i can see the benefits to this if im honest with myself but the otherside of me thinks like this.
quiet john sssshh chris arghhh im in a glass case of emotion....
yeah thats what i currently do steampunk
bar project cars but sssshhhhhh
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i can see the benefits to this if im honest with myself but the otherside of me thinks like this.
quiet john sssshh chris arghhh im in a glass case of emotion....
yeah thats what i currently do steampunk
bar project cars but sssshhhhhh
TBH, if I'm beta testing, I take it seriously, I play, I send bugs and opinions. If I'm going to spend time and energy improving someone else's product, spoiling the game for myself by playing an unfinished and buggy version, I'm damned if I'm going to pay for the privilege too. The dev should be paying the beta testers, but now they've figured out a way to get all that work for free.
Whole load of fixes in v1.21
http://steamcommunity.com/games/232810/announcements/detail/2181155754094137569
http://steamcommunity.com/games/232810/announcements/detail/2181155754094137569
For me there are a couple of reasons to pay for a beta: [1] If it's a game you would love to see made then you are supporting it and helping it get made - I kacked Elite Dangerous for this reason. [2] This now appears to be a quite successful model for innovative games to be made. I would rather pay for a beta than be faced with the same standard games. Without the Kickstarter model and without paying for beta's it's less likely that innovation will happen in games.
Question... If I buy this on Steam then is it at a cheaper price than the full game when it's released? Also does buying it allow me to play the full game when released?
Question... If I buy this on Steam then is it at a cheaper price than the full game when it's released? Also does buying it allow me to play the full game when released?
No idea what the price will be at launch, I don't belive they've said, though I can't imagine they'd be terribly popular if they reduced it at launch after everyone has paid the current price, I also can't imagine it being more. Plus we know how quickly things can be on offer with Steam.
Yes to your second question though, they have said "When you buy the GODUS Beta in Early Access (available 13th September, 2013), you will get any subsequent updates plus the finished game completely free.
So I've got to a bit of a stale point in the game now, I've got 4500+ followers but I can't advance because I've run out of land to expand to and there aren't any resource chests/cards knocking about. I've bought the cards I could afford to get mining, and then a couple more with the limited gems I could mine to advance a level but... that's it. So all I can do now is reshape the land and grow the population.
Is that it? Another beta limitation, or am I doomed to be forever click harvesting and digging out that silly head?
Is that it? Another beta limitation, or am I doomed to be forever click harvesting and digging out that silly head?
My population is just over 8500 and I had to create masses of land to get it that high. I can't get any further in the game as there are no chests left and think you can get more cards through mp but have not tried it yet.
If you are bored you can wipe your population out with volcano.
I stopped some time ago as there wasn't really much to do for now. However version 1.3 is coming very soon, the rumour is Tuesday but I guess it could slip, that will give us more to do including progressing to the bronze age, there are some details here -http://www.crankygamersuk.net
1.3 is out, and what a difference it makes.
Resource cards, gems, easier to manipulate land, less clicking, more settlements etc.
Full list of fixes here:
1.3 Bug Fixes
Or here.
Resource cards, gems, easier to manipulate land, less clicking, more settlements etc.
Full list of fixes here:
- Flow completed recrafted, much less meaningless clicking
- Enter the Bronze Age and era of agriculture.
- 12 New Bronze age advances including Farming, Politics and Cartography.
- 8 New Resource cards to collect
- 8 New God Cards to collect
- New unlocks to increase your Area of Influence, speed up followers and cheaper settlements
- Unlock a new Farmer Follower and grow your civilisation through agriculture
- Farmers will grow crops outside of settlements for the population
- Crops are gathered to feed your population and advance your civilisation
- Choose the most fertile and efficient land for your crops
- Dynamic weather system where lightning storms will bombard your
- Homeworld, damaging Abodes not in a settlement
- Sprogging centralised within settlements rather than on individual Abodes
- Sprogging from Abodes only available when the Followers have a job
- Abodes inside a settlement now have second stories allowing much greater capacity and Belief.
- Multiplayer balanced so that enemy followers will not fight each other as you plan dominance
- New scrapbook hints
- Felt tents no longer produce Belief and instead house more Followers and have faster Follower generation
- Faster info bubbles
- New God Power icons
- Followers share their thoughts and needs via Prayers
- Beam added to Shrines within Area of Influence
- All battle maps quicker to fight
- Totem rebalanced to reduce number of Followers
- Finger of God is now more effective
- Townlife is now more meaningful
- New gem seams added to Homeworld
- Rebalanced trees and rocks
1.3 Bug Fixes
- Various crash fixes including crashes on startup for both Mac and Windows
- Fixes for crashes related to Settlements
- Beautified land will remain beautified after exiting the game
- Previously used Resource Cards given back for removed Advance Cards
- Followers will no longer walk slowly on land that was previous blighted
- Temple of Fertility statue is now actually on the temple
- Settlements will always generate Belief
- Settlement roads will re-draw after Abodes are moved
- Followers on fire will die even when on Beautified land or in a Settlement
- New opening flyover
- Shrines are now more distinctive
- Belief gain modified to be slower when game is shut down
- God Power icons crisper
- Villagers will recover correctly after being in water then rescued
- Crash when attacking a Castle in Story Battle fixed
- “FULL” from Abode info no longer getting stuck on screen
- Belief musical chain “fail” will not play after collecting only one Belief bubble
- Collecting Belief from a Settlement will continue the musical chain
- Bach’s First Prelude now plays in full
- Shrubs on Statue of Settlement shadow fixed
- Statue of Settlement no longer floating
- Statue of Settlement destruction crash fixed
- Statue of Settlement door is blue in Homeworld
- Statue of Settlement flag will be striped with sprogging is available
- Fix for odd behaviour of Followers from Settlement sprogging
- Mining is now more significant to Followers
- Z-fighting on Settlement base fixed
- Flag SFX will play on Settlement
- Failsafe against Armageddon being usable in Homeworld
- Shrines will continue to build after exiting the game
- Totem number will not remain on screen when Totem is deactivated
- Card descriptions on Felt Tents and Permanent Abodes changed to reflect new functionality
- Fixed lighting on Abodes and fences
- Fixed Followers getting stuck at Totem
- Belief and Follower info dialogue removed on Abodes in a Settlement
- SFX volume cannot be set to NULL
Or here.
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Did anyone else lose a chunk of their population after the update?
I had almost 3000, then after the update I was down to 1800.
Have encountered a couple of other issues.
1. Have abode areas within a settlement but no homes will allow spawning to create the news homes (the settlement statue isn't allowing it either - but does if there is mining to be done..)
2. Not getting any messages to show what I get when I open some chests. I get the noise, but nothing else.
Will have to get onto the Godus forums to report these...
I had almost 3000, then after the update I was down to 1800.
Have encountered a couple of other issues.
1. Have abode areas within a settlement but no homes will allow spawning to create the news homes (the settlement statue isn't allowing it either - but does if there is mining to be done..)
2. Not getting any messages to show what I get when I open some chests. I get the noise, but nothing else.
Will have to get onto the Godus forums to report these...
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no, not encountered any underwater shrines yet!
Not sure if it's something to do with how they applied the home world changes to an already sculpted landscape. As far as I have been able to see, it looks like the 'merge' has tried to modify the landscape where ever you do not have any houses, possible there are glitches in the process that are not checking suitability of shrine positions?
Not sure if it's something to do with how they applied the home world changes to an already sculpted landscape. As far as I have been able to see, it looks like the 'merge' has tried to modify the landscape where ever you do not have any houses, possible there are glitches in the process that are not checking suitability of shrine positions?
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Looks very interesting, think I will wait for final release though.
Yep, I think you've nailed it with that description of the problem. Weird thing is, I hadn't touched the land the shrines sit on. That said if they'd implemented the same level for each shrine (say grid reference zero) and the position was dependant on a variable passed from the existing save that wasn't passed then it would still sit as zero. That's my thinking anyway, but then again I'm no game developer and I've drunk a bottle of red tonight.
I restarted my world and haven't had a single empty chest, I suggested on the 22cans forum that maybe this only effects people who kept their existing world and maybe its chests you've already previously opened, but somebody who had restarted said they also had empty chests so who knows.
I also have a couple of underwater shrines, my thinking is that they just don't want us using those yet.
Really happy with this update, if they keep progressing like this its gonna be great, and very impressed at the way they've listened to feedback.
Yeah that must be annoying, I'd not played that long myself and quite liked a fresh start.
I am thinking though, do I really want to play this each time its updated. I think I'm kinda spoiling it for myself and it would be much more fun if I just waited for the final release.
I am thinking though, do I really want to play this each time its updated. I think I'm kinda spoiling it for myself and it would be much more fun if I just waited for the final release.
Totally with you on that, I'm wondering now if it's just worth sitting out 3-4 updates and then playing once they're just in to the stable adding content phase instead of wiping out maps each time they update.
See if anything turns up on the 22Cans/Steam forums, but I doubt it will until the next update. 22Cans seem to be quite receptive to feedback so hopefully they'll stop nuking games each time!
See if anything turns up on the 22Cans/Steam forums, but I doubt it will until the next update. 22Cans seem to be quite receptive to feedback so hopefully they'll stop nuking games each time!