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That's because those games are made purely for those cards.

I actually made a poll on that topic here.

Maybe worth mentioning that Sony and Microsoft require trophies/achievements for most games that will run on their consoles.

My understanding is that Steam simply supports trophies/achievements for the PC versions of those games.

PC-only games don't require them, but developers sometimes add them, either because they think they have to or because they think this feature will attract more purchasers.

Honestly, I find it hard to imagine someone buying a game because, "It has achievements. I want it!"

Unless of course the game is notable for being extremely easy to 100% in a very short time span, in which case it could bump up their average completion percentage in a hurry... but I don't think LT has any chance of that anyway.

Talvieno wrote:Honestly, I find it hard to imagine someone buying a game because, "It has achievements. I want it!"

No, but it can increase people's playtime of the game, making them more likely to purchase DLC or recommend the game to others.

No boarding or salvaging? That's unfortunate, those are some of my favourite features from previous space games.

Ateerix wrote:No boarding or salvaging? That's unfortunate, those are some of my favourite features from previous space games.

Boarding requires too much of a first person shooter aspect to make it properly interesting. I'm sure that scrapping could be implemented in the same sense as mining, but probably not in the spaceman-breaks-out-his-rotary-saw sense.

Taking direct control of a salvage drone could provide a Descent type of experience when in a huge wreck. I fully expect scales to be similar to those seen in other space games.

Ok, I'm generally satisfied with this list, not 100% satisfied, but good enough for 1.0

Grumblesaur wrote: Boarding requires too much of a first person shooter aspect to make it properly interesting.

i dont see how boarding requires fps elements.
It could be a highly abstracted room/section based tactics game.
"Attack this room" "do x in room y"

Lore justification can be produced as needed (player being a heavily augmented "pilot" caste sophont and cant even remotely compete with the specialised soldier augments for example)

It doesn't require an FPS element. Josh wants you to be able to loot ships, but I don't think he wants you to be able to reclaim materials from their wreckage. He also seems to be very against crew-based combat such as boarding, regardless of whether it's FPS-like.

BFett wrote:Taking direct control of a salvage drone could provide a Descent type of experience when in a huge wreck. I fully expect scales to be similar to those seen in other space games.

There is a chance that this won't be possible even via mod. This requires something very different from what Josh's engine is designed to provide - namely, large, hollow areas to explore with much wall-based collision detection. The flight model is completely different in something like this, too, as would be combat.

Maybe boarding could be a Duskers-like minigame of sorts...

Lum wrote:Maybe boarding could be a Duskers-like minigame of sorts...

heck if done properly it could look like you are shifting fleets across the galaxy map.

with systems being rooms

Salvaging and ancient/relic stuff is what I am after, I don't care about combat at all

http://forums.ltheory.com/viewtopic.php?p=76752#p76752

Talvieno wrote:It doesn't require an FPS element. Josh wants you to be able to loot ships, but I don't think he wants you to be able to reclaim materials from their wreckage. He also seems to be very against crew-based combat such as boarding, regardless of whether it's FPS-like.

BFett wrote:Taking direct control of a salvage drone could provide a Descent type of experience when in a huge wreck. I fully expect scales to be similar to those seen in other space games.

There is a chance that this won't be possible even via mod. This requires something very different from what Josh's engine is designed to provide - namely, large, hollow areas to explore with much wall-based collision detection. The flight model is completely different in something like this, too, as would be combat.

Well I agree that entering a ship and exploring the interior may not be possible. I do think the player could still fly around a large destroyed ship while in a small fighter or drone and be able to scavenge for small bits of loot. I also like Cornflakes' idea about re-purposing the system map or a hologram of the destroyed ship to show exploration within a vessel (even if such exploration isn't actually shown in a 3d environment).