/egg/ - Engineering Games General - Formerly /svgg/

I... What? What the fuck? Is this temporary or permanent?? Optional at least? But, I had those cool specific resource zones set up...

It's not THAT big of a deal for me but shiiiiit. What the hell nick? I imagine it was "too complicated" for noobs?

I think the coding and balancing was "too complicated" for nick.

He never really explained why IIRC.
Just had a massive autism fit.

no he was too lazy to balance it

expect more changes like this in the future

for your own sanity do not visit the ftd forums

lewd

Permanent. Not optional. Nick outright refused implementing any moddable resources.
It isn't that big of a deal, but this shit has been going on for a while, and Nick has thrown one hell of a spoiled brat hissy fit this time. It'll definitely only get worse if Nick doesn't recover. FTD is dead.

He gave like 10 mutually contradicting, extremely worthless reasons that mostly just pointed towards him being a lazy fuck.

> But, I had those cool specific resource zones set up...
I had a finished structure and two started fortresses for those zones
Nick went full autist explaining things, and got angry to the point of even threatening to stop development in the game

Ah. Well I'll continue on making /egg/heim I guess until it no longer continues to be fun for me. One resource isn't as big a deal for me.

Fuck though I'll admit I'm a little salty as that allowed things to be comfy and shit.

Ah what the fucking shit dude.

He was doing fine until he started dumbing things down. I wish more devs could be like Toady and just make what they want and not give a damn. Fuck.

Fuck.

Get ready for only more "simplifying" and "removing UI clutter".

Nick did just make what he wants and not give a damn about anyone's complaints. That's the problem.

The only """"""good""""" thing we've had recently are 3m slopes and radar guided misiles

I mean without being lazy.

From what I read he had all these complex ideas that the forumites utterly rejected because they are normies. He's likely pissed about that and pissed that his game isn't selling more but man throwing a fit isnt the way to go about it.

>removing ui clutter
that ugly shit needs an overhaul

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>skinwalkers in space
spoopy

Where are my Nuts and Bros at?

Truly the dedest /egg/

Anyone been to one of those male only saunas?

Hey Remanon, when a damage system gets implimented will angling your armor still matter? Angle still increases your effective thickness so it would make sense if more angle = more damage reduction

No, but I went to a female only sauna.

...for what purpose?

I mean, seriously, there needs to be an alternative explanation for this erroneous and unusual behaviour, dictated other than the norm by some strange and unseemly impules, the nature of which I desire to know so I can divine the depths of either the genius or madness of such an act.

wouldn't an angle also kind of reflect bullets? Like make them slide off?

yes

"In the future...the battle will be won not by range or power - it will be won by men with protractors stabbing other men with protractors...long before the tank has even reached the enemy's sights."

~Winston Churchill

I was bored so I decided to dick around.

What are you? A faggot?

This is fun
a.uguu.se/IyWb6peI3sef_1.webm
I'm gonna have to make a bigger plane and see if I can damage it enough to bring it down without explosive cannonballs

No.

>spend two hours re-jigging my factory to use all of the advanced ore refining methods in Angel's

>these two facilities basically output the same amount of ore

>one of them has two additional steps and consumes huge amounts of sulfuric acid and water and generates a plethora of retarded byproducts

Overall not worth it lads

projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/slowerlight.php#id--Go_Fast--Bussard_Ramjet
>If your starship is moving fast enough, the widely scattered hydrogen atoms will hit your hull like cosmic rays, and damage both the ship and the crew. One can theoretically use magnetic or electrostatic fields to sweep the hydrogen atoms out of the way so the ship doesn't hit them.

>But wait a minute. Hydrogen is propellant, and could also be fusion fuel. Instead of sweeping it away, how about gathering it?

>And if you are gathering your propellant instead of carrying it along with you, your mass ratio becomes infinity. This means you could theoretically accelerate forever.

Why aren't space games this interesting? Its always the generic magic engines

>Why aren't space games this interesting? Its always the generic magic engines
In Sword of the stars 2 you can equip Hiver ships with those ramjets so they can fly further than usual, but it's not an /egg/game

true-to-physics space voxel game when

scrumble ships when

There is a book called Tau zero about a ship like that. It breaks and can't stop :(

team rocket's blasting off again

What?

a.uguu.se/MPYdltCjYKnp_3.webm
>cannonball remove the elevator
>another cannonball hits it and gets stuck in front of the tail fin
>plane pitches up, stalls and crashes
Now that was a lucky as fuck shot

Alright try this one out:
>ffmpeg -i %input file% -c:v libvpx -b:v 1068K -an %output%.webm -threads 0
Or
>-c:v libvpx -minrate 1M -maxrate 1M -an
-crf will fuck your shit up, you can either variable bitrate or constant bitrate

If all else fails, you can get webm for retards shell or get handbrake and encode an .mkv in VP8 then you put it in your ffmpeg/bin and do
>ffmpeg -i input.mkv -vcodec copy (optional -an) output.webm
Handbrake is quite a bit faster than old ffmpeg but more limited (ffmpeg can do ANYTHING if you ask it nicely)

EUROPA
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Is there no car-mounted flamethrower in Factorio? No flamer tank either? Why?

>having sex segregated saunas
It amazes me how americans are even able to reproduce considering how fucking prude they are

literally a mod already

M A R S
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>EUROPA

I STILL MISS IT

>Why aren't space games this interesting? Its always the generic magic engines
Yeah it bugs me how in spengies only hydrogen thrusters use any fuel besides "electricity". Ion engines IRL usually use xenon for propulsion, and atmospheric thrusters would need jet fuel of some description and also have a clear air intake.

Remanon here, Yes and normalization, that bit of code is ready, just been working on how damage is applyed to modules atm.

/egg/ robot wars server when. Just build a spess station with lots of resources and a spectator arena.

>the only download link requires you to have "sufficient membership" aka buying the game
Jesus, that's some advanced cancer

I've been reading this site a lot lately, and it's fucking mind-boggling how many engineering challenges you have to overcome to send a tin can with some guys inside to space.
But all we get is KEEN.

>and it's fucking mind-boggling how many engineering challenges you have to overcome to send a tin can with some guys inside to space.
Sending a tin can into space is fairly straightforward, but for some reason we have erroneously assume human life has any value. So keeping the tin can's occupants alive and returning them safely becomes a real challenge.

Absolute madman.
youtube.com/watch?v=N0wfkpBImKw

> but for some reason we have erroneously assume human life has any value. So keeping the tin can's occupants alive and returning them safely becomes a real challenge.
Well, if you spend several millions training them, you'd want them to return alive so you don't have to spend those millions again
Also, you can't buy exp.

Daily reminder that bitching about turrets in REM is bitching that the mechanic hasn't rotated your tires yet when he's still building the engine on a stand outside the car.

>the mechanic hasn't rotated your tires yet when he's still building the engine on a stand outside the car.
Then it's a shitty mecanic, because i ordered a plane, not a car

REManon has repeatedly stated there WILL be detailed terminal ballistics simulation with hardcore penetration and damage calculations. I don't know why I have to keep repeating this. It's why I am so God damned hype for REM.

>hardcore penetration

The solution is simple, use skeletons instead of humans

/egg/torio when?

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>but for some reason we have erroneously assume human life has any value

Does someone have a band aid? I just cut myself on this user's edge.

Very good meme, anonymous! I'd give you a like if I could!

Just praise to CLANG and he'll fix you

Just don't pray to Keen, for we know how it fixes things

Never

moot agreed, don't bother him about it

>moot
Literally who

The age of the flamethrowers is coming.

Control it from ground control. Fill it up with convicted murderers. Send said murderers to mars. Hey, it worked for strayacunt, mars is only slightly more inhospitable.

Foolproof. Now how do we reanimate skeletons?

But, anons, we already send skeletons

>Control it from ground control.
Then there's no need for people inside the tin can unless you want to colonize shit.
>marstralia
and start starcraft IRL?

He's an idiot, but he found a truffle here.

0-risk space travel is the whole reason we aren't on Venus or Mars right now. We insist on an incredibly ludicrous safety margin in our space exploration.

Consider it like "searching for the new world" but you are not permitted to leave visual contact with the shore or another ship.

>Then there's no need for people inside the tin can unless you want to colonize shit.
Well you can test life support systems on death row murderers. Hell if I was on death row death by space clang sounds like a lot more fun than death by lethal injection.

>and start starcraft IRL?
Yeah why not. Just make sure to nuke them from orbit when they start building siege tanks and power armors.

Deep

Did you know?

I'mma tell you a secret

My body has more bones than the average human I have an extra vertebrae

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Want another bone in your body?

As long as it doesn't give me a stiff neck like the extra one does...

You'll get a stiff something...

What do. I have 1 (one) missile turret and that's it. Single rocket hit will blow my ship to bits.

right click > uninstall

spengies is shit

Start clanging violently.

>not building your way up to a Codex Astartes worthy ramship and obliterating whatever's in your way with sheer mass and velocity

>bullet hose
Nice, how do I build one.

>/egg/ERP

Now why would I want to do that. Obviously I want the argent for myself, as intact as possible.

I had a captured military escort on a different server, I RC'd that puppy into a mining hauler. There were no survivors. Not one stinkin' SPRT block.

I knew i'd get that aswer when i was writing that

>pic unrelated

REManon reporting from bed.

There is a reason we abandoned all hope for all games and just started our own. We love robot wars and tried to do our own. Spengies can't do robot wars multi-player, we tried exhaustively. The only effective weapons are flippers and piston clang. You also have to make absolutely sure everyone is not using gyros, thrusters, cockpits of weapons like turrets.

For some reason pubbies really like using guns in robot wars, I dunno.

Its alright with two to four non retarded people on voice comms with one definite leader and a good server, but good luck with that.

REM robot wars when

Also REM is looking promising, hope you keep up the good work!

Then why the fuck not just make a Robot Wars game?

You can have different categories for drones to fight. Guns, pistons, drills, whatever. Grinderbot duels can be fun, focus of manueverability to grind opponent's grinder before it grinds yours.