FriendlyFire wrote:Yes, and when this steam goes through the vents at very high temperatures, it'll react with them.

true, but you dont have to build your whole circulatory system out of specialised ceramics but only the heating area+vent

Ice could be a bit tricky, however, since it's also a powerful solvent and a common oxidizer. Combine that with extreme heat and pressure and you might end up damaging your heatsinks. This is why a lot of sci-fi uses noble gases, which are inert, but also rarer. You can obviously handwave it away w...

My secondary idea was that, perhaps for when the system is being driven the hardest, you could superheat gas and fire it off away from the ship to cool the drive faster. This would have the additional effect of creating flames, jets or plumes (and those would not necessarily have to be at the back ...

the whole damage factor would make asteroid fields a real navigational hazard based on natural factors. btw: you could just travel slower in asteroid fields and route some energy from drives to shields ^^ "Divert power to the deflector array!" http://cundars.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/make-it-so-p...

that has the potential to be looking like some awesome mecha-anime drive with the heat vents.

"the flower of heat vent panels opened as he powered up his drive and glowed ever brighter as he accelerated through the system"

DWMagus wrote:

Cornflakes_91 wrote:

DWMagus wrote:Not even the mine turtle?

What did turtles do to you anyways?

oh, thank you Magus, i have an earworm now

I aim to please.

i hate you

I think the only issue would be how much damage it would do to your shield. Of course, then this could be worked in with other mechanics. Initially, I wanted to say that if it does damage to your shield, you shouldn't have to inch your way along a sector because everytime you move you take damage t...

DWMagus wrote:Not even the mine turtle?

What did turtles do to you anyways?

oh, thank you Magus, i have an earworm now

The core of the idea remains the same: this whole drive concept is based on the idea that you're limited by CPU power. Ergo, those computers are going to be big . Guess what computers are really good at? Generating heat. If you want big computers (and I'd assume the drive itself would also generate...

Modification of the components of the system. The player may have discovered an artifact from the wreck of a ship he destroyed. He did the necessary research in Electronics and was eventually able to reverse engineer the component, producing a schematic of what turned out to be an advanced type of ...

Coridan wrote:That was brave of you to do on the news. Also you look nothing like I expected you to.

Bwhahahahaha xD

i agree with flatfingers here, i think it would simply be too much of a metagame for LT hell, it could even be a game on its own! like space chem, only with equipment ^^ i've made a suggestion a while ago that did go in the same direction with construction, but less awesome, more trimmed to being si...

P.S.: After writing this I don't actually know if the game has a shield system >_> theen you should get yourself a bit geared up before posting suggestions :) the FAQ would be a good place to start besides that, the idea sounds good, asteroid defense laser rattling once you get into a dense field w...

Are aliens part of the game? I've not seen it written anywhere - I'd be interested to get the official word. If aliens are part of LT, then are the races also procedurally generated? This is definitely an area where artists could help; perhaps procedural generation of any face is possible if the te...

From the Dev Log Sunday, January 5, 2014 PS ~ Another interesting tidbit: I played around with square / rounded square nodes today rather than circular. Kind of an interesting effect..not sure which shape I prefer yet :) Why not both? It's because of a technical limitation? I'd like the dots for ev...