Questions, comments, compliments welcome!

mlmbd · #1 March 19th, 2003, 04:35 PM

Derek, OH! I really like Gillissie's ideas about the charts and an icon (of some kind) to mark your current planet!

This the post I meant to make until I read, Gillissie's post. Got side tracked with a bit of smart arse!

mlmbd

Drago · #2 March 21st, 2003, 10:49 AM

Congratulations! It is nice to hear good games still get awards. I hope you win several more.
Have a good day.

SlapBone · #3 March 21st, 2003, 08:53 PM

Checked out the demo... bought the game. I travel alot and I am always on the lookout for addictive independent games to play on my laptop. Shrapnel, Matrix, Battlefront, and HPS are the suppliers of my newest drug... indie strat games.

I agree about the charts and graphs though. RL stocks live or die by the graph.

Great game.

[ March 21, 2003, 20:43: Message edited by: SlapBone ]

StormcloudCreations · #4 March 22nd, 2003, 02:30 AM

Thanks SlapBone! Glad you enjoyed it enough to purchase. Your support is sincerely appreciated.

Yes, I have heard the comments about adding more charts and other such things; for game history purposes, for instance. A good idea that I will definately note. As well as the icon to show you what planet you're currently on, which is a very practical idea that I never thought of, for some strange reason.

Thanks all for your kind comments so far! I'd love to hear from more people who bought or plan on buying the game with their thoughts and/or compliments.

SlapBone · #5 March 22nd, 2003, 07:36 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by StormcloudCreations:
Thanks SlapBone! Glad you enjoyed it enough to purchase. Your support is sincerely appreciated.

Getting paid is good

I know my job would suck without the check.

[ March 22, 2003, 05:37: Message edited by: SlapBone ]

SlapBone · #6 March 22nd, 2003, 08:43 AM

I am so impatient. I bought 10000 shares of Sunnyside at $1 a share and sold at $4. Meanwhile the stock topped out at $33. That's $290,000 down the hole.

Another idea is to enable stops. After buying the stock at $1 I probably wouldn't have set my stop at $33 but $20 would have been reasonable. Have it to where if you get out before your stop hits then you take a substantial penalty. That way if someone options for a stop, the penalties would encourage them to stick with it instead of bailing early.

"Options" would be another way to get the player to gamble a lot of their money away

I am in no way a financial expert but I like your stock market model because of its simplicity.

Oh, and did I mention historical graphs?

I wish my copy would get here because 40 turns is not enough.

alien03 · #7 March 22nd, 2003, 07:25 PM

Agree with the Suggestion From Todd M. Gillissie
Gilligames about leaving Planet Seeing Map of Planets & Spaceship.
Also, when leaving a planet and seeing the "map" of planets, it would be nice to have a little spaceship icon or something to indicate your current planet.
alien03