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I thought a thread on pioneer's game difficulty / player progression through the game would be apt. It's a topic that interests me, (the reputation level and tech level implementations were my stab at this). I found this article very interesting: "The idea of a difficulty curve is all wrong&quo...

Interesting, Scott Manley goes throguh what it would look like to travel at different speeds (and there's a repo that implements it):

"Travelling At 99% of The Speed Of Light Looks Strange - Project Hail Mary's Space Warp"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_g9EeT233Q

New images of the sun show its surface in the finest detail yet
https://apnews.com/article/sun-surface- ... b51dd3eb2a

But there should be either a slider, or a toggle for this in the options, since this is dealing with player time in a very direct manner. My guess is that if it is nicely balanced, then a checkmark should be sufficient. This might be a bit strange, to be able to shut on/off some aspect of the game ...

The list is sorted based on priority / relevance? First few suggestions sounds good to me, the others I'm not fully understanding, some seem like it might perhaps drain more resources for little added benefit, or perhaps audio is cheap? As you can tell, I know nothing about audio code. If you fear a...

Another interesting noise based erosion method. Sans simulation, so it might be applicable to our case. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4V21_uUK8Y Cool. For future, here are the companion links to the video: blogpost: https://blog.runevision.com/2026/03/fast-and-gorgeous-erosion-filter.html shader...

I agree with the second and third points (capacity, and jump button). Just to clarify, I agree it can be confusing at first, but to me that is a UI / tutorial issue, I do not agree to going back to the Frontier system. I hope that I can come back and try next year's version and be able to write a p...

Thanks for the feedback!
I agree with the second and third points (capacity, and jump button).
Ideally we would have (at some point) a tutorial mode when starting the game.

The wiki is as updated as players/contributors are willing to keep it.

Analytic Fog Rendering with Volumetric Primitives
https://matejlou.blog/2025/02/11/analyt ... primitives

That might be interesting indeed.