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Reply to Coercion: Is it going away, and how do you deal with it? in Galactic Civilizations III Offworld Forums

[quote who="Larsenex" reply="35" id="3641004"] Eviator, that quote is actually Frogboys, directly pulled from his post. I wrote it to show that indeed the wheel will likely go away based on his tone in that thread. [/quote] Yeah when I first read his post back in late last year I laughed because I couldn't believe he said that. Nothing...NOTHING...prior to 1.3 or 1.4 hinted that they were looking at different economic systems, including dev streams, and I watched a

Reply to Coercion: Is it going away, and how do you deal with it? in Galactic Civilizations III Offworld Forums

The current system works (nobody would play it if it didn't) but it feels clunky and unintuitive, particularly for people who like to specialize. It's that way because the original design was too powerful, too unwieldy, and everything since has been a patch job to correct those issues. [quote who="Larsenex" reply="31" id="3640983"] Eventually, GalCiv III is going to have a bunch of different types of governments to choose from. The reason the Economy

Reply to Coercion: Is it going away, and how do you deal with it? in Galactic Civilizations III Offworld Forums

My guess is Larsenex is infering some of this from the paltry information provided during the dev streams. I used to do that. Unfortunately the GalCiv3 devs have a habit of under delivering on the expectations they set during the dev streams. Do you guys like the cool invasion gameplay? Here is a quick reason why coercion is just so poorly implemented. In a typical game with typical play, the maximum output of a particular resource isn't when you set your wheel to 100% on that res

Reply to Coercion: Is it going away, and how do you deal with it? in Galactic Civilizations III Offworld Forums

[quote who="Larsenex" reply="19" id="3640324"] Seriously if you are unhappy now with the way things work you all are gonna whine really bad when the Stand-Alone drops. That will be a complete rework from the ground up on how production/manufacturing and resources are allocated. Keep in mind the wheel wa

Reply to Coercion: Is it going away, and how do you deal with it? in Galactic Civilizations III Offworld Forums

Careful...the great cost in time and effort is just as much an issue with UI as it is an issue of complexity. Many of us proposed terrific ideas for UI improvements that kept specialization in place with less work through mechanical automation (as opposed to AI automation). During beta such ideas were regarded by the devs as "we want to do something like that". As the months and post release patches rolled by the ideas were silently dropped and just ignored. Not enough development staff is my

Reply to Coercion: Is it going away, and how do you deal with it? in Galactic Civilizations III Offworld Forums

Don't be silly. The devs didn't have some grand gameplay or lore reason for implementing coerocion. And despite what they claim it was never a planned mechanic until someone dreamed it up around 1.4 to address balance. They did it because adjecency and starbase bonuses were too powerful and caused a snowball effect where a player who specialized would get ahead and could steamroll everyone. Specialization was far far more effective than generalizing and that meant specializing wasn&#3

Let's gang up on the clear leader! in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

The last couple FFA tournaments games have been handed to the clear leader after: 1. The strong player does a hostile takeover, and 2. the remaining players go after eachother instead of coordinating against the strong player. Now I know the formats have been 1 point per takeover, so there is something to be gained by intentionally sacrificing the game to gain the one point. As a spectator watching an esport, however, this is anti-climactic, and I imagine it is frustrating for the players too

Reply to 4FFA Tournament 18th June 20.00 UTC in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

Nice! Good luck to the players. And thanks for doing this. Without some regulars and the casters, this game's MP would be be nearly dead and forgotten. Which baffles me because the MP gameplay is so strong.

Reply to Offworld Trading Company's Early Access Postmortem from Soren Johnson in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

I agree with all the points about what Steam could do better. Had these been in place I predict Offworld (and Ashes) would have better steam reviews and more players. Early Access should be only for devotees who will give the game a fair shake and are willing to take some pre-release hiccups in stride. That would mean less feedback, but frankly most feedback that makes its way into the game comes from devotees anyway. If there is concern a game release goes quietly, there is a possibl

Reply to The future of OTC multiplayer in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

Slightly off-topic here... I am very suprised about the low numbers. Soren and Zultar and others have done a terrific job showing off multiplayer, both ranked and tournaments. OTC multiplayer seems really great, and I enjoy watching it. That said I don't play multiplayer yet. I have over 70 hours in game and still have trouble beating the Manager AI. Multiplayer would be a bloodbath, I'm afraid, and my ego can't handle that. Hopefully someday I have some confidence

Reply to PSA: A tip for beginners in 1v1 (or in a 1v1 situation in FFA) in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

Darn, I was hoping this tip would show me how to easily get the $800k I needed. :)

Reply to Suggestions - More Data and Charts in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

I respectfully disagree. While it is true a player could be more effective with more charts and numbers in front of him, we already have three panels to monitor closely pulling our eyes off the map. We're on Mars here, so there is something to be said for having a reason to be observing what is going on on Mars. Otherwise the game just turns into a purely economic game.

Reply to A poll about the new voices - results are in! 82% in favour of bringing back the old ones in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

A lot of people saw the post and voted. But how many people saw the forum subject and passed on by? It's a flawed poll because few people who would click option #3 actually opened the topic.

Reply to Identifying production that loses money in Offworld Trading Company AshesoftheSingularity Forums

That's a great answer, thanks! I hadn't considered crashing price of silicon with my stockpile, with the idea of continuing to make glass with the lower price. Then wait until everyone else gets into glass then sell my glass stockpile :)

Identifying production that loses money in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

I'm pretty new to the game. One issue I have is that I find myself frequently neglecting to identify production that is a net loss. I know if you hover over a building it tells you the net loss/gain, so am I expected to hover over all my buildings frequently to figure this out? How is this calculated? Is it "total market price of input materials" - "total market price of output materials", accounting for quantities of inputs and outputs per second? Does that number include po

Reply to OTC: Lessons for Ashes in Ashes of the Singularity AshesoftheSingularity Forums

Frogboy, I did realize it. My post was in part a kudos. The rest of your post is a good satisfying response. Ticktoc's point about EA: I bet you could get away with a founder/founder-elite program so you still get some player feedback during development, but not do EA. Much of pre-beta we were under NDA, and I could see extending that until much closer to release. Yeah multiplayer would be hard to test, but I think players vs. devs Friday helps a good bit. Perhaps do two a week to

OTC: Lessons for Ashes in Ashes of the Singularity AshesoftheSingularity Forums

I recently purchased Offworld Trading Company and WOW am I impressed. Frogboy likes to ask "What is an RTS that released recently that was better that Ashes at release?" The answer is OTC. Last I checked it has a little higher steam rating and a much higher metacritic rating (even throwing out the Gamespot muck job). OTC has an incredible amount of depth in skirmish and multiplayer. The dynamic resources system means all games play differently, sometimes drastically so, and your appro

Reply to Daily Challenge Cheats? in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

Just noticed this and came to the forums to create a topic. Today's top spot gave himself $1.7 billion and jumped from HQ 1 to HQ 5. Those filty pirates!

Reply to Ashes: WEEK 5 DEV STATUS in Escalation Dev Journals AshesoftheSingularity Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="25" id="3634460"] Quoting eviator, reply 24 Just a heads up. I started about a dozen matches of Proving Grounds today while working on some ideas for a scenario. I thought I'd let you know in case you happen to look at my stats and come to the mistaken conclusion that I prefer tiny maps.</di

Reply to Stardock Roadmap Update: Spring 2016 in PC Gaming AshesoftheSingularity Forums

I am extremely joyed that you have been able to accomplish #3. If other companies can learn to adopt this strategy it s a huge win for good capitalism.

Reply to Ashes: WEEK 5 DEV STATUS in Escalation Dev Journals AshesoftheSingularity Forums

Just a heads up. I started about a dozen matches of Proving Grounds today while working on some ideas for a scenario. I thought I'd let you know in case you happen to look at my stats and come to the mistaken conclusion that I prefer tiny maps.

Reply to Ashes: WEEK 5 DEV STATUS in Escalation Dev Journals AshesoftheSingularity Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="14" id="3634237"] I tend to trust our stats more than forum anecdotal evidence. [e digicons]:)[/e] [/quote] Good grief Charlie Brown, I thought you guys were computer scientists. It's not the stats that are the problem. It's your interpretation of what those stats mean about player preference that is possibly folly. By your same logic people prefer Brutes over Zeus because they are more numerous. Sound ridiculous? Exactly. <br

Reply to Ashes: WEEK 5 DEV STATUS in Escalation Dev Journals AshesoftheSingularity Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="10" id="3634139"] I've been meaning to write a long article on the vast differences between forum goers and the average gamer. Examples I've learned (the hard way) Very few people play on big maps Very few people play on difficulties above easy (forget normal) Now, I am much more like a forum goer which is why we all get along so well. But when it comes

Reply to My very polite feedback regarding substrate vs. PHC balance in Ashes of the Singularity AshesoftheSingularity Forums

It is clear watching Draginol's/Frogboy's/Brad's "play against the devs Fridays" that he prefers the Substrate. And more, he loves to heavily utilize the avatar. After the game he tends to chalk his win up to having built more quantum generators, which is probably partially true. But it's also true, arguably moreso, that the avatar spam was actually a key factor. If the avatar could not be spammed as such, the avatar would still be good (could even be buffed), but would not be

Reply to Ashes: WEEK 5 DEV STATUS in Escalation Dev Journals AshesoftheSingularity Forums

Megas, I've made the "unfinished" argument before. The game doesn't meet your expectations for a polished product. The devs' counter-argument is "name me a recent RTS game that was this far along upon release." Said another way, it's not fair to compare a game just released to a game that's been around for a couple years. I am still torn on the right approach as a game player. I gave GalCiv3 a negative steam review at release because I was very unhappy with the sta