Star Control Discussion Board

The StarBase side objectives are that, just side objectives.
They are not related to the main plot, besides being triggered by them.

IIRC, they've been added to the game later, in DLCs, so that the main plot elements of the DLC don't feel as rip-offs, and provide more playstuff....

I aliens come into our Solar System, do you believe anyone else than Diplomats will take up first contact. As the aliens are non-aggressive towards Earth, why is no diplomat on board to perform the first contact? But later you also have other aliens in the Solar System, and no other ship is availabl...

The game does indeed look and feel very promising. The "lander landing" mini game... is... hmm... a nice idea, but implementation could use a Mael-Num/Melnorme automatization upgrade... The planet is... too small/too curved. Imlikemthat there's continuity from watching upwards from the planet and se...

I presume the lore is being worked hard on, but won't be hinted at.
As that will be the selling point.

The melee is for the fans.

YAY! NEWS: apparently a first test version of the melee will be published, together with the development tools: Tired of just watching Dan work? Want to take matters into your own hands or other appendages? Something big is coming, and you get to be part of it! https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1524539...

To quote a humorous passge of the Ultronomicon: When you've recruited 1,000 crew or more (minus the amount you've returned), the crew cost is raised by 2 RUs. If the total later comes below 1000 (by returning crew), the crew cost goes back down by 2. There is no actual limit to the amount of crew yo...

The nearly weekly streams are only sparsely interesting for the non-developers, but they made a highlights video: Some day I won’t procrastinate so much, but I keep putting it off. Here are the stream highlights from the past – counts fingers – 7 weeks! Crikey. Well, as they say in showbiz: leave th...

Yeah, what wass known and repeated in all these announcements is, that FF and PR apparently left TFB management alltogether, and not just "temporarily for a private project". But on the page "UQM" , there's a photo of FF and PR3 stating "After 30 years, our last day at Toys for Bob. (2021)", which s...

Next formal step has been taken:

A developer studio has been set up, and no, it's not Frungy Games.

https://www.dogarandkazon.com/blog/2022 ... rimp-games

https://pistolshrimpgames.com/

And dczanik is part of the team, the main developer of UQM HD.

That is indeed very interesting, but as long as the Kzer-Za are present, war between Thralls is discouraged. And then they do this, which seems to cause exactly that... Also, when do they install the "devices"? I wonder if Earth has it installed too, when the Kzer-Za shot everything older than "n" y...