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[forsaken1111]

Accidents do happen on the battlefield.

[Texashawk]

Bumped this topic - huge updates in the last year! We now have a publisher, and we will be selling the game soon on Steam! The link to the Steam page is on the top post, repeated here for convenience: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1113400/Alliance_of_the_Sacred_Suns/

If you haven't seen the game in a few years, I recommend looking at the new LP tutorial series I'm working on here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAwflPEfEOMcgSOjdDJ_qNxmGNXInU47h

Check it out... it may just surprise you how far we've come!

-Steve

[Texashawk]

**removed due to double post**

[EuchreJack]

So, how do I stop swearing vengeance upon someone?  I can't see any button to do so, and I already selected to make peace with them.  The character was actually quite talented and part of a house that I want to woo, and seem unhealthy and thus not a long term threat, so I'd like to bury the hatchet.

It says my Oath is what is keeping the feud alive, so I *should* be able to fix this.

[EuchreJack]

Game now available for a short play-though for those who haven't bought into the alpha.
A 10 Turn demo is available on Steam

Find out all the new stuff and improvements that have been occurring over the last couple of years!

[Karlito]

Game now available for a short play-though for those who haven't bought into the alpha.
A 10 Turn demo is available on Steam

I've been curiously looking in on this thread from time to time, since conceptually this game holds a lot of appeal for me. Unfortunately the demo did a good job convincing me not to purchase the title, pretty much for the shallowest reasons. I found the UI to be weirdly slow and unresponsive at times, though perhaps a lot of that has to do with the way the tutorial was implemented. What really did me in was the incredibly shrill and screechy sound effects. It's way too much.

[EuchreJack]

Game now available for a short play-though for those who haven't bought into the alpha.
A 10 Turn demo is available on Steam

I've been curiously looking in on this thread from time to time, since conceptually this game holds a lot of appeal for me. Unfortunately the demo did a good job convincing me not to purchase the title, pretty much for the shallowest reasons. I found the UI to be weirdly slow and unresponsive at times, though perhaps a lot of that has to do with the way the tutorial was implemented. What really did me in was the incredibly shrill and screechy sound effects. It's way too much.

I actually never completed the tutorial, I ran into a bug a few versions ago and it was pretty boring.  Have you tried the main game also?

[Nirur Torir]

I skipped the tutorial, tried two demo games, didn't like it.

It feels player-hostile to have several tabs full of people yelling at me every turn for not putting their incompetent son on every new project I start, and then for having construction projects running. Please, collate those reputation changes from my actions into one window, with only one alert per turn, with some nice green +2s, red -10s, and brief reasons for calling to complain. I didn't sign on to be a customer service rep.

Both games (science or economic focus) saw me in an economic death spiral, for uncertain reasons. My guess for the second game is that colonizing is expensive enough to send my capital's GEP negative, while also making literally everyone hate me for putting on people skilled enough to finish within 10 turns and not bothering with CSR emperor skills. The first game was likely my own fault for expanding my infrastructure before it got crowded.

[EuchreJack]

Both games (science or economic focus) saw me in an economic death spiral, for uncertain reasons. My guess for the second game is that colonizing is expensive enough to send my capital's GEP negative, while also making literally everyone hate me for putting on people skilled enough to finish within 10 turns and not bothering with CSR emperor skills. The first game was likely my own fault for expanding my infrastructure before it got crowded.

My guess is that your trade network was incomplete.  The game starts you with a broken mess, its your job to clean it up.  Year 1 income is always a drop from the starting income, however.

Fixing the infrastructure is Job #1.  Only after that are resources available for the fun stuff.

[Texashawk]

Wanted to respond to this - first of all, thanks for trying out the demo! With regards to some of the issues people have had with it, we're not fans of the sounds either, and we're planning to have a professional composer (the same one who did the main theme to the game and will eventually score the entire game) do the sound and effects design. And the UI has not been fully optimized - the planet and system views reflect more of the 'final version' UI as opposed to the province and galaxy views. Also, based on the feedback we've gotten, we're going to push an update today that among other things doubles the turns you can play to 20. EuchreJack is right about the concept - your Empire is fragile economically, and it is entirely possible to 'crash your economy' with too many Projects, as well as your own personal Power unless you can get numerous Houses on board each Project. The effects of actions and Projects on House and character relationships has been greatly exaggerated so that changes can be seen more easily within the scope of the demo; we'll probably also do the same to Projects (cut their time in half). Again, thanks for the responses!

-Steve

[Texashawk]

FYI, an updated demo has been posted that doubles the turns you can play (to 20), adds the Construction Tactical Mode, and mutes all the annoying sound effects, plus fixes many reported bugs. Check it out!

-Steve

[EuchreJack]

Bumping since there is a demo and at least some interest.  Now, I own (I think) the game, but 20 turns is a long time in-game, since each year is 4 turns. 
You should have either fixed the starting crisis or irrevocably screwed it up in that time. 

[axiomsofdominion]

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[EuchreJack]

What helps is a wiki.
If you actually understand this game, you should share your insights. As you can tell, the dev sometimes has issues explaining the game to others.

[axiomsofdominion]

The demo appears to be no longer available.