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Re: StarDrive - a space 4x that is looking very promising
« Reply #150 on: March 16, 2013, 10:42:24 am »

Sorry to burst your bubble Kaje but to my knowledge this happens with 90% of games on the market.
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« Reply #151 on: March 16, 2013, 10:57:14 am »

Which is why I usually buy elsewhere, at much cheaper prices - but we appear to have been penned into buying from Steam or not buying at all. Not even the Steam key online stores are carrying the title - and I refuse to pay more than other countries.

I'd love to play it, but it looks like I'll be waiting for a Steam sale.
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Re: StarDrive - a space 4x that is looking very promising
« Reply #152 on: March 16, 2013, 11:24:24 am »

Americans are currently being asked to pay $24.99...Brits? £20.99...works out that Brits are having to pay £4.00 more for the same game...whyz?
Because Steam. They always do that, or worse. Sometimes the prices are the same with different currencies. I've seen a $19.99 game also be £19.99.
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« Reply #153 on: March 16, 2013, 11:32:10 am »

Americans are currently being asked to pay $24.99...Brits? £20.99...works out that Brits are having to pay £4.00 more for the same game...whyz?
Because Steam. They always do that, or worse. Sometimes the prices are the same with different currencies. I've seen a $19.99 game also be £19.99.

+1 to this, unfortunately
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Re: StarDrive - a space 4x that is looking very promising
« Reply #154 on: March 17, 2013, 10:11:49 am »

Wow this game just ate my weekend. It's really good, especially later in the game when you have access to more weapon systems and hulls the strategic aspect open ups a lot. At one point I was stuck in a war of attrition with the other major power of the galaxy and many epic battles where had. I like how the AI use your designs for the races you played before. In this case I was lucky my opponent's race was one I played before I understood the importance of protecting your power generators. Now I expect the next time I play against my current race things will be much harder, especially if they field my latest Titan design or lots of my torpedo cruisers.
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Re: StarDrive - a space 4x that is looking very promising
« Reply #155 on: March 17, 2013, 11:49:29 am »

Americans are currently being asked to pay $24.99...Brits? £20.99...works out that Brits are having to pay £4.00 more for the same game...whyz?
Because Steam. They always do that, or worse. Sometimes the prices are the same with different currencies. I've seen a $19.99 game also be £19.99.

+1 to this, unfortunately
Prices are set by the dev, not Steam.

Also, different taxes in different areas and all that stuff. Us has nearly none, most of Europe has like a 21% tax.
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« Reply #156 on: March 17, 2013, 02:10:31 pm »

Americans are currently being asked to pay $24.99...Brits? £20.99...works out that Brits are having to pay £4.00 more for the same game...whyz?
Because Steam. They always do that, or worse. Sometimes the prices are the same with different currencies. I've seen a $19.99 game also be £19.99.

+1 to this, unfortunately
Prices are set by the dev, not Steam.

Also, different taxes in different areas and all that stuff. Us has nearly none, most of Europe has like a 21% tax.

This is something to point out. In the US taxes are in addition to the sales price (though to be fair, I don't think Steam game sales are taxed at all in the US); in the UK the value added tax is included in the price, and Steam has to pay its VAT tax on games sold to customers in that area. So it's not necessarily Steam being greedy.
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« Reply #157 on: March 17, 2013, 04:30:43 pm »

Is anyone else getting the bug where, after a conflict ends your fleet will just jump back to the system they came from? Not particularly game breaking, but bloody annoying.
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Re: StarDrive - a space 4x that is looking very promising
« Reply #158 on: March 17, 2013, 04:39:33 pm »

This happens because they treat pure attack orders as "go here, fight, and return to post."  If you order them to move to a location and then attack something nearby, their 'post' is now in the system.

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Re: StarDrive - a space 4x that is looking very promising
« Reply #159 on: March 17, 2013, 04:42:08 pm »

Yep, its not a bug. They return to the last place you told them to move.
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« Reply #160 on: March 17, 2013, 04:44:40 pm »

I told them to jump to the system in question, then they retaliated after being fired upon by the Remnant, then they jumped back. I never made a pure attack order :(
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« Reply #161 on: March 17, 2013, 05:54:14 pm »

I told them to jump to the system in question, then they retaliated after being fired upon by the Remnant, then they jumped back. I never made a pure attack order :(

Are they going to a starport to reload on ordinance?
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« Reply #162 on: March 17, 2013, 06:34:55 pm »

I told them to jump to the system in question, then they retaliated after being fired upon by the Remnant, then they jumped back. I never made a pure attack order :(

Are they going to a starport to reload on ordinance?

I hadn't checked, but this is quite possibly what they were doing. Good point :)
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Re: StarDrive - a space 4x that is looking very promising
« Reply #163 on: March 17, 2013, 07:51:24 pm »

That would explain it. I use energy weapons almost exclusively because I dislike dealing with ammo.
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« Reply #164 on: March 17, 2013, 08:19:23 pm »

This was super early on where everything just used flak cannons still. Good to know it's a nifty little feature rather than a bug :)
Come to think of it, are there any real glaring bugs with this game? I haven't found any at all now that that one has been resolved.
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