Scale Megathread

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What is PA's targeted launch date?

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I must be confused, I thought the "Alpha/Beta" process was like this.

Alpha: sort all the big issues; bugs and anything that causes major changes to the game (such as planetary combat, all the way down to scale).

Beta: balance up all the units, make it shiny.

The scale at the moment is (in my opinion obviously) a major issue. Changing it will alter a lot of things and so is surely an alpha issue?

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Scale is a balance issue (an important one, but a balance issue nonetheless). We're still early in the alpha, so technical problems hog all the attention. As time goes on, most of the technical issues will be solved, leaving more time to focus on balance and making the game fun to play.

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apparently not, kvalheim said changing scale could magnify some bugs which brings it back to the bug section.

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But is the Scale CAUSING BUGS? From what you're saying it doesn't sound like it.

Mike

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then good we can proceed to debate if we should change scale right now

I say yes

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it could be one good way of knowing if scale bugs are present at all would be to change the scale

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I meant scale as in like planet size and map size

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So basically- although the current scale is not causing bugs (apart from in how awesome I think the game looks ), will changing it cause any potential bugs?

If not, its a beta issue, if so, its an Alpha issue?

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i think wether or not changing scale causes bugs it's not something uber would venture doing at beta stage because then all the immatures would be like "what???! I've NEVER seen a beta differ visually from retail!"

(to clarify : in popular "trendy" FPS games it's the other way around, first they do the graphics, then durring beta testing they do bugfix, which is a ss-backwards, I know, but that's marketing, and addapting to the clueless public)

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Glad I spotted this thread! The size of the unit/structures on PA has been really putting me off getting the Alpha! I'm glad to see that it is bothering others too (well in that I'm not alone). This really really needs changing.

I know Uber must be ridiculously busy but I hope they are aware of this problem!

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I really am glad that I'm not alone in thinking that the current unit scale in PA is too large and reminiscent of when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

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You are most certainly not alone!

I still can't believe four people voted to increase the size madness!

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Maybe they have some .... personal physical deficit issues LOL?

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haha, i think there must be some confusion about what increasing the scale means I cant believe anyone would honestly make everything BIGGER!

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I agree with you but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt!

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Just remember that scale goes out the window with multiple planets.

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That's why I would scale units first with the smallest possible planet and then work my way up to larger planets.

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That's what they did though...

They scaled the planet features so they work on the small planets which forces them to be kinda small compared to units and buildings.

But it seems everybody is complaining about that.

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In that case, people don't agree with Uber's scaling of units with the smallest planet to begin with and so on and so on as you work your way on up to larger planets.