and now for Josh's second act, asteroids fields that look like a giant cow jumping over the moon.

Research modules are vacuum sealed and do not communicate. They'd pop out with 10 different variations, and likely at different times to one another. I would be fine if this were an option, but I fail to see why it should be a requirement, not everything has to be top secret, and in fact most resea...

Yes, quite obviously. I was simply throwing out numbers.

Ok, I finally got around to reading this thing. I have some comments and questions. First, if only a portion of the data is stored on any given assembler and the rest must be communicated from the blueprint over a comms network, what happens when either A) The production module moves outside of the ...

Katawa wrote:What's the maximum money in a sector? The amount I arrive with, because I BREAK THE BANK.

As-salam alaikum Mansa Musa

IRL, what are the money-sinks?

Interest payments.


I think destruction, planetary investment, and colonization will be the biggest money sinks in LT.

ThymineC wrote:Josh wasn't joking about making the nebulae twice as pretty either.

A few more tweaks and Josh can show the actual stars how it should be done.

*drools*



Josh, I hope you're proud of yourself, your "work" is starting to look like porn...

I recently found out Elite: Dangerous is going about designing sensors in a really nice way, in my opinion. From the design document on it: Upon arrival to a new location a picture of potential contacts around the player based on their distance and signature appears (see Signature and Sensors below...

Overall sounds good, but I wonder how an Npc would know when and how to perform an "emergency bypass"

a bit on a tangent here, perhaps mods will move it, but at any rate... Are you thinking that perhaps a spectral emission frequency should be identified in the blueprint of any technology? it would make stealth technologies more about using equipment that mimics background frequencies than some artif...

I am wondering what would be better, each ship and object having a unique signal or materials and equipment having unique signals that combine in interference patterns to form the signal of each ship and object, which can be broken down and the components identified ... So you could tell that the sh...

If it was me pointing it out, glad to help, but I suspect that Josh is smart enough to have figured it out that common knowledge in one place may be rare in others, and that a given piece of information will have different values to different people. Either way, I am glad of the clarification, becau...

Transparent and translucent ships and stations. I have never seen this idea anywhere, I have never even heard of such a thing except for maybe that tree bubble in the movie The Fountain; However, in looking at some translucent, bioluminescent, deep-sea creatures, the Idea came to me that it would be...

TBH, I'm not keen on data having an equal value for all buyers, regardless of its rarity and content. Data should always be valued according to its utility to the purchaser, as well as its access rarity. I personally think that the information packet system as explained by mynamewuztaken is a fantas...