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You pick your dino species first, after that you see the challenges and the scenario that give the starting conditions. Since you compete over 5 challenges each time, having a preconception of the challenges doesn't really give you that much of a advantage.

Not yet, but it should be coming soon!

I'd say not earlier than March 2025

In Essen I heard them saying that, most hopefully it will be send out by the end of the year, maybe even before Christmas 🎉

@@Crackhead66661 I doubt that will happen. Christmas, New Year, and then Chinese New Year... and these will probably push it to March at the earliest..

The games are done and waiting to get on ships to different fulfilment centers.

They are beautiful but I also have a grudge with flimsy cardstock!

The quality and thickness of the boards are consistent with what we use in our other games, but we truly value your input. We're always looking for ways to improve, so we'll be sure to take your feedback into account for future editions!

There is no plans for Swedish version of th expansions at the moment.

We’ve been refining the rules for Pax Maleficium and wanted to wait until they were more stable before doing a playthrough video. It should be coming soon! The rules will also include three different variants (England, New England, and solo), which has taken some time to finalize.

😅 Are you sure about that? I can speak to the team and get them to put in some cheat codes for you, just in case 😉

😆 Yes it is a big job. We initially went through the entire manual to categorize each rule in the game into feature / function. Then each of those groups were prioritized again into High Priority / Standard / Nice to Have / Deprecated. With the framework in place the team set to work, with each member responsible for each feature ensuring the rules are coded into their feature. The team has done well to get to this stage. As you seem to know the game, you can understand the complexity to get the rules in, and get it right. I am very proud of the work the team has already done to get the game this far. It is not perfect right now, but we are working, with testers to make sure everything is in place and working when we launch the game.

Thank you for all your feedback. I will make note of them and bring it to the team. The current UI are just placeholders to access the various functions in this first beta test version. The actual UI will be look and feel different as the screen realestate will be better used, icons, buttons etc also will have a more uniform look and feel to them. Features such as tooltips when you hover over buttons etc is under cionsideration. As to the rocket animations, we had much discussions about that, the speed at which it should travel. The consensus was to make it quick. The first few times it may be epic feeling, but the 100th time you wait for the rocket to slowly get to where you are going (and the other players must also wait for every rocket to slowly fly to their destination) do you not think it would be a bit tedious? Just as we found most turn off the looping music when playing strategy games, anything that takes time we try to skip as we want to get on with the game. However, if we are wrong and the fans want as you suggested more proportionate travel time based on speed of rocket, etc, we can look to implement it. At the end of the day, we are making this game for the fans and we want to give the fans what they want as much as possible, so we are open to suggestions and feedback.

@@nice1stuOnline awesome, can’t wait to try it.

Yes, The patents you see are placeholders, as with all the UI. They are being redesigned to fit an overall look and feel we want for the digital version of High Frontier. There were thoughts of using the existing board game cards, but we want to distingush the digital game from the board game with designs that are more fitting a digital game, and also take advantage of the added functionality a digital platform offers. We will be rolling out the final patent desgin before the game is released, with the aim that is will look more scientific yet retain the functionality of the board game cards.

@@nice1stuOnlinesounds good also at 1:04 when you start opening the menus. If the menus are empty the buttons shouldn’t be clickable and the opacity on them should be turned down. To simplify what you can and cannot do.

Also the bidding buttons would look nicer if you used the icon for water with a plus symbol.

And the buttons on the player board screen should also be icons and if you hover with a mouse or touch and hold then the text should pop up

Right now there’s too much text on the screen. I also think the Show Path Info button, when you click on should post a box on the left or right side of the screen with a lot of transparency . So you can still view the map and not obstructing it

Actually it would be "relatively" easy to animate and move everything in terms of mechanics because all the connections are set, moving them out of place would make no difference game-wise (eg. flying to the moon would cost the same whether the moon is next to Earth or we move it out by Pluto) visually though it might become a bit of spaghetti because flight paths will cross that shouldn't. things would be out of position and visually not make sense (eg. Moon next to pluto can still be reached with same number of burns as when next to Earth) Plus, it would become even busier then already is... so we might leave that to a maybe feature way towards the end of development 😁

@@nice1stuOnline well, yeah, it could be possible in general. But hard to maintain exactly same pattern and keep it readable... Not impossible, yeah, but very time-consuming to maintain lines and intersections and, yeah, sometimes messy... But maybe... Maybe it would be cool, maybe with more 3d look...

There is an animation menu that allow the toggling of the animations on / off. Design philosophy was the animated map would make it more digital as opposed to the static board game map. However, if the general consensus amongst the players is that the animations are not necessary, we can just remove the feature altogether. This is the 1st closed test version, so there are many features to be added, many bugs to be fixed and many tweaks are possible. Thanks for the feedback, it will help us to steer the project towards what the players want.

@@nice1stuOnline That's awesome! I really appreciate the quick response. Such a cool project and I can't wait to see it released.

No, the old one is more classy

Yes it is estimated to launch in September 2024. Link to the preview page: gamefound.com/en/projects/ionsmg/pax-porfiriana-ultimate-edition

Thank you for bringing this to our attention! We're sorry to hear that the sound quality wasn’t up to par. We’ll look into it and do our best to improve it for future videos.

Besides the new art/flavor text on cards, there is reportedly going to be a mini expansion included in this with a dozen or so cards covering the Cristero War of the 1920s, which historically followed the events of the original game. I have no clue if it will be available to purchase separately, but I'll flag that, since the card art is changing, I wouldn't plan on the card backs matching prior editions.

Hoo, would love if this version could include components for Ricky Royal solo. Would be an instabuy!

The game is for 1-6 players.

Hello, and thanks for your continued interest in High Frontier. The brief for the project had evolved over time after taking in much of the initial reaction from the fans, which ultimately caused the entire game to be rebooted from the single player casual (simplified) game to the now multiplayer scientific (accurate to rules) version we are producing, which is more in line with what players wanted. We have meticulously gone through the rules of the High Frontier 4 All game and translated all the rules into the game, although a few has been modified because we can on a digital platform, which we hope will enhance the game.

Unfortunately no Matt, but we plan to include an AI Phil Eklund in the final game 😉

The plan is to build the base High Frontier Game up to Module 0, including a single player campaign by the time it comes out of Early Access. Then over time the extra modules will also be built and available for purchase as DLC just like the original boardgame. As to gameplay and UI, changes had to be made to accommodate play on a 6" phone screen, but the game will stick as close as possible to the rules of the Boardgame. The Ui will be streamlined to provide a positive gaming experience on the mobile platform. There will be gameplay trailers and screenshots released publically so you will be able to get a sense of how the game will work on mobile. Like & Subscribe & turn on notifications to keep up to date with the progress of the game. Thanks for interest and comment

​@@nice1stuOnline That sounds great. Will there be quick filters for possible destinations based on thrust level and upgrades?

@@KevinHoekman Filters have not been implmented in the game map. However in route planning, clicking on various destinations on the map will display the optimal route, This route will appear in red if the rocket's current configuration does not allow the rocket to reach that destination. Panels displaying the rocket configuration information and selected path information can also be toggled on and off in route planning for reference

@@nice1stuOnline Super

At initial release it will be for mobile platform (Android and iOS). PC, Mac & Linux will be available later

​@@nice1stuOnline Any release date yet?

No exact date release date set yet.

@@IonGameDesign Only 2 months left of fall so it can't be much longer now, unless you change the video.

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