dialogues in the tutorial. I was worried everybody would be annoyed because it is so much to read before the game starts. Thanks for the praise, and as long as there are people as nice as you I will continue making games. Much appreciated!

Thanks for the feedback! The game was difficult to balance for me in the end since I already knew all the tricks / the best strategies. I will keep a close eye on how many people are able to finish the campaign, and I will adjust the difficulty accordingly. Thanks for playing!