not necessarily, though. there wont be that many "strong" AI who have actual goals, and much more worker minions who just obey what they are ordered. LT1.0 wont even have much in terms of faction play, as in "executives serving executives in a lasting agreement interaction will be based on single r...

Ha! I remember when I was pissed off I had to get a steam account to download a game I wanted. Can't even remember what game it was. Now I get on steam just to browse what's out there from time to time. The only game I haven't gotten from steam recently are blizzard games. Oh steam. I do so love you...

I just built a new rig and did some very basic overclocking. I need to adjust my timings and benchmark but I've been to busy playing Skyrim with all the 4K textures I can find. And rebel Galaxy. And Ck2 with no lag. And HotS, and Space Made. And fallout 4 comes out in a few days and... Yeah, that's ...

:| Expectationers gonna be expectationers :ghost: It's one of those times where "I'm either on to something big or have lost my mind," but at least this time I lost my mind in my free time, not on LT work hours! Win-win! Kind of! :crazy: Danger, Will Robinson! I read "Danger, Will Robinson" as "Dan...

Black--Snow wrote: I thought you had jumped off topic. Nevermind what I said in that case.

All good. I wandered. Could see how it can be misconstrued while skimming. I'm guilty of the same thing sometimes when it's a long post.

why not both? (this is just from a research POV) the first generation of some new equipment thingy could require more exotic stuff, from more distributed systems. so the cutting edge equipment is built from very distributed resources. second and third generation stuff would require less exotic mate...

MyNameWizTaken, you do not have to provide all the consumer goods... If there is a demand, smaller NPCs will see that and start trading that good to your nation. One would hope that the price they sell it at is generally slightly lower than the price you can sell it to your citizens at; this isn't ...

LT's AI's purpose at this point is bringing together a whole lot of people with nothing more in common than their love of space sims, speculation, and Josh.

And then some day when LT releases, some of those AI will shoot us to death in space.

That's AIrony.

Cornflakes_91 wrote:who else hates everything in the interface that has to do with stations? o/

It's not the best. I do like though that the price of trade goods for stations on the minimal is based on the last time you visited and not on current prices.

I would think of it less like huge mega-corps buying up everything, and more like a lot of smaller entrepreneurs collaborating to further all of their interests. Any faction that's large enough to blob has many AI that have other motives than making money. And there are lots of kinds of blobs. The a...

Well, going off the original question (which I seriously contributed to derailing), that depends heavily on how resourcing works. There have been discussions about how different ores with different properties might be procedurally generated and scattered across the universe. In a system where there ...

So that's like... Sliders?

Flatfingers wrote:...did I mention I like sliders?

Mmmmmm. SLIDERS.

Also, /salute for intellectual honesty.

Yeah, it's kind of funny that my final stance is "man, I hope this game is balanced"

I think it helps to think about it from the position of the blob as well. Would a player that wants to build a big empire find it fun to do so if after a certain point all you had to worry about was flying your fleet into the next station? Probably not. We want it to be like in CK2, where having the...

Gave it some more thought. Think that I've changed my mind. You saw it here First Ladies and gentlemen... Someone changed their mind on the Internet. I was getting too caught up in the idea that if stationary defensives out powered fleets, it meant there would be areas of space I theoretically could...