[Ambrosius]

Originally Posted by Sinupe

Didn't Scorch say he'd talk to the coders about this idea?

Did he come up with anything more since then?

Yes. No. I strongly suspect this is the kind of thing that would not get into the intial release, but could be a "cool new feature" in an early upgrade patch.

Regarding the comet splashing into something and generating a load of small roids, while it would feel very real and add unexpected obstacles, I'd say that's a bit hard to code at this stage.

More so when roids don't despawn and the AI keeps tab of them and refills them with ore veins. At some stage you'd have the whole universe filled with debris

Yeah. Based on recent releases on the approach to mining, to keep this in, you'd have to made the debris a replacement for the curent pure roids" and have them pop when they are mined out.

[Wolfkin]

I think the problem you would have with moving roids is that you also would need to implement gravity on all planets and suns to keep things real.
That would mean a very complex program that have to calculate maybe billions of perimeters per second which would lead to we all would need supercomputers.

[Ambrosius]

Originally Posted by Wolfkin

I think the problem you would have with moving roids is that you also would need to implement gravity on all planets and suns to keep things real.

That would mean a very complex program that have to calculate maybe billions of perimeters per second which would lead to we all would need supercomputers.

Nah. Just pretend.

[God_Damage]

How 'bout this?

Replace the pures with moving roids. But instead of spawning X distance from the 0 gate, have it spawn way out in the sector and slowly move toward the 0 gate in an arc, where it would eventually orbit the gate at X distance, until it's popped and then the next one comes in. They could have it come in randomly on 1 of a few (pick a number) possible preset paths, that way collisions with buildings/other roids wouldn't be a problem.

Maybe a little trickier than the straight-line comet idea, but not as ambitious as belts/ricochets/rubble. Hell... I'd even settle for just a single arc in and back out, without orbiting the 0 gate.