Timjag's Feedback

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Timjag's Feedback

Phenoca 1215035793|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Give planets and systems a "click aura" to make them more clickable.

Instead of calling it default view say galaxy view.

The music is good but when it gets to the end it should be scraped slightly and used as a battle theme tune.

Where it says your player name next to it should be Number of colonies.

Other suggestions include using planet-icons, and colony-ships :)
We also need a guide for how to make a colony.

Thanks timjag :)

Re: Timjag's Feedback

forthelulz 1215036054|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

hi im timjag its just i use forthelulz as my online nick. anyway another sugestion i thought of is the music should be the other way round. when you log in it should start automatically and to turn it off the button should be in the preferences called "mute music". then it should save this preference so the music doesnt come on the next time the player logs in

Re: Timjag's Feedback

Craig Macomber 1215045224|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I just kinda hacked in the music before the last release. I have a whole system for selecting music based on mood, but the game does not decide what the current mood is yet.

I'll add music to our preferences setup. Thanks for the tip.

As far as the default view button, that will get changed. We need to implement the view menu and a ton of other stuff, but I will swap it over to Galaxy view for the next release.

Thanks.

Re: Timjag's Feedback

Phenoca 1215269883|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Thank you forthelulz and Craig :)
These are good ideas.

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Re: Timjag's Feedback

Anonymous (90.202.194.x) 1216669174|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi, Fwubbers Here..

I thought of a couple suggestions;

Have the option to move your camera like an FPS - w,a,s,d to go forward, backwards, strafe left/right (More people find this easier, gives more freedome).

When you loggin, have a sound effect, something machinery-related, then have the screen sortof Transform into the game screen - wouldn't that be Awesome?

Re: Timjag's Feedback

Craig Macomber 1216669865|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

When you loggin, have a sound effect, something machinery-related, then have the screen sortof Transform into the game screen - wouldn't that be Awesome?

I like the sound idea. I was thinking about having the login screen over a nice scene like sun set on a random planet (not in game), or maybe just over the galaxy. The whole galaxy is generated on the client, so we can do stuff like that before login.

For the camera control, it is much more complex that you think. Suppose we had WASD controls? Maybe you want to look at a planet, well you have to chase the star because it is moving at like 10 million mph. Basically to view the solar system, you have to move relative to the star. This requires us to keep the focus based camera control, but we do plan to extend it a bit so you can fly around relative to the focus (you can hold down some key, I think its shift to rotate the view away from the focus by the way).

Thanks for the feedback.

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