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Call for beta testers: Galactic Conquest version 8.0 (Miscellaneous)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 15.09.2007, 04:10

> > I admire the fact that it works on 286s with only conventional memory.
>
> ACK
He's of course free to port it to anything (which might be easier if it compiles with FreePascal or Virtual Pascal). I'm not opposed to that, it'd be cool, but (also?) supporting old 286s isn't a crime! :-P

> I never won so far. Maybe I'm not patiently enough. ;-)
It does take a while to play a game. This is not arcade style, it's more intense planning (but not THAT bad, just not exactly a 5-min. game).

You have to F2 -> B a lot to see what's coming towards you. Then F2 -> F (distance?) to see how far away you want to go. Then F2 -> E to see what you have remaining on each planet. Unlimited time helps a lot (and "test pilot" is considered cheating, obviously) but is less exciting. ;-)

Oh, and planets with higher productions are worth a lot more (they make more ships per year). The manual says conquer "unreal" production planets immediately, but for "high" conquer everything else first. (Personally, I can't see why you wouldn't just attack "high" immediately too ... unless there was more than one).

> > Everything plays fine except F2 -> C ("Runtime error 200 at 0000:1E29").
> I
> > have confirmed that such a keypress exits immediately under WinXP and
> > MS-DOS 6.22.
>
> We'll investigate this.
It would be nice to have working, but like I said, you can play without it. ;-)

> > * it doesn't look like you turn the cursor off (but that's easy to do)
>
> I think, he does, but it doesn't work always depending on your OS and
> graphics driver (in Win).
Well, in pure MS-DOS 6.22 it seemed to flicker a little bit. Not really an issue, just something that could be minorly improved.

> > * two-keys stopping the timer? just use two one-keypresses in
> succession
>
> Are install a clock handler. I sent such snippet to Jason years ago. ;-)
Well, the manual hints that sitting on your duff when the timer can't catch you is cheating, so this should ideally be fixed (not that I care, though, playing alone anyways).

> Configurable colors? Colors currently depend on what you chose, when
> creating your fleet leader. Why do you want to change it?
I prefer configurable keys more, but both would be nice. However, I realize that won't be high priority, just saying "it would be nice", in theory. Not a big issue, just feels slightly odd the way it's set up.

> > * what, no save scores? ;-)
>
> I never missed this so far. ;-)
Well, most games do save scores so you can compare your latest efforts with earlier ones (Is my new strategy working as well as my old one? Have I improved?)

> > Overall, nice game, nice feel and screen effects, nice idea, a little
> > weird but definitely cool. :-)
>
> :love:
I have a feeling that anyone who likes Dungeon Crawl (or Nethack or ADOM or ...) will like this game, too.

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