Battlestar Galactica Online

[albert]

Edited: 16:00 on 02/10/2011

Hi Folks,

Has anyone tried this:

http://battlestar-galactica.bigpoint.com

Forums are great:

http://en.board.bigpoint.com/bgo/

I liked the fact that it runs the Unity Engine which I've found has made some of the tablet based games look fantastic:

http://unity3d.com/webplayer/

They're clearly struggling for Cylons so there is a 50% XP bonus for 10 days on sign up.

The dMw Wing (Guild to some): DeadMenWarping

Sign up on Server: Virgon

~ For new players reading: http://en.board.bigpoint.com/bgo/ and more specifically: http://en.board.bigpoint.com/bgo/showthread.php?t=318487 will save you time guessing a few of the subtleties about the game. There aren't many for an MMO style game which is why I like it.

Albert's observations - to save you time:

1) You get several high value items to store and use for various purposes throughout the game.
CUBITS are cash, you can get this completing missions, looting other ships you bring down or playing BigPoint cash. (30K CUBITS gets your first ship upgrade, to Advanced Raider if you want to keep the starting ship FYI of their value.) CUBITS don't come to you often in the game but for the first few days if you don't upgrade you could probably get 10K.
TYLIUM is fuel and can also be used to buy ship upgrades in the early stages and mining and looting get you plenty of this. (Early upgrades can be bought for TYLIUM only  but later a mix of both TYLIUM and CUBITS are required). (TUNING KITS can be purchased and early on for TYLIUM can save you a lot of mining to upgrade certain ship components. They are bought for 1000 CUBITS later in the game and you should not waste CUBITS on these until your upgrades start costing 1000 CUBITS approx.)
WATER is obtainable through mining and can be sold (or SALVAGED as the games calls selling) for CUBITS .
TITANIUM is mined and is used to repair your HULL (or ship to most people).
LOW VALUE SALVAGE ITEMS - Such as old ship parts you loot, can be sold for TYLIUM. BE CAREFUL NOT TO SELL YOUR WEAPONS BY MISTAKE. SAME LIST!!!

2) Mining needs a mining cannon and a scanner helps. If you scan first any asteroid it will turn either red, yellow, blue or violet. Red indicates no minerals the others are valuable, so blast the asteroid and when it explodes you get the booty. Mining cannons save you wasting your valuable HE ammo on asteroids, mining ammo doesn't deplete! Do this for a few hours and you probably get plenty TYLIUM.

3) Debris Fields - If you see one of these out in the stars, you'll either do one of two things, fly over and find a long blueish cargo canister which you can loot by clicking on it, or fly around for a few minutes looking for the blue canister and not find it because it's already been looted. Don't waste your time if you don't see it immediately it's probably gone.

4) Weapons - you have cannons already on your ship at the beginning of the game but if you want missiles or mining cannons you'll need to buy them.

[albert]

Browser wise this is aweful with IE9. Must be the lack of hardware integration. Mozilla 6 on the other hand is delightful ;-)

[albert]

Been playing this all day now, and I must say I love it. The fact that it's in a browser and the Graphics card is doing all the processing is great. I did a bit of monitoring on mine and I get to 47% load on my ATI HD4870x2! Try with IE and nothing, no hardware use.

It's pretty easy to get the hang of, well I seem to have the gist. You can meet up and create a squadron and go around reeking havoc. Take down big ships stuff you wouldn't manage to defeat alone. An the XP going up pretty quick with the squad thing going on.

[Gandalf]

I do have an account I created in a slow five minutes, but I've only played for 30 minutes or so. I agree though, initial impressions are very good. Well worth a look. I've opted for cylon too.

[albert]

Nice one Gandy,

So in true dark side fashion it would be great if any newcomers would become a:

CYLON

[Grimnar]

I started up an account aswell on cylon side.

pld for 20 min yesterday and those 20 mins where pretty fun

[Sneakytiger]

i have an account on the cylon side as well under sneakytiger

[albert]

Good stuff, just wait until you get into a Battle with a decent size fleet, the visuals are amazing. Trying to strafe around the bigger ships and.not get picked off. Really challenging but when you get your first pvp kill it's worth it.

Suggest reading through the full Advice for noobs section on their forum. Will help get you mining and skilling up.

[smilodon]

Is there a specific server/realm etc that we play on. i defaulted to Vardon or something sounding like that?

[albert]

Virgon is the one I defaulted to and it seems to go there each time. So I recommend trying that .

[smilodon]

Vardon.... Virgon I was close. I'm smilodon70 should anyone care

[albert]

Great, will catch you on there tomorrow. Our neice has seconded my computer room for her cot so can't play tonight as she's Leeway asleep. ;-)

Cheers,

Albert

Sent from my Xoom

[Gandalf]

I can't remember what server I'm on! Still, barely get time to play anything at the moment!

[Sn00ks]

Right I'm in there on Virgon and I've done the standard newbie update on my ship. I've also bought a mining laser but for the life of me I can't work out how to move it from my hold into use? I click on it but there is no option to install. activate or drag'n'drop it onto position? :g: It is getting a little bit frustrating :taz:.

Any pointers?

[smilodon]

Assuming you have a free slot I think you buy it and it goes into your hold and then you indeed drag and drop if onto a Babar mount point. ....... I think?