Just wanted to let everyone know what we are working on besides fixing bugs. The part of the game that seems to be the most confusing is the fleet combat. We are currently working on two things that affect it.
First, we are adding the ships movement paths for both the player and the AI. These will only show if the battle is paused. And there will be a check box to allow the player to choose if all ships paths are shown or just those that have the mouse over. This will be true for both the player and AI ships separately.
Secondly we are working on a new enhanced help system initially for just the combat. It will replace the large information window that appears when you click on the Question Mark Icon. Honestly, that's just too much information to be hit with!
Heres how it will work. You will click on the icon and a much smaller window will appear, but still large enough to display a fair amount if information. At the top of the window will be two pull down menus. The first will have 5 selections. They are How, what, when , where and why. The default will be 'How'. Then based upon that will be another pull down with a list of questions that you as the player may ask that starts with the selected word.
For example under How would be questions like: How do I fire my weapons? or How do I change my ship's movement direction. Under the 'What' selection might be What is a critical hit? I think you get the idea.
Once selected the player would get instructions on how to do that particular thing step by step.
If this becomes popular we would then start the process to add this to all of the screens.
The priority is the fleet battle ship paths first. Then the fleet battle enhanced help. The rest of the enhanced help would come at a later date depending on it's popularity.
Please give us your feedback!