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ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

I think that's a decent review - it's definitely got a "casual game" style to it and that may not be everyone's cup of tea, though there is plenty of depth and replayability as well and it is a quality game within the sci-fi "space trading" sub genre. I would rate it a bit higher myself, it happened to go over well with us and we felt that it was under-rated and we should help that out by bringing it to our customers.

I will make one note about his review. He complains that the trade screen obscures the map and can't be moved off to the open background area on larger monitors. That has not been my experience with our release. I move the buy/sell screen over to the unused space and it works fine. That's part of why it's hard to really define the resolution on this game, the play area stays the same size, but it definitely scales the background to your native resolution.

Here's a screenshot that shows the trade screen moved over to the side of the map where it's not in the way of the main play area.

ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd
I can't seem to move any of the "popups". I am using the original demo, so is that something that has changed? I see your Trade window has the standard windows bar...mine does not.

ORIGINAL: killroyishere

The difference I saw from normal to veteran mode in the demo is the ai will hit more often and you will miss it more often but still not enough to lose battles just closer ones as where I might have 1/2 my armor left after a battle in normal mode I might have 1/4th to 1/8th left in veteran mode.

ORIGINAL: NielsB

ORIGINAL: killroyishere

The difference I saw from normal to veteran mode in the demo is the ai will hit more often and you will miss it more often but still not enough to lose battles just closer ones as where I might have 1/2 my armor left after a battle in normal mode I might have 1/4th to 1/8th left in veteran mode.

Well, let´s see if I can come up with a special "killroyishere" mode in the next update. [:D]

ORIGINAL: killroyishere
My question is who do you have beta testings these games 12 year olds? See I can see a 12 year old getting all excited that he blew a spaceship out of the universe with ease. I can see a 12 year old probably not minding the repetiveness of the combats as most that age don't want things too complicated as they like 1'zes and 2'zes button mashing like on a console game and plenty of it if you've ever watched one play them. What I can't see and would assume the more veteran an experienced aged gamer would be enjoying this pattern for very long. I could be wrong as JD seems to be getting into it.

ORIGINAL: killroyishere

It's one of the few games I've played through the tutorial and the regular game three times to 300 turns. Even as repetitive as the combat is the rest of the game has nostalgia type memories in it like Privateer and HOMM play. I did notice some difference playing the mercenary over the pirate though. The pirate can be more of a trader but the mercenary gets better skills to start off with makes it even easier to eliminate the opponents in combat. Upgrade to that 70% ecm and get the 1ap laser and you're good to go for awhile it seems.

I have a question about the promotional skill that gives reinforcements in the 'neutral' areas? What are the neutral areas and do you get the normal reinforcemets as well as these when in them?