From the reviews, it sounds like a game developed in many separate modules, by people of varying qualification levels. good: combat, leveldesign, textures, vehicle driving, soundeffects average: voice acting, questdesign, crew interactions, alien animation, music, crafting bad-to-terrible: human ani...

Hm, apart from the visual topic, some excepts from the gamespot.com review regarding the writing and voice acting: The vast majority of Andromeda's characters are just dull, and conversations rarely delve deeper than arduous "get to know you" small talk. No one yells or cries or expresses any measur...

This weirdo Manveer Heir seemed to have left Bioware, at least thats good news.

tl;dr: there's a reason main characters look good in games, and a large part of it is story-based. Mass Effect's writers used to understand that... but I suppose they have new ones now that don't quite know what they're doing. My guess is that its not actually a fault of the artists to have chosen ...

Was just watching a play though of the beginning.
I think some girls look quite hot in the game:

But you must admit, the artists have a lot of humor.
Here some preset faces of female characters:

Lay thy eyes upon it

eyes is plural, thats why its "thine"

That can probably also work. It will be more like in an RTS then, using a long distance rotating view around the station, and point at different attackers. But the problem with stations is, that they are stationary. Flying a ship is just way more exiting, with the stations having just automated defe...

That probably refers to the stations having turret hardpoints that can be manually controlled in a fist person view.
(similar to the capital ships in the X-Games)

Important about presenting the content economically (given by what is available) is to get some metric of how many system the average player will be visiting regularily. A game that is set up location-wise, where player visit only a handful of system (large systems as in X-Rebirth) should present va...

I would see it more of how to "emphasize" a system. Throwing all effects in randomly at once will make it also feel random. For example: systems get generated with the emphasis on 1,2 or 3 "eye candy" environments, and the rest being tuned down, using default parameters or not being generated. Then ...

Maybe use an official "derail" Thread to push the messages to.

Scytale wrote:
My personal thoughts can be found here

Nice work. We need more propperly written papers to support our arguments.

Although you are missing a disclosure of potential financial interests. This study might have been funded by a grand by Unilever or Mondelez International.

JanB1 wrote: You don't know what pain is until you gotta program a modbus communication interface and program a function that controls a device (over modbus) that is, like, 2m away, but still so unreachable (virtually).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modbus

Im sure there is an app for that

Have made a custom halfway usable serialization, that is at least easy to edit manually when needed,
and not too much work to implement for each class.