MindlessMe

Reply to General Feedback - Feel and Enjoyment in Ashes of the Singularity Founders AshesoftheSingularity Forums

I definitely agree that the AI could be improved in the game. This is the alpha though, so I can overlook a lot of the issues like this for now. If they still act like this moving closer to 1.0 then I will have issues. The area I would love to see immediate improvement is unit pathing and the hilarious bounce the units have when hitting. I literally had a capital unit bounce over the mountaintop into another region after hitting another capital next to it. I know each unit needs its own perso

Reply to Remove the engineers from the game in Ashes of the Singularity Founders AshesoftheSingularity Forums

[quote who="Shadow00000000" reply="19" id="3566894"] My problem with the unit bar is that it currently doesn't split units up by location. If I need an engineer I can click on the side bar (assuming scrolling is enabled) and then I still have to figure out where that engineer is and whether or not they have tasks already assigned to them (maybe add a task bar for the engineer?). Splitting up the unit bar based on which power generator section it's in could help a lot for this

Reply to Let factories assist each other in Ashes of the Singularity Founders AshesoftheSingularity Forums

This is a similar to what Command and Conquer did. You essentially set a primary factory on production and the others "assist it" allowing the factory to build faster depending on how many you had. Of course with C&C you could only have a single building of a certain type building at any given time. I don't really know how I feel about factories assisting each other while building, but I could see it becoming extremely overpowered if not balanced out. Maybe only the factories not prod

Reply to Movement Speed in Ashes of the Singularity Founders AshesoftheSingularity Forums

[quote who="Andre_B" reply="21" id="3566863"] I guess theres time to test, at least we know they are aware of our concerns overall. [/quote] Yep. It will all of us more once we get our hands on the huge maps. Then we can play each map size and see if it all balances out.

Reply to Remove the engineers from the game in Ashes of the Singularity Founders AshesoftheSingularity Forums

I would rather stick with 1 tier of engineer. If they want advanced ones then I would rather see them upgradable. I hated having mutiple tiers in other games because it made the T1 and T2 variants useless once you got to T3. If you make them where each tier of engineer can only build the corresponding tier of building it will become a convoluted mess. You think they are hard to keep track of now, try using that system and you will want to commit suicide. Let's just keep a single tier engi

Reply to Movement Speed in Ashes of the Singularity Founders AshesoftheSingularity Forums

Yea, after playing all the RTS games that I have it's normal practice to build forward bases and things of that nature. If the slower pace is what the devs invision for the game I can get behind it, but I still wonder if there will be options for traversing the map faster or if we are suppose to rely on forward bases to compensate for the large maps. Maybe even have special buildings on huge maps that allow teleporting or a bonus to the forces that control the region. Would

Reply to Remove the engineers from the game in Ashes of the Singularity Founders AshesoftheSingularity Forums

[quote who="atmorell" reply="11" id="3566643"] Engineers could be changed to "Combat Engineers" that would only be used for repairs, reclaiming and capturing. Imagine playing the game and placing buildings and defenses without the old school Engineers driving around the map. Nothing would change besides letting the player focus on resources, expanding, defending, attacking etc. - fun stuff. Keeping track of engineers is really annoying on bigger maps. You could still ra

Reply to Movement Speed in Ashes of the Singularity Founders AshesoftheSingularity Forums

[quote who="Kollok" reply="8" id="3566504"] Quoting MindlessMe, reply 1 I would have to agree with most of what you are saying about the speed affecting a lot of the normal battle tactics used in warfare. The actual movement rate of units is on the fast side for land based attack, IIRC, unit s

Reply to Remove the engineers from the game in Ashes of the Singularity Founders AshesoftheSingularity Forums

Apparently I am losing my mind with the T2 engineers. I guess I am so used to seeing the T2 option when building with factories instead of the command center. Forgive me for that. I am actually happy about this because it means I don't need to build each tier of engineer to build the corresponding buildings.

Reply to Topic #1: Map Design and Resources in Ashes of the Singularity Founders AshesoftheSingularity Forums

[quote who="TheRealWarpstorm" reply="11" id="3566477"] It is, however it'll be a bit harder to do next patch [e digicons];)[/e] [/quote] Very nice. I will be looking forward to that. If we can extend the matches then we can try harder to break the game. [e digicons]\o/[/e]

Reply to Remove the engineers from the game in Ashes of the Singularity Founders AshesoftheSingularity Forums

@atmorell Like Andre said, engineers add the ability to repair structures and speed up production so removing them would actually hurt more than help. They really just need a movement speed buff right now. I mean they could allow construction on reactive nodes and regions other than the seed starting area, but to balance it out it would have to be expensive and slow building. @No_Menace They already have 2 tiers of engineers in the game, with th

Reply to Bugs / Spotted Thread in Ashes of the Singularity Founders AshesoftheSingularity Forums

[quote who="TheRealWarpstorm" reply="14" id="3566292"] Quoting MindlessMe, reply 13 Not screenshot worthy but I had a factory build a unit to completion then freeze. Unit would not complete and I could not cancel it in the queue. Only had it happen one time though. This usual

Reply to Bugs / Spotted Thread in Ashes of the Singularity Founders AshesoftheSingularity Forums

Not screenshot worthy but I had a factory build a unit to completion then freeze. Unit would not complete and I could not cancel it in the queue. Only had it happen one time though.

Reply to Battle group UI is smart in Ashes of the Singularity Founders AshesoftheSingularity Forums

Yea, I noticed this as well. It's a great feature for filling battlegroups without the need of selecting each unit and pulling them in.

Reply to Topic #1: Map Design and Resources in Ashes of the Singularity Founders AshesoftheSingularity Forums

[quote who="ASADDF" reply="7" id="3566237"] Ok let me start by saying This is so wrong!!!! like really wrong! everything is wrong! - First: we are talking about 1 thousands (1000) units minimum per side right? it means that we have to build 100+ logistics buildings?? are you kidding me? this is the first mistake you Dev's are doing, no one have the time or resources or space to build 100+ logist

Reply to Movement Speed in Ashes of the Singularity Founders AshesoftheSingularity Forums

I would have to agree with most of what you are saying about the speed affecting a lot of the normal battle tactics used in warfare.

Reply to Topic #3: UI- Design and Layout in Ashes of the Singularity Founders AshesoftheSingularity Forums

[quote who="tatsujb" reply="5" id="3565953"] I just think the unit picture window is frekin useless, it's just a copy of what starcraft did made really evident by the fact that it was already useless when statecraft did it. then everything (well I think it's only important in the case of the economy) is TINY! I mean how am I supposed to KNOW that I'm missing reactives, mass, or logistics if I can't SEE them? plus appart from the fact it's tiny, it's tea

Reply to Topic #2: UI - mouse controls in Ashes of the Singularity Founders AshesoftheSingularity Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="15" id="3566046"] I like wasd and it was discussed but we are using qwert for all unit and building hot keys. [/quote] Well it does allow more hot key options if camera control is tied to the mouse. Also give me a reason to shamelessly plug my UI discussion.

Reply to Topic #1: Map Design and Resources in Ashes of the Singularity Founders AshesoftheSingularity Forums

[quote who="greenedr00l" reply="4" id="3566122"] I'd suggest tying the unit cap (which can be viewed as a resource) to regions rather than buildings. Having engineer units set aside for the express purpose of building unit cap buildings the entire game felt kind of goofy/pointless to me. Alternately, the buildings could be limited to x per region (maybe 2?) so they couldn't all be clustered in more or less safe areas of the map. [/quote] Please no on t

Reply to Topic #2: UI - mouse controls in Ashes of the Singularity Founders AshesoftheSingularity Forums

[quote who="Derringer2k8" reply="5" id="3565935"] I actually prefer right-mouse to move the map around. I'm probably in the minority though. [/quote] I'd say you would be surprised. Everyone has their preference, and with the ability to map keys we can really tailor the game to our own style of play. As long as the foundation is there we will all be able to play the way we want. That is why it's so important for everyone to provide feedback to the

Reply to Ashes: WHO should become a founder? PLEASE READ in Ashes of the Singularity AshesoftheSingularity Forums

I also cross posted this to the Ashes of the Singularity subreddit. Hopefully it will help people make a more informed decision.

Reply to Topic #3: UI- Design and Layout in Ashes of the Singularity Founders AshesoftheSingularity Forums

[quote who="Shadow00000000" reply="3" id="3565929"] I just thought of some other things that the research area needs: time to finish research, a number which corresponds to the order of the item in the research que (a feature I hope will be added), and a percent completion (not as important as the other two). I didn't see your pictures before MindlessMe. I like the layout that you show, but I think that coloring just the object and not the entire square might look nicer. I

Reply to Topic #3: UI- Design and Layout in Ashes of the Singularity Founders AshesoftheSingularity Forums

[quote who="Shadow00000000" reply="1" id="3565907"] I'll add my thoughts to this. I really liked the layout and gameplay of Sins (of a Solar Empire) so most of my preferences come from that game. I agree that the building menu is very cluttered. I've always liked how it was done in Sins where you had a button (using the QWERASDF keys for selection as hotkeys) that would bring you to a menu where you could then pick what you wanted to build. I also liked the little rese

Reply to Greetings Founder! in Ashes of the Singularity Founders AshesoftheSingularity Forums

We are up to the challenge! Like many others here, I will be logging many hours in the game. I'm sure the game will be amazing by the time it hits 1.0.

Reply to Your First Impressions... in Ashes of the Singularity Founders AshesoftheSingularity Forums

[quote who="TheRealWarpstorm" reply="22" id="3565873"] Quoting Baalonthus, reply 19 jcould also see the triangle grid which the terrain overlaid after i drove some units over it Was it blue? If so, that is programmer art for the radar system. The actual terrain me