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[Glloyd]

As Girlinhat said, it's pretty variant. If a lot of shit is happening, then it can be extremely CPU intensive. I was playing with my roommate over lan, and we made some massive ships in creative mode and battled them. SE ended up tying up almost 6 gigs of RAM and a significant chunk of my decently powerful CPU. Of course, that was pre-optimization and bugfix updates; we did something like that recently and it was a lot less RAM and CPU intensive. It just depends on what you're doing really.

[alexandertnt]

The graphic options aren't great. My brother can't run it, and he has... well, graphics is the issue for him, and he has a NVIDIA Geforce 555M.

Odd, I have that same card and it runs fine for me.

[NullForceOmega]

So last update for 2014 is out, looks interesting to say the least, I'm really wondering how infinite proceduraly generated asteroids that eat no RAM work...

[TheDarkStar]

So last update for 2014 is out, looks interesting to say the least, I'm really wondering how infinite proceduraly generated asteroids that eat no RAM work...

They work based on a seed. It's like how Minecraft worlds are gigantic but can be run even on relatively weak computers.

[miauw62]

The same way Minecraft does???
Alright, Minecraft isn't a paragon of efficient memory use, but there's nothing that says all these asteroids have to be loaded at the same time.

E: ninja'd by darkstar.

[Chiefwaffles]

Besides, all random generation in computers works on a seed.

[NullForceOmega]

I'm more wondering what process they are using exactly to generate the voxel map while having, according to them, 'zero' RAM usage.  If it has to generate and store that data map for every asteroid encountered I don't really see (probably because I am not a programmer, and likely never will be) how they can avoid shifting the data storage to RAM.

[miauw62]

I'm more wondering what process they are using exactly to generate the voxel map while having, according to them, 'zero' RAM usage.  If it has to generate and store that data map for every asteroid encountered I don't really see (probably because I am not a programmer, and likely never will be) how they can avoid shifting the data storage to RAM.

Well, theoretically they could store it all in pagefiles

[TheDarkStar]

The idea is that rather than remembering each and every object, objects - as long as they remain unaltered - are removed when far away from the player and later regenerated using that same algorithm. For altered ones, I'm not sure, but it's most likely something like "these edits were done here" and it applies it to the generated area.

[zombat]

It'd probably be more accurate to say "no additional RAM usage"

[n9103]

As long as the procedural generation is discrete and reliable, then yea, just regenerate chunks on loading, and then apply a diff file/map to reapply any changes that have been effected.
When chunk is unloaded, either append recorded changes (if recorded) or replace diff file with the results of comparing the current chunk state with a freshly generated one.

[Sensei]

Man. Lots of donut asteroids huh?

Anyway, has anyone managed to get exploration ships to spawn? I've flown around and haven't seen any.

[jocan2003]

Man. Lots of donut asteroids huh?

Anyway, has anyone managed to get exploration ships to spawn? I've flown around and haven't seen any.

From what i heard they are quite rare, station even rarer and since they dont have antenna running only eyeballing can find them if im not mistaken.

[Girlinhat]

So I had an idea for themed battles.  We'd have a starting setup, like a massive industrial station with plenty of interior spaces and wide open corridors, and go to combat on it.  It could be using personal weapons or, preferably, constructing war machines.  The trick is, these machines must be walkers, or must be wheeled, or have other restrictions on use.  Then we'd have fighting over just supremacy, or controlling certain points, or perhaps trying to capture certain locations that can provide a resource bonus used to repair and re-arm.

One idea I had for limits would be... does anyone remember the show Junkyard Wars?  Basically, both sides would get a few ships, and from there they have to disassemble them and rebuild something they can fight with.  Additional ammo would be supplied, as it doesn't occur in many vessels.  So it'd be a challenge to see who could apply materials more effectively to create something powerful.

[Vgray]

For some reason, seeing this thread now makes me think of Red Faction, which I just got on sale from GOG a few days ago.

Don't ask me why.