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Gratuitous Space Battles Add-on Details

[Nov 22, 2009, 1:29 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Cliffski’s Blog has more outlook on plans for the first expansion pack for Gratuitous Space Battles, Positech's game of tactical (and gratuitous) space combat. Here's a bit on plans for the add-on, and a patch to precede it:

There will be an expansion pack for GSB, and it’s still a little way off, but I did some work on it today so it’s fresh in my mind. Before I release it, there will be another mainstream GSB patch, mainly to improve the modding support to tidy things up and make mods more manageable. After the pack, who knows what’s next?

Anyway… current plans for the pack are to introduce a new race to the game. It will have the same variety of ships as the other races. The ships will also have a few race-specific modules, and some quite drastic ship bonuses. It was a relief to work out that ship bonuses can be negative, meaning this new batch of ships will have weak shields, weak armor, and very strong hulls. My plan is that these ships can take a sustained battering and rely on hull strength and repair systems. The new weapons will be kinetic bullet-firing stuff, like gauss guns / autocannons. I’ve been sorting out the sounds and visuals for them today. There will also be two new scenarios featuring the new race, and it will likely come pre-unlocked so if you buy it you can play with that race immediately.

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Nov 23, 2009, 10:07

Mashiki Amiketo

Oh, okay, so simply EXPECTING people to be idiots, and letting them grow more lazy and stupid day by day is an acceptable stance? How can you expect to have an intelligent conversation with someone who can't even figure out what the fuck an apostrophe is, or that "you" is more than one letter?

Considering most people read/write at a 6-7 grade level? I would say yes. I spent 3mo relearning the grammatical rules, but I've always been a terrible speller. With grammar falling in a short second, written words don't make too much sense to me, in a long-form context.

By the way. You could have used a semicolon in a couple of spots instead of commas.




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Comment [quote="Mashiki Amiketo"Nov 23, 2009, 10:07]q[Oh, okay, so simply EXPECTING people to be idiots, and letting them grow more lazy and stupid day by day is an acceptable stance? How can you expect to have an intelligent conversation with someone who can't even figure out what the fuck an apostrophe is, or that "you" is more than one letter?]q Considering most people read/write at a 6-7 grade level? I would say yes. I spent 3mo relearning the grammatical rules, but I've always been a terrible speller. With grammar falling in a short second, written words don't make too much sense to me, in a long-form context. By the way. You could have used a semicolon in a couple of spots instead of commas. ;P [/quote]

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