Giving DW another whirl

[jfpOne23]

After waiting a long time for the dust to settle with this game, I'm trying it again. I bought it the day it came out, and "let it go" for a few weeks while reading the forums and knowing that I should wait for it to get the kinks out.

So I'm now wondering if the Shakturi "add on" is the key to getting this potentially amazing game to be what it was meant to be. Should I try the game again without Shakturi or is the experience just amazingly better with the expansion?

Thanks for opinions, Cheers!

[Data]

jfpOne23, I'm honestly telling you that you're asking the wrong crowd [:D]
the experience IS just amazingly better with the expansion [:)]

[J HG T]

I would recommend the expansion too. Fixes some issues and adds nice amount of new stuff.
If you aren't short on credits, RoTS is pretty much must-buy.

[Igard]

I'd recommend the expansion also. It makes no difference to the campaign as you can select either DW campaign, or RotS campaign, OR both together for any game.

[Kayoz]

Try the latest patch first. If you think the game is stable enough, then the expansion is probably worth it. If you're still unsatisfied with DW - then the expansion probably won't change your opinion.

That said, there isn't much out there in 4X land. The 4X development landscape is looking a lot like the sub-prime mortgage lending financial landscape.

[jfpOne23]

Thanks for the "lowdown" gents. I've been wanting this game to be a winner since I first heard about it so I'm in for the expansion. I'm hoping RotS has cleared up some issues like this one:

Why can't you transfer ships between fleets from the "View Fleets" window? Really?

You know, all that little stuff that makes the original a bit rough to work with. But I haven't been staying on top of the forum chatter so maybe these kind of things have been requested already, talked to death, or in RotS already. Looking forward to the expansion, and another lost weekend

[J HG T]

There isn't ship transfer between fleets in RoTS. I haven't even thought about such feature TBH. I usually just go to a fleet, dispand ships needing transfer and assign them to a fleet of my choice at the same time. After that, if the ships are idlying, they just move to the new fleet. 

[Spacecadet]

ORIGINAL: jfpOne23

Thanks for the "lowdown" gents. I've been wanting this game to be a winner since I first heard about it so I'm in for the expansion. I'm hoping RotS has cleared up some issues like this one:

Why can't you transfer ships between fleets from the "View Fleets" window? Really?

You know, all that little stuff that makes the original a bit rough to work with. But I haven't been staying on top of the forum chatter so maybe these kind of things have been requested already, talked to death, or in RotS already. Looking forward to the expansion, and another lost weekend

I don't believe you can do that from the "Fleets" screen, but you can reassign ships from the "Ships" screen.

You can also right click on a ship in a selected fleet and have it "Leave" the fleet.
Right clicking again I think allows you to have it join a fleet (from a list).

[MartialDoctor]

Can't say I'd recommend it until they fix the Allies bug.  I just check the forums for more information on when it's going to be fixed...

[jfpOne23]

hmmm. In the Ships screen I basically had to filter by "Military Ships", then scroll to find the ship I wanted to transfer to a fleet or new fleet. Is this the only way to assign ships to fleets besides right clicking each one?

[Igard]

Yes, that's correct, jfpOne23. However you can use 'shift + click' to select multiple ships from the list or I believe 'ctrl + click' to select each ship, then add your selected ships to a fleet. Or you can use a drag-box around multiple ships and right click.

I've never really found this to be problem myself, but any ideas for making it quicker and easier to organise fleets are always a good thing.

[jfpOne23]

Well I just found it very tedious to go through a huge list of ships (I started a game with a somewhat "established" empire)and nothing like a "transfer" box (ie: [Fleet 1] < > [Fleet 2]). I had sent many ships to the same planet to refuel...and well you know how messy that can get.

Not having read all the posts in the "wish list" I'm sure something like that has been suggested, and with the Shakturi expansion I guess I was hoping in advance that something like this would have been implemented. Oh well.

Still I will support this game and it's dev's by buying in because it's the best 4x concept out there in almost all categories...but FFS, lets get the "little stuff" done like a Fleet Transfer Box eh?

Cheers!