I use open broadcaster for streaming my kerbal adventures to twitch.tv, but is also has record to disk features as well.

I haven't been active on the forums, not even lurking. I just got the monthly update video and all I have to say is that I would kill to have Josh's knowledge of graphics/shader programming. Everything looks absolutly stunning!

I've been playing around with Bullet and discovered it really does not like dealing with large values, like the mass of a capital ship. Normally I would just scale the simulation, but I want to model everything from a small fighter to a large capital ship. Bullet just poops all over itself. Josh (an...

I love empire building. Love it. Despite X3's issues it is my favorite part of the game. The issue is that X3/LT should be just as enjoyable as a single fighter, a man with a small fleet, to a mini nation. That will be a hard balance to fight.

I don't know how this could be done as a fun game mechanic, but food for thought: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17557581

I'm back on a Muse kick again. But every now and then, when no one is watching, I might fire up Lady Gaga in the car. Just for one song. Thats all. Really, I don't have a problem.

The coolest and most used karma system I have ever seen is over at spout.org. It isn't just karma but multiple flags a user can give a post (like, dislike, agree, disagree, insightful, funny, and a couple others).

I know that. However there is a difference between an engine rewrite and game mechanics. X3 can be rewritten to be multiplayer, however Egosoft chose not to do so because the gameplay mechanics are balanced on time acceleration, not super cruise. It would be double the effort. Had the X series been ...

The other consideration is how serious Josh is about multiplayer in the future. Time acceleration simply does not work in multiplayer settings. Setting up game mechanics that rely on time acceleration shuts the door on multiplayer.

The other issue is that the "role" of a player can shift as well. The challenges faced by a trade mogul are different from an ace fighter pilot with one, super decked out ship, to a fleet admiral. One possible way to balance out challenges is to "punish" the player for picking on significantly weake...

I never looked intot he x scripts much. Is it a bunch of if statements, or is there a finite state machine involved?

Sounds like my "procedural periodic table" idea. The short version is that various elements have different, known stats (strength, heat capacity, electrical conductivity, for example). These stats can even vary a bit between seeds. Raw materials can be combined in different ratios to form alloys tha...

I used the phrase Periodic Table as a colloquialism more than anything else. Full on material science simulation does not have a place in these kind of games, nor a random creation of 100ish elements. I do, however, think an abstraction can be fun for the more industrial type of player, especially m...

If you want more fun you will want antimatter warheads. One gram of antimatter and one gram of matter is about 180 terajoules, which is about 3 times the power of the hiroshima bomb. To get tsar level you just need 1 kg of antimatter. One way to balance the use of super weapons is to have it be "ill...

I like this idea. So, in short, a procedural "periodic table of elements" which compose the raw materials in this game. These raw materials can be combined to form alloys, which is also procedurally generated. Raw materials and/or alloys can then be combined using blueprints to make things. This cou...