oh and please make sure you have at least finished the tutorial and played a bit before condeming the game, there are lots of faster and more interesting ships after you have researched some tech levels. See the strategy guide for the full list of ships
To answer some points: It does autosave, if for some reason its not working, try right clicking and changing settings, you can colonize other planets, the enemy doesnt start with more money than you. IP missles are supposed to be blocked by planets, which means you can use planets for cover and must think about where you build silos
Thanks for all the nice comments recently. I'm glad people like the player names, it took ages coming up with all 360 of them. If your team is undefined, then something has gone wrong with the data, go to tyhe options and click "reset saved data" - you will lose everything, but at least it will be playable
Can anyone get Honda's "Sumo Head Butt" or Blanka's "Rolling Attack" to work. Is a good game, but doesnt seem like a great conversion. Why no 2 player?
jeez, i just looked through mcluvvins comments, and he has been playing on/off for over a year but I cant see a single nice comment about anyone or anything (except perhaps porn being posted in the chat). How can someone play a game they dislike so much, with people they dont like, for so long?
If you think that this game sucks, and that the sequel will suck because it will be hacked. Then why are you here? go and play another game, and dont come back for the sequel. Easy.
I've learnt a lot about the various ways people will try to ruin my games, and I think now I know them all. So in the sequel I can build the whole game in a way that will prevent hackers. If I go back to SFDG and try and put in security measures, it often breaks something else, then people whine. e.g. the kill resetting thing that Mcluvvin keeps crying about was a result of me putting in extra measures to stop the accounts being deleted.
McLuvvin: The game doesnt reset kills anymore I fix that a couple of days after it was first reported. The top player has over 6000 kills. For someone who really doesnt like the game, you sure hang around here a lot.
Let me say this again: The only reason this game still exists at all is that it has badges. I am not expecting people to carry on playing if they dont want to and am not going to get upset when they leave. You may think this is because "im too lazy to stop hackers", but the fact is if I spend all my time trying to fix this old game I will run out of money and starve. Have any of you given up your day job to work continuously on a game that earns no money? I suspect not.
i am looking into the freezing bug, its hard to find. It has to do with someone being tackled while the player you are controlling is at the edge of the pitch and it much more apparent now auto switching is off by default. Change player more regularly or switch auto switching on to reduce the amount of times it happens. Hopefully I will have it fixed next week
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