Happy holidays to you all! I trust that everyone is in good health and high spirits!

Thanks for the reminder to check on Starsector Groufac! I'm excited to see the consequences of using Alpha AI cores as colony admins. That will be... entertaining.

This is so rad. I guess I don't have much actual feedback, but I just wanted to say how awesome this is. Some of these designs look similar to ships in other games I have played- games that had artists labouring for years on the designs of the various ships. And it produces other ships too, ones I h...

This may have already been asked, but are there any plans for there to be movable joints on ships? It would be cool to have rotating engine pods and stuff, and some of the ship designs posted would lend themselves nicely to having some of their shapes animate and rotate. https://i.imgur.com/nBigMo5....

Reasonable people are friends, not food.

I'd be down for a large scale game after my finals.

Maybe they could have their own economy, similarly to planets? Have them share some of the properties of being a planet? I think S46 means that these are so large they are special due to the huge scale of whatever they are designed to be used for. They are just scaled up regular stations, but are no...

Great interview! I was always really fascinated by the tactical (hur hur) decisions that enemies made in these games, and it is cool to read about it. I first played these games when I was much younger, and going back to them now I can appreciate how amazing the AI was, and still is. I do think that...

Some of the more successful/attractive designs I have made. LKO Ardent Station A few hab modules and a lab, at first. https://i.imgur.com/6Njljzv.jpg https://i.imgur.com/g54KYii.jpg Then I added the power generation and life support modules. https://i.imgur.com/ijfxx7j.jpg https://i.imgur.com/5ThUJJ...

Cornflakes_91 wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 08, 2017 7:13 pm

This is going to bother me from now on.
Feel my tiny hate.

Hatred is the path to the dark side, but maybe that's whats necessary in this case.

Anyone else think the E in EA's logo looks like the symbol for a capacitor? That always bothered me, as they don't do hardware or anything. Hell they don't do software very well either, but I guess that's beside the point.

Damocles wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 07, 2017 3:05 pm

*snip*

*Twitches*

I mean Jesus, uncanny valley much? It still gets me.

That's a cool render! I like the asymmetrical solar panel array and the sexy, strutted super-structure.

i definitely agree with your basic sentiment, and the tech stuff to mitigate or even improve with various design decisions sounds cool :D (how to implement and make the AI and pcg aware of it is a completely different can of worms, tho..) but my main problem with cutting stuff apart in a game thats...

What if parts were only able to be separated from the rest of the ship under certain conditions? Ships at a critical health value would be vulnerable to dismemberment, or perhaps taking a large portion of your hp in a short time renders you vulnerable instead. I would argue that finding and getting ...