I feel like ContentJosh is most productive when he has done some planning, and instead of jumping around to much is able to focus. The next week of planning should help a lot I think! Lets assume there are 8 weeks left, and is on average as productive as he was on the week of Oct 12. By Hyperions co...

2014 is dead, long live 2015! With the new update format, it seams like monthly discussion threads lose some of their meaning. Lets talk about the new format, and how progress is going. Personally I love the new format! It looks like a one man agile development team. It seams like with the engine an...

I built an ANN this semester as a project for my AI class. It was a lot of fun! It was also terribly inaccurate, but Im sure this is more a result of the small structure I was using then weaknesses in the algorithm. The problem we were trying to solve was character recognition, which was fairly simp...

Putting that wall papers thread to good use I see! That said nice write up! Just a factual note, I believe he didnt quit work to start LT, but actually dropped out of Stanford senior(?) year so he could do it full time. Who ever said dropping out of college was a bad idea?

Mission boards...fleet management...NPC interaction menu...faction information menu... SPACE WHALES I think we all know this is the feature that the community is really clamoring for. Ya it would be nice to be able to interact with NPCs or order your ship around, but what we really want are giant a...

I want the objects powering the railway to look like they were made by humans. Im not sure that anything in the LT universe is made by humans! Look at the ships, the stations, now the warp rails. It seams like everything in the game has a vaguely alien look to me, which is perfectly alright in my b...

This thread made my day, and its only 10am! I now have all those update #21 images rotating through my background. There was just something about watching all those AI flying down the warp rails that really made LT seam like an actual game and not a beautiful tech demo.

My jaw is still on the floor. Not really sure what to say here besides the wait was worth it.

WOOOOOOO #21 is live!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tPdbLe3zx0

I think the clear answer is that he is obviously waiting until my brothers birthday on the 15th. That or his last few blog posts have angered the hard drive gods and that disk failure he joked so much about finally hit. BSODs can commonly be the first signs of a failing drive. All that said I think ...

Hype in general dies quickly, which is why I rely instead on cautious optimism. LT has come so far in just the time I've been following it, and it would be a shame for an update to come out without the Josh seal of extreme enthusiasm mixed with technical awesomeness. Although I would love to have #2...

I love all you crazy people.

Interesting point! How do we make some cool procedurally generated ordinances? They should be based on the personalty traits of the colony/faction, but also randomly generated and different for each time you find a new faction. This could make some cool interactions between factions in the same syst...

If I recall correctly, each colony on each planet has many traits, one of them "lawless" or "lawful." It seams to me that ships from a high-lawful colony would act to protect other ships from piracy with a much higher chance then lawless colonies. The amount of police and their aggressiveness would ...

Wooo up to #33! Keep voting guys!