There's a bug which appears at some point where destruction of cash carrying aliens causes your ship to disappear and the cash to turn white.
>Don't know what's causing it yet.
I don't like not having a recharging shield permanently or it is too expensive.
>You mean armour repair? If you think it should be a fundamental bit of equipment, I'll make it cheaper.
Yes I mean armour repair. I think it's pretty fundamental equipment. It's exciting to get low on shield then wait for it recharge, Halo style.
>Low-powered armour repair is now ship-standard in 0.6

The whole power up reduce thing usually results in you being completely powerless once you've got to a level where you've built power up and die.
>In the next version you will leave behind cash pick-ups when you die - you just got to hold on until you reach the shop.
Hmm. Okay, I'll give that benefit of doubt for now. I'll judge it when I play it. Just now I've been playing on Earth for quite a while before dying anyway.

Also you need to afford the player a brief period of invulnerability when they die and come back. Too often have I appeared and not had a chance to save myself due to so many bullets whizzing in my direction.
>Okay.

Progress in powering up is still too slow.
>Okay :> Should I prevent cash-drops from leaving the screen so they are easier to pick up? (I will have to do this with the cash-drops you drop when you die anyway)
I quite like the race to pick up the cash drops actually. Perhaps just generally cheaper equipment or equipment with a bigger effect. It amounts to pretty much the same thing in the end.
I also feel that things get reduced a bit much when you finally get to twin shot. You get such a poor rate of fire at that point and so much power drain. It seems a bit harsh.
It's like "ooh I have an exciting new weapon!" but then you start shooting and it's "Oh this is a bit slow and crap." Needs a bit more pizazz.
>I now have money bouncing off the sides of the screen. But it doesn't make sense that the aliens can disappear off the bottom but money can't.
So how about either: a) Money stays on screen but devalues, so you have to race to it to get the big money. Or b) Money ignores gravity and floats around randomly. ?

I like the money floating up the screen and the background for the moon. However there seemed to be a bug on the moon one where the money floats up from a position way below the screen.
>Erk. Will investigate.
Played for a long time on earth but it didn't manifest itself. Possibly moon only? Will investigate further mysself.

Allow players to catch all money falling before the shop appears.
>Yes, that had occured to me :> Expect this in 0.6
Good. Even after money pick up give it a couple of seconds I feel. Just feels better that way. Or how about a shop icon to fly into?
>I like the shop icon idea; it can slide in from the bottom right (slightly elevated). In blipfighter tradition, it will look like the word 'SHOP'.

Innertia makes it hard to shoot things down. Innertia dampers a possible add on?
>On all levels, or just in the Solar Space level? But I think there should be some kind of movement-based power up.
Mainly just non Earth levels actually. Speed/Innertia dampers could probably be a good idea for the shop. I mean it's still possible to kill things but more accurate positioning is better.
>Since things like speed and inertia are personal preference, I'll make them alterable in the shop free of charge.
>Also; I think I will introduce 'friction' when you are at the bottom of the screen; so you stop faster if you are not 'jumping'.