Please come back after you've played to let the good guys who made it know how much you had playing it. Seriously I think the details after you've played show the reward....cos I'm loving it
I played it a little (about 30 min). 1) I am aware it is an alpha version. 2) I was expecting something worse -my overall experience is "good", but it could be better. 3) Serius performance issues: (3fps on my old computer AMD Athlon X2 4800+, 4GB RAM, GF 9600GT, WIN 8 PRO. 4) Land texture and tree geometry too detailedh on medium. Probably no LOD implemented (fine, I know its Alpha). 5) Fixing performance issues should be most critical, at this stage, because I can not comment on economy and how fun it is or it is not, when it is not fun because it is too slow. At this stage performance is most important, then add units, and tweak economy, AI etc because when game is smooth all tweaks will be noticable the most. 6) I am aware that I have crappy computer. I would have way, way better one if I had a job I deserve. Please don't tell me get better computer. I can't. No job = no $. I am really looking for a job too (I would tell you americans a lot of things you don't know about how it is going on globally because I have global and multinational job search experience). 7) I think my olllllld computer can run this game way better if PA is optimized, especially when people have much better computers than mine and PA is slowing down more on their computers than on mine! It could work as well as spore (similar planetary concept). 8) Dufficult to judge ballance, gameplay dynamics when I have 3 or 4 fps or at most 5 fps. That's why performance optimization should be a priority (before you add new units, and tweaks). It is difficult to notice performance and diffrences between tweaks when fps are low. 9) You can build all buildings one inside another, so your base can have plenty of buildings and be very small. 10) Game loads for about 3min. Such small system should load faster. Look at spore -it loads qucikly. 11) Moon moves way too fast!!!! It should move about at least 10 times slower. 12) Soil Texture and tree geometry on medium level were too high. 13) I zoomed out to celestial view many Times and once grid and planetary/star system disappeared. I did not know how to get back to planet. Maybe [H] key should focus on ACU. Did not have patience to get back to my planet so I quit to write this and go to sleep. 14) Not complaining about crashes yet -game did not crash. 15) Music and sound fx should be louder at max volume settings. It is 2:44 here, at this moment can't play more. I have to wake up early today. I played for about 30min. There is a lot of work to do, I know it's alpha, and I expected better performance and worse gameplay. Not so bad as for alpha at this stage.
