I just finished two trilogies by Michael Hicks. In Her name, The Last War and In Her Name, Redemption. The two take place about 100 years apart but follow the same time line. I'm also following the Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell whitch is followed by a series called The Lost fleet, Beyond The F...

Not so - your headstone should at least contain the word "glorious"! __ __ __ __ __ __ __ / \ | | | Here Lies Jabblewok | | | | Victim of his own | | Glorious Stupidity | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------ ;) :D

Welcome, Rhino! And congrats, you've just reinvented the LT mission system :D My concept for mission generation is almost exactly what you've written here...so there's really nothing "alternate" about this idea! ;) 1) NPC using the HLAI decides on a long term goal (e.g. expand into area X) 2) this ...

At the moment I'm reading Scout's Progress, Part of the Liaden series by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. If you can soldier through the romance subplot, it's actually not bad space opera. Before that I was re-reading the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher, something I try to do every time he releases ...

Hey Josh. Appreciate you keeping us updated, but I'm sure so-one would have minded if you took a break on Christmas.

Keep up the good work, but don't work yourself to death.

Universal translator!

Make-You-Go-Faster Circles!

@Just_Ice_au I think Josh confirmed that this would be put on his todo list earlier in this forum topic. Bele - I would assume customizable UI includes both moving and scaling it. Still a good thing to point out so that Josh doesn't miss it. Josh - Sure, it's possible, I'll add it to todo list. Hop...

Not to burst your bubble, but aren't they called "acceleration gates" in EVE Online? ;) Just teasing, game looks great!! Yep, but that's the absolute reasonable thing to call them, you definitely couldn't sue someone over that! "Trade lanes," on the other hand, is, IMO, a brilliant and original nam...

Great article!

Love the extra info on Exploration (my personal favourite), on Missions, and on the "Galaxy" structure.

Josh's enthusiasm for the project is really evident, too.

Hopefully something like this customisable UI could include an option to change all in-game text to a larger font size?

I know that at 2560x1440, smaller text designed with 1080p rez in mind can often be nigh-unreadable.

pulsar9 wrote:

Just_Ice_au wrote:I ... thought I just said that?

I thought you were talking about mapping the directions to hotkeys?

EDIT: My bad, didn't read your other post.

No Worries.

I'm just glad I'm not the only one who thinks its a good idea.

What about 8 points arranged around the center like a compass and then to activate the command you want you click-and-hold the middle mouse button and then drag in the direction of the command. When you click-and-hold the middle mouse button the menu pops up at the location of the mouse (instead of...

Or maybe alternatively/in addition to number key selection, we could use the scroll wheel to rotate around the radial menu, and then click to select our choice? Interesting idea, but I'm not sure that in practice a scroll wheel would have the necessary accuracy to make selections like that unless y...

Radial menu with 8 options arranged at compass points around the centre, triggered by right-click (or hotkey, whatever), map each option to its corresponding numpad number key (ie: NW=7, N=8, NE=9, E=6, SE=3, etc., etc.) Map the "back" to the centre button (numpad 5). For radials with less than 8 op...