Wings make sense, honestly, though perhaps not in a typical two-winged aircraft-like manner. They're good places to mount things on a ship that need to stay moving as part of their defense (don't have the shields and HP to tank attacks from larger ships) flies at its target to attack (small ships s...

Wow. Looks like X3 is back with a vengeance.

Still not preordering after the last debacle.

Zorathex wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 23, 2017 8:40 am

Today I found out that I'm not the only one who doesn't use Facebook. :D

Me neither! We should make a Facebook group o... oh. Let's just crawl back into our cave and think about not doing it.

The word snarkastic.

No way this has been 5 years. =)

AdamByrd wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 19, 2017 9:13 am

I made a new UI widget that I think it looks pretty cool so I figured I'd drop a little gif.

Awesome! A UI that shows the amount of red in the game!

JanB1 wrote:Rrright...because you're ALWAYS using it in the winter. Or in wet areas...

If you're a soldier and you have to dig then the ground is ALWAYS mud or frozen. It's the law.

IMO the number of hardpoints per ship needs to be restricted. How big a weapon/turret/socket you install is then a matter of cargo space, construction points, or whatever. That would naturally have large ships gravitating towards large weapons because that's how you get the most firepower. Installin...

It describes the principal problem of bird watching.

Birds are usually small.
Often they fly, making it hard to get good pictures or see details.
If you get closer they fly away.
Birds are jerks.

Arbitrary limit is arbitrary. I need my missile spam. Give me carriers that launch missile launcher ships that launch missiles that shoot MIRV-like missiles! For the relatively very short span of time of such a battle, I'd imagine LOD AI could be disabled to free up those processor cycles. Two such...

JanB1 wrote:Well, it's not much of a challenge if I just used a vehicle. We, a group of soldiers of all ranks and me, are training for a competition. :D

Oh, there is a Sore Feet 1017 competition?

50 years ago it was obvious that today's soldiers would all move around with hoverboards and jetpacks. Ah well...

Sigh. That still doesn't tell me if letter soup is a suspension or conglomerate.

You would be very wrong then. Knowing the exact measure of an optimization is how you classify if it was worth the effort or not. If you don't test before and after, and don't test thoroughly getting exact numbers, how can one say that the change was an objective improvement? With a framework chang...

This starts sounding more like the X3 setup. It has a powerful scripting system but it has commands like "fire guns at target X" or "fly to point X, Y, Z". The flight path of a projectile is not controlled by the script. Events/interrupts occur either when the script schedules a futire update when i...

Overlord is an entirely different game...