SC2Mapster

Awww. Oh well. Guess I'll have to wait for another 1 1/2 extra weeks. :(

Ty ahead of time for the private test. :D Once again, your map is brilliant and gl with the rest of it! :D

Edit: Oh! Idea popped up! For gas planets you can simply take the model of a normal planet, copy it, and change its tints to 200 50 50, 50 200 50, or 50 50 200 to create blue green and red gas planets if you wish. Blue is 50 50 200. Red is 200 50 50. And Green is 50 200 50. :D

Edit: To add to my walls of text, I'd like to say something about aliens/pirates.

In most space rts games, like this one, they have some pirates/aliens on the side to give you oportunities to level up and strengthen your army. I noticed that you had lots of aliens floating around, but I didn't see any new ones being spawned. The pirates need some kinda base that spawns like 1 alien per minute to keep aliens coming. Also, we don't want too strong of pirates or it'd just be a waste of money spending ur ships hunting them, so I was thinking of making them hunt u instead. (Like they move around a bit, but some attack you when they get close to u. Idk if u can do that, but it'd be easier than hunting for them across this giant map with slow moving starships) (Kinda lame idea tho) :(

Edit: I was also wondering if you might possibly add space stations later on in development. (Space station can be like a buildable planet (Idk what will build it tho)) Consider the idea... :D

1) First off, thx for noticing my 2 walls. :D

2) Second, I think your map is awesome and besides new ideas I come up with every day, I wouldn't change a thing.

3) Finally, I'll say this again, I'm not in EU server, so can I...like...have a locked up copy of your map to test?

4) Edit: And yes, I think he and I do mean that DotA viewer yes.

5) Edit: Came up with a rly cool idea just a second ago. (I don't know if you have or can make a model for this, but its a cool idea) It's down below.

I thought of the idea of asteroid belts around some gas planets. The idea is to make like 5% of total planets = gas planets. These planets cannot be colonized. BUT!!! You can harvest them as if they were mineral fields. They have asteroid belts around them that give you 1 resource and the gas on the planet istelf gives u another resource. (Idk how ur resources works right now but just a thought) If you want to, you can remove the asteroid belt idea and just make asteroid fields instead and make the gas planets their own thing as well. Hope you like the idea. :D

@ djimii11 LOL... "yes programmer equals a sh*t load of hard things to make in a can, a recycled envoirmental, shiny shiny can" ...LOL. That'd go great in programmer's signature lol. :D

Edit: I read through every single post in the forum and the comments in map menus and I'm thinking of the following...

1) I think Aliens (Pirates) should control like 5% of the map at start and you have to fight to capture those ones.

2) I'm thinking you could (If you have enough trigger space) add in the option to build minor buildings like hospitals (makes planet take longer to conquer), airfields (makes your ships build faster), communications center (makes ships near the planet move 2wice their normal speed), etc. You could have land space which tells you how many buildings you can have. I know you have a building system, but idk if you have this kinda thing

3) Idk if you can add this, but I'm thinking that you can use the idea of having hangars in larger ships like cruisers and battleships. These require research which allows your larger ships to carry very small fighters and bombers.

4) I also think there can be neutral, hostile, hazardous, and uninhabited planets as well. Uninhabited planets are a lot more common than the others and allow you to capture them with no effort. Neutral planets can't be colonized until they choose to. (You can build ambassadar ships later on in game that have an ability to colonize neutral planets {Kinda like a special colony ship}) Hostile planets will fight against anyone that tries to colonize their planet. Finally, hazardous planets are planets that can be captured, but have a 2% chance of destroying your colony every 30 seconds.

I already posted this on your forums, but I'll post it here too...

"Wanna know what'd be REALLY cool? What'd be neat to see in middle betas is complete control of ship building. Example: You decide to build a cruiser. You go to the cruiser button and it doesn't start building yet. Instead, it takes you to a cool model viewer UI with complete overview of what the cruiser will look like through default. Then, you can decide how much Hp, shields, armor, damage, etc it has. The more you put, the more it costs. Then, you can choose the model design for each ship. (Each ship type {Fighter, cruiser, transport, corvette, etc.} has it's own list of models) If you don't know how to view models in the UI, ask Programmer. He just made a model viewer recently and that'd be really cool in this game. That'd make a really great way to customize ships. MAYBE! I have another idea! Maybe you can make that a way to customize Command Ships (Capitol Ships) which act as heroic ships. That'd be cool. Consider my thoughts." :D -lol, I just realized the only new thing in this whole paragraph is the model viewer, but I guess that was the whole point of the comment wasn't it?

...also, someone posted some interesting feedback, and I agree. I would probably feel as though I was just goofing around pressing dialogue buttons all day and not really see any results. I could probably handle it, but it'd make you feel a lot better if you could watch something happen every now and then. I had an example right there, where you could see the model of the ship while you're picking the model. (You already had everything else, but I thought that idea would be interesting.) Anyway, I and many others would like to see that maybe in late beta or just at release. I know you don't want it in the lobbies because of the popularity system, but with this, it could be on the 1st page. :D

Also, you should change your statis of game to alpha instead of planning. :D

(Edit: Sorry for writing an entire conversation in essay format lol)

(Edit: Since I'm in US region, could you put up an alpha version of the map here so I could go to file - test?)

(Edit: My reply is getting kinda long lol)