Right. I was about to suggest that research into a newly discovered type could 'manufacture' affinities, but since affinity is symmetric that would mean it would implicitly affect every other type's affinity definition. But with this system as you describe, doesn't that put an effective cap on the n...

Oh right, so an affinity is just a modifier that defines the type dynamics. Like a proportionality constant between damage input and damage received, depending on the input and receiver type. Ok ok that makes sense. That's... Really simple too. Research could perhaps open the door to multiple affini...

Right, I'd thought that affinities would exist in addition to shield types i.e. that they would essentially provide a perturbation around a 'pure type'. I do like your 'only affinities' idea - so let me get this straight: I have a shield. Its *type*, like all shields, is generic, but it has a single...

^That's very kind of you~ But this is your idea. I think it would be worth writing a 'guide', as if in a manual, to explain the mechanism. e.g. "When choosing your weapon and shield types, you as a pilot will have to make some decisions regarding how you outfit your ship, since you will be facing co...

That AI pilot interaction task looks amazing.

msh's system is essentially cornflakes's system except that instead of a continuum of shield types, which could be developed in any direction in response to any stimulus, you've now just got a two-layered shield system (shield+hull) with set-in-stone specialty. Set-in-stone specialties are subject t...

How is it a money-grabbing exercise if you're attempting to get people who *play* your game, to *buy* it? http://www.tweakguides.com/Piracy_8.html <- This is part of a very cogent analysis on the effects of piracy, copy protection and related issues on PC gaming. I would encourage a read of the whol...

^Josh knows more than the rest of us combined what he's doing, I think we're comfortably in good hands~ And remember, he's not discarding the nodal UI, he's combining it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbW5sxyu9bU

Cornflakes_91 wrote:

Scytale wrote: Let's go further and call it a benevolent cancer. "Josh, you're being benevolently consumed" I'm not any less terrified!!

cancer:

"i consume you because i like you :3"

"I happen to be hungry too, so, you know - that's a bonus"

Katorone wrote:

Scytale wrote:

like a cancer taking over my being

Bro that's so dark

A benign cancer! Does that help?

But do benign cancers take over beings?

Let's go further and call it a benevolent cancer. "Josh, you're being benevolently consumed" I'm not any less terrified!!

like a cancer taking over my being

Bro that's so dark

ah yeah anti theft, you mean anti-play? What piss*d me off realy bad is when you buy a game and cant play it cause anti-theft cant verify/connect/validate etc. Usually i try to get my money back, then puttin my parrot on my right shoulder and play the pirate game. Simple code-activation is enough. ...

(And if I didn't agree I'd probably own a console. Other than my beloved PS1)

I think Stardock was the first company that taught me as a teenager to buy games instead of just pirating them. Their games wouldn't need a crack to be playable, but you needed a key to be able to patch and update the game. So every release group said they weren't touching that game, because it was...

^It's because those engaging in hysteria typically don't like to think they're engaging in hysteria.

But this isn't exactly a toxic forum in that regard. (On that note I'm pleasantly surprised that there don't seem to be that many PC Master race fanatics here!)