Cornflakes_91 wrote: ok, what does your suggestion provide gameplaywise?

changing how good equipment works would be acceptable,

First, you dont decide what is acceptable.
Second, I realy dont want to speak with you any more.

i have to repeat: tying the UI to a certain piece of hardware is a ridicolous concept. software and hardware are different things. have general purpose computers and the just being some piece of software inside the computer. that way it would be realistic and not arbitarily annoying like you propos...

So instead of going down the route of "This is the future, this shouldn't be a limitation", let me see if I understand. Are you referring to something akin to the difference between VGA/EGA/Tandy type displays? Where one could output 256 colors, one could only do 16 and one could do 8? Maybe you do...

Gazz wrote:But new highscore at Angry Buzzymugs!

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I can change the way my phone presents the time to me, whether it's just a basic "22:05", a picture of a clock with the big hand pointing at the 1 and the little hand pointing at the 10, or an animation of an anime girl making mochi while shouting, "ima wa nijuuniji gofun desu!" I can't imagine a c...

Cha0zz wrote:
Then you flash the OS and put cyanogenmod on it, problem solved.

It wouldnt help with your avaiable ports...

If you have the UI-Computer as hardware it does not only provide the UI (of course it can be the only gameterm it provides if Josh decides to make it happen), but also it has slots you can attach hardware to, if youre running out of weapon slots you cant connect to another set of weapons. With such...

Personally, I think having the UI change from ship to ship would be an interesting way to add character to the ships. This could range from cosmetic things like having different colors and UI shapes to more practical things like tbe ability to save different HUD presets for each ship. It would be c...

Off course not, but it would show different heat outcome if you shot with one or the other, because the data providet changed. Of course it would... like... thats what's the UI's job? If a thing produces 1kJ of heat it should show that, and if it produces 2kJ the ui should say 2 kJ. I dont see what...

I seriously doubt that processor speed would be a limiting factor :/ Ever tried to play the newest farcry with a 486@33Mhz? it's the future, the data that the sensors would provide wouldn't be enough to max out the processor. Same argument, "its the future, there is only one "set in hardwaretype yo...

Cha0zz wrote:

Xyloq wrote:
Off course not, but it would show different heat outcome if you shot with one or the other, because the data providet changed.

Aaaand, you lost me again... of course it does?

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Cha0zz wrote:I seriously doubt that processor speed would be a limiting factor :/

Ever tried to play the newest farcry with a 486@33Mhz?

Ok, and if the UI-Computer is running windows3.1 instead of iOS6, it would look different, even if they provide the same standard with external hardware, and assuming the UI is hardcoded into the UI-Computer, it can be neccessary to build in another UI-Computer if your actual UI-Computer does not p...

my vote is clearly for a UI implemented as hardware into the game, because it offers so much more possibilities in gameplayexperience. Nobody's opposing that. All im saying that tying the UI piece that shows scanner data to the specific scanner is completely unrealistic. UI pieces as "apps" or "wid...

More importantly you try to tell us, all computers are the same... :shock: They dont have to be the same, but when you can mount equipment you've never seen before without having to do all kinds of crazy engineering to make it compatible with your stuff, they adhere to some common standard (like US...