Comments on: Pre-order copies on sale (oh my god…) + Manual

By: Kevin S.

Kevin S. — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:13:11 +0000

I so rather buy this game then some run-of-the-mill design I’ve seen before countless times.

It is great to see some games being made that actually have a lot of depth to them, and are trying something new.

Bought this game in the same hour I heard about it!

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:13:24 +0000

I dig the game so far! Some more UI niceties would be welcome, just making it easier to do certain common things like loading and saving designs, or making a new design (blank out all modules, and especially the name).

I seem to have run into a bug: I am designing frigates and every time I put Frigate Missile Launchers in a hardpoint, when I save or reload the design (or just try to use it in a deployment), all those launchers transform into Anti-Fighter Missile Launchers. This happened with two different hulls, and also after I quit & restarted (and tried to design them again from scratch).

Great work!

By: Narnach

Narnach — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:23:16 +0000

Bought the game and love it. The missions’ honor reward system really invites you to optimize your ships and strategy for each level to gain more honor with each time you beat a level.

For a pre-order beta it’s actually pretty polished. The minor bugs I’ve encountered so far don’t really get in the way.

Thanks for making such a fun game!

By: Some Dude

Some Dude — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:39:31 +0000

Just so you know, one of the main reasons I purchased this was to support a developer who took a stand and previously announced that they were taking copy protection off of thier games. From what I’ve seen copy protection in general mostly annoys legitimate customers, or at best delays a day or two from someone cracking it. Thats why I like companies that give out patches after a year or so that remove copy protection (which is in general after most of the copies of the game have been sold), like egosoft, or companies that go without it entirely.
I don’t mind a cd key/serial check when you play online games, but anymore more generally annoys me (unless transparently its built into the game delivery system like Steam or Impulse, where you can install it on all the desktops/laptops you own, etc).

Other reasons I pre-ordered were:
Good price point ($20).
And good trailer, screenshots on the webpage.

By: Tortyfoo

Tortyfoo — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:53:47 +0000

Like the sound of this and when I saw I could pay by PayPal ordered immediately. Am very impressed with Cliff’s attitude to development and support. As a 1 man independent developer myself I know how much hard work it can be and I only have 1 ancient product to support.

Even if I never play it (like so many games I buy and that includes Kudos 2 and Democracy) won’t regret the purchase and the chance to support an independent developer.

By: Wolfox

Wolfox — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:09:01 +0000

Yeah, I’m there at the forums – lots of great information there for anyone that buys the game right now in the beta stage.

By: S. Hall

S. Hall — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:07:07 +0000

Just purchased — after following along with the development of this labor of love, I could never justify pirating or skipping GSB. Best of luck, looking forward to testing this Beta (download just finished).

For anyone reading this that has encountered bugs, please remember to help Cliff out and check the official forums. There are some potential solutions to a few common issues already documented — and it makes things easier on Cliff if all that information is a little more consolidated.

Thanks for taking a chance on making the game you wanted to make, Cliff. I really hope it gets the recognition (and payment!) it deserves.

By: Wolfox

Wolfox — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:48:44 +0000

I tried running, and it fails on the splash screen with a dialog box that says:

“Error 41. Please contact tech Support:..\src\Game.cpp 242″

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:38:38 +0000

Bought the game today, and I’ve had chronic crashes (to desktop). Happens every minute or so.

Examples:
Just loaded the game, quit midway through the tutorial dialog boxes. Reloaded it, and just pressed “fight”. CTD.

Loaded the game again, deploy, fight, CTD. I’m not seeing the “loading screen at all”.

I tried changing resolution and sound off, still CTD. Eventually pressed Hard mode, and then I got into the battle. I pressed easy mode again, and it ran fine.

Emptied out my fleet deployment, and pressed the + button to design new ship and it crashes. Does this repeatedly.

Will report some more – as I find them repeatably.
I’m on a Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop – Core 2 Duo 2.00GHz, 2GB Ram, NVidia 8600GT.

By: Calmon

Calmon — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:46:34 +0000

I also get crashes as soon as i start a battle. The crash occurs on my home PC (nVidia, Single Core) and on my Laptop (ATI, Dual Core).

I can send you the debug information.