i'm aware that NPCs will work the same way the player does.
the NPCs that control empires, do they participate in the projects they create? or do they hole up in a space station and live on endlessly?

Just one more day... *fingers crossed on those dogfights* It'll be cool if we get to see dogfights tomorrow because Star Citizens dogfighting module is due to be released tomorrow too. =] Now I'm hoping that Josh successfully one-ups Star Citizen :twisted: . Bets anyone :shifty: ? OTOH did Josh pla...

kinda wondering how the number of npcs will grow or shrink over time, how do we deal with their deaths and subsequent rebirth? i'm refering to the npc that actually make the decisions, like creating a faction. as an example lets say a system starts with 10 npcs, if you were to kill 1, would there al...

jasonbarron wrote:Has anyone heard an ETA for the latest video?

should be tomorrow, not long now!

i wonder how much of an impact shadows will have on performance. if it came down to it i'd turn shadows off if it meant smoother gameplay in a crowded system.

seems reasonable enough. that is kind of the magic of being procedurally generated. soo much content, and its all new and different. cant wait to see what kind of ships will be out there.

perhaps they will launch from the side of the carrier, almost like a skydiver jumps out the side of a plane. if you have 2 launch bays, each capable of launching 5 ships at once. when docking they would simply come close to the docking bay and re-attach to the side of the ship. would be interesting ...

best i can do is a goatee ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatee ) (checked for spelling, was surprised to find mister lincoln.)


please show us all up with your wonderful beard!!!

thats pretty generic, perhaps you could elaborate a little on the purpose of the pole...

last i read in the dev logs civilians will be in the game in the form of a "colony" on the planet... perhaps as your crew.

Idunno wrote:

Jacobi1981 wrote:slightly unrelated to my origional post, but i wonder if we will be able to design our own ships,or will we be stuck with the already awsome randomly designed ones?

There is an in game ship editor .

say what? how... i cant wait for this game.

Idunno wrote:I don't know .

slightly unrelated to my origional post, but i wonder if we will be able to design our own ships,or will we be stuck with the already awsome randomly designed ones?

having planets and stations offer up civilians as a mission sounds like a really interesting idea, but i really like the refugee idea too. i was just assuming there would be escort missions, like take this exec to this location. or even escorting an explorer/scientiest to an anomoly. the act of "esc...

whereas producing a projectile like a missile may require a launcher for that weapon. urgh! i must arm my stations with all kinds of launchers just that i can supply my frontline fleet? errr... yeah that kind of dependency does seem kinda weird, but the need for a hangar bay to make a ship seems mo...