Is... is that supposed to be a relevant objection to anything I said? Terrorists, unlike modern military states, don't have military drones. And they certainly didn't have them in 2001. They certainly don't, unlike people in the fictional universe of Limit Theory, have robots which can fly space sh...

And yet, what of the player-side RTS play? In a job-based world, you do not simply drag a box around people and say "go kill that thing." You don't say, "sure, I'll hire you for 200 credits a month, now go do a suicide mission against my enemy over there. We'll talk about payment afterwards!" But t...

Chipping in on the torrent with my 100Mbit connection

A few thoughts: You've said in a past dev log that ship types are just labels for a range of sizes (anything from 1-50 being fighter, 51-100 bomber, etc; is how I understood it?), it would be awesome if the start of Ship Fabrication would be a ship of, say, size 25 and one of the possible procedural...

If you use this approach you'd need astronomical amounts oa RAM... Because you need an world version for every NPC (or at least faction) If that is in response to me, then no, the only thing that needs it's own instance is the delta of the false information (if multiple actors can see the same fals...

It is a very cool idea, and I've considered it before as well, but technically-speaking, I'm not sure it's viable. Information is one place where I'm going to have a very difficult time with performance. The problem with allowing false information is that it requires you to realistically model ever...

I gave an answer to this same question on a Youtube comment. Here is what they said: Fighter can get under capital ship's shield? That must be some mistake... You shouldn't be able to penetrate other ships' shields with your own fighter or whatever. Its not an atmosphere on a planet. Your fighter s...

My question, with regards to shields, is what is the difference between an unmanned fighter filled with whatever explodes to give the most damage and a missile? If there is no difference, you will need some heavy-duty anti-missile defenses for your capital ships to survive anyway, and they will take...

Yes, coding while sleep deprived (which is the first week of uberman) will result in mostly throwaway code, the week after that will be sub-par work, improving until you end up with potentially better work at ~4 weeks in (and continuing at that improved level until you stop sleeping polyphasically)....

You asked in your latest dev log if anyone had figured out how to create more hours in the day. They have - Polyphasic sleep. You lose a week of productivity in exchange for 22 alert, useable hours every day; though it's really hard to get started. A day 60 blog post of someone who has done it succe...

... I find it amusing that people are pointing to the Oculus Rift as a reason to have visible cockpits, when it is the exact technology that would be used in spacecraft (in reality) to get rid of limited physical consoles.

Yes, I'm well aware that the pre-alpha/combat prototype will be windows only, which is why I asked if he could estimate when he thinks he will start mac/linux porting (which is hopefully at some point in the alpha version of the game); I'm not expecting the pre-alpha for mac/linux at the same time a...

Josh, if you could estimate when you would be likely to have a pre-alpha/alpha version for mac/linux (after we get to the $100k goal?), having an alternate $75 pledge equivalent to the Black Friday Beta pledge (with just the game, beta, soundtrack, and mac/linux alpha) would be great for those of us...

This to me seems backwards. Maybe it has to do with the definition of a 'faction', since to me, a 'faction' is a group of like minded NPCs typically smaller than a planetary government (or several). Something like a trade guild or a corporation or a club are 'factions'. To me it would make sense to...

He's writing on windows, for windows (but using OpenGL, so porting should be possible) As to the editor, quite possibly sublimetext: Ahahahaha love it. Yes sir, I've spent so much time in front of code...gotta have a good-looking IDE! I'm quite proud of my tricked-out VS2010 setup. People at school ...