I'm also playing.

I'm interested...

If you're going to do games with infinite auto actions you're gonna need to do something to limit certain auto actions... For example you get infinite chances to keep trying to steal an item :)

@Moonray: yes, I agree. I was thinking about rehauling the action system entirely so that you could group together action types and set limita the group. I'd also like to make it so you can disable actions as needed.

@Xhin:
Another thing you may want to look at is if you have a weapon that when fired uses 7 bullets and there are only 6/10 bullets in a bullet box then you only have 1 use of the weapon b4 you need to find another bullet box.
To stop players (like me) from hording bullet boxes make the boxes hold more rounds. Like 50. This would also apply to Fission Cells and other types of ammo.

Those numbers can be set by a host when they make the item. I suspect Xhin just used some random test numbers.

Also, it seems like you can spam 'throwable' items. If you happened to get a bunch of them you could put a world of hurt on someone even when it was their turn to attack you.

Speaking of bullet boxes, I'm curious how the steal menu works. If there are 7 bullet boxes that 7 people have, you have 7 options to pick from when stealing. Do you have to happen to pick the SPECIFIC bullet box the person you're stealing from has, or can you just pick any bullet box and still possibly be successful? Any chance you could change it so that bullet box only shows up once in the menu?

Those numbers can be set by a host when they make the item. I suspect Xhin just used some random test numbers.

@chiefsonny: This.

@Count Dooku:

Also, it seems like you can spam 'throwable' items. If you happened to get a bunch of them you could put a world of hurt on someone even when it was their turn to attack you.

I'm thinking time-based cooldowns might work even better than round-based cooldowns because it would keep players engaged in a fully auto game for long periods of time -- so instead of like, being able to throw an item three times a round, you could instead throw an item once every 4 hours.

Speaking of bullet boxes, I'm curious how the steal menu works. If there are 7 bullet boxes that 7 people have, you have 7 options to pick from when stealing. Do you have to happen to pick the SPECIFIC bullet box the person you're stealing from has, or can you just pick any bullet box and still possibly be successful? Any chance you could change it so that bullet box only shows up once in the menu?

Yeah it was kind of messed up in the beginning, but with the Item Kindof update I should be able to sort and process items by "kindof" in menus like that -- as a host you would naturally clone bullet boxes instead of adding them in manually.

I'll give it a try.

Ghost toast

Just an update to this:

About 80% of the game is designed at this point. You have 13 ships to play around with. All the recipes and weapons are done, with the exception of ship weapons which I'm working on and the names of elemental weapons. I've got the space map set up but need to figure out what the planets / derelicts look like.

The systems this game needs to run are still a bit lacking, but I've got them at least fully designed and the infrastructure built for them.

A couple of the cooler features:

All players start out knowing almost all crafting recipes -- some are definitely hidden though.

The game has three elements that affect one another (like the test game did). Weapons and ships have these elements. Additionally, players start as a random race, which has its own nice little abilities:

Biological -- Has three perma-stealthed "observers" that can't interact with anything but can help them explore / find other players.

Mechanical -- Have a minion with a permanent "healing" item. Can use this to heal characters and ships (it does take ammo though).

Energy -- Can go through wormholes that connect planets together.

If you own a Race Crystal, you can send me a PM and I'll change your race for you (using up the Race Crystal in the process).

You can craft (or buy) a special item known as a Biometric Tracker. Each player also starts out with (1). You use this to tag another player when you find them and then you can use this at any time to see what room they're in. Kinda useful for this game because it has a very large map.

Players have Carry Limits but they each have a "Player Station" that only they have access to, so they can drop items in there.

If you have a Portal Crystal and send me a PM about it, I'll add a relationshipo between your Player Station and any other room in the game besides Hyperspace or another Player Station.

Another little hardcoded auto-action, you can "Mine" planets for raw materials sometimes. This will clone the item and give it to you as many times as you do it. No you don't need a pickaxe, this is the 27th century silly.