Comments - blutsager

Hey guys. I am intersted in participating in your wiki, helping you finish it up. That being said, I would like to ask some questions regarding how to find the information needed to make it:
First of all, I participated on adding info to the Company of Heroes wiki. It was easy to do thanks to the "Cheat Mod" Company of Heroes had. This mod allowed me to insta-spam any unit, resources, or abilities, at any moment. It was like having a lab, on which I could experiment and see how each unit and ability behaved on different situations. Considering the ammount of detail CoH had, it was a great tool to learn all those small details. Is there anything like the "Cheat Mod" for your "Ultimate Apocalypse Mod" avaible? it would be great.
Second, I have seen that, from the little info people has posted on the wiki, some people have been able to post up the unit stats of certain units in the game. How did they do that? Where did they find all the info about those units? I do see you have some of that info displayed on the unit icon, when you are gonna recruit them in-game, but is there any way of finding all the info about the unit outside of hte game? perhaps a file inside the UAmod folder where you have put all this data or something?.
Oh, and last. Where are the icons that you use in-game? So I could use those icons with the wiki`s of their unit.

This adds a great combination to the game: a player can play it as a storyline, trying to beat all 5 worlds. And when a player does that, the game still offers fun for him to replay it since he can play it as a sandbox game, just trying to survive on the first world for as long as he can. Also, the game offers both features on the same mode: instead of adding a "campaing" mode and a "sandbox" mode, you only have one mode, where you can do as you wish, either just stay on the first world for as long as you can survive or cross the portal (if you find it!) to the second world.
This system allows the game to offer the player thousands of hours of fun, instead of only the ammount of hours the game`s story lasts. And this is quite important for an indie game where the few ammount of people working on it wont be capable of creating an story that lasts over 15 or 20 hours.
Well, I guess thats all I can think for now, will write more after I see another version released.
Oh, and if the comment is too long or not what you were expecting as "feedback", just tell me so I can do a better work next time.

This makes it a sandbox game with a lot to offer for a player to replay it over and over again. Its a sandbox game, yet at the same time the fact that the game is gonna make you loose eventually ensures that you dont just discover everything this game has on your first time you play it, but must replay several times to learn all about the game. BUT, the game also has an storyline: on the island, you can discover some mysterious doors you can cross to acces another world. you finish the story on the 5th world. But travelling to the next world is extremelly dangerous, so a player should take his time on the first world to build lots of tools for his travell...
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Another thing: on the roadmap you mention this game is gonna have an storyline. Something I didnt expect. I thought, from the little I could see on this first alpha, that this game was gonna be "sandbox" with no story neither no ending. Adding an story means that the game has a beggining and an end. Now, this can bring a problem for an indie game: from what I have seen your company is composed of 2 people. Even if more, its quite likely you aint gonna be able to write an story that last thousands of hours of gameplay. As so, this could condemn the game to be short. But I dont mean you should discard the storyline, of course not. Instead, I am thinking more in the style that Dont Starve used for his story: on dont starve, you start in an island and you have ot survive. The game itself starts with a simple concept: you aint gonna survive forever. You are gonna loose eventually...
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Honestly, I dont have a really clear idea of what to say or what do you expect on my comment that I tell you about this game, so I am just gonna throw everything that comes to my mind about it here. Sorry if it is quite a long comment!.
So, what we got here so far is a game that is really open to take a lot of different ways: so far, the only thing that has been established is that the game is about piloting a ship on space and mining planets. Also, on the "roadmap" you show you are gonna add "spacecraft development". Now, this still offers a lot of options. This game could focus on combat, by adding tons of weapons with different capabilities that make the combat dinamyc and intersting. Or this game could be about administration: handling the resources, taking care of the survivors who live in your ship, making this game be more of a "city building" style, only you build a ship instead of a city, by adding facilities that help you satisfy the need of your survivors while you transport them to the "new earth". I will see how the game progresses and what are you planning for this game as new versions are released.

ah, ok. Then I will wait untill tomorrow to see the "roadmap" and what you have in plan. Good luck with this project!.

Well, from the features that I was able to test on my short gameplay, only think I can say for now is that you should clarify that you can right click on your ship to open all the other panels.

So, basically this game is an open box, and will be shaped based on the ideas of players?.

Intersting, I am curious about this game. Gonna try it out!.
Later I will wrtie a review about what I see in this game, any bugs, and any ideas that i think you could find usefull, if it helps you.