Personaly i like the idea of NPCs respawning and possibly comming back with a vengance. Of course that would depend on the personality of the NPC, while some will retire from space and live the rest of their new life on a planet or a space station, working other jobs, most will just accept it as a p...

realy confused about all that

I'm all for being able to man any position i want. In the example of manning the turret, why exactly do you think the player whould have to sit through all of the mission? It would be easy to simmulate the universe for the duration of said mission, so that in case there are no enemy encounters it co...

What i meant is that some, in fact most, information should be free.
If i ask a guy on the street for the time, nobody whould say "shure gimme a buckk and i'll tell you."
same if i ask for the next fuel station or cinema...

Information wants to be free!

I would be nice to get a local System map from every station, either for free, or a small sum, as it should in most cases not be of much vallue. Because if somebody build a station in a system it should be pretty well mapped already. Those maps would come with all plantes and a more or less brief de...

There are some things AIs would need: Disk space, processor cycles and allocated RAM and i'll be damned if ther whern't a system in place that whould have you pay for all those. where are the running costs for them if you have all of it aboard your ship? I was more thinking of if you'd "live" on a ...

Sounds great! This would make the game seem more... alien. And in my opinion, more realistic too. Ever since "everyone is an AI lore-vise" was mentioned, I have loved the idea. I'm not sure how Josh likes it, however. There is a single problem with AIs, though. They don't need anything. Nothing lik...

Another point, that might be worth getting into is researching new Refining steps and having increased prices for better Hardware, that copuld add an additional layer of strategy even if the process would be simplefied to maybe 4 steps per ore, with diffrent types of byproducts. One could even try t...

The "perpetual motion of the second kind" device is a hypothetical device that just absorbs heat without needing a cooled end. In real life, such devices don't exist and are considered impossible. In science fiction, maybe they are possible after all. If they would exist, they would just absorb hea...

well, the greeble i imagined would look somewhat like this Right, that is exactly what I'm talking about. Its just a jigsaw puzzle of random lines going in random directions. What person ever would design something like that? ... Imo there are two acceptable and somewhat necessary types of greeble:...

Nice deductions ;) what did you think about the mining barges and hauler ships? but my question is, do you think any of these styles should be in the game? I was curious how if this is endlessly procedural, how do ship designs start? Wouldn't all the ships look the same eventually because the AI fi...

The way i'd implement a ship generator(probabli going way overboard) whould be as follows: (keep in mind that, for me, this is not limited to LT ) Step 1: generate a profile based on the intended purpose of the ship and avaiable researched designs a profile being pretty much a list of required/desir...

Are robots strictly non-sentient? Or can any robots be self-aware, essentially functioning in the game as non-biological NPCs? i dont really know... but i think the primary difference between robots and NPC's is that robots have no inherent goals, they just do as ordered. Personally I'd like if all...

Revision of the Goals: GOALS The proposal has been designed with the following goals in mind: As a pilot, I want to be able to reach my destination in a reasonable amount of time. As a pilot, I want my craft to be sufficiently maneuverable to suit my purposes. As a pilot, I want the motion of my cra...

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/reactionlessdrive.php ,overall a realy nice site for reference.Though admittedly focused on very "hard" scifi That doesn't apply - the H-drive doesn't violate the law of conversation of momentum, since it doesn't cause any change in momentum at all. It's...