What do you do in a VAST UNIVERSE? Blow stuff up! Browser game invasion!

Machismo · June 2009

Explore the universe for SCIENCE!

Vast Universe is a browser based online, web-based, massively multiplayer 4x game.

Build stuff!
Research shit!
Huge universe to crack some skulls in!
Space and land battles.
Tech tree!
Custom ship designs!
Naked women (check other browser tab)

More detailed:
It is all based around planet you have colonies on. You build structure, research stuff, and build ships. All ships are based on custom plans you design.
There is a full research tree and structure requirement tree.
All in all, a pretty damn complete experience.

It is still pretty new. Only the Something Awful Goons are on here presently. They are pretty much the largest single group so they could end up are biggest competition.
There are a ton of random pubbies to slaughter. Also the universe is huge so you will likely start in a safe space. Also, you can't lose a planet only lose resource stockpiles.

Free of course (I am a cheap bastard).

Register?
http://beta.humugus.com/index.php/auth/register
That is the main registration link.
They have a support system based on referrals or paypal donation. You can get a deeper build queue by used support points. Pretty handy. Consequently, we might have a referral link list eventually. Referrals are pretty annoying though. That said, I will have mine in my sig.

mrcheesypants · June 2009

Meh, I'm in the mood for another empire/country management browser game. I guess I'm in. Are there any alliances/guilds/teams?

theSquid · June 2009

I got a database error when I tried to pick a starting planet. Yay!

iamthepieman · June 2009

Registered but am getting same database error when i pick a planet

Erin The Red · June 2009

iamthepieman wrote: »

Registered but am getting same database error when i pick a planet

keep trying different types. i'm on a metal planet. surprisingly my farms still work fine haha. the cornucopia planet seems to always fail when trying to colonize it

Machismo · June 2009

I am not sure how planet types effect the various production rates. From what I understand though, ENERGY is the most important resource. There is a structure you get late early game that allows you to make all the other resources (except money) from energy. It is pretty effective. That said, I find myself needing organic perpetually.

Also, it is pretty easy to make your first few colonies. They are cheap, so all you need is a shipyard. Abvoe a certain point it starts to get pretty expensive. I know it is preposterously expensive near 9 or 10 with a few people in the teens.

jagerbolt · June 2009

I just started out with a Paradise planet. There is a fleet orbiting the planet by another player, I wonder if I just took someone's planned future colony? Oh well, mine now!

Machismo · June 2009

jagerbolt wrote: »

I just started out with a Paradise planet. There is a fleet orbiting the planet by another player, I wonder if I just took someone's planned future colony? Oh well, mine now!

Well done. Ya, probably so or they used it as a staging area. Although, I have launched fleets out and forgot about them for a day or so. Perhaps the player quit.

Braincow · June 2009

So is there a PA federation yet? I just built an embassy.

acidlacedpenguin · June 2009

rats, I just started playing another browser based 4x game called Ogame. I can't possibly manage both. . . or can I?

One Thousand Cables · June 2009

acidlacedpenguin wrote: »

rats, I just started playing another browser based 4x game called Ogame. I can't possibly manage both. . . or can I?

You totally can.

Also, just established my first colony, the great land of Dixteria.

fallaxdraco · June 2009

anyone have any tips for stat distribution?

One Thousand Cables · June 2009

fallaxdraco wrote: »

anyone have any tips for stat distribution?

I just went with the standard, save for bumping up resource generation a bit at the expense of ship speed.

fallaxdraco · June 2009

i started out and just put a bunch of building upgrades in the queue... is there anything else to do at this point?

One Thousand Cables · June 2009

fallaxdraco wrote: »

i started out and just put a bunch of building upgrades in the queue... is there anything else to do at this point?

You should probably work towards building a university first and foremost (as that allows you to research technologies and such), in addition to working on pumping up your resource generation to keep up with development.

Machismo · June 2009

One Thousand Dicks wrote: »

fallaxdraco wrote: »

i started out and just put a bunch of building upgrades in the queue... is there anything else to do at this point?

You should probably work towards building a university first and foremost (as that allows you to research technologies and such), in addition to working on pumping up your resource generation to keep up with development.

Yea, you can get any one colony to generate a thousand or so of each resource within a couple of days. Try to keep research going because it adds bonuses to construction rates, research rates, and more as well as unlocking new structures and stuff.

Sebbie · June 2009

The people of Romeon would like to extend their hand in... uugh... a hi5 pact.

I didn't know I could pick an initial planet so I settled on an asteroid moon. I guess I'll just say that my people are very tough and all that jazz.

Captain Action · June 2009

Well, I'm trying out an energy eating race. They have crappy ships but great colony stats.

Dyvion · June 2009

Captain Action wrote: »

Well, I'm trying out an energy eating race. They have crappy ships but great colony stats.

I'm going with Mineral Consumption!

e: Awww... I was going to try for mineral zerg by putting my ship abilities down to 1 and my production through the roof, but the lowest is 5 and the highest is 15... Guess I'll be mineral mini-zerg.

e2: My little asteroid moon thing is located at Star (0:-2) - Planet (0:-2:42). Wherever that is.

e3: Last one tonight, I promise! There is a crystal moon in the system I'm in... it will be mine! Oh yes, it will be mine!

Dyvion · June 2009

Ok, got my university up, and 6 hours worth of research queued. I'll just shove my support link in here and we can link chain. Just post after you use my link, with your link, and we can all chain together for added support.

Vast Universe Crystal Spiders Linky

Tamin · June 2009

I'll jump in.

energy consumption 1
mineral consumption 2

Adaptivity                   Population growth on your bases            110 &#37;
Resource output              Resource output rate over your bases       110 %
Research efficiency          Research rate at your bases               130 %
Developing efficiency        Developing rate of your bases              100 %
Ship building efficiency      Rate of ships building at your bases      100 %
Fleet Speed                  Travelling speed of your fleets            80 %
Weapons Power                Power of your ship and base weapons      100 %
Armor                        Durability of your ships                  70 %
Shields                      Shield protection your ships              150 %
Scanner                      Range of your scanners                    50 %

Look good?

Oh, for the love of pete, I can not make that line up nicely. I tried copying it from notepad, from the page itself, from the preview... bleh.

Got the database error in Opera, worked in FF.
I'm in -21:15.

Braincow · June 2009

I like to put resource output to 150% since resources are usually the limiting factor in the early game.

Machismo · June 2009

Braincow wrote: »

I like to put resource output to 150% since resources are usually the limiting factor in the early game.

Resources seem to perpetually be a limiting factor. Since there is no limit to fleet size or number of colonies, it is all about if you can make enough dough to do more.

Tamin · June 2009

My Embassy is up and running, if anyone's made a Federation.

METAzraeL · June 2009

Well, Narrfeueur has been conceived at Star (-14:9) - Planet (-14:9:22). I've queued up the basic stuff to build, might check back in a couple hours. We'll see if I stick with this - I'm having flashbacks to Ikariam and wondering if I want to go through all of that again.

Dyvion · June 2009

So... I can build a ship now. I just don't have the resources for it. My next few builds will probably be two levels of each resource producing building. (I currently have level 4 power plant, level 4 farm, and level 5 mines. And they are not enough!) Also, there is a [Noog] probe floating around my little asteroid moon. I'm researching projectile cannon -just- so I can blow it up.

On a side note, has anyone colonized another planet yet? Do you have to send people units with the ship to do it... or is just a colonization module enough? Logically I would think you would need a colonization module, an engine, life support and probably cargo? But I'm not sure how logical the game is yet.

Skulkraken · June 2009

I started an account using Machismo's support link.

We're supposed to post our own support links, too, right?

Support Link

I'm sitting at Star -5:10, Planet -5:10:40. Is that ElJeffe's planet I see right next to me? I don't have access to any ships just yet. I took penalties to my research, build speed, ship speed, and scanner range in order to buff my resource production, facility development, population growth, and weapon power.

Trevor Goodchild · June 2009

I am located at 6:5:61. My name is Gentian and my home planet is Reunion. I've wanted to get into another browser space empire game for awhile now, this one looks interesting and fresh so you can count me in if any of you decide to stick around for awhile.

I've got my first probe up and shooting around the nearby stars and healthy amount of resources coming in for now.

Dizzen · June 2009

I'll try this out. Just registered using Dyvion's link.

Dunno if I'll stick around around after the premium status expires, though, so for anyone interesting on jumping on the referral train, I'll pass the last car status to
Skulkraken's support link.

Dyvion · June 2009

Dizzen wrote: »

I'll try this out. Just registered using Dyvion's link.

Dunno if I'll stick around around after the premium status expires, though, so for anyone interesting on jumping on the referral train, I'll pass the last car status to
Skulkraken's support link.

With the support points you get to start, you can add premium time to your account (costs 12 points) and when your referred person hits 80 population, you get 20 more points, so that's even more premium time, plus you get 4 points for a shipyard, and 4 for a university... so that's at least 3 more rounds of premium time.

Dyvion · June 2009

Note to Self: When building a Colony Ship... include Cargo Holds for taking materials with you.

e: Crisis averted... new colonies start with 1000 of each resource, a habitat module and a command center module. Sweet action.

e2: So... the first new colony is 250 of each resource... the second is 500 of each, the third is 1000 of each, the fourth is 2000 of each, the fifth (six total) is 4000 of each resource. If this trend continues colonies are going to get VERY expensive VERY quickly. I'm working toward getting cargo ships and trading so I can pool resources to my original (most built up) colony for expansion... and I'm going to make specialized colonies that focus on research, or one particular production, and just funnel goods around. At least, that's the plan for now.

DanHibiki · June 2009

So is there a Penny Arcade Federation? I just want to make sure that I don't frack anyone on here and then get my planet glassed.

Because I am ready to introduce some fledgling races to the magic of orbital bombardment.

Also:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk

Dignified Pauper · June 2009

This sounds kind of like the old game "Warpath" only browser based.

Also sounds like Archmage somewhat, being browser based... HMMM, I'll cheggit out.

Erin The Red · June 2009

I started up a colony a little while back
Named it Cadia (-21:15:82)
Player name is TheRoadVirus (so please don't disintegrate me haha)
Do the probes DO anything? I sent some to nearby planets.
Also, should I colonize planets similar to mine? Different?
Should I build new colonies close to my home planet or far away?
Do we have a federation yet?

DanHibiki · June 2009

probes should be sent to systems that you haven't seen yet and they will tell you what they are.

Colonies get progressively harder to make, so make sure you pick ones that are large and have a good out put. They don't have to be all earth like or Paradise worlds but they shouldn't be crappy ones.

No Federation that I've seen yet...but don't worry, you can't get attacked for at least a week.

Sebbie · June 2009

Dignified Pauper wrote: »

Also sounds like Archmage somewhat, being browser based... HMMM, I'll cheggit out.

The people at Mari were working on a adhoc sequel to Archmage called Archspace which looked totally rad. The company went under and as far as I can remember it never came to fruitation (please, oh please someone correct me on this one). Anyways it looked really deep and had a lot of details like archmage did.

Imperfect · June 2009

Hm, this actually looks rather entertaining. I was just getting kind of bored of Q2019, too.

Guess I'll check this out when I get home and have the opportunity.

Braincow · June 2009

So I took the initiative to create a federation: WANG. Send your requests!

Domhnall · June 2009

So I'm horrendous at thinking. What on Earth should I start building?

Minty_Vision from the Planet Polo

http://beta.humugus.com/index.php/profile/index/1665.hum

Braincow · June 2009

Build mines, farms, power plants, and world banks, then a university (when that's available), then progress up the technology ladder. You don't have to worry about building ships until it's time to come out of newbie protection.

Dizzen · June 2009

Yeah, work on your resource production at first. I'd recommend building your mines, farms, and power plants up to rank 5, then start focusing on reaching the pre-reqs for the next tier of resource producing buildings (Nuclear Power Plants, Deep Core Mining, and Hydroponics Farms).

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