Re: Looking ahead
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 4:56 pm
A_C proposed additional galactic charts way, way back - c. 1.68 I think...Zireael wrote:New galaxy charts... why not? Something like FFE maybe?
A_C proposed additional galactic charts way, way back - c. 1.68 I think...Zireael wrote:New galaxy charts... why not? Something like FFE maybe?
I did experiment some time ago, but it was more a proof of concept study rather than a proposal and was part of some broader experimentation I was doing with galaxies at the time. What came out of that was that adding new galaxies was doable but not exactly very simple. The thing that impressed me more though was that, after I had a Galaxy 9 "prototype" in the game, I had a very hard time figuring out what exactly it could be useful for and what it would add to the game that the existing eight galaxies could not. The only answer I could come up with was: mission playgrounds, but I think that we have plenty of time before mission saturation occurs on the original 8 anyway.DaddyHoggy wrote:A_C proposed additional galactic charts way, way back - c. 1.68 I think...Zireael wrote:New galaxy charts... why not? Something like FFE maybe?
This seems mostly true. There is only 1 "Great Rift" and it is in Galaxy 7. Almost all other "unreachable" by normal jump systems are only singles and pairs. A sparsely populated "Galaxy Chart 9" could create from scratch all kinds of special conditions necessary to make crossing it ONLY possible through choke-points where enemies can be (super!) concentrated or require complex missions or very convoluted (mis)jump chains like used to reach Oresrati in Galaxy Chart 8.another_commander wrote:The only answer I could come up with was: mission playgrounds, but I think that we have plenty of time before mission saturation occurs on the original 8 anyway.
All this is very nice, but remember that a new galaxy would be populated just as a normal one, with planets with governments, known population types, tech levels, gross product values, main stations of the known types and descriptions just as any other planet in the game. Hardly anything new or unexplored apart from a set of fancy, previously unheard planet names, unless you start plist-editing to an extensive level, which you can do already.Lestradae wrote:Other galaxies/sectors? Thargoid space for the Elite pilots ... secret navy outposts ... "unknown" systems to be explored ... alien empires never heard from ... uncharted systems with mining outposts & nothing else ... lost colonies, human & otherwise (pacifistic thargoids? militant theocracies? etc.) ... and so on ...
I think it would/could be a playground for the imagination of oxz'ers (?!) & players alike - not tedious at all ...
Quoted for emphasis.another_commander wrote:All this is very nice, but remember that a new galaxy would be populated just as a normal one, with planets with governments, known population types, tech levels, gross product values, main stations of the known types and descriptions just as any other planet in the game. Hardly anything new or unexplored apart from a set of fancy, previously unheard planet names, unless you start plist-editing to an extensive level, which you can do already.Lestradae wrote:Other galaxies/sectors? Thargoid space for the Elite pilots ... secret navy outposts ... "unknown" systems to be explored ... alien empires never heard from ... uncharted systems with mining outposts & nothing else ... lost colonies, human & otherwise (pacifistic thargoids? militant theocracies? etc.) ... and so on ...
I think it would/could be a playground for the imagination of oxz'ers (?!) & players alike - not tedious at all ...
True, but the default setting for any galactic sectors of 9+ (8+ internally) could be done as an empty template, TL0 no main station systems without any systems traffic, could it not? Empty until some oxz'ers with imagination put something into them.another_commander wrote:All this is very nice, but remember that a new galaxy would be populated just as a normal one, with planets with governments, known population types, tech levels, gross product values, main stations of the known types and descriptions just as any other planet in the game. Hardly anything new or unexplored apart from a set of fancy, previously unheard planet names, unless you start plist-editing to an extensive level, which you can do already.Lestradae wrote:Other galaxies/sectors? Thargoid space for the Elite pilots ... secret navy outposts ... "unknown" systems to be explored ... alien empires never heard from ... uncharted systems with mining outposts & nothing else ... lost colonies, human & otherwise (pacifistic thargoids? militant theocracies? etc.) ... and so on ...
I think it would/could be a playground for the imagination of oxz'ers (?!) & players alike - not tedious at all ...
Yup ... and if it is considered now, the chances of such option happening (in 2.0 Oolite) are bigger I guess. I think the whole 2.0 idea is a big & bold step into the right direction. A very creative step, i was happy to read about that after a months-long hiatus from Oolite.another_commander wrote:In a data driven universe, rather than procedural, I guess the opportunities of what you suggest happening are much better. My previous comments are applicable for Oolite 1.x but we'll have to see how the 2.0 universe design will work out, then we will be able to see how much of this can be realized.
Heheee ... so we are all going to find out how we look like in RL. Here comes the age of the cheesy cutscene with us in the admiral rolesKaks wrote:... one thing ... that might be nice to have in 2.0 (for wormholes & missions): video cutscenes. I've just had a very quick look & libtheora seems to be very much compatible with obj-c..
I’ve been thinking about video textures… although I’d prefer a format that can make use of hardware acceleration. And is less, y’know, bad. But then, software patents aren’t an issue where I am.Kaks wrote:Talking about wishlists & steps in various directions ( :P ), I just remembered one thing mentioned ages ago, and that might be nice to have in 2.0 (for wormholes & missions): video cutscenes. I've just had a very quick look & libtheora seems to be very much compatible with obj-c..
No software patents in sweden?Ahruman wrote:But then, software patents aren’t an issue where I am.