Agreed

so whats the ETA on that actually going in and could you post a video with better ships i wanna see how the UZ ships and DS look

Could use a little more work me thinks...

nice just try not to change the game too much the gameplay anyway, we like the gameplay thats why we play not because of the graphics... because currently they kinda suck i like the client 2 in top down. any idea when this might go beta or even live?

That's why it's pre-alpha teaser video, and not release video.

Looking forward to it.

IMO something needs to be done about planet graphics. Some perspective thing so ships dont look bigger then planets. I don't know how that could be done, but at the moment the 3-d just increases the rediculousness of ships being bigger then planets...

Other then that, looks great. I especially like the bulk trade

Can't wait to see ships like scrupples and paxes

I'm just hoping that I wont have to buy a new computer to play...

Increasing planet and base sizes would help a ton I think. Moons ---> Planets
Planets ---> Huge
The Shrimp needs a definite rework, its a flying piece of "cardboard".
Other than that I think the game looks spiffing

I'm such a noob. I can't figure out how to change it to HD, so it looks all fuzzy on my puter. Help!

click HD in the bottom right corner

Only problem with making planets bigger is that you have to move them all further apart, otherwise they'd all sit on each other all the time, which I guess is possible but it could be a pain. Also, it would either be hard to see a whole planet or you'd need to be able to zoom out really far. Looks like a really nice preview of what is to come. I personally quite like that it is simply a visual upgrade, I wouldn't like it if it had changed too much but I think there is a good balance. Of course, it would take getting used to.

It's currently running at 30 fps on the cheapest netbook we have, but that's on low setting. In low setting, the number of lights that can illuminate any ship is limited to 8, there's no anti-aliasing on the ships, and the suns and particles look a little different, but it still looks very good in my opinion. There are currently 4 different quality settings so that the game will run on regular low end lap tops yet still have all the best shader and bump map, etc support on the computers with good graphics cards.

So no, you won't have to buy a new computer hopefully. Client1 is actually so badly programmed that I think the new client might have even lower system requirements, but we'll have to see as we get further along.

I actually like how the shrimp looks, just make it a little beefier Other than that, great job guys.

Wow. That is just godly epic. Words cannot begin to describe how epic that truly was.