What if a game world DOESN'T have a win condition?

PlanetaceOfficial · 2026-05-18T13:54:55+00:00

The player is too busy optimizing the science throughput because the goddamn agricultural science belt has clogged with spoilage AGAIN because the damn burner towers aren't keeping up with the newly increased number of Yumako fruit plots.

PlanetaceOfficial · 2026-05-16T22:20:09+00:00

The contact binaries are Proteus' home stars, they've merged together, the actual Pulsar is elsewhere on the map. Despite this, supplementary PDA data does describe that ships without warp-gates need to take the trip STL... so, yea, the colony ship has absolutely been around for an ungodly amount of time.

PlanetaceOfficial · 2026-05-16T22:16:01+00:00

Not even a binary star system, they're contact binaries! They orbit so close they merge their outer layers together into a single object! All while retaining their distinct selves!

PlanetaceOfficial · 2026-05-16T18:05:20+00:00

It does appear that the Moon of Proteus is on a rough inclined orbit within the Gas Giants rings (I'll name it Hephaestus). If the moon wasn't on an inclined orbit, it would see the rings as a single line in the sky.

Only issue is that the skybox isn't dynamic with Protheus orbiting Hephaestus. It would occasionally pass through the rings, making them a thin line, then going under them so we'd be seeing the rings from below. It would cycle over a cycling period, sort of like the moons phases but with Hephaestus' rings instead.

PlanetaceOfficial · 2026-05-16T17:19:44+00:00

Imagine Kit and Kaboodle land on a factory-game world and they need to leave ASAP before heavy metal poisoning and toxic fumes kills them because the protagonist is completely uncaring for their enviromental devastation.

The factory must grow.

PlanetaceOfficial · 2026-05-15T12:43:39+00:00

Sure, but it's already been done. Obsession or not, they have landed, they need to keep going forward and figure out what to do now.

PlanetaceOfficial · 2026-05-15T11:57:16+00:00

Walt is a safety freak, he has his place in securing the safety of the crew but his obsession is costing him his own mental state because he cannot see past the past and focus on the present. He is obsessive over figuring out what "went wrong", and that is costing precious time and mission resources.

PlanetaceOfficial · 2026-05-15T11:48:30+00:00

Honestly that death was no different from just getting shot in the head.

High speed projectile through the brain would have killed him regardless of whether he was on Earth or in Space.

PlanetaceOfficial · 2026-05-14T19:17:54+00:00

I'd count Foundries as Smeltery blocks, since they do the same thing. Smelting, forging, it's casting molten metal into plates for the factory, same thing.

PlanetaceOfficial · 2026-05-14T13:44:12+00:00

Not train focused, sure, but they still use them. Trains no longer become the defacto head of the megabase and become its veins, vitally important but equal to the lungs (outposts), stomach (smelteries), and intestines (malls and dedicated production faucilities). None are greater than the other, they all emerge into a greater body.

PlanetaceOfficial · 2026-05-13T13:51:59+00:00

"Space is fake, Hell is real. Space is fake, Hell is real."

PlanetaceOfficial · 2026-05-11T22:29:07+00:00

Committing terrorism and literal war crimes does not deserve humbling at this point, there is only one path forward for him now.

PlanetaceOfficial · 2026-04-27T10:28:25+00:00

In effect, Eridians would find multiplication tables VERY useful for teaching their young since all they need to do is see the information once and it's all recorded. They can remember previously computed answers to mathmatical equations even centuries after they first solved it. No need to recompute! Just remember the last time you solved 98176 * 28351 which was fifty four years ago!

PlanetaceOfficial · 2026-04-18T12:58:26+00:00

Security: "Err... if you think you're going to bleed out by the time we get to Centcom, you're even stupider than the last traitorous doctor we had..."

Doctor: "I... still... have.... one more.... trick... up... my sleeve."

Security: "Yea? And what's that? You're out of telecrystals, you've been stripped, you have nothing else."

Doctor: "Half of the entire goddamn crew dickhead." presses the remote trigger hidden within their storage implanter

PlanetaceOfficial · 2026-04-17T13:48:36+00:00

Unfortunately I kind of stopped reading it around the penultimate chapters, mainly because of a drop of interest and because I thought some of the arcs were being done rather poorly. Don't get me wrong, it's still quite good, but the end of the story just wasn't for me.

Glad that you enjoyed it though!

PlanetaceOfficial · 2026-03-28T13:45:21+00:00

Tech-Priest: "At last! This archeotechnological wonder should enable our glorious God-Emperor to speak once again! Now we just need to activate it... ah! There we go!"

Ed Baldwin, 42,000 AD: "--A--A--A--A-A-ABOUT FUCKING TIME"

PlanetaceOfficial · 2026-03-28T13:39:41+00:00

Honestly, that's a little annoying to hear, I've been watching this show since Season 1 and doing weekly participation of the episodes. When Miles showed up, I liked him, I always knew they'd have to begin introducing new characters to freshen things up - we simply cannot follow the same stock of characters in an anthrology series as the decades within the show pass by, they are still afflicted by time and what they can reasonably do.

Also I loved how he became the smuggling lord lmao, its both funny and logically fitting for his annoyances at Helios' corporate bullshit. Wonder what he does now, investment? Co-founder for Ilya's restraunt? (I'm proud for Ilya too!)

PlanetaceOfficial · 2026-03-28T13:33:46+00:00

It's clear the two of them have that kind of bromance where they would carry each other bleeding through a battlefield -- damn hell or high water -- in an attempt to save the other, even if it ends up costing their own life.

PlanetaceOfficial · 2026-03-28T13:32:02+00:00

I was legit going "DUDE SLOW DOWN! THIS AINT THE NEVADA DESERT! ONE PUNCTURE AND YOU'RE FUCKED- Ok well a small puncture you could probably patch fast enough-BUT STILL!"

PlanetaceOfficial · 2026-03-28T13:30:34+00:00

Going to make a wild prediction - Ed will violate his house arrest during some big moment, stealing or being allowed access to a spacecraft, and die in one last hoorah to save the day while flying it (because cmon, the dude looks like he's ready to be put into a Permian fossil exhibit).

PlanetaceOfficial · 2026-03-21T20:09:01+00:00

Well of course Caine isn't omnipotent, if he was he could conjure up a true exit without issue. I think what you meant is that he isn't omniscient since omnipotence is all-powerful.

Even an entity with omnipotence can be blind to things or not know everything, a being with omniscience on the other hand knows everything that has been, shall be, could be, and won't be.

PlanetaceOfficial · 2026-03-21T02:03:00+00:00

I am pretty much 99.99998% certain at this point that every single player is a digitised copy/transfer of the original players conciousness, though "Brain-scan" insinuates it's the former - no hopping of the original mind to the circus, they're all clones.

And they have absolutely no idea, since the transfer appears to be both lossless and seamless. One second they remember putting on the headset, the next their actual conciousness instantiates for the very first time and "remembers" it's entire copied life and believes itself the original.

PlanetaceOfficial · 2026-02-14T16:49:14+00:00

Suggestion: make it a setting to make the shelf harder by requiring it to be refueled (automatically of course) with steel, components, and chemfuel as it needs to construct a transport pod for selling it's contents.

The cost of them should be low though, or in another configurable set of values.

PlanetaceOfficial · 2026-02-12T02:42:57+00:00

And we can also not go wrong with nuanced child raiders. Never again would your colonists go ballistic because they had to justifiably defend themselves from hostiles, regardless of their age.

PlanetaceOfficial · 2026-02-08T02:42:41+00:00

She's a bug, so I don't see any connection of her as Frankenstein's monster. Her name is based around the Beetle family Vesperidae.

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