I Miss the Sunrise

Every *ten ranks*? Yeesh, that'll take a while. So I guess we'll be ending the game in the mid-30's, 40's if we do bonus content?

I do kind of find it ironic that my Ros sucks at combat, since most of her weapons take 4 AP and she has to stay in the back most of the time due to the "We cannot go on without you!" rule. It's funny because I would totally suck as a commander in real life too.

I'm actually done for now, since I just finished Deirdre's third and final conversation, and she was the last crew member I needed to talk to. It's been a fun ride, though. I'll be up for more testing when ep 3 comes out (which I await with bated breath).

By the way, though, a question: item quality and enemy AI ranks are both on a 1-9 scale, yet only odd numbers seem to be used. Why is this? Why couldn't you just make it 1-5 instead? Do you plan to add intermediary components later?

Also, are weapon codes only usable once? I tried the Easter egg codes a second time (have you added any more of those, by the way?) to update them with the accuracy/damage tweaks you mentioned, but Mahk just gave me an error.

Also also, random question: will there ever be weapons with an AP cost of 2 or 5?

Edit: Oh, something that occurred to me a while back but that I dismissed: there's a merit for winning a battle with the ZoC all red (Last Stand), but there doesn't seem to be one for winning a battle with the ZoC all blue. Is this intentional?

Also also also, you probably know this already, but if you're awarded multiple merits in one battle, they both display at the same time, which looks really weird. I doubt you could fix this, though... Maybe have a time delay if there are multiple merits at the same time, so that after the first merit would normally disappear, the second one pops up? You might have to fiddle with the victory sequence for battles, though, since most merits are awarded after battle.

Suggestion: Most of the merits are of the "do this x times" variant. It would be nice to track this, for sidequests as well -- Ros mentions a battle log at times, so perhaps you could make another submenu like that that records various statistics?

Edit 2: Okay, big problem I found: For some reason, closing the game and trying to open it again makes my computer crash if I put it into sleep mode. Trying to open it twice causes my computer to crash instantly. I have no idea why this would happen, it worked fine before. Maybe memory leaks are the problem??? I really don't know much about compuer science...

It also prevents me from using ctrl+alt+del. Rrgh, Windows 7, I don't need your fancy menu thing! I miss the days when you could just summon the task manager without having to fuss through all these protocols. That's kind of counterproductive, Microsoft. -_-

Ah, nevermind, the numeral thing seems to be fixed.

It upgrades automatically when certain ranks are reached.

...It does? Ros is at rank 8 now, and it hasn't upgraded yet.

Edit: Typo: in Deirdre's third conversation, you left out the "s" in "society" at one point.

By the way, will it ever be possible to upgrade Ros' primary weapon? Because it's kind of falling behind everyone else's. You may also want to buff the weapon upgrades a bit, since even at level 3, they're barely on par with quality 5 weapons.

Edit: Treasure nodes are also pretty weird. I'm getting basic components even in Splice 4. In fact, normal investigations usually turn up more valuable stuff. :/

Edit 2: Possible typo: When Deirdre gives you her gift, she says that she wants to give you "these". However, her gift is only a single thermal coil -- shouldn't it be "this"? She also says "do not", but since she's one of the "informal" characters, I think it would make more sense for her to say "don't".

Edit 3: Also, uh, Deltree, Chac's upgraded weapon still doesn't have a Roman numeral after it. I thought you said you fixed that?

Ah, I see. It's great that you try to make so many things internally consistent, like Master of the Wind. Few writers have your devotion and attention to detail. Which is kind of depressing, now that I think about it...

Question that just occurred to me: how can robotic enemies take pilot damage? Any justification one could come up with (e.g., their central processing/CPU) would pretty much be synonymous with their systems.

Although, I suppose you could make a similar case for apparently mindless or soulless monstrosities in The Reconstruction...

^ +1

Anyway, you have synesthesia, Deltree? That's interesting. I have it too, and I find it really helps when I'm discussing music. I imagine it helps with composing, as well. Despite how self-deprecating you are, I actually think your music is pretty good! I'm not moved to tears by its beauty (like I am by, say, Chrono Trigger's soundtrack), but many tunes in IMTS are pretty catchy.

Weird, could have sworn I went there! Haha I got it now, thanks :)

Hey, Deltree! Just wanted to ask, how do I get to the mining station in the Data Mining mission? I know I need to get all my fleets to the goal but I can't seem to locate which node it's in (I guess I should have payed more attention to the briefing lol).

Also, I may have found a bug: in that mission, at the Damaged Station node, you can access the capsule an infinite number of times (and consequently get an unlimited number of high quality stuff).

It mostly makes different dialog options appear when talking to your crew and affects how "roughly" your PC talks. If you have certain parameters that "line up" closely with someone else's, you're more likely to get dialog choices that will improve their trust.

It's a simple system, but it's not like KOTOR where there's a "light" and "dark" side. Try what you like!

If you find things too easy, do note that there is a hidden difficulty setting. It involves the AI changing station. That is all I shall say.