Btw, you should go to that other thread where you use a realism argument against me and reply to yourself with that. ;) Well, touche xD But to at least partially rescue my honor: it was an argument against your realism argument :P Ok, back to topic. Stations could have "self illuminating" spotlight...

How about just having it occur only when a ship's reached critical structural integrity? So, like, a ship's at 1% hull, this shot is the killing shot...... Blam, corvette chopped in half. I could live with that. :twisted: That sounds even reasonable ^^ *insert technobabble about failing structural ...

You think in a different way than me about the power distribution. The power settings is the reservation of energy for the system, not the actual power currently sent there. If you pay for a hotel suite and not go there still nobody else will get that room because its reserved for you, even if you d...

Baleur wrote:But the bowl itself, has smooth soft edges..
The jaggies are CONTAINED within the beautifully anti-aliased bowl.
This is profound.

CutterJohn wrote:I really don't think headlights need a fancy purpose beyond 'get a better look at something in natural light'.

Most of those ideas for uses sound way too forced and artificial.

Gameplay > looks > realism

Well... in general "system" only mean that arbitary box the universe is parcelled into. Its only the "usual case" that a system means a star system with a hot ball of plasma in the middle and balls of rock, dirt and gass around. I am confident josh will create the possibilities for many, many differ...

It would probably be even less micromanagement, since with simple rules, their behavior will automatically change depending on how much power they have. If you've ordered a ship to use 50% throttle to conserve power for shields and weapons, but there is also a simple rule that you can use 100% engi...

Searchlights next to docking bays, illuminating incoming ships.

But i do it for the lulz...

birdtable wrote:Thought dots _ _ Or in this case sadness dots that this mainly deserted forum is just as sententious.

What do you await from 1410 users? We are not a multi-ten-thousand user community. Based on that amount of users its very active here in my opinion

Afaik its the current idea that the generation of new parts of the universe is agnostic of the current state of the player and only dependent on the seed of the universe. You are nothing special, just another "npc" in the world that does his own thing. The ai's can decide that you are posing a threa...

Indicable wrote:

Erm... what are you trying to say...?

Ps: the [img] tags are your friend ^^

But...but...cool graphics! 8-) Yeah... i know... imagine freespace 2 but this time the sathanas and colossus are dicing each other for real with their beam barrages *.* I wasn't aware that it was going to be used in damage modeling but I really think it would be cool to see. Well... if ship slicing...

I, personall, never thought of fleet-wide energy management. I can ask my AI pilots to know how to utilise their ships and manage their energy accordingly.
The only energy the player had to fiddle around would be his own, with the exception of "hardcoded" orders as silent running and get battle ready.

I discussed that a not so long time ago...
But the core discussion was:
How to handle internal components?
How to handle repairs?
Is the increased processor load worth the questionable gameplay and cool graphics?