I agree that it could be a very fun project for someone with time and the right skills, but sadly I have no real knowledge of C/C++ and I've been triaging my spare-time projects as it is. You wouldn't need any C++ knowledge. Everything described in the OP can be achieved with TLisp scripting and a ...

Rather, if we are so inclined to make it a matter of continuous iteration, we should look into how we can put in code that allows NPCs to "engineer" either improvements to their items, or new items entirely. So, they'd need a way to figure out where shortcomings are (e.g. CW could check to see whic...

I agree that it could be a very fun project for someone with time and the right skills, but sadly I have no real knowledge of C/C++ and I've been triaging my spare-time projects as it is. Can't comment on JohnBWatson's remark really, other than that I'd think auxiliary data structures to store these...

I was recently playing Eternity Port and thinking about what kinds of changes would make the game more fun for me. I have a weakness for sandbox games, crafting, and player decisions that have complex or difficult-to-anticipate outcomes, which led me to the idea below. I suspect it's completely impr...

I was recently playing with CC, and the chimera missions led me to think about how one might make them more fun to replay. As it stands, the new missions are fun and well-constructed, but I find that on the second or third go, I know what to expect and spend a fair amount of time gearing up for them...

That's interesting, and to me it speaks to the different approaches people take to the game. My experience has been quite different, and more or less consistent with George's summary that the freighter is at an advantage in the late game. I've never found the freighter's turn rate to be a problem, a...

I notice that people are posting network topologies pretty frequently, and I thought I'd recommend a tool that I've found very useful: graphviz (http://www.graphviz.org/). I've used it to visualize graphical models, parse trees for natural language, and in a few random projects. It's free, and while...

I wasn't using any mods. Good question; I should have mentioned that before.

I experienced a crash in 1.0. The events that preceded the crash: (1) I produced some ore with a mining laser. (2) A nomad and I arrived at the ore simultaneously. I grabbed the ore, but it was still present for a moment after I closed the ore/dock screen. (3) I shot the nomad accidentally, and left...

I lost my military ID due to a jumpdrive failure and found that I couldn't just get a new one by completing another commonwealth militia mission. I assumed that it'd just reset my military status, but instead I was given the next mission in the sequence and stayed IDless. In my opinion it'd be a nic...

That sounds like the bug I was about to report: 01/02/2010 19:52:29 Start logging session 01/02/2010 19:52:29 Transcendence 1.0 RC4 01/02/2010 21:05:12 Error loading object 01/02/2010 21:05:12 Unable to load system: 1c 01/02/2010 21:05:12 Error loading system: Umi (4ecc4) 01/02/2010 21:05:29 Unable ...

It was in St. K's, at the commodities exchange at the ring. Unfortunately, I can't reproduce it. Resurrecting, traveling to the ring, and scrolling doesn't lead to the crash, nor have my attempts at more realistic recreations of my original actions.

I was scrolling through a list of items to buy by holding down the down arrow, and experienced a crash.

12/20/2009 02:53:59 Start logging session
12/20/2009 02:53:59 Transcendence 1.0 RC3
12/20/2009 03:09:51 Unable to continue due to program error

program state: animating
game state: docked

I was hanging around a fuel station which was killed by some sung, and after the resultant explosion killed me, transcendence crashed. If it's useful to know, I had insurance. Unfortunately, debug.log doesn't have much useful information: 11/10/2009 22:14:25 Start logging session 11/10/2009 22:14:25...

In RC2 I was killed by pteravores, and two surprising things occurred: 1. I was brough back next to a live ares commune, which would have killed me but for 2. 2. I was still covered in pteravores, and immediately died again. Figuring that the second death could be counted as a mulligan, I ressurecte...