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Offline goobie

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JUST FINISHED ..the tutorials in 14 hours
« on: November 09, 2010, 09:17:45 am »
is this normal? i hope it is..it felt like an epic end after playing through 14 hours of the game finally
beating the enemy home galaxy!

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Re: JUST FINISHED ..the tutorials in 14 hours
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2010, 09:26:56 am »
Do you mean the 10-planet intermediate tutorial? :)
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Re: JUST FINISHED ..the tutorials in 14 hours
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2010, 07:07:35 am »
Do you mean the 10-planet intermediate tutorial? :)

yes..took me a long time! but i enjoyed it

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Re: JUST FINISHED ..the tutorials in 14 hours
« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2010, 07:14:11 am »
I have not tried the tutorial in almost a year, any big changes to them latly? I think I read something in some patch notes a way back, but I forget... :P
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Re: JUST FINISHED ..the tutorials in 14 hours
« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2010, 07:23:51 am »
is this normal? i hope it is..it felt like an epic end after playing through 14 hours of the game finally
beating the enemy home galaxy!

Took me 3 hours and a half but I'm a heavy "Pause" guy  ;). Who's to say what's normal and what's not.

yes..took me a long time! but i enjoyed it

In the end, that's what really matters  :) (plus the fact you learn a lot!).

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Re: JUST FINISHED ..the tutorials in 14 hours
« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2010, 10:21:55 am »
I have not tried the tutorial in almost a year, any big changes to them latly? I think I read something in some patch notes a way back, but I forget... :P

Yes, they're HUGELY different as of 4.0.  To account for guardians, the new guard posts, the heavier involvement of starships, the new endgame, the lack of knowledge raiding being a central thing, transports being free from the start... all of that sort of thing. :)
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Re: JUST FINISHED ..the tutorials in 14 hours
« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2010, 10:35:20 am »
it's absolutely difficult. but i actually wiped out all the planet's enemies after so many hours!

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Re: JUST FINISHED ..the tutorials in 14 hours
« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2010, 10:38:46 am »
Good work!
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Re: JUST FINISHED ..the tutorials in 14 hours
« Reply #8 on: November 22, 2010, 02:16:20 pm »
Stopped after a while and jumped into a full game with some friends but reading this I am actually considering playing it through once just to learn a bit extra about the game I might otherwise miss. Your game is quite insane, you know that right?

Most games tutorials lasts under an hour (at most) and yours takes hours and hours to complete :p

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Re: JUST FINISHED ..the tutorials in 14 hours
« Reply #9 on: November 23, 2010, 02:13:43 am »
Just wanted to drop in a thanks for updating the tutorial for 4.x. Having been out of the game for some time, when the Mac version came out I couldn't resist, and found massive changes everywhere---all for the good---but I was way out of my depth. So having that updated tutorial was great. I think it took about six or seven hours since I could fly through the parts that hadn't changed. I really like the new guardian system over the old "Monotony" system, where every AI world was just another place bristling with identical turrets and a few minor variations for some of the more eccentric AI types. Now each world has its own caveats, and the overall landscape of how they fit together create a fascinating strategic topology, almost like a puzzle game on top of a strategy game on top of a tactics game. It also makes the X map way more difficult to beat. It isn't just an unfortunately placed MkIV world that can cause you pain, now there are Eyes and Counterattack guardians that can make it supremely interesting to get out of your branch of the galaxy. I like it.