Due to balance issues (no, we have not been playing S.A.D., we've just been envisioning it), players require at least one research facility to build a raptor.  This allows players to scout, but without having a decisive advantage of high HP.

Also, in lite of the new Ptaloid race, one can build a detector by simply having a research facility.  A detector no longer requires a starbase.

Is this really gonna be your last calc project? That is a pity, but it inspires me to make it the best of its kind!

That's why I'm making this the best I can, and that's why I'm doing the four races now instead of making an expansion pack.  Once I'm finished with the bug-free release, that's it for me! 

Well, back to work.  I'm coding the progress bar.  Sorry, ztrumpet, it looks like displaying partial buildings is going to take too much work, memory and processing power.  I'm still trying to make this game the best it can be, but it is for a 6 mhz processor

New alpha build coming in about two weeks!  In the mean time, looks like I'll be releasing a lite version of S.A.D. for people who want to save archive space.  It will contain, oh, I'd say about 3-4 pages of data, but the campaign will be external with a few missions missing, and only the Human race will be present.  The full game will probably contain 6 pages, even with compression.

I personally will most likely go with the full game

I think most people will, considering 4 races and the unabridged campaign

Pretty much everyone voted for having multiple amounts of the same type of unit at their command, with the ability to still change your type of unit to fit your strategy.

Here's the way this will work:
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1.  When the player selects the type of unit he wants to use at the moment, a box will display, telling how many units of that type a player has left on hold.  The box will also display the maximum number of NEW units of that type you can build.  This is determined by the amount of money you have, the number of that type of unit you already have, and the amount of food available.
2.  A player can chose to buy 1 new unit (which will be added to the units "on hold"), add one unit to his group (even if the group is empty) or take away one unit from his group and place it back in the units on hold.
3. Sephrane gas, refillable upgrades and fuel left will remain the same, no matter how many units you have added or taken away.  If your sephrane gas is almost empty when you have one Raptor, it will remain almost empty when you add many Raptors.


Let's say that the game has started, so I can build some Raptors.  I select "Raptor" from the ship menu.  However, I don't want to use them immediately, I still want to use my Scouter.  So I press the enter key (or whatever key) to buy one Raptor.  Since I still want to use the Scouter, the Raptor will be placed on standby.  Soon, I make enough money to build 3 more Raptors, so I press the enter key 3 times after saying "I want to get Raptors."    I now have 4 Raptors on standby.  Now, my base is attacked with 2 enemy Raptors.  So after selecting "Raptor" from the ship menu, I press the + key (or whatever key) 3 times to replace the Scouter with 3 Raptors.  I now have 1 Raptor on hold. I win the battle and have two Raptors left.  Now I want to scout the enemy base, but with only 1 Raptor. So I select "Raptor" from the ship menu, and press the minus key to place one of my two Raptors on hold.  (This will be the undamaged Raptor.)  I have one Raptor now, and in the meantime, purchase 5 more to put on hold.  The enemy comes with a tank, so I press a particular key to put all my Raptors into a group, meaning there's eight Raptors.  Finally, after winning, I want to assult the enemy base.  So I select "Degruser" from the ship menu, and press Enter twice to buy three Degursers.  Then I press + twice to replace my 8 Raptors with 2 Degrusers, and the 8 Raptors will be placed on standby, out of harm's way.

Btw, does the unit in use have to return to the base to be replaced, will it instantly dissapear from the screen and the unit you want to use will appear in your base or will the unit in use will simply morph into the unit you want to use and remain at the same position?

Unless one is playing as the Tosonians, all unit exchanges and replacements must be done at Operation Centers and Transformation Gateways, and the Tosonians have a few rules of their own.  This means Transformation Gateways should be "spammed" as much as supply depots or pylons.  I hated to do it this way, but imbalance and unfair advantages occur if the unit can be changed just "anywhere."