Comments - bessy2k6

really nice ... gives me and good idea of how you want the game to play and i have to say love it i really cant wait to pick up this game/simulation of life and go wild :)

thank you for the update

and for those asking for code lol its a rare thing for any dev to release code and most devs just go with a story board approach to explain how something will happen and look so wow to have an animation awesome

there was a game far more complex than faster than light on my really old computer with the same idea only it was made decades earlier when i was a kid cant remember its name or what i played it on but i can remember using a mouse to drive my vehicle around on the 2d surface of planets and walking around in ships and shops etc etc flying my ship to other planets combat etc etc best 2d graphics of its time

if i had a choice out of FTL and that old game id take the old 1 any day

anywayz your game looks really nice btw cant wait to play it

thumbs up

i truly love this idea add flir vision, electro field perception, compass birds know where north is, these are some of the things we have found some of the life on earth to use if u can detect it with tech life can adapt to do it too if it helps them survive/eat

things like flir u wont see the clouds etc make it so the sky textures/entities don't load instead load heat blooms above animals i love seeing videos from flir cameras even if ppl are standing behind a wall u can see them in good detail eg count how many fingers they are holding up and you can see the heat bloom flowing up above the wall u can see there foot prints on the ground

because spore is not real sized and it was simple to travel iv inhabited most of my spore galaxy there are just s few stars i cant get to due to the fact of there location been to far

and with math you can have millions of starts unlike the 30-40k in spore and hopefully they make it so planets etc have cool orbits with moons and asteroids etc that can be mined etc completely away

i like the idea of no real boundaries eg its to big so u really have to work on it to get it

also have something in there so if you happen to do it you can unlock to be a galactic species and travel to the neighboring galaxy's

or make travel like warp fields so u have to build massive warp tunnels to travel further the distances between galaxy's is so vast u will need commit plenty of resources to the task
make worm holes rare if u find 1 it helps you work out how to make your own

i can def see me making it my task take over the entire universe lol just like i did in spore i just hope they make it so i can be a spore lol so i can take over other species like the flood or something haha

also that flood idea u dont need tech to get into space i can think of many ways u can get into space with biology here are some fun and easy ways

bags of stored hydrogen eg the life-form can absorb water and i think you use electric current thru the water to make it split i may be wrong on that but i know there's a way it then collects the hydrogen gas in its sack and it floats off out into space

planetary cry (the fungi can create a large tower till it passes the lag range and turns into a tear drop and floats off into space can use gases etc to control its direction)

i got that one from FF8 where the monsters climb on top of each other to get pasted to nullification point between the moon and the planet and they fall towards the planets surface sure its deadly but what the hell its away to do it right fungi could use better methods eg like a coral reef just more structured with a aim

yeh your right its like the Zindi in Star-Trek the aquatics ships are 50x the size to accommodate all the water to make it survivable its 1 thing startrek did get right lol

but try to remember its a game not a documentary you can have any type of life and does the life have to form from Darwins idea no we can have it so an advanced race made them etc you have many possibility's at your hands to can make it easy in some sense and not all life in the sea has gills remember

yeh the water is that temp eg my heat sink on my computers graphics card is about 31*C but the chip is about 46*C

i remember watching a documentary about them and there is life that has adapted with metal exoskeletons that they collect from the smokers as they do expel a considerable amount of different types of metals

thats the temps on earth whose to say a planet in your game has a really hot core with increased gravity and is completely covered in water and extreme cloud cover naturally
the super hot core would give it a really powerful magnetic field to stop its star if it has 1 from destroying its atmosphere

if you want to be that realistic about it that is

what im saying is does the smokers have to be 407*C its 1 thing ppl wont be to bothered about if they have a extra tangent of game-play to go down....

some extra things you could add also

robotic life you are created from a already advanced race and you be come self aware and do what you want help them or destroy them if you wana its upto u

start off as the flood hehe not halo ripoff but the fungi they based it off (Ophiocordyceps camponoti-balzani)

that second one you may have thought of but its real life-form don't worry tho it ante going to take over the universe only ants lol but how it does it is brilliant dont you think

smokers aka underwater volcanos we send probs to them all the time and 1 thing that is good is that it can melt the probe because the water is heated to 1000*c + and there is that much pressure that it keeps the water liquid and still underwater life can survive in those temps

perhaps that is your key to the fire u need :)