The processing power required to manage a dynamic asteroid field/belt might make systems with large fields (or many small ones, or a system-encompassing one) would probably make such regions of space unplayable due to lag. And even then, no, it wouldn't be like riding a bike in a pack of panicking e...

rickisen wrote:I really like this Idea with having Recruit-Admiral difficulties and having them affect "death".
I'd probably remove the "trainee" level though. It's too much alike the "officer" level.

Maybe add a -10% penalty to your bank account as well? I dunno. Just a brainstorm.

Well, I doubt the game would be in real-time. The scale I'd hazard a guess at would be 1 Real Hour = 1 Game Week, because you're in space and it takes time to go places. But then if you get into some ridiculous hour-long NPC fleet battle, then it might be odd to call it a week. But then again, "spac...

What if we handled this by difficulty? Recruit = If you die, you respawn at the last base or planet you visited. All of your equipment and items remain. Trainee = If you die, you respawn at the last base or planet you visited with the same equipment as you had when you died, but any ammunition and i...

As much as I love easy-to-navigate menus, as long as I can either map a keyboard shortcut or a joystick button for it, I'm happy. What if once you selected your units, you could press a button like Tab or T or Q or something to open up a quick radial menu, and each of the radial menu options would ...

I wonder if terraforming would be possible.

Besides, why should traveling through an asteroid field be anywhere close to "safe"? Why shouldn't it? In reality, the larger asteroids are several kilometers apart. Space is big, and thus the things in it and the gaps between those things are also big. Besides, think of it like riding a mountain b...

It would literally be a guy sitting at his computer while flipping between writing code and testing said code in-game.
And audience interaction would only be distracting.

Will dual-barreled turrets fire from both barrels alternating, at the same time, or will the weapon projectile be independent of turret shape?

It would be possible to program phonotactical rules, I guess. You'd start with a repository of letters, like the Latin alphabet: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z And then you assign each of those letters a classification. Vowels: A, E, I, O, U, (Y) Plosives: P, T, K (C), B, D, G S...

Actually, a profile system like that might be a doorway into a multiplayer system. But multiplayer would probably need to be more LAN-based, where you start a singleplayer world and open it to local connections (which can be faked with Hamachi of course), and another player can create a profile in t...

Excellent, thank you.

How will the generation of planet, system, moon, station, nebula, and other names be handled? Will there be a generic list of names (like numbers and Greek letters, types of stations like "depot" or "outpost," real-life locations) or will there be a sort of name generation system where a list of let...

I guess its not in there yet but I'd love to see a really high end stretch goal for multiplayer Will likely not have multiplayer sadly. Judging from his wording in the FAQ, I think that eventually there will be multiplayer, but Josh said Will There be Multiplayer Support? Probably not at release. T...