Feature requests

[ibol]

(goes back to find all the posts about "there aren't enough warnings when my captain is about to die!"...)

An option it will be.
Your cries I have heard.

And I should add here, about the "GAMMA":
AI is made with third-party software, and there simply is no "gamma setting" option in the language.

[Lord Felix]

You mean you didn't write it all from scratch in Assembler?

1. As I said above, gamma tweaking is bad. But wouldn't it be easy to add a line that says, in pseudo-code, if user presses w, all unseen squares become all bright white?

2. On an unrelated note, are there some devices that can be obtained only after certain sectors, achievements, etc.? I ask because about the best device I've seen in many games is the Machine Shop, a ship device that can be installed to increase crafting quality. I've only ever seen it once, although I've seen other devices MANY MANY times.

In my current game, I'm at sector 44, in a super-sweet spot on a faction quest where I can keep quitting and saving and then continuing (with no cheating at all) and I have an INFINITE number of small ships that can't touch my shields, so I can chew up hundreds of them without breaking a sweat. Since I have the Profiteering 2 skill, and also because of the way these guys are programmed, I'm getting an infinite number of credits and an infinite number of devices, components, and sometimes schematics. Great exploit! I was supposed to kill 10 of the ships for the faction quest, and perhaps the designer thought I'd race back then to turn in the quest. He he.

HERE'S My QUESTION: Is there any point in continuing with this? Is there any hope of getting a Machine Shop drop from these guys?

[phanatic62]

Originally Posted by ibol

(goes back to find all the posts about "there aren't enough warnings when my captain is about to die!"...)

An option it will be.
Your cries I have heard.

Sorry, I didn't mean to give mixed signals. In my case my away team had 100% health and between 50%-25% oxygen and it was alerting me every other step that my captain was in danger. Obviously context is important for these warnings, but I feel like in my case they were a bit aggressive. Especially in the early game you're regularly getting low on oxygen, and the low O2 warning already seems to serve that function.

You said you're making it an option, and that's much appreciated. Perhaps a High-Medium-Low setting so players with different risk tolerances will be happy?