As mentioned by the other comments, right now it looks like the AI entities might just be reacting to market conditions too fast, and need some kind of momentum. Increasing the size of stockpiles, and therefore reducing the short term effect of entities should work (e.g. if stockpiles drop from 50-...

Such as having transitioning cost resources. Examples could be needing specialized mining equipment, having some eqmt that mines certain minerals more efficiently, spending time training up on new skills, AI that won't be 100% efficient at mining if that wasn't their previous profession, or having ...

The next step for me is smoothing out the volatility of the economy and AI behavior. It's somewhat interesting that periodic/cyclic patterns always seem to emerge in my basic simulated economies when AI agents don't have access to historical data. That result is pretty obvious I guess, but still, i...

Is there a need for "classes" at all? Just make the possible equipment dependent on the ship's size and tweak the random generator a little. Then you can have ships at any sizes with the emphasis for "fighting" or "mining" or even some mixed "classes". In the interests of delivery time, ship classe...

The only perfect language is the one that conforms exactly to the requirements of the moment. Josh is getting around this by using Two languages that work together. C and Lua. Lua provides him a fast, JIT compiled, scripting language that has a lot of flexibility. And C provides him a powerful base...

From what I can tell, PID is a way to modulate the power output based on a "goal point". I'm under the assumption that Josh is using it to steer/move ships towards a "goal point". But is he using a single PID controller per ship? Or is it one per thruster on a ship? Do read at least the first few p...

If the scripting portion of the engine is multithreaded, and you assign a thread for every script, threads will be distributed by the operating system across as many cores as the engine is made aware of. from the Lua reference manual Lua supports coroutines, also called collaborative multithreading...

1. Truthfully, this list is getting quite small. ... The current non-gameplay tasks began as Josh and I sitting down and saying "let's implement this specific gameplay feature". Adam, Thank-you for an awesome update and even more awesome follow-up. Like many others have expressed, I just do not und...

... Josh, I hate to suggest this, but can I ask that you talk to the Lua/LuaJIT community and ask about possibly extracting these things into the language/compiler itself? This is very good work that not so many people could pull off, and I have a feeling that it could improve the language and the ...

JoshParnell wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 27, 2017 10:05 am

Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Our goal is to take all the foundational work we've done up to this point -- Adam with physics, me with ECS impl, Sean with AI -- and build a small LT out of it.

How is the ECS shaping up?

Big thanks to all the seeders! Are earlier updates available in high quality or youtube quality? I could fetch them from youtube I guess, but BitTorrent is so much better. I've been seeding all for over 2 years. However, all of the original trackers seem to be offline or blocked, so I guess that my...

The monthly updates mention that each colony will have a type (farm, military, etc). However, if a colony is successful, it will attract a lot of trading. And as the trading grows, it is likely that many products not related to the colony's main function will be traded there. So over time a colony's...

I just read the latest devlog posting. What Josh has done sounds fantastic! However, there's a risk that, if the 'language' is Turing complete and gets access to the environment outside the game, then Limit Theory potentially becomes another vector for computer viruses. And if this happens, then LT ...

Unless you can commoditize ship classes properly (which Josh really can't since his research system seems to allow for too much complexity), you should just make the ship market browseable by class. What is a 'class'? I believe that there is a nearby topic that discusses this and did not reach a co...

It's been a while since I worked on this kind of thing so my ideas may be a little incomplete, mixed up and/or out of date... Let's look at the difference between trying to buy a medium to large spaceship and trying to sell a medium to large spaceship. What is common to both situations is the knowle...