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Interesting take on having the option to issue currency and play central bank, and also the way players can create contracts to delegate work to other player who specialize in a certain trait.

Yes, this is really nice. And with clusters, you can have those choke-points, that add a lot to the "story" of the topography of the map. I think in Eve they used a similar approach, where they added some long-range connections manually. And having the option to insert long range connections / hyper...

Did you use a mix of random generation (syllables) and manual names?
I have spottet a systems called "Altair", "Rigel" and "Castor" (a radiated system)

Nice, how many systems do you have here? Suggestion: combine several clusters (like 2 or 3 with offset centers) for the initial star-distribution. This makes for a more interesting topography, having several "galactic hubs", with more empty space between them. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DA8YyA_XgAA...

The initial artstyle of the Unity-Demo looked better and more unique than the "upgraded" newer versions.
Good that they go back to the initial proposal.
Bad for the time (and money) wasted though.

A tale of what can happen when nipping at the honey-pot of feature-creep.

Would be cool for the player to be able to shoot down the space-houses to reduce the population, and thus increase the demand for building materials or reduce competition...
A creative way of economic intervention. (best by using a ship named "The Visible Hand")

Where did you get such an idea from? There's a lot of assuming there. Thats called "math". The kickstarter earned $187,865, the project now ran for over 5 years. (now with 3 developers). that budget would be around $36000 anually. Compare that with the average salary that could be earned in another...

There is a difference between the raw button press (be it a console, keyboard or mouse-button) that has a binary input (down or up) and an action input. Many games use the same button at the same gameplay-mode for triggering different actions. A typical example would be a double-jump, grenade throw ...

If the situation of LT development is becoming more and more financially risky (I suppose the kickstarter funds must have ran out or very low by now), maybe its time to think about changing strategy, and actually move towards an early access model. Selling early access packages could give the team t...

Two verbs are confirmed, and seen in action: turn, shoot
Its kind of time to see more verbs now. (align-to-formation, dock, follow, escape, trade, mine, transport)

In warfare, the purpose of mines (mine-fields) is not to actually go off and kill enemies, but for posing a threat and blocking paths, thus funneling the enemy into moving a certain way or protecting a flank / position. That would work well in space, where otherwise enemies have a much larger (3 dim...

#unpopularopinionalert So much negativity for a toolset update. +1 for tools. Correct direction to speed up modding work. I support this update 100% Go Team Josh I'm in this camp. Keep on plugging away Josh and team! :thumbup: It's interesting to me to read posts that offer Josh advice - or command...

I wonder what is in the planning for LT3 ?
Will that have space-toilets?

Heard of you and your honeyed words.