I think food constraints would be a little backwards for this setting, in a transhuman setting there should be new challenges, especially as the player moves into regions where normal human minds would not be able to compete. Even now, meeting the nutrition needs of a spaceship crew could probably b...

The entire body of written word is not yet searchable by internet search engine. It could be the name of a spaceship from a SF story he liked, one that's only online record is the title in a bibliography on a Wikipedia stub.

"RECEIVED from relay07.cynus.anderson.187janus_station.comm\n" "by helios_receiver.f5astarton_eridani.comm (EID 089830_7188919)\n" "for <arcovaughn.17591> (EID 089830_8179210) 2403-11-25 17:34:11\n\n" "MESSAGE BEGINS\n" "I know that you must hate me right now; truth is I don't like myself very much...

I was reading Arco's scripting tonight. I never realized that he will stop firing on you once your shields are down and ask you again to leave. He's one of the most friendly "hostiles" in the game. It makes you wonder what's up with the Centauri and what exactly their beef with the stations is.

There's some serious pathos in Arco Vaughn's backstory, and I just realized the other day that my character's actions in the game have been pretty horrible right at the very beginning of the game. After you kill Arco, the game tells you that your mission is complete and directs you to return to Rais...

I was trying to think of analogies for the different ship types to explain to a fan of more traditional Rogue-likes what Transcendence is like. I came up with some interesting analogies to fantasy game classes but it's not perfect, and it also got me thinking about other aspects of the game and thei...

The description of the freighter says that only one of it's slots can be used for a weapon. Perhaps this should read "additional weapons" - I avoided the ship in recent releases because I thought I couldn't have a base cracker with my omni. I only found out by accident yesterday that you can have tw...

I had a Joy2Key keybinding file that allowed me to play Transcendence with a clone of a Playstation 2 controller, so while it may be difficult to do a Wii port without changing the interface a little, I bet it would be easy to make a port for the Xbox360, whose controllers have as many buttons as th...

If anyone creates a facebook group, I'll join it. If there was a good review of Transcendence posted somewhere, I'd link it on digg.com it and do what I could to get it dugg up. If a bunch of people here all dugg it in a relatively short time it would probably make some of the main pages as a fast r...

for mid/late game binds when there's nothing available (ie omni-tev9), the akan 600 is still very viable with systems that have lots of ranx. it's okay for the freighter but i keep a close eye on the ammo and retreat when it dips below 500. i think my strategy late game is to usually wait out the I...

The one thing I haven't brought up yet is that when in a melee at the Arena, you can end up fighting an enemy with a laser deflector, while only being equipped with a laser. Should this be considered a game flaw, or a user error? The only way out, as far as I know, is to self destruct. I've noticed...

Psycholis wrote:that's lie bei, with an e, and he was the shu-han leader along with his brothers zhang fei and guan yu (the god of war). i should read that again. it's a good book.

The linked article and everywhere I've seen it has it spelled Liu Bei.

gc2 wrote:Liu Bai
This word means "600", but as the name of a star system, it's rather silly. Although I can't think of anything else it could be.

Liu Bai is a character in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

I play a combination of 1 and 2. I use absolutely no mods, but I don't start over when I die, I just take the score penalty.

Aeonic wrote:Still off topic...

Why don't they have ICX turrets for just about every level of energy weapon then?

Balance, I think. More powerful ICX turrets would make projectiles harmless. This game is easy enough already.