Ok, I think it can be official now, this game has wedged itself in my brain like few ever have. Quite regularly throughout may day, whether I am at work or eating or going for a walk, poof an idea about this game. These are small little ideas, better expressed in a single sentence or so rather than a full write up, and they may be either for Josh if he wants to put them in pre-release or for the community at large for mod ideas. That said, I now have enough that I think there should not only be a thread for them, but also a place where anyone's tiny little idea can be put up. So feel free to post any little suggestions on this or that.
My own initial suggestions
Unclaimed zones should not be called unknown, but be named relationally according to the nearest larger object. Example: An unclaimed asteroid zone kinda near the planet Ajouiz could be called Ajouiz Asteroids until otherwise claimed. If it is in the middle of nowhere in a system, call it by the star's name, like Remote Kasile Asteroids
Riemann-Gaussian Damage
Weapons that do damage in a gaussian fashion, each interval of damage calculated by the Riemann sum, perfect for infectious weapons and other plagues, especially if they spread.
Procedural music sampler - add your own music to the game, place files in various slots, and it will sample quick bits as procedurally needed per the slot you put the files in eg (mining slot, exploration slot, trading slot, dogfight slot, epic battle slot)
Dust hits your shields as you fly through it, causing them to light up in the direction of travel. Without shields, dust does minor damage from all the microimpacts.
The HUD NEEDS an optional real life clock, with perhaps an alarm feature or even an auto-save-and-exit so that we can go to sleep.
Anyone fancy some more industries? Energy, Education, Medical, Pharmaceutical, Gambling, Waste Management, etc. (Will do a write up if it gets support)
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Sun Jul 27, 2014 12:05 am
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