Good enough - we'd say something like: the penny dropped.
100 billion star systems
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I think there are going to be competitions.
Who has travelled furthest North South East West up and down.
I predict some serious distances travelled.
errr thinking on it.. there isn't north south east and west in the galaxy think its all related to the galactic plane and possibly the suns plane...
Haven't left the solar system and I'm already in trouble of getting lost.
Who has travelled furthest North South East West up and down.
I predict some serious distances travelled.
errr thinking on it.. there isn't north south east and west in the galaxy think its all related to the galactic plane and possibly the suns plane...
Haven't left the solar system and I'm already in trouble of getting lost.
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Also, how about finding ancient alien artifacts and relics, scattered around the galaxy. How awesome wouldn't it be to discover a crashed alien ship on the surface of a planet, far into unexplored territory
That would be awesome! I would love to discover the remnants of a unknow alien civilization - a really, really old alien civilization - or maybe something like this: http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLZW8Deq8vE
Imagine fly with your Cobra MK.III through a unknow star system and find (or be found by) a city size alien ship of unknow origin. I don't now about you, but that would be more than enough to wet my vacuum-proof space pants...
Something like this?
Hundreds of billions of stars in the galaxy, and billions of galaxies.. I must say, the Space Engine is one impressive piece of software. And just one guy making it
I have a Playlist full of videos of Space Engine - and this two videos are included on it!
Yes...one guy working on it...but not only that...he does this on his SPARE TIME!
Now imagine what can be done in two years of FULL TIME development by a whole team of people over at FD!!!
They could create an entire universe!
Or maybe more one or two galaxies for us to explore! Your idea is far better than mine!
Me too! I guess I'll have to return to the Academy for Space Pilots...
That space engine video looks amazing.
If I could fly In Elite and find planets of that quality it would be so good.
On the path to how we could imagine a place for the brain to live and explore, in a simulation, free from body.
It's quite fitting with recent reports giving further evidence that the universe including ourselves is a holographic projection of information from a far away place outside the universe.
If I could fly In Elite and find planets of that quality it would be so good.
On the path to how we could imagine a place for the brain to live and explore, in a simulation, free from body.
It's quite fitting with recent reports giving further evidence that the universe including ourselves is a holographic projection of information from a far away place outside the universe.
Whaaaaat?!?
And I'd be totally cool with that.
How the gaming industry changes - I was reading an eerily similar trend when there was this more than faster push for Infinity:The Quest for Earth and folks writing at that time they would retire and spend the rest of their lives exploring the galaxy!
Who would've thought ED would be the one that would save the day - IQE becoming tragically a vaporware ! With the planetary landing for the first expansion - I think the whole Space sim community would galvanized just to see that unfurl!!
I've heard it mentioned that there will be screenshot competitions and monthly prizes for players that find the most interesting vistas. I'm not sure if that will be in the initial release or for when the planetary landing expansion comes along. But either way if FD are contemplating such competitions you can guarantee they have designed their procedural techniques to throw up some extremely interesting features, otherwise they wouldn't run such a competition.
Just like they surprised everyone with how good the alpha gameplay was, I think they'll have everyone's jaws dropping once we get to see the gameworld they've created for us. :smilie:
Space Engine is a good example. A program made by one guy yet produces such fantastic results. Frontier have scores of people working on this aspect alone no doubt, years of experience in procedural generation techniques, and David Braben whose passion is astronomy and attention to detail. I wouldn't be surprised to see ED blow Space Engine away once we get planetary landing and see these worlds close up.
Funny I see the same evidence and draw different conclusions.
My take on things like Space Engine / Vim and Limit Theory is that more resources doesn't necessarily mean better product . I am of the opinion that programming is one of the areas where an individual can make a massive difference. It's what is scaring me about SC and what appears to be the problem with all these high profile software houses producing buggy hinky software ( its not just a games industry thing ) despite having plenty of resources.
Through the filter of Marketing it is always difficult to tell what exactly is going on.
Before the alpha came out I was still very unsure of what the final result would be like. (say 50 / 50) With the alpha I'm now pretty confident (say 80 / 20 ). It is good that my level of confidence in the product is increasing as we progress. Contrast that with SC where my level of confidence seems to be decreasing.
Right I'm off to the design forum to suggest that we can have an option for randomised start locations. Would be fun to see if we can find our way back from faaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrr ouuuuuuuuuuuutttttttttttt
IIRC several pledge levels had the description of "random starting position", but those are inside Human space, and some of them inside relevant faction's sphere of influence.
But yeah, it might be fun to start in a truly random star system, meaning anywhere in the Galaxy.
Most probably you'd need a Long Range Cobra mk III with some self-repairing & fuel scooping capability to have a chance. 
IIRC several pledge levels had the description of "random starting position", but those are inside Human space, and some of them inside relevant faction's sphere of influence.
But yeah, it might be fun to start in a truly random star system, meaning anywhere in the Galaxy.
Wuhu! use the first week of playtime just to fly to inhabited space.. sounds fun
But yeah, it might be fun to start in a truly random star system, meaning anywhere in the Galaxy.
Emphasis on "might": if you were to spawn on the other side of the galaxy, it would take you years of jump-refuel-rinse-repeat just to get back to human occupied space.
Do we know if we are we talking this billion 100,000,000,000?
Or this 1000,000,000,000?
You know - just in case anyone is planning on counting....
1000,000,000 = American billion
1000,000,000,000 = British billion
100,000,000,000 = one hundred billion or one hundred thousand million depending on which system you use.
Wuhu! use the first week of playtime just to fly to inhabited space.. sounds fun
Exactly.