Next suggestion: give stages random names, like missions.
When you enter a new stage, instead of saying wave x of y, it says something like
Stage 2
[generated name]
like it worked with the capter names in previous episodes
Also, @InterAction_studios, what is that “lucrative boost”?
Currently, you only see players within a certain radius from you. This was done to conserve bandwidth (apart from position, we also need to transfer flagship appearance and movement). We haven’t looked at our bandwidth usage closely yet, but if we can increase this range without going bankrupt, we will 
Currently, “lucrativity” of a mission depends on its planet. Planets that are harder to get to (e.g. because they have electic storms, or are hot) receive a boost. Lucrativity only affects score, not keys (this is intentional)
Good to know! Have you thought about price balancing of perishables? Or do you think those prices are in balance? Because as of now, I dont see any reason to buy anything except extra lives as buying missiles and other perishables make the grind for a new spaceship much longer…
I think that the unoriginality penalty should only apply if you complete a mission sucessfully or surrender close to the end, but never if you get a game over. Also, maybe it could decay faster if you play other missions inbetween?
I also have a suggestion for a new item to equip (not perishable -> like hud meters)
It’s an item that raises your minimum firepower level by 1, think of white knight. It does not synergize with equipped weapon upgrades. You can equip 5 (?) max. One item should be between 300-500 keys.
I vote no, becauſe the white knight gives a huge advantage to thoſe who’ve been around longer (i.e. gotten more upgrades). I think if we wanted ſomething like that, it would have to either 1) be a fairly expenſive periſhable or 2) come with a huge downſide, like loſing a couple keys produced ſo far in the miſſion at every death (which with the end-game ſcoring will have a multiplied effect) or maybe occupying a ſatellite dock with the apparatus that does this, or maybe an increaſed overheat rate.
@Traveller I think it’s not wrong to get strong over time, that will work out nicely with hard missions.
@InterAction_studios I also think that on harder missions, more food should be dropped. Also, will you bring clupea harengus back in a way (the red fish from CI3)?
Lol,I absolutely disagree. It barely gives an advantage,at all. If you’ve been around for a long time,perhaps you shouldn’t even drop down to that firepower level often enough to make it worth it. even if you do,it’s not like trying to continue playing with 5 firepower is worth it. It’s better to surrender and restart the whole mission,especially if you play with high skill levels. 300-500 keys is already a rip-off,and those disadvantages only make it worse. If you’ve really been around for longer,why not just upgrade your weapon 8 times,instead? Sounds way more worth it,to me,and,again,if you really drop down to 5 firepower,you might as well just restart the mission.
Guys,white knight was useful in ci5 because it would let you start at 5 firepower,but in this game,you can already do that just by upgrading a weapon. Its ability to not let you go below 5 firepower is only useful for new players who die a lot.
Then you could synergize it so you can start at fp13?
That would be better. As long as it’s not overpriced. But would that also prevent you from getting below 13? If not,I mean,they could simply increase the upgrades limit,lol
I would always prefer to continue fighting as beſt I can even if I drop down to 0.
However, here
you definitely have a good point.
It’s a waste of time,IMO. Enemies just take even more shots to take down. Why not just retry the mission,you might end up with like 15 firepower in the same mission in which you had 0 firepower last time. Oh well. Whether or not you want to waste time is your choice ¯_(ツ)_/¯.
@InterAction_studios, I have a question:
Why did you change the coin graphics in CI4?
They looked like that in CI3 (taken from the wiki):
for me its easier to distinguish them because they have clear colors
The colors were changed because the silver coin was easily mistaken for an egg. The only white projectiles in the game are things that kill you.
What if you just changed the color of the star on the coin? Sometimes it’s a bit hard to distinguish 1000 from 10000 point coins
Ill continue using this thread for posting smaller stuff so I don’t need to create a new thread everytime.
@InterAction_studios, some things came into my mind
Vulcan is all about heat management. That’s its quirk. If you can’t manage heat, then you pay the price (=diluted damage). Increased damage with spread would reward the wrong thing.
We want to move focus away from DPS being the sole criterion; the Vulcan currently has by far the greatest DPS, but you need to be skilled to take advantage of it. New planned weapons may ramp up damage sooner (in lower power levels) but sacrifice total maximum damage, and vice versa. Others may output the same damage throughout, but reduce spread (or increase firing rate) as level increases. Others may be chargeable and trade firing rate for projectile damage. Yet others may cause damage over time, or pierce through multiple enemies.
We don’t plan (non-cosmetic) redesigns of existing weapons unless there’s something seriously wrong with them. We’d much rather get some of your new ideas in the game.
We’ll remove the enemy health boost per skill in the next update and see how it goes.
To be honest, I don’t think that 12% more damage on SSH won’t have a real impact. It’s nearly impossible to get a clean sweep because of too high base health of enemies (an ordinary chicken has over 2000 health) and that many mini bosses appear and they have much more health, logically.
Too-many minibosses was a bug, it will be nerfed in the next update.
And enemy health was calibrated in CIU so that at maximum difficulty the chickens have as much health as they used to have on wave 100 (out of 120) in previous episodes. So previous episodes actually had MORE health than CIU (barring use of Skills).
