I am not affiliated with this project in any way other than very much wanting it to succeed. This project is an attempt to create a control device in which a player uses their feet to control all movement in a game, both for VR gaming and regular gaming. This would free a player's hands to be hands,...

Good call.

The ceiling can as well be counted as reached when you are half a percent away from it. It would take over 500 breakthroughs to reach that point (assuming a one percent gain). If breakthroughs were achieved at a rate of one an hour, a player would be playing a 'long' time, far more than I have ever...

I wouldnt disallow such progress, but there must be other developments that negate the temporary advantages provided by them. The negating factor would be a corresponding increase in techological development by other civilizations. It is not necessary that technological development 'negate itself'....

Uh oh. There's blood in the water! Heh, no, no blood. Just two people discussing something they both think is important without too much word mincing. That may be an error on my part to omit sufficient smileys, but I am pretty sure that with four and a half thousand posts, Cornflakes is on sturdy e...

Then you'd create an arbitary upper limit, breaking fun on the long run, as at some point r&d doesnt make any sense anymore. As opposed to breaking the fun right from the start? The limit would not be 'arbitrary', it would be very considered. Moreover in the long run, you would still be progressing...

There are always mechanics that can avoid issues of game breaking scale, and yet still permit infinite progression. As a for instance... For any given technology that can be scaled from research, define it's starting point effect, then define the point where all progression 'must' stop lest it break...

So a low level gun makes 1 damage, takes 1 unit of power and weighs 1 unit of mass. And equivalent higher level gun has 4 dmg, 4 energy and 4 mass. Sure, but you would have to define how this higher tech gun is any better than four, tech level one guns. It may be because the higher damage penetrate...

Erm... something like this ? I am in favor of anything that increases player options when designing ships. There is a danger however of making a system too complex for most players. I recall reading in a thread by someone, somewhere on this forum, suggesting the idea of allowing a player to 'option...

Infinite technology progression I do not know how technologies, research and the like are going to be handled in the game. For the sake of discussion, I am going to assume that something akin to the 'module' system as is described in the thread "Balancing Ship Design and Faction Diversity" in Sugges...

Gazz wrote:What exactly do you have in mind?

I am in the process of outlining my thinking in this regard (and others) in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4063

is there an electronic version you could email to me? I do not have such a version, no. However I did a quick search ("high guard" pdf) and there are some resources on the web you could use. Here are a couple of quickly chosen links that might help: http://www.rpgnow.com/product/59402/Book-2-High-G...

Relating graphics and size to the actual ship statistics. A ship that has 50% of it's mass in engines should 'look' like it has 50% of it's mass in engines. A ship that has a gun that is 20% of it's mass, should look like it is built around a big gun. I would very much like for the look of a ship to...

Strategic tradeoffs and rules based ship building. Over thirty years ago I discovered the 'High Guard' ship design system used in the original Traveler games system to handle ships and ship combat. I was part of a large gaming community and in a campaign game that lasted years, I found myself needin...

By no means does this hope of mine exclude anything. I hope Limit Theory has much more to it than what I describe. What I would detail here is more the gameplay that I myself most yearn for. I want to build my own ship with which to explore the universe. I want the build system that allows me that t...