Oh, I just meant that if there is a planet which gives more new ships than other planets, the player who conquers that planet will have time on her side.

Hello

Thanks for letting me try the full version!

You were right that disabling "fog of war" didn't really improve the game. I like how you are able to make counter-actions, but the game became way too easy as you said it would. However, I think a big reason for that is that you are able to see the ships that are landed on the planets (the opponents' defenses). A couple of times I was able to conquer a planet with just 1 ship, since I knew that the opponent didn't have any units there. My suggestion is that the fog of war rule only applies to ships in orbit, and let the defenses remain hidden.

The stalemate problem could maybe be solved by giving planets different quality values. This is how stalemates are solved in both Galcon (large planets are better than small ones) and Pax Galaxia (yellow stars are better than brown stars).

It would be fun to see if you are able to add a real-time hack, looking forward to it 

// Jeb

Heya

I posted comments in the indiegamer forums, but I thought it would be better to continue the discussion here instead.

I asked why moving ships were hidden in the game, and you replied that you thought it was more fun that way. I've been thinking a lot about this, and I can't really understand how you've come to that conclusion? You said that it's an option in the custom game menu, but since I'm only on the demo version I haven't been able to test it.

Anyhow, I'm a big fan of strategy games, so that's why I'm writing here. This game is easy to compare to Galcon, with the big difference that Galcon is real-time instead of turn-based. Imagine playing Galcon without being able to see the opponents' ship movements. The strategy would become a guessing puzzle, not knowing who's attacking who, as it is in YAGSCG at the moment.

My suggestion is that all ship movements should be visible and ships should be delayed one turn (so you can see when a ship is leaving a planet). A more dramatical suggestion is that you change the game into a real-time game. Simply convert one turn into about 30 seconds, and move everything linearly in that time (ie, a factory upgrade takes 30 seconds to complete). I think it would make the game more fun... but also more like Galcon which maybe is a bad thing.

// Jeb