Lumby's first impressions and observations, after maybe an hour of play

[ElOhTeeBee]

First thing I tried to do was use my mouse wheel to scroll the ticker on the opening screen. Didn't work

First fight was pretty entertaining - combat is easy to understand and fun to play.

Was fiddling around in options to fix a not-quite-crash I had on alt-tabbing. Now I want a specialty code, and I don't even know what those are.

Typo in the mouseover for Not Yet Spacefaring races - it says 'nor with other races interact with them much', when it should say 'nor will'.

The research tutorial explains what the green checkmarks are, but I don't know what the difference between blank spaces and red squares is.

The Twitter feed needs more internet text-speak. More seriously, I'd like to be able to scroll it manually, so I can pause and read everything.

I wish there was a way to have more refined control over my movements - a waypoint system, or something. I don't just wanna pick where I end up, I'd also like to be able to set how I get there.

Another typo, this time in the special ability tutorial - 'Your ship has the ability to do make some pretty amazing stuff'. The 'do' shouldn't be there.

In the tutorial for ship customization, it says you can have three special abilities at once. But you get six.

One last typo (for now), in the Colonize Moon political deal description - 'adn' should be 'and'.


That's all for now; I need lunch. If you have any specific questions, feel free to ask.

EDIT: Right. Mantis tickets. I will get right on those... after lunch.

[madcow]

My own first thought, I've played maybe an hour or two.

Various combat stuff:  The first combat it isn't exactly clear what the target specifically is, I was just randomly flying around attacking and then suddenly the combat ended. I was like what? On a similar note, it would be nice if the tutorial mentioned (or maybe a tooltip pops up when you're at half health or something) to say that once you die, that's it game over. I was expecting some sort of withdraw, not game over, heh! Why does space bar pause combat? I don't see a reason for pausing combat, and hitting space bar on accident means when you end turn you're left wondering why nothing is moving - I was expecting space bar to be an end turn button myself.

Tutorial stuff: It isn't clear what we really should be doing at first. I'm just randomly doing helpful missions/harmful missions, but at least with only a few spacefaring races, the options seem limited and it isn't clear what if anything I should be working towards.

The black market tutorial didn't make it clear it was actually on the solar system map (though maybe I misread on that one). I was searching for it on the tooltips and was like where is the black market! Then eventually noticed it on the map.

There doesn't seem to be a way to get info on the races without actually visiting them. I was trying to decide who to smuggle space tech to, but didn't seem possible to decide in advance - just had to go visit and see.

Resolution: I'll post a mantis on this, but one thing I noticed is if I go from full screen to windowed, then back to full screen it changes the full screen resolution to the windowed size. Might be mac specific issue, I'll mantis once I've tested it more.

Occasionally when going into menus I've had the game stall, and the mouse turns into the spinning globe (aka my mac is thinking) for maybe 30-60 secs. Again might be mac specific and will try seeing if I can reproduce before going to mantis.

The game itself I've been having fun with though, most of my comments are more geared towards delivery of information!

[Aklyon]

Tutorial stuff: It isn't clear what we really should be doing at first. I'm just randomly doing helpful missions/harmful missions, but at least with only a few spacefaring races, the options seem limited and it isn't clear what if anything I should be working towards.

I would agree with this.

[nas1m]

Mantised (i.e. collected feedback for the devs, 7 items added (ElOhTeeBee: 3, madcow 4)
Thanks!

[nas1m]

The Twitter feed needs more internet text-speak. More seriously, I'd like to be able to scroll it manually, so I can pause and read everything.

You can simply click on the bar to expand it and a view showing all tweets .

I wish there was a way to have more refined control over my movements - a waypoint system, or something. I don't just wanna pick where I end up, I'd also like to be able to set how I get there.

Simply hold shift while clicking to set a waypoint. The combat tutorial should mention this by now as well...

EDIT: Right. Mantis tickets. I will get right on those... after lunch.

Doh, I should have read your post in full before starting to log issues, ah well ...