additional zoom out view
- or -
radar / sonar to ping targets

more target variety

nukes (self-destroying if within large blast range)

longer persistence of wreckage / debris fields

possibility of recovering wreckage from undestroyed ships (wreckage should be heavily damaged)

The fact it, the game just isn’t that fun. While I like the overall concept, the game is slow, tedious, and repetitive. Also, the AI seriously needs work. Having to build on the fly is all well and good, but it’s just not that well-implemented.

Dragging parts around after a while is, well, a drag. When your ship consists of hundreds of parts, you shouldn’t still need to click and drag every tiny piece on and off ad nauseum just to rearrange a single section of your ship (which, on top of being highly annoying, is horribly imprecise – even when fully zoomed in, which you CAN’T, since ships can appear literally out of nowhere). It would also be nice if capturing ship segments didn’t involve dozens of clicks for the same reason.

For that matter, blowing up connecting portion of an enemy ship or your own ship should not destroy everything connecting to it. If I can disable and capture a large chunk of an enemy ship without killing its command module, I should be able to do so (and without the hassle of reconnecting every single piece). Finally, the idea that you can “trap” command modules in order to prevent ships from respawning is retarded. Full stop. This is just horrible design. In fact there are just too many exploits to go into that need fixing.

All in all I still think it’s a nice little sandbox simulation, but it could have been so much better. As a casual game it’s too maddeningly anal and unforgiving, but it isn’t really rewarding enough for those willing to spend the time to master it, since it relies on mostly gimmicks in order to progress. Successor solves some of the latter problem, but to be honest takes away a lot of the minimalist qualities that made Forever unique and interesting in the first place.

additional zoom out view
- or -
radar / sonar to ping targets

more target variety

nukes (self-destroying if within large blast range)

longer persistence of wreckage / debris fields

possibility of recovering wreckage from undestroyed ships (wreckage should be heavily damaged)

Requests for the future:

If you haven’t, please play some E.V. nova. A cross-over of C.S. and nova would be awesome.

1. Neutral space stations with docking.
a. some sort of buy/sell system for parts you’ve collected
2. Natural formations in space that are (almost) unbreakable, asteroids, etc.
3. Hyperjump
4. Modules that you can feed raw materials into, and set to produce requested modules.
5. Multi-ship A.I. (they sometimes attack in clusters, or maybe battle cruisers have small van fighters. Same for stations
6. Multiplayer!
7. Fullscreen
8. Fullscreen
9. Fullscreen
10. Planets/suns/blackholes with gravitational pull

Keep up the good work!

Oh, will this ever go opensource? i would love to tinker with the flash

1. in capforever you can usually kill the ships AND keep most of the goodies (guns, boosters), but in successor, i found myself struggling to find enough weapons/boosters to stay in the game after killing other ships. (in other words, if u destroy a girder, let the weapons and stuff fall off, instead of making them get destroyed too.)

2. in capforever, the girder styles of the rainbow ships are way cooler than in successor, and their weapons seem more powerful for some reason as well.

3. successor needs more ships of all one color, and less of unbalanced, freaked-out mash-ups of items

4. in successor, the fact that the rainbow ships all look like you really is not so great, especially when you only have your little module running around. i did the math…in order to kill a solo rainbow “bubbles” module with your default pea-shooter, it takes you at least 15 minutes, given you can keep one in your sights long enough to get repeated shots at it (NOT FUN AT ALL). Just bigger, badder ships would be fine.

5. in forever, the ships will fire at eachother more effectively when they are close to eachother (which does the dirty work for you), but in successor, it takes a LOT more work for that to happen, which is less “fun” and more “damn it!”.

6. Missiles should not be able to target or hit you, if you are the one firing them. I stay away from them altogether because of this, though i wish they were usable.

7. I would rather that there is a more even distribution of item types than to get one game where EVERYTHING is sniper guns, and another where EVERYTHING is translocators, etc. Why don’t white and rainbow ships have translocators or time-shifters (which seem way under-powered to me for their rarity)?

8. If i play successive games, please don’t make me start with green AGAIN. At least let it go up to red (but no farther) given the number of successive games i’ve played.

9. Big Light Blue Laggers (huge flying wings with a lot of firepower) are ships that often make the game lag…fyi if you didn’t know already. Also in the lag department, the “bloom” is pointless. It just makes things all blurry. Can’t the actual graphics of the ships be cooler somehow? Also, i do like the “musical vocoder/gate” thing you did when the lasers fire…but there is a “pop” at the beginning which could use a smoother curve…small detail, i know.

10. MMO!! MMO!!! MMO!!!! Seriously. I want to play real people, and have my own name, and have my own “chat quotes/lingo” that i can talk trash with.

Just wanted to give you some feedback…love the game and i wish u luck!