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The game will let you know that you don't need to land on every crummy planet if you're landing on a bunch of crummy planets. #1 negative review source has been people landing on thousands of planets and thinking that's the way to make money. SC doesn't have a sand based (silicon) based economy.

I gotta disagree; most of the reason my ship is as badass as I've made it is being able to afford the mods and specials I wanted, and I'd never have bought them if I hadn't gone digging for the really valuable resources.

And sometimes it's the only way to build up a fleet without going broke: either you need to afford more ships or you need to find them.

I mean, okay, yeah, there are some planets that are totally skippable cuz the resources aren't even slightly valuable, but even so...

The real problem is that some of the really valuable stuff is gonna be needed later...and we have no way to know it. And I encountered one quest that needed lead...and it took me six bloody hours to track down the lead I needed.

Six. Bloody. Hours.

Prospecting, trawling for dough, has been a big part of the game for me for multiple reasons.

THANK YOU!

Been wanting that since playing the Chapter One beta.

I'd really like a way to buy back quest items--like hyperdrives (**hinthint**)--if we've sold them without realizing they were important.

True...but why not just display it right there instead of having to mouse-over it?

My long loading time is caused by Steam putting up the "Preparing first time installation" window and taking several minutes to get through that before it even starts loading the game.  Is it doing this for everyone or just me?  Everytime I start SCO Steam things it was just installed and spends minutes doing... something... before it even starts loading the game.

I also tried it.  My loading time decreased from 2 minutes to 13 seconds.

Just wanted to reiterate, what i posted on Friday in the other thread, in case it got overlooked, please look into overall performance of the game. I for one did not run into any crashes or lock-downs, but the game could reaaally get some performance optimization, cause it drops framerate under 30 FPS a lot... mostly during planetary explorations, but even at those "conversation" screens with other aliens.

I thought I did both, but I can check...

...yes. Both.

Unless I missed something, I'm pretty sure I deleted all of the beta folders. But I can look...

...yep. All I see is "Star Control - Origins".

And, early on, I deleted everything from the SC folder in "My Games" (except the saves; I copied those to the desktop and them re-copied after).

Currently the game sucks at many levels. I kinda warned you guys about the dangers of a game without a really big open full game beta.  The first hours I was excited about a new star control game but the  initial momentum of the excitement got me thru the continue playing for sometime. The first time i launced the game the rating in steam was around %90ish. Yesterday it was 75 and now it is 73 and it will continue to drop. As people play the game they understand the game in really unfinished. Hence people put bad reviews. I love star control games and i love most of your games and nearly have all of them on steam but seeing this unfinished game being released made me really sad.

The interface is really really bad. You can click the journal and it autopilots to the world but the when you click on the objective that tells you to go to a homeplanet it doesnt auto pilot you. Info on values of weapons are not show anywhere at all (damage, range, rate of fire, energy consumption etc.). When you autopilot somewhere there should be an indicator that shows where you are going on autopilot. And also really annoyingly whenever i set autopilot to somewhere as soon as i enter the menu to check something else, the autopilot drops and i have to set it again.  And Outfit part of the the shipyard menu is not user friendly. You should be able to drag modules to other slots that are compatible with the module.  Objective menu, and captain's log should have a search feature that filters words. Sector maps should be able to be used to find races home star systems that you have discovered. Also there should be quest markers on the map to show you where the quests are.

Also as for gameplay, there should be a storage facility in the Sol that you can put stuff you dont want to sell at the moment and dont want to carry around with your ship.

Storyline is ok but far from grasping.

Planet exploration is goodish but i have been to hunderds of planets the aliens on the planet are just 3-4 type. Nothing else.

Combat is the only good part and complete part of the game.