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[William Broom]

Love this game! Every time I die I think "Nope, this game is too hard for me. I don't want to play any more." and every time I come back 

I have a suggestion: You could do a Spore-like multiplayer thing, where the game records your spaceship blueprint at regular intervals, and then creates enemies with that blueprint in other players' games.

[The Skeep]

I love the game and have been showing it to my friends and I'm surprised no one seems to have heard about it. general feelings from them about it is saving would be a nice feature.I personally think it would be ok, but it undermines the whole  building from scratch aspect. keep up the good work farbs!   

[Chris 2.0]

In my mind a save system wouldn't be so much a way to avoid building a ship from scratch as both a safety net in case you make a stupid mistake and loose what could easily be over an hour's work and also a way to take a break from the game without having to leave your computer running.
I suppose it could be used in a negative way, but no one has to abuse it and for those of us who wouldn't it certainly would be a helpful feature.

Oh, and I've also shown this to a number of friends, and even have convinced a few to buy it. Now they are spreading the word to their friends also. Everyone I've showed the game to has liked it so far

[deliciouslie]

i'm having loads of fun with this.
                                             
                                             
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Pilot this vessel

this is the vessel i had after my first run in with a kilo vessel. now that i know about the kilo clone coming up, looks like i'ma have to switch up my tactics some.
i love the evolutionary nature of the game, it's all great fun.

[MaloEspada]

I have a little sugestion:

I do not own Successor, but I don't know if I should spend 20$ on it. But let's pretend Sucessor doesn't exist.
Forever was 20$ and I would face the same situation. Should I pay for a game that I never tested?

Then I thought, why not make limited demos? Like, 5 minutes free or something like that. No export ships.
Then people would try out if they like the game or not easily. And decide if they should support the project.

[SoulStorm]

R.D. Ein, whatever Farbs decides to do with Successor, I will tell you this much, it is a much better play experience than Forever.  Not only is successor an awesome game, but also if you like games in this genre let developers know by supporting them. If you like space shooters you'll be happy you spent the $20.00.

[xerus]

I have a little sugestion:

I do not own Successor, but I don't know if I should spend 20$ on it. But let's pretend Sucessor doesn't exist.
Forever was 20$ and I would face the same situation. Should I pay for a game that I never tested?

Then I thought, why not make limited demos? Like, 5 minutes free or something like that. No export ships.
Then people would try out if they like the game or not easily. And decide if they should support the project.

Captain Forever is pretty much a limited demo of captain successor.

[TheDustin]

To steal a line from my review: "If Forever is the Lego set you threw a tantrum for a Wal-Mart, Successor is the gargantuan set you begged for come Christmas time. A better analogy for us computer geeks is that Successor is to Left 4 Dead 2 as Forever is to L4D1".

[allen]

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If you enjoy Captain Forever, you will enjoy Successor. But remember you aren't paying 20 dollars for just Successor. You're paying 20 dollars for CS and all the other games he's making for the Captain Forever series of games.

Personally, if he never released another game in the series I would still be satisfied with my purchase (although I got it for 15 dollars during the pre-purchase ). But knowing that he does intend to release more in the future just makes it sweeter.

[Farbs]

Cheers for the suggestion R. D. Ein. Kyle's right that CF is a limited CS, but I'm not sure I'm properly communicating that anywhere. I think a limited demo might be too much to give away, but more detail on what Captain Successor actually is (like videos etc) would probably help.

I also figure that as I release more games/episodes people will see more reason to sign up, so I should focus on making more stuff.

[Hideous]

Yes.

Next game needs a tentacle module.

[Tanner]

next game should be a metroidvania

[MaloEspada]

Oh, I didn't know the whole "pay once and play every one that gets released" 

Farbs, just wait til I acumulate my capital. Just wait.

[Bood_War]

next game should be a metroidvania

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[allen]

Oh, I didn't know the whole "pay once and play every one that gets released"  

Farbs, just wait til I acumulate my capital. Just wait.

Yeah. Farbs' site is quite lacking I think. It's a real good site but as a first time viewer it's pretty confusing as to what you are paying for and even how to navigate it.

the text on the support page is pretty vague, it's hard to tell what you are paying for. "supporters get access to non-public features of this web terminal" ? Not really a good sell if you ask me. I doubt I would have paid for supporter status if it wasn't this thread and the various blog posts during the first launch. If I had just stumbled on the page, I probably would leave it.

Also, the default Captain Successor page should elaborate. It says "CAPTSCCSSOR.BAT IS RESTRICTED TO REGISTERED SUPPORTERS." it should also mention you get the other games as well (and yes I noticed the learn more link).