One of these days, I want to write something super basic for TiTS and see if it's any good. I used to write hard sci-fi for a gaming company years ago, and I've recently been feeling the need to shake off the cobwebs.
What Content Would You Like Added?
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I think this is exactly what the game needs. This kind of scenes to feel like the ship is crowded and alive, as I said not long ago, It now feels like every crew member lives just in their room without ever coming out or interacting with other crew member.
I think this may have been brought up many times but I always wish for Multiple sets of arms, I can't remember why they don't want this but I figured combat doesn't care how many arms you have anyway and during most sex scenes another set of arms would be treated just like multiple penii or vaginas are, completely ignored unless an author decides they like an additional set for special sex scenes.
I am sorry if this question annoys the mods/developers.
I am sorry if this question annoys the mods/developers.
TheShepard256
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Actually, the whole out-of-universe reason Steele is limited to two arms is so that combat and sex scenes don't have to care about how many arms Steele has. Having more arms would allow Steele to wield more weapons, which would be an advantage in combat, so any TF that grants multiple arms would go against TiTS's game design philosophy of "TFs should be mostly cosmetic and not required for optimal gameplay strategies".
Really? huh figured since the combat mechanics are only "one melee weapon , one ranged weapon " then the amount of arms you had would not really matter and would only be cosmetic. guess that just my mistake, I am still pretty new to this game and its community
Edit: I did not mean to sound so facetious, I am genuinely surprised and confused.
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can you wield 2 pistols or swords in TiTS? I have never actually tried to do that, I always just used 1 ranged weapon and 1 melee... boy do I have egg on my face if you can.
Edit; if that is true I rescind my original comment. rather not have 4 arm meta gaming.
Not as such, no. Some weapons are described as pairs (like the Ice Cappers and Custom Shock Gear), but that's just Flavor Text™.
oh, well I stand by my original comment. I don't see the harm in allowing for multiple limbs seeing as the games combat system is not affected by the additional limbs. But that is just a stance, I am not Fenoxo nor one of the other creators, this is their game, not mine. maybe I am just being a nuisance, pretty sure this argument has happened multiple times before.
More times than you could count on your fingers if you had a dozen arms.
There's like 10 reasons for not allowing multiple arms. The strongest is that the entire game would have to be rewritten because it only accounts for having 2 arms, and every future encounter would have to have a 4-armed variant. It could pop up anywhere. It'd be a huge pain in the ass and verges on impossible.
I have no idea how it is coded so I will take your word on it.
edit; I know Taurs are a thing, is it possible to be a bugtaur in game? have 4 bug legs and 2 bug arms?
Poe A's spider costume is your best bet
Just my little weigh-in, it's mentioned in the combat encounter with Dane that very few people of a race that doesn't already have multiple arms have a brain capable of utilizing multiple arms, something like a one in a million chance. Steele, for all of their luck (and nanomachines) probably doesn't have a brain suited towards using multiple arms. Just an in-universe reason for it.
Talking about Dane, How many people actually have given his sword back ? I forget i even have it, thank god for the ship storage upgrades.
Now we are best buddies, Mercenaries for life and all that. Yay !!!
Yeah, I'm glad I'm a hoarder, especially when it comes to unique items.
I sold it years ago. Back in the day you really didn't have much in terms of storage space.
collectors unite! I still have all the unique items I got my hands on throughout the game, from the ZK Rifle to the Myr's Leg Rifle to the Jewelled Outfit
I always grab and hold onto the ZK Rifle. It's amazing how it's described as being the quality of a weapon that many would give a special name to, and then you can later buy a completely ordinary flare gun which deals more damage and can light enemies on fire.
A quest that has you infiltrate a society by taking a load of mods to look like them. They'd be more advanced than we are now but have only just started colonizing their moon, capable of putting up a good fight but ultimately losing. UGC doesn't want a war so they've put off on contacting them until they're ready for diplomacy and have warned rushers against going to this planet. This quest would involve you gathering a bunch of data on their cultures, what they like, how they act, but most importantly what they know about extraterrastrial life and locating and rescuing a particular rusher that didn't heed the UGC warnings and has gotten herself captured. To make matters worse she happened to be modded to look exactly like what their culture thought aliens would like which happens to coincidentally be exactly like earth's assumption was in its early sci-fi entertainment days, a grey, only difference is that this one has boobs.
Modding yourself to kinda look like a grey isn't that hard btw
Would love for more bust variations of old characters (Specially of Ogram and Amma).
It would be interesting if Steele would get a modeling gig
Okay, this is such a long shot it is not happening
AI character rendering engine.
A locally hosted decision matrix that interfaces with neural net server, that can produce character models based on description flags, and a gradient training algorithm with human input. Each TiTs executable would read the character attributes, and pull a 'fresh' decision framework from the server, to use user compute time to render a model/image. This, once the user has done some yes/no or gradient input, it is sent back to the server as additional training input, in order to produce better future decision frameworks. Eventually, conceivably, possibly, this could maybe work half way to horrible.
Yeah, this isn't happening. Unless someone here with at least one Ph.D in computer science wants to tackle it.
AI character rendering engine.
A locally hosted decision matrix that interfaces with neural net server, that can produce character models based on description flags, and a gradient training algorithm with human input. Each TiTs executable would read the character attributes, and pull a 'fresh' decision framework from the server, to use user compute time to render a model/image. This, once the user has done some yes/no or gradient input, it is sent back to the server as additional training input, in order to produce better future decision frameworks. Eventually, conceivably, possibly, this could maybe work half way to horrible.
Yeah, this isn't happening. Unless someone here with at least one Ph.D in computer science wants to tackle it.
Jesus, you set me to imagining the budget of pulling that off. I don’t even think the tech to accomplish that exists at such a scale it could conceivably be used for a project like this.
Google probably has an AI for its auto-captions and google translate, which they've probably fed many examples to, and it still gets a large amount of things incorrect. I feel like, no matter what the skill of people programming for TiTS, the result would either take years or just take about a year and also be pretty bad.
I mean..
Additional limbs would just *highlight* how you can't hold mutiple weapons.
Also, duel wielding weapons is very... unwieldy. That's why only being able to hold one plasma pistol can be overlooked.
If you're into firearms, try fireing with both hands some time. It's very inaccurate, especially since you can't really use the sights. I mean, I suppose you could sort of do it Halo 2 Master Chief style, but....
There's a reason why duel wielding isn't really a thing outside video games. It's just impractical.
Edit: Also just remembered this - if you wanna see the kind of BS that multi-wielding in-game could result in... Just go fight Dr. Lash. 6 pistols is ridiculous, there's no need for that in the game.
An AI? Never.
A model generator based on set parameters and part options? Conceivable, if someone loves games like this enough but wants something to feed their 3d printer. Depending on the amount of polygons you assign per part and the local resizing/stretching mechanics present it could look kinda good. Whether someone or a team is willing to go through about six or seven months of work is the real question.
It would be faster and more economical to support our artistic community by continuing to commission their wonderful works!
But I would like a Frostwyrm Statue on my desk...
I don’t think this system would be able to comprehend the amount of stretching that goes on in this game, lol
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Yeah well I find the use of polite, respectful, considered language to be very sexy so you're demonstrably wrong.
And like, you could design the most horrifying extreme porn game and a ton of people would find that sexy so you wouldn't ever tone down anything. Like robot, I'd also love to see less inappropriate name-calling where it doesn't even make sense. This makes me recall a VN called Mutiny where a woman wanted to be tied-up bdsm-style, the other woman started calling her a slut and so forth, and she's like "none of that please" and the other one responds "oh okay sorry". That was nice. But apparently almost every woman in TiTS wants to be called/calls herself a slut/bitch/whore.
Isn't it though?? That's kind of like saying "bitch" or "whore" isn't gendered, sure you can apply it to a guy, but 99% of the time it's getting applied to a woman.
But I dislike the classic "You're a [derogative term] because you like sex and you're enjoying this, so I'm pounding you like the little [another derogative term] you are!". Isn't that what the (generally) male NPC is enjoying too, thusly making him -in this case- a [derogative term] too?
I really hate that one too. But oh, haven't you learned that kind of derogatory namecalling only goes one way? /s
Being able to use the milking room in Travos would be nice. Maybe an overclocked milking machine. Grabbing food at the cafeteria.
I would love more to do with the water princesses. I visit them every time I'm in Travos, and would like to see them develope. Or an event where all your cockvine 'children' escape. That would be a fun mess to clean up. Kids are fun, and I know in this game, they are sort of out of place, but having some wholesome and clean content, with what is Steele's family, would be nice.