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ORIGINAL: Haree78

Looks like you are beta testing Stardrive also. Might help if you say how much time you can allocate to testing DW when you apply.

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ORIGINAL: Sarissofoi

What about no?
Just wait until release version will be released.
Trust me its much better for your mental health.

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ORIGINAL: Cruis.In
wow harsh criticisms for a game based on a video you saw. A game that isn't even in beta version yet according to its developer, as the beta version is to be released in january.

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ORIGINAL: Cruis.In

I wonder if anyone would want to play DW based on a video of it during alpha development. Since DW was pretty much trash and trashed by 90% of end users and media, mainstream or otherwise upon initial release, I doubt it.

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ORIGINAL: Cruis.In

You are comparing alpha footage, to a game which has been in development for like 6 years, and has gone through three versions and nearing a fourth.

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ORIGINAL: Cruis.In
I think star drive is suffering from the developer's changing goals. It's a 4x rts, great ship design, but you can control your ship arcade style, now we have ground combat, now I want it to be a mod platform that people can make their own stuff with etc...

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ORIGINAL: Cruis.In

wow harsh criticisms for a game based on a video you saw. A game that isn't even in beta version yet according to its developer, as the beta version is to be released in january.

I wonder if anyone would want to play DW based on a video of it during alpha development. Since DW was pretty much trash and trashed by 90% of end users and media, mainstream or otherwise upon initial release, I doubt it.

You are comparing alpha footage, to a game which has been in development for like 6 years, and has gone through three versions and nearing a fourth.

And might I add that my initial expectations of stardrive are a bit dashed as well, and DW is awesome in its current form and would be the epic definitive 4x rts if it had 2d hardware acceleration which it could have if it used opengl.

Might I suggest looking into blitz max or unity :)

I think star drive is suffering from the developer's changing goals. It's a 4x rts, great ship design, but you can control your ship arcade style, now we have ground combat, now I want it to be a mod platform that people can make their own stuff with etc...

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ORIGINAL: ASHBERY76

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ORIGINAL: Cruis.In

wow harsh criticisms for a game based on a video you saw. A game that isn't even in beta version yet according to its developer, as the beta version is to be released in january.

I wonder if anyone would want to play DW based on a video of it during alpha development. Since DW was pretty much trash and trashed by 90% of end users and media, mainstream or otherwise upon initial release, I doubt it.

You are comparing alpha footage, to a game which has been in development for like 6 years, and has gone through three versions and nearing a fourth.

And might I add that my initial expectations of stardrive are a bit dashed as well, and DW is awesome in its current form and would be the epic definitive 4x rts if it had 2d hardware acceleration which it could have if it used opengl.

Might I suggest looking into blitz max or unity :)

I think star drive is suffering from the developer's changing goals. It's a 4x rts, great ship design, but you can control your ship arcade style, now we have ground combat, now I want it to be a mod platform that people can make their own stuff with etc...

The design concepts for most of the topics I mention will be in release too.Dont get me wrong stardrive looks a nice MOO2 clone in real time but I see no innovations or new ideas in it so far.

The original DW vanilla was in terrible shape and almost unplayable but it looked very different to the rest of the crowd.

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ORIGINAL: DevildogFF
And while this may be a form of blasphemy on these forums, I will say without a shred of doubt that the Stardrive beta is already better than vanilla Distant Worlds. Hands down. In nearly every category, save economy.

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ORIGINAL: DevildogFF


You make a lot of assumptions based on video and little else.

How do you think, or why do you think, that Stardrive is a Moo2 clone?

And while this may be a form of blasphemy on these forums, I will say without a shred of doubt that the Stardrive beta is already better than vanilla Distant Worlds. Hands down. In nearly every category, save economy.

So maybe instead of hating on something you don't understand, you should try being optimistic and open minded. No one is saying you have to buy Stardrive. But lord knows there isn't enough people trying make good 4x games. So try supporting all 4x games until PROVEN otherwise.

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ORIGINAL: Cruis.In

Also I think the devs should look into blitzmax. DW is 2d after all and blitzmax is the best cheapest development they could ever get for 2d. Fast, stable, feature rich and built in support for win/mac/linux. No porting needed, only have to port what they got now to blitzmax. Also blitzmax takes plug in modules. So they could plug in their C modules to blitzmax. It is just the rendering/physics/collision detection they'd need to re-code.

I dont have shares in blitzmax but i use it to create a hobby space game.