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Mechanism to Have Factions Spawn from Factions

Read Josh's most recent update. His work with factions made me think of evolving politics, and the propensity of factions to spawn other factions, which can take some or all of the resources of the parent faction. It would be nice to have some plumbing in place to make it easy to have a new faction ...

Re: LOD Distant Battles Resolution ( Rough ) Framework

Different levels of detail for different scales of activity. I personally like the ability to give my fleets more detailed orders, but that isn't possible when I don't control either of the fleets. It would be interesting to have a player starting in a galaxy where a full-on war is happening "on the...

LOD Distant Battles Resolution ( Rough ) Framework

I suspect the LOD fights will match up fleets and ships on a few axis, assuming that only 2 fleets ever meet. [ Queue: Authoritative Voice/Demeanor ] Essentially, what you would want to model is the effects of explicit/implicit standing orders in a 4-stage process. Below is a rough-draft outline of ...

Aspartame in Diet Coke Making Josh Less Intelligent?

Should Josh stay on Aspartame-sweetened diet sodas, or switch to something else for his caffeine fixes? I moved to tea, myself. Lots of caffeine, less fizz, still stains teeth. Of course, in this country, we have a long and storied history of allowing people the freedom to make decisions that may ap...

Re: QA Questions

2 potential reasons for asteroid capture: exclusive access in a competitive environment, and. Moving them around. Presumptively collisions with one would be bad. Having your "lair" surrounded by densely packed asteroids could give you some terrain advantage...or at least allow you to decorate :D. I ...

QA Questions

1) What happens when a warp rail expands enough to overlap a different warp rail line? 2) Why don't the starscapes we see in the videos have a "milky way" to denote the galactic plane? 3) Can ship/interface grammars be modified based on factions/economic conditions? 4) Is there an upper limit on shi...

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