first - great work!
Second - criticism
(constructive)When destroying a ship there is this cool thing that it explodes but doesn't disappear but all the parts of the ship begin to drift away from each other. Cool. But the weapon which the ship had still fires! not cool because why then you need a ship if you can simply put firing weapons into space?
When fighting bounty missions - the target suddenly jumps to somewhere else - shouldn't jumping take least *some* time to recharge?
When fighting bounty missions and the target gets destroyed by confed fighters or other then I still get the reward. Shouldn't be.
Beam Weapons are still massively disbalancing the game. A mission lasts less then 30 seconds for me now:
10 seconds to find target destination by swapping through the possible targets with 'N',
5 seconds getting near enemy,
5 seconds pointing my two light(sic!) beams onto target and again
10 seconds getting back to base. This is not much fun, actually.
Cool feature: Passing by other space entities send funny text to me as greetings. Not funny is that it happens somewhere in the upper left corner without me noticing it ever. I noticed it actually only after half an hour playing... It also doesn't have any further effect and happens way too often.
Backgrounds: They look great. But they look so overwhelmingly (at least in the starting system) that I barely can see anything else unless it's directly in front of me. Maybe make them darker.
The jumpballs: Well, it has already been discussed. What I find most irritating is that because of their transparancy they look as if they were behind the background. Transparency should be a bit less then 50% at least.
Space - feeling: The feeling of 'being in space' might be hefty improved by adding speed- and direction lines like in Iwar or occasional junk flying around like in Wing Commander!
Well that would be it for now - I didn't mention the interface because I know it's being discussed all the time...
cu, Runner
