ManaUser wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 05, 2019 2:47 am

CDarklock wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 04, 2019 11:30 pm

I was thinking of Starcraft the whole time through that mission. It really felt like the Starcraft campaign.

They even added creep to the spawners.

Which, please tell me, they are not doing to prevent the "turret creep" strategy... why, exactly?

once you can casually sprawl solar panels make power irrelevant, and nuclear power is kinda op due to the advance refining thinggy. I am still overly confused by solar and nuclear. I feel like the ratio of panels and accumulators is complicated, so I don't want to do the maths to work it out, but I...

It's possible that the job of constructing that specific entity was given to a bot that was low on power and chasing you across the map, thereby delaying the deployment. I get that a lot. I'll blueprint something, and watch my bots run out to place it, and they'll ignore like... one belt. Then a co...

I see your point here and I welcome the idea of an artificial kind of campaign, a la RTS campaigns like Warcraft III's that are completely different from a skirmish game. I was thinking of Starcraft the whole time through that mission. It really felt like the Starcraft campaign. However, as much as...

I would like to stress that it is tutorial. A tutorial. Fundamentally, it's futile to argue with the playerbase about what something is, so this is going to end up being right. Once enough people insist that this is what this part of the game is, and it can either do a good job or a bad one, but it...

Ranakastrasz wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 04, 2019 9:43 pm

I wonder how many people will stop considering efficiency modules worthless now?

I certainly never saw the point of them in 0.16, but I sure as hell do now.

But what about the easy way - killing all biters in pollution range. Good luck with that :) Seriously, it's harder than it used to be. I was starting to think this was better than setting up a perimetre, in 0.16, but it's so much harder in 0.17 that I'm back to walls and turrets. Until you get heav...

it is assumed that, during normal gameplay, you will have at least enough smelters running to feed your research production. That would be the way I played the campaign the first time, when I didn't know anything about what was coming or when. I've talked extensively about that. I had a total of se...

Currently, by far the best strategy to eliminate enemy bases is to turret creep. Problem is, that it seems to the only viable way to of eliminating bases until tanks, basically. Which is far too long. I see your point, but I also think it's meaningful to have the biter bases as an effectively intra...

Xuhybrid wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 04, 2019 7:17 pm

That's a lot of assumptions with no basis.

Where?

BlueTemplar wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 04, 2019 4:35 pm

Huh, I don't think that I've seen the expansion groups do that in 0.16? Or is that because they will attack if stopped by walls?

I kind of feel like the devs are sitting there waiting for us to figure out all the ways biters are nastier in 0.17

eventually you might run out of Water. Well, yes, given an infnite amount of time... a sufficiently dedicated player might theoretically mine enough stone to make enough landfill to run all the way across the entire world filling in every single source of water, on purpose, because he is crazy . Th...

is there enough info for a new player to guess what a "strong enough" defense is? If he overdoes the defense, would he fail? I've raised that issue as a suggestion, because I was unclear about it myself. What does "strong enough" actually mean ? I feel like it's okay to guess to...

Let me begin by saying that I am entering this with a basic mindset: the direction of the game is correct . It doesn't matter whether I think it should be going some other direction or not, so I haven't invested any time or energy in what direction I think it should be going. The game has changed th...

Opsse wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 04, 2019 12:50 pm

I agree, visual feedback is important to make it clear that the progression is not lost.

+1, it's been news to me that it isn't. I've often wished I could cancel research on something to crank out something else real quick, and apparently I can, I just didn't know I could.

The point is, that if you need the research and choose not to do Military Science (which was Developer's intention, that Military Science should be purely optional and not needed for a world without biters), then you should have everything non combat available. But you can use power armour for comb...

<NO_NAME> wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 04, 2019 1:27 am

Personal roboport is almost unusable without the reactor.

All kinds of stuff is completely unusable without the right research. This is literally complaining that you don't want to do the research on what you want, but you still want it.

I think a strong argument can be made that this is clearly what you wanted to happen, regardless of the filter.

Mike5000 wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 03, 2019 10:51 pm

Potential buyers are supposed to magically guess

I'll just leave this here.

Once you research the technology, you automatically double your mining speed. You don't have to make one or carry it around.