What Uber Did and Didn't Achieve So Far

For the 40 player games, we now have the server code?

Well--it is something concrete. It's the feeling of enjoyment that arises from an enjoyable activity.

For that one person, which will completely differ from every other person's interpretation.

So not, not really concrete at all

You forgot:

• Multiple Windows
• Reclaimable wreckage
• "Advanced Modding features Create new units, gametypes, maps and planet archetypes. Run your own servers with your own sets of units and game modes."

All taken directly from the kickstarter page confirmed features, within "The Full Description".

Please give this guy a Commander that stands and walks like that

Excuse me! As old Dwarf Fortress player I have a very clear definition of fun. It's even on the wiki:
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Fun

;P

As far as I know, "fun" is simply 'the feeling of enjoyment'. Nothing attached, no descriptions or specifics. Just.. enjoyment. Enjoyment is different for everyone, but if someone is not enjoying something then that thing, whatever it may be, is not fun by definition. That's a static no matter who you're talking about.

In this respect, 'enjoyment' is concrete. Anything past the core definition is up for debate. ..which is why noone here can ever agree on what's "fun".

Two out of the three are in at least.

Reclaimable wreckage is in the game. I'll take a look at the others later when it's not 5:00 am.

The last one is in as well, the first isnt.

Statera, RCBM, that better orbital mod, etc... All add units. Then the boombot mod is a gamemode, and I'm working on another gamemode like mod now.

Really waiting on asteroid fields and the unit cannon. I hope they are still planning to implement those.

I think we will be seeing the asteroid fields much sooner than we think, I remember the devs mentioning they had done quite a bit of work on it. Was a few months ago, not finding a source now, sorry I may be mis-remembering but I am pretty sure I am right

sing command!, add dancing to that and let the commander do the robot!!

Nice list! I agree Naval needs love, so ignoring the definition of fun, good to see it on the list.

Good to see a dev say something about Naval. I hope it's being worked on heavily, along with 40 player games, asteroids, and pretty much everything else on the list

Dunno how much you browse these here forums exactly, but a while ago I made a simple naval balance mod that you could look at / try out: https://forums.uberent.com/threads/wip-burntcustards-mini-balance-mods.64088/#post-1002499

40 player games are possible right now through a bit of server code changes, as we can host servers now.

Only if we have a fast enough server ^^

I think Cola's going a tad bit overboard on what he needs, considering we did that 40 player game back in Beta. I'd imagine all you'd need is 16 Gb of RAM and an i5.

Maybe I'm wrong, but it doesn't seem that intensive.

Going just by the kickstarter, this is what is there/missing:
Core Game:
AI Skirmish - Check
Multiplayer - Check
Interplanetary Warfare and Planet Smashing - Check
Procedural Maps - Check
40+ battles - Checked. If you got the hardware for it
LAN Games - Checked
DRM Free - Checked
Saving (implied Feature) - not checked
Huge Planets - not checked (might be hardware dependant; propably more a client side problem)

Did I miss anything here?

Core - Server modding support:
Gamemodes - not checked
Units - checked
Maps - not sure
Planet Archetypes - not sure what that even means.

Naval unit and Water planets strechgoal:
Naval - yes. Needs balancing and propably submarines
Water Planets - just a normal planet with water and really low land/high water level. Due to lack of subs no special archetype nessesary yet.

Gas Giant & Orbital Strechtgoal:
Gas Giant - check
Orbital - check. Needs some new units, especially multi unit transporter for invasions.

Metal & Lava Planet strechgoal:
Metal Planet - check. Inlcuding Anni Laser.
Lava Planet - check

Galactic War Stretchgoal:
Procedural Meta Map - check
Single Player - checked
Co-op - not checked; propably depended on local server
Clan Wars GW - not checked
Dynamic Story with counter attacks and special mission - not checked

Orchestral Soundtrack:
Check

I personally see it not as "not finished".
More as "the best is yet to come".

Upload and Mapsize (RAM for server and client) are propably the biggest issue here. Upload is based on Nr. of Players/Spectators, not number of parties.
Server CPU's go into the 32 Cores. Per CPU. I think PA can use quite a few of those