It makes sense to me! I want to upgrade my machine specifically to play Pioneer. I just can't afford it yet. As long as people with older machines can play it on minimum settings, things will be fine.

well you have to draw a line somewhere... but people often grossly underestimate the polycounts and completely forget about shaders and textures for slowing shiz down. I'm all for maximising the size of the audience, but i dont really see why freeware has to equal crap graphics and you can in certain circumstances make the game unplayable for current or future machines, like there's concern with a number of dx7 apps that will not be supported by future graphics cards and drivers.

For this model, it has a lean triangle count, but if your graphics card is struggling with its 2k maps then just run 1k or 512... and do that for other large maps also.

i read somewhere for freeware games - open source that graphics should allow to be run on machines 5-6 years old re 2 replacement cycles. Usually a balance between older PCs and nuewer PCs to look reasonably good but not to dodgy but also allows new programmers and graphics artists to contribute

Yeah, on my older machine I can run planets and cities at medium settings with a decent framerate. Perhaps models could be scaled as well, so I could run a slightly lower detailed Sasquatch. About that vehicle, there's a door way the hell up there. How do you get into it? 😛

what is throught this doorway to hell

Orbiter Forum?

Its a sophisticated gadget called a "ladder" Nasa's been working on it for years. 😀 but as there's no way of getting out, how you get back in is academic. 😉