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Now, we have to come to a question of how people could interact with this in an engaging way. Big maps are a staple of flight sims, because the high speeds require a large map to interact with, but on the other side of that it drives very low content per area. If one wants one to fly to 1-2...

So, hopefully final thoughts on map scaling and the implied map, and coordinate data size for a 16 bit (65,535 objects) list. 64 bit Universe map: 1 meter scale is 2,000 light year wide map. 1 mm scale would be 2 light years. 1.7 Gigabytes of location data with 65,000 objects. Overall game...

I think its important for the procedural setting to be as minimally procedural as possible. Set locations means exploring is finding real places, and thus a shared experience that can be discussed. Planet x having a randomly generated massive canyon is a thing you know was randomly generated by...

Even more usefully, a scale of 424 km diameter reduces the surface area of the Earth from 510 million skm^2, to "only" 565,000 km^2. Thus, for roughly equivalent work the planet can have 1,000x the density of interesting stuff vs a real scale. 565,000 is still a huge map. As point of comparison...

So, if you can model at true scale roughly 2 LY, and 40-60 LY scale at 20-1 or 30-1 scale, whichever makes more sense, doing so does require populating it with objects worth exploring, including in the depths of space. Otherwise one might as well have loading screens. 30-1 scale allows one to...

To switch to map math, I found an interesting thing. Modern computers can use the 64 bit coordinate system. Using classical integer map coordinates for three dimensions, how big of a map does that allow? By this I mean where coordinates are stored (X,Y,Z) where each coordinate is 64 bit. Or, a...

Dexterity: Directly impacts Dodge, Accuracy, Dodge effects the to hit modifier of the character. This may either be a chance to hit, or abstracted to an AC modifier. Accuracy effects the likeliness to hit, and hit precisely. Might be an actual to hit, might be abstracted to a damage modifier...

That's basically what I was thinking: Body/mind/Soul, with three characteristics each. Physical I agree with the three there, with the following derived stats. Maybe humans have 1-30, 1-10 below average, 10-20 average, 20-30 superior. Strength: directly impacts Health, Carry Capacity, Damage...

Yeah, I defiantly like Perks. I just think there should be at most 10, and probably less. I lean to perks should be significant, which means you need to have few enough that while playing a character you can always more or less remember exactly what perks you have. My vague sense is people can...

Video game. This is born out of my anoyance at Starfield, and thus pulling together ideas for a better game, since some of my theorizing on a better game seemed like it was getting a bit off topic. Though there seems to be quite a bit of theorizing still ongoing over there. Yeah, I want there...

Is anyone actually familiar with any games with mechanically intensive "verbal combat". I couldn't really think of any, which suggests some possibilities: 1) This is actually common, I just haven't played the kind of game with these mechanics. Maybe dating sims or some sort of genre of...

Thinking about the likely nature of the future, having pure dialog situations of skype calling does make sense. So, a fairly involved verbal combat system makes sense. Three possible depletable stats for verbal combat: Endurance Bar: based on the physical stats, your ability to simply...

To completely switch modes, some thoughts on Player statistics. Basically, stats are good, pure perks are bad. A character with high Intelligence I can think of as, well, an intelligent character. It lets me define my character as a distinct being with a general quality. Having a bunch of...

However, a different assumption of what the base energy state is will give a different result. Lets instead set energy equal to weight. So, 10 J is roughly equivalent to 1 G. Mass change Energy State Energy (J) Energy Difference From Base (per kg) 100x 1000% 1,000 J 990 J 10x 1,000% 100 J...

I was thinking about the potential of Mass Effect tech, playing around with some of the functionality my description implied. I based the energy cost on the difference between momentum and energy, on the logic you might need to balance that. I got the following effects: I decided to put the...

My complaining about Starfield's various issues was morphing into an idea for a totally different Space advanture game, so I figured it would make sense to move such musing to a separate thread, since it increasingly has very little to do with Starfield itself. Preliminary Game map: First...