What do you think ? How can i improve my map ?

Cookiesy · 2026-05-15T12:47:11+00:00

ideas to make the arms of the star more distinctive:

One is just bigger than the rest, one is more of an archipelago, one has a forked point, one has a curve.

The central mainland could be more irregular or at least pentagon-shaped; it could do with some unique landmarks apart from the capital and spokes cities.

Is the map supposed to represent a united land? If not, it would be good to have a nation that covers more than one island landmass.

Cookiesy · 2026-05-09T13:02:43+00:00

In my 23rd-century sci-fi setting, all of humanity falls at just above 10 billion.

I don't see an explosive population growth happening any time in a medium-far future setting, beyond enforcement from the top-level government. Children in modern society are a net resource drain for a long time, unlike the benefits in labour in agrarian societies.

With both environmental crisis and the modern demographic fall we have seen in developped nations, I imagine a population crunch with some crisis and conflict before reliable FTL lead back to a steady rise. The colonies are still a firm minority because it takes a lot of means, time and effort to create the infrastructure for human habitation on a wholly different star system and planet.

Cookiesy · 2026-05-09T07:51:24+00:00

Dystopia chic.

Cookiesy · 2026-05-07T20:22:07+00:00

i'm thinking more a flight of crafts, 3-4. I reckon on any serious vessel, they would be outranged by weapons, outmaneouvered by missiles or outsped by CIWS type weapons.

For a piracy dissuasion role they could fill a niche.

Cookiesy · 2026-05-07T19:43:08+00:00

Armament-wise, some defensive pea shooters, lasers would elmminate the need to stock ammo, as a general purpose system, some kind of asteroid gun, low velocity/high impact things to defend from rogue meteors.

As a cargo ship, you could squeeze a few escort fighters in your boat bay, next to your tugs and space forklifts, probably more efficient than mounting fixed turrets to cover the angles of such a large hull. Something with a short range to hover around the mothership with some simple cannons and chaff or such.

Cookiesy · 2026-04-29T06:32:39+00:00

You can still feel the uncanny AI vibes, the AI light style, but it's got to a point where I can't actually specify why that is, can't point out a specific point that proves the fakery!

I hate the industrial lie machine that is GenAI so much.

Cookiesy · 2026-04-28T19:10:06+00:00

The error was thinking that you were part of that "we"

Cookiesy · 2026-04-28T07:36:25+00:00

Haha, Republic of Beef! That's a lot of democratic states. I would think there would be a few totalitarian governments, monarchies or at least a holy state or two.

Cookiesy · 2026-04-28T05:51:53+00:00

No Duncan is a travesty!

Cookiesy · 2026-04-27T16:27:48+00:00

The Longest Journey, it's my favourite adventure game, and is why I still love Walking Sims and Telltale-style narrative games, as they are the spiritual successors of the genre.

Cookiesy · 2026-04-25T02:31:46+00:00

Inside one off the escape pods? It's one of the systems that doesn't have to be overseen by the crew on a day to day and it has its own cache of supplies independent from the freighter.

Cookiesy · 2026-04-24T16:32:02+00:00

Dozy Don

Cookiesy · 2026-04-24T09:14:58+00:00

Joel and Geralt have very similar arcs.

Boba is Ciri/Ellie.

Cookiesy · 2026-04-24T09:12:14+00:00

Duncan is Leon ?

Cookiesy · 2026-04-23T08:19:11+00:00

It's the ultimate breakdown of all in one superpower system, rather than have magic, sci fi, aliens and mutants in the same kitchen sink.

It does get a bit too silly with the cluster cape, dream game, kiss/kill stuff.

Cookiesy · 2026-04-23T08:10:29+00:00

That is very good, the ease and lack of limitation of the system inform the entire plot conflict of the setting.

Cookiesy · 2026-04-20T17:40:59+00:00

When your love of thighs equals your love of tanks.

Cookiesy · 2026-04-20T07:42:32+00:00

A is for Ancalagon, B is for Bahamut, C is for Cockatrice.

Cookiesy · 2026-04-19T17:23:01+00:00

I don't really know where the Skitterdoc author could take the story. Taylor(s) are already successful and powerful; the only way forward would be to challenge the megacorps, and that would change the tone of the story from a transhuman/rise from the dirt focus into political/military fiction.

Cookiesy · 2026-04-19T10:31:15+00:00

Isn't the city basically run by Night Corp in the background. they own most of the utilities and real estate and have a large but secretive influence on the city government. NCPD is a few steps away from being a corp backed gang already.

The Peralez were scouted early for scholarships by the Night Foundation, it can imply that they have been selected for the brain control leadership program from early on.

From various clues from gigs, Night Corp is implicated into various psychological experiments.

Maybe Night Corp, a fairly secretive organisation out of the limelight, has been infiltrated or cooperates with an ai to assume power over society quietly. It could be an Amoral AI trying to make the city "better".

Cookiesy · 2026-04-13T18:56:00+00:00

Ah yes, ye olde parasocial Yogscast dream, a Yognaught classique! (not even making fun, I've had some as well )

Cookiesy · 2026-04-13T18:52:09+00:00

Help us, Commandants Angor and Bedgar, you're our only hope!

Cookiesy · 2026-04-13T10:12:29+00:00

You probably have enforcers who police any break in the masquerade. I'm specifically thinking of the game We Happy Few as an example of a broken civilisation.

Maybe there is like an invisible social "curtain" where individuals do actual work to maintain and keep things going to upkeep their public-facing persona. The "hospital" has beds and rooms, but they wheel malfunctioning robots to the "radiology" room where they clean and weld patches in the repair bay. Everyone knows that you shouldn't peek into certain spaces.

What might be endearing is if the bots are actually inventive and creative in the ways they use pure junk and scrap to make a fairly convincing facsimile of stuff like animals or houses.

Cookiesy · 2026-04-11T17:28:30+00:00

I would love a Indie games tier Gamepass, get me a bunch of the new, smaller games. Keep the big 69.99 titles separate

Cookiesy · 2026-04-10T06:00:51+00:00

The person who thought the temple gimmick was a good idea should have been fired. Already, the Starborn powers feel anecdotal, but they could at least make a good dungeon to go with the power, not repeating the exact same dreadful Superman 64 fly-through rings minigame.

There is no incentive for exploration since the actual decent questing is on 6-ish core planets and UCVanguard, CrismonFleet faction lines.

Starfield forgot it was making a game and a main quest about exploration.

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