If you're in a larger freighter, capital ship, or any ship that is otherwise too large to fit inside the station's hangars, the station will direct you to a docking pylon (think the Harbinger docking sequence from Peragus in KotOR II), and you pull up to it, probably with autopilot, since it'd prob...

What I would want to see in this game is that all available information for the character be also available to the player. What I mean by this is to have the fewest possible abstractions. Take for example the Command View. You have access to exactly the same information that the commander of the sh...

Maybe Josh could put some pre simulated data in the game that would make it possible to get the same effect of a simulation that would normally take a day or so without the need to do the simulation again. the problem with this is: how many universes do you want to pregenerate? because there is a c...

Maybe Josh could put some pre simulated data in the game that would make it possible to get the same effect of a simulation that would normally take a day or so without the need to do the simulation again. the problem with this is: how many universes do you want to pregenerate? because there is a c...

There is not much to shine light on at the moment, as most of the things are currently only discussions about single economy related items or UI's and management tools, not much actual economy afaik

Hmm, none of these ideas really fits with what I had in mind, the closest match is the dynamic cycle thing. I imagine that when you are in a specific sector (not region) all sectors in a give radius (e.g. all sectors 2 jumps away) will start to be generated/loaded, the radius is chosen so that by t...

as far as i know is the planned solution something along the lines of point 2, you should never get to see any loading because of not generated regions there will always be some 1 or 2 regions generated in excess of what you would actually need, to provide the abstract simulation for your visited re...

THIS. :wtf: :mrgreen: (FROM BABALON 5 CRUSADE) (very large capital ship) Excalibur http://www.coldnorth.com/owen/game/miscellaney/comparisons/victory.gif (enterprise for scale) The whole ship actual looses power for a couple of minutes after it fires. :shock: http://www.isnnews.net/hyperspace/inter...

To the the "penalty for using enemy weapons" thingy You mean licenses? no, i didnt refer to licenses. I was talking about racialised/alien hardpoint limitations. It would turn into an massive furball of incompatible equipment very fast. As you fly across an infinite universe an infinite amount of d...

To the the "penalty for using enemy weapons" thingy

I think this would get out of hand with micro very soon. As you suddenly dont have size 1-10 or whatever hardpoints but instead 1-10 brztian civilian hardpoints, brztian military, aartan civilian, military, corporation cybertronics hardpoints etc. I think that is a route we dont want to go in sake o...

The "soft" limit irks be because it presumes that there is some invisible, untouchable interstellar authority that the player has to bend their knees to. I'm not fond of bureaucracy, permits, licenses and all the other superfluous shebang. If I can get hold of a gun, I can pull the trigger. And if ...

Normal timekeeping, please. The game is happening in real-time, and it would be smashing if the bloody thing could simply tell me that my order of flak ammo is ready in 5 minutes, 21 seconds instead of giving me a reading of 34 zarrixxian morbuls, which I can convert into real-time by estimating th...

Thanks, but I'd rather have stuff conveniently sorted in different subfolders/menus instead of having to navigate through an interactive tablecloth-sized information dump. Whats the difference from an node based radial menu to the information canvas? Except that it is more immersive? I dont imagine...