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You. I like you. :squirrel: According to this page on wikipedia we all come from squirrelly creatures: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Plesiadapis2.jpg/300px-Plesiadapis2.jpg (just wondered about the smiley collection's origins :D ) :monkey: (...no explanation needed) :gho...

Loooong time lurker here :mrgreen: Just wanted to get that old feeling back vis a vis Update Anticipation Threads (and trains ofc) :squirrel: I hope I shocked some people though not enough for a mod to lock this thread :ghost: I, for one, am excited for a return to a more regular update schedule *fi...

Charley_Deallus wrote:A very good match: Belgium vs USA. Good game. Now...LT MODE REACTIVATED.

Ditto

I even forgot to abuse my F5 key during the extra time

Shane?

Let me just say: very nice and shiny update! This widget technology especially is probably the best implementation of displaying a growing info source ever! :thumbup: I do have a question though concerning the scanner (hoping the anti-polar people wont hate me): Would it be possible to be able to ch...

@light487: I think fatmop meant for the payout term to be the result of a simulation-based calculation (i.e. it will include the cost for buying equipment, flight time and cargo space etc.). As you pointed out, major conflicts will have an exceedingly large amount of relevant variables, which is why...

If everything is procedural in the universe, then simply let the AI learn what activity is valuable and what isn't (as time passes WHILE we play the game). Most values etc don't need to be predetermined before the game starts. The universe can learn as needs are discerned and activities are acted o...

After giving this some more thought, I agree that scanning / exploration can be tied in nicely to the marketplace; it will, however, be problematic to calculate the "payout" term for raiding / fighting, since the time consumed, equipment required, damage sustained etc. by acquiring the goods by mean...

While I like this approach for behavior such as mining and trading, it will be difficult to implement for raiding and exploring, since these activities are much riskier and much more unpredictable (and usually wont have any periodicity in their returns). In this post I proposed a possible solution f...

First of all: Hello everyone! ;) I've been reading on these forums for quite a while and I guess I finally decided to participate^^ Anyways on to the point: If I remember the pertinent dev logs correctly, I think LTs AI already has algorithms similar to what jimhsu proposed incorporated in its code....