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This reminds me of Starport: Galactic Empire. but without being able to claim planets and stuff. I like it though. good game!
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DJ, I found a potential bug, it doesn't seem to really do anything, but when I was mining an asteroid, it was close enough to a base that I deposited all my earnings as I was mining. When I was done though, somehow my "Mined" tally, was -1. I took a screenshot if your interested. This happened on my account, with a username of "Genx"
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reminded me of spaceforce: rouge universe only that spaceforce is 3d and REALLY huge. you can get lost and you won't know what to do. :D i prefer this better. it is much more easy to get around the map and it is fun. if it had a story that will accompany the missions (like story missions) other than plain side quests, i think this is great game.
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read the instructions in the begining to know how to use items like hyperspace
this has some real potential, i like the idea someone mentioned about making raid parties and such (like Guild Wars) 5/5
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Sorry if this has been covered before,
but how the heck do I actually use
hyperspace? I bought the module,
but I don't know how to use it.
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This one is nice, with lots of detail and a nice change from most here. Once I have figured out how to find a single hostile ship to attack and not a gang I'll do better :-)
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Everytime I play, everythings fine for a while. Then it'll crash IE or freeze Firefox.
Much though I'm enjoying this (I used to love Privateer) I'm going to have to wait until it's more stable.
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Ive never played escape velocity, but its sounds like one of the many game people have accused me off ripping off for my starfighter games!
The game that inspired this, was a game on the amiga called Transplant, great game, but mines better :)
Its not a very original style of game, but then its not as common in flash games as zombie blasting or defence games, or mouse avoidance games
The EMP is annoying, but people dont often die after theyve been EMPed because they are at least still moving
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No, I doubt that DJ would do that to people if he had the choice, hence why he stores the savefiles on the server. (This probably allows them to continue through updates)
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It's no problem, I totally understand how you feel. I myself have experienced that many times over, and it gets infuriating.
I do have a few ideas though: Perhaps colliding with asteroids damages/destroys your ship? This would make asteroid fields fun to fight in.
Perhaps (Mentioned by others) station raids to take control of them in multiplayer?(You've probably thought of this one before, but it would be worth it if you could)
And I'd appreciate a fully automatic weapon to bring down fast moving ships. As it is, I can only find fast-ish firing laser weapons.
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you REALLY need to fix the unconnectable issue as ive introduced many of my friends but all cant connect :s
either way ive tried it in guest mode and all ive got to say is.
GREAT JOB it has a really nice feel and has great potential.
A Station Raid feature would be nice where people can attack other space stations for tons of benefits and people could make guilds and set thier own space station and set out sentries to guard thier territory or sumthing :D jus suggestions but good work
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Well, this is saddening. THis is a Good game, proven by Holy YouTube.com Footage... Not being able to Connect isn't great though...If you read this...DJ, I have Bad Connection to your Websites as well, and my Inference: My connection by my ISP sucks and can't go there, effectively cutting me off from this wonderful game T_T
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Hiddeknight: Thanks for sticking up for me, its always disheartening when you spend 10 months on a game, and then people who have only played it for 30 secs tell you that you are rubbish because they can figure it out without reading the instructions. Nice to have people on my side :)
stealthsilent: Any unusual characters in your password? what is your username in the game, i'll have a look later
waifer: The ships have an "artificial friction drive", which makes ships easier to control. If the ships didnt have this it would be very hard to control them. It would be like controlling the ship in the original asteroids
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Jayhawk: You lose all your weapons when you switch ship, because not all ships can fit the same weapons. You get money for the weapons included in the trade in price of your ship. There are descriptions of the weapons on the site, click the more button in how to play
Muzzz: Press p when a course is plotted to activate autopilot
AcidFlux: Autopilot goes up to your top speed, you can also use the speed booster, teleport discs or engine overdrives while autopilot is in use
ChrisFontenot: You dont get money back for engines, but on the plus side they dont make your lives more expensive. Engines are for people who are happy with their ship and want to stick with iut for a while
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Re mute feature: Might add this at some point
Re it not being the the same place when you cross a boundary: This is intentional, the grid is only supposed to represent a rough guide, but as everyone keeps whining about it i might change it
Re it being boring: Its as boring as you make it, if you want to just fly around in friendly space then thats fine, you have that freedom in this game. But if you want some action, the do some missions and head for the centre of the galaxy, maybe even venture into enemy space, or battle someone in multiplayer. Feeling really brave, try attacking an enemy station.
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Re chat not working: This seems to be simply that my chat server code cant handle so many people, I might put in a few backup chat ports, for it to try when it fails, other than that dont know what to do. Multiplayer does still work though
Re browser crashing: This is because the new flash player is not particularly stable. It is not my code, as it crashes randomly and doesnt on a standalone version. If my code was doing it then you would get a message about it running slowly asking you if you wanted to abort the script. I may put a standalone version available for download soon
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If you think that this game is boring, you're doing something wrong. There are missions that only take a few minutes, and while flying from sector to sector (If you have a really slow ship) you can kill and mine.
Money is easy to come by and upgrade your ship. Honestly, I don't understand you people. You complain your ship is too slow - WELL NO ****, it's the starter ship, that's why there's heaps of options to make it faster!!!
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Can't figure out the high rating ... this is the most boring game I've ever seen! I could have taken a nap during the one mission I played! And what action there was wasn't very interesting either. As confusing as the interface was, it would have made sense if I'd lost a life ... but I didn't.
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Oh and as far as a beginner guide, just do missions. They don't give you missions you can't do. Use some money on some weapons. When you get enough, upgrade to a type of ship that fits your play style - light and fast, heavy and slow, etc.
And for in game chat is "broken", the server might be flooded or full. You can still play multiplayer, and just make use of the kongregate chat if you're desperate.
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"Or, say, “I can’t mine” – this is really annoying and simple. You press 0 to bring up the gun, go to within range (500) of an asteroid, and you press Z."
Look 6 comments down.
If the game crashes, it's because of your comp, not the game. It has never frozen, crashed, locked up, or broken in any way for me.
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fly. fly. fly. Wow, space is boring. Oh, wait, there's an enemy! I'm in my beginning ship, but this shouldn't be too hard... *BOOM*
Crap. Ok, well, hey, an enemy and a friendly blew each up.. did they leave loot? Yeah! Let's pick it up... wait... what? *game hard locks*
Piece of crap.
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i agree, but i still can't connect, you still didn't solve my problem, i gave it a 5/5 but i need my problem fixed....... now
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And screaming "I can't connect to the server" well, god, thanks for the information. Is your firewall blocking it? The server might be down, nothing you can do about that. Maybe you were banned. Maybe you are hacking and auto defense kicked in. Maybe your internet is too slow. There are huge amounts of possibilities, and none of which deserve ranking the game 1/5 for.
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Or, say, "I can't mine" - this is really annoying and simple. You press 0 to bring up the gun, go to within range (500) of an asteroid, and you press Z.
Game crashing/freezing - FOLLOW the instructions that are there for a reason. I have had the browser up with the game running for about 5-6 hours straight with absolutely no problems, no memory leak, nothing, NOTHING. It works PERFECTLY. And I use firefox. So, whatever the problem is, it is NOT the game. If it was, the problem would be consistent. Perhaps you have the wrong version of flash player installed, maybe you have multiple windows up or are doing something that causes it to lock up. Try to troubleshoot on your own instead of rating an excellent game 1/5 and cussing out the owner.
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Now I know why the rating is so low, it's because of idiotic people blaming their problems on the game.
For instance, "Travel takes too long" - so buy a hyperspace, or a faster engine, or use "auto pilot", and make sure to press "X" before flying a long distance (Increases max speed at an energy cost).
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Fuzzybacon, you unlock new ships by increasing your rank, you can see all the ranks and how many kills it takes to get them here: http://tinyurl.com/37t37g
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I have only had it crash once! The one thing I really hate is going to the exact corner of the sector, and having to start from the middle of the other one!
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I have only had it crash once! The one thing I really hate is going to the exact corner of the sector, and having to start from the middle of the other one!