Excellent! great minds think alike in regards to abandoned space ships and stations it seems haha

Yes I would be happy to help with any story stuff or other missions, quests, NPC's ect 😀

At the moment I am trying to become a writer (just in my spare time) and Im working on my first novel thats in this same kind of an adventure scifi setting, so Im getting my mind used to generating lots of random story stuff of this type. It shouldnt be too hard to make up things for your game too while my mind is floating around among the scif clouds all day. Plus its all good practice for me so assimilate away! lol

hmm travelling is something you spend a lot of time doing in a space sim and also in any RPG ish world so yes it would be good make that bit interesting. I need to have a think about that for a bit before I can give my opinion / ideas on a good mechanic for it..

oh no an evil kraut! hahaha cool 😀

Im from Australia, land of the endless beach.. that you mostly cant swim at because of all of the wildlife thats trying to bite you, sting you, poison you, or all three

also yeah that would be great to do an internal forum type thing, especially to see prototype stuff! also I can give you my email if that helps too (I assume I can put it in a post or something? I really need to look at the forum rules for this place come to mention it lol)

I've send you a message here over this forum. 🙂

Just wanted to show you a quick shot of artwork. This will be one of the ships I will use for testing first. Looks a lot like FTL I know. Well, nothing wrong with that as the game itself will be different.

There are quite some sections there. Front of the ship the sensors followed by piloting, rear all that engine stuff. On the left and right weapons. Reactor in the middle with some locks in front.

This is not by all mean any graphics for a possibly finished game, it's just something to work with.

Hi there,
 
I've just set up the universe which will be made of sectors like in Elite/Frontier. Each sector has a size of 10 light years. There will be 10,000 sectors in x and y, which will lead to a size of the whole system of 100,000 light years squared.
 
Every sector will have up to 9 systems. Each system will have a star and with 5% probability a double star. Every star will have up to 7 planets plus moons, asteroids and so on...
 
All in all this will lead up to 900 million solar systems, all procedural generated. Names will be generated as well.
 

 
That screen shows the overview map with the current systems around your position including the range of your engine (green circle). This is still very rough but I think a good point to start with (and actually already works! yeah!)

Here's a new ingame screen. You might notice that hex grid in the middle which pops up when you are in some kind of a "situation", let it be combat or something interesting. So you will move your ship turn based, attack, research and so on.

A small nice gimmick is that every crew member has some kind of a bio monitor. Looks nice in real. 😀
Still some placeholder graphics though... oh and when you want to interact with your ship it's zoomed in!

Click for a larger screen...