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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/1/2010 10:04:12 PM

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More bones please?

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/3/2010 11:27:33 AM

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Erik, great news about the nuanced ship design - on another, smaller UI note: would love to scroll through the different races' diplo trading screens without having to go in and out?

I must confess, I'm excited

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/5/2010 1:49:51 PM

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Any indication of the price?

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/5/2010 4:38:40 PM

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Any indication of the price?

Your marriage and/or any other relationships you have. Maybe even your health.

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/5/2010 8:02:21 PM

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Any indication of the price?

It appears Matrix has a policy of non price disclosure for upcoming titles. When the game is available you will know the price at that time. I don't necessarily agree, but its their right as a company to do so. It also is the right of the customer to evaluate all the information prior to making a purchasing decision... such a fine balance.

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/6/2010 2:37:56 AM

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Having just found this expansion thread (I am not good at forums...), I am quite excited for this release. Naturally, I will buy it the instant it is out.

I would like to comment on wormholes or the like. I do think that they would add a very interesting aspect to the game. As with all empires, the greatest of which are founded on their ability to communicate and travel quickly, so I think the option of generating galactic shortcuts would be really cool and make galaxy travel more strategic, in my opinion.

I think it's just a personal weakness of mine, but coming from Sins of a Solar Empire, I have a hard time dealing with the ability to travel directly from one system to another. I don't know if this is already included in DW, as the scale is pretty big for me to have overcome the learning curve yet, but I see the connections between DW and the Civ series. Mountain ranges are pretty clutch in Civ V and can really define empires. I would really like to see some sorts of galactic anomalies that are impossible to traverse. I always feel like I am fighting a war on infinite fronts, lol.

Much love to all involved with DW. Keep up the great work!

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/6/2010 8:16:21 AM

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Any indication of the price?

As blastpop indicated, Matrix generally doesn't disclose prices for their games until they're available for sale in their store. Given that the original game's usual (non-sale) price is $40 (U.S.), though, I would guess the expansion will sell for around $25-30.

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/6/2010 4:08:00 PM

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It looks good. Any update on a timetable for release?

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/6/2010 4:19:25 PM

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Isn't there usually a period of quiet before a release is announced? Could this be it?

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/6/2010 7:31:32 PM

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I have not been reading through the entire thread, so what is about pre-game-settings, especially I wonder, if it will be possible to set the number of planets a faction starts with?

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/6/2010 7:36:05 PM

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Isn't there usually a period of quiet before a release is announced? Could this be it?

I hate quiet.

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/6/2010 7:39:25 PM

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More bones coming today...

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/6/2010 7:42:47 PM

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Probably already asked but will the in-game Galactopedia or whatever it's called

be updated with the expansion?

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/6/2010 8:29:51 PM

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I would like to just know when it is coming out.. "coming soon" is a tease!

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/6/2010 8:38:25 PM

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More bones coming today...

Mmmm bones...maybe with a little meat still on them?

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/6/2010 10:34:49 PM

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Yes, the Galactopedia has been updated.

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/6/2010 10:53:30 PM

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Here are a few more screenshots to hold you over. We are currently still iterating to get to a gold master candidate. We are very close and that could happen any day this week. We are hoping it will happen this week so that we will be able to release next week, but until we have a confirmed gold master build we can't project an exact release date.

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/6/2010 10:54:01 PM

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A couple of new galaxy types and the colony prevalence option...

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/6/2010 10:54:32 PM

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Gravity Well Projectors

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/6/2010 10:55:19 PM

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A skirmish with my new CVL in today's latest test game.

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/6/2010 10:55:43 PM

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What's this?

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/6/2010 11:08:39 PM

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What's this?

Looks like me the last time I went to the dentist.

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/6/2010 11:12:50 PM

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omg clusters!!!! my favorite map type!!!

the gravity well looks pretty sweet, i take it there are different levels of the well for a higher radius?

im going to try and put them in a huge circle all around my empire, see what happens

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/6/2010 11:22:37 PM

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Zardoz?

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What's this?

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/6/2010 11:23:39 PM

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What's this?

Shodan looks kinda like a peacefull race with that blue finish,hmmm.

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/6/2010 11:55:25 PM

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mom?

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/7/2010 12:38:11 AM

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any chance of a 50 star galaxy? resource slider?

i'm still excited

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/7/2010 12:39:03 AM

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More pictures YES! Possible release next week, hope it happens! More setting! HECK YA! Last picture... I DON'T KNOW!

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/7/2010 1:35:56 AM

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ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

What's this?

Not sure what it is, but the answer to everything is...42.

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RE: Distant Worlds: Return of the Shakturi - 12/7/2010 1:38:03 AM

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ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

A skirmish with my new CVL in today's latest test game.

Erik, in these pictures I am noticing that there are class types, IE FFL - (Corvette) and CVL- (Light Carrier). Is this an in game thing or just a personal naming thing?

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