The Kepler Colony: Evacuation (OUT NOW!)

[andymwhy]

A quick reminder that there are only 24 hours left to play the demo before it is removed. The game is nearly completed. This is the last chance to try it for free.

[CreepyPastaKitty]

…I’ll try to get in a playthrough before then , thought about applying for the beta tbh, but not sure how much time I’d have for it :’( . Great news that it’s nearly finished though .

[Vattena]

Is this intentional?

Also, is this unfinished?

[andymwhy]

Ah, that first one is an error. I’ll change that.

The second one is a little worrying. Do you remember what you were doing at the time? I’ll get them both fixed.

[Vattena]

@andymwhy

Do you remember what you were doing at the time?

When choosing basic profile number, I choose “Make a note” choice, that are my first choice in that part.

[andymwhy]

Okay thanks, that helps. I thought I’d fixed all errors there but I guess not

Edit: if you try the demo again, choosing the full list works for sure. I need to copy code across for the basic view.

[SeventhJackel]

Ooh better get 1 more playthrough in sometime today.

Wish I could beta test for you but between work and life I’m sad to say I wouldn’t be able to give you the time it deserves. Best of luck though and I look forward to giving you my money when it’s done.

[idonotlikeusernames]

Heh, I tend to choose 'Straya in this game. If anyone can survive colonizing a new planet it would probably be the Aussies who already live in a death-world where everything is trying to kill you. And Australians are themselves descended from convicts.

@andymwhy

That gives us scope to change Kepler62e. Should there be a moon? How many? How big?

I vote for two moons, but that’s because I always loved staring up at the night sky in Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim, particularly Skyrim with the right sky mods. The two moons and their phases really make the world feel somewhat alien and very pretty.

@FutbolDude21586

Kiran. No medical issues (listed) and has a needed trade education.

I agree he’ll be handy for building the colony, particularly if you don’t research robotics and AI.

@Scribblesome

Hey, muscular people weigh more and need more food

But they’re so cute.

@SeventhJackel

I don’t know, I needed more medical attention when I was an “invincible” and healthy young man then I do now as an older, smarter, and still fairly healthy middle-aged man.

Different people lead different lives, I used to be much poorer and suffered health problems all throughout my childhood and teenage years, right up until my mid-twenties. Though in my case they all mostly stemmed from the underlying cause of undiagnosed celiac. Now not even a decade later I’m the second healthiest I’ve ever been. When I was a 29 year old community college student was the peak for me, I even had nice abs for brief period back then plus it was just before the balding really started.
Unless I get really sick again once I get older society has made most of the completely unnecessary medical expenses for me when I was younger.

@SeventhJackel

This is a space ship, so there is only so far prior skill takes you. Andy’s teaching experience could be invaluable in teaching children who are born in space with no knowledge of earth. But plumbing doesn’t work in space without gravity. And even if we use centrifugal spinning to fake gravity it would still make most of what Kiran knows as a plumbers apprentice obsolete.

We either stick him in cryo until he can wake up to help rebuild the colony or else he can be taught additional engineering skills on the space ship, if he was a plumbing apprentice he can likely become an apprentice engineer or technician too, and again unless the ship is manned by AI and robots we’re going to need some of those.
He is also of greater value as a sperm donor or to possibly clone, if you want to go that route.

@SeventhJackel

So if we can skip the “risk taking” stage (teen to mid 20’s) then we can lower our medical needs at least a little.

Not all teens and 20-something people are avid risk-takers that is a generalization.

@Sovereign2Lilith

True, but there’s also the perk of being more suited to the lifestyle. The people with spouses or young dependent children/ grandchildren/ pets would want them on the ship and that takes up more resources. We can leave the loved ones behind, but that may cause survivor’s guilt that you left your own love behind on a dying planet while you get to live

Indeed if you want to talk medical issues you should also take care to minimize the psychological trauma.

[Vattena]

@andymwhy
There also this:

[andymwhy]

That’s an odd one to slip by! I’ll change that too

[Vattena]

@andymwhy

if you try the demo again, choosing the full list works for sure.

Weird, it’s still same:

I choose “Make a note” after seeing all the basic profile

[andymwhy]

Okay, the demo is coming down in around 15 hours but I’ll update the demo now and correct that bug just for you
Give me a few mins…

[Vattena]

@andymwhy

the demo is coming down in around 15 hours but I’ll update the demo now and correct that bug just for you

Give me a few mins…

Sorry for that

[andymwhy]

UPDATE:

The demo has been updated! This is mainly to correct errors but it also comes with the bonus of some half-written scenes in year 19 with your robot. The demo will still be removed in around 15 hours.

Send thanks to @Vattena for this update

[idonotlikeusernames]

Has someone reported this already? For me whenever I try to buy a new shuttle I don’t get one and the numbers go into negative billions.

[andymwhy]

That was mentioned and I didn’t fix it yet! Thanks for reminding me

[idonotlikeusernames]

Also doesn’t the space elevator help with getting the people up there anymore?
Maybe you could include another project for a space station attached to to space elevator to serve as a holding and transit area for embarking people onto the spaceship, in much the same way the habitat and cryo are alternatives.
I mean if I’m building the elevator I’d happily pay another 200 billion or so to attach a space station to it.
If we build another cryo module, computer, (small) life support, propulsion and defense module for it and leave the one standard space shuttle with it then maybe it could serve as another method of re-populating Earth itself, instead of the deep earth bunker?

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[andymwhy]

If you build the space elevator, you can populate the spaceship much quicker. This should be stated when you complete your spaceship. I will be checking each part during beta-testing so will make changes as necessary.

Building a space station is a nice idea, but at this stage, if I don’t finish the game now, I never will with new additions! Don’t worry, there’s plenty of scope for new things in the next part of the game: the journey through space and the actual colonisation of Kepler 62e!

[idonotlikeusernames]

Yeah, I should probably have thought of it sooner, but it would seem more logical to me to tether a space station with its own, cargo, support and cryo modules to the mammoth space elevator project then to build an entirely new equally mammoth project for an underground complex.

[andymwhy]

The space elevator would be tethered directly to your spaceship- which until it leaves orbit, technically is a spacestation.