Essentially, Penrose takes the position that we cannot build a machine or write a computer program that is self-aware and fits all the other definitions of being a sentient life form. His opinion is that there is much more going on, perhaps on a quantum level, perhaps even further into unknowable or...

It's like a 400 page book on the subject, Wolfy. Probably not easy to summarize in a paragraph or two.

Is that the same Penrose who also argued against AI in his book 'The Emperor's New Mind'. A pretty good read, that one. I had a strange connection develop with some of Dr. Penrose's work, through his aperiodic tiling and the copyrights for "Penrose Tiling" patterns which I sort of invented a system ...

Ah, so gScreen doesn't crash out anymore if it hasn't been set, that's an improvement. Ideally, perhaps for this to work and appear smoothly for me, if there was a way to skip the ship picker if there is only one ship might be nice, or a flag in the adventure description, such as shipPicker="true/fa...

I have been wanting a way to add some choices that the player can make beyond "ship" before the game starts, or a way to force a dockscreen dialog when the game is entered. Is there any way to make a work around that would have the player start on some kind of dialog screen before they start flying ...

I forgot a few things since I last tried to mod transcendence it seems... In order to do a Part II you must be able to extend the levels, right? Is it possible to add more than the current number of levels to the frequency string? So, let's say I wanted to have a game that spans 30 or more levels, m...

Nice one, Shrike. I am having a great time with it so far.

Now I remember... we never could agree on a suitable level of change or content to include... lol, silly me.

I just can't do chats very much, they eat up a lot of time. I really like that dropbox thingy, that is a great little service! Thanks for hooking me up. Well, I guess it's back to the Box of Chocolate for me. I'd really like a more defined set of goals for the project, maybe I will get the planning ...

Thanks, Prophet. I will check out your mod and see what you have going on there for more clarification. [btw, you really have come to be a lot more accomplished with the scripting, great work!]

Much clearer now, thanks everyone.

Could you example me with a 'startingShipCriteria="xxx"' so that I can see how it is used?

And how is it used?

. For example, there might be 8 different environments that determine the kinds of resources in a system (metals, rare crystals, etc.); there might also be 10 different alien races, each reacting differently to each environment (for example, one alien race might have more mines if the environment i...

George, or anyone- I am curious if the sovereign alignments such as "constructive chaos" are deeply hard coded into the engine (I already know I can't just change "constructive chaos" to "imperial sympathizer", and it crashes the game without an error, btw) and if it is possible to extend or redefin...