Keep it Random Keep it open

[OrLoK]

hello all

here's my tuppence...

The pure joy of roguelikes is the utter open endedness of the system.

The ability in many of them to play it your way, and although there is usually an end goal many users like to assign their own.

I'm glad there's more user ship types, but for me I'd rather see random elements appear so one can put their entire ship together from bits with different values/strengths etc and make it completely personal and individual to that user.

Also, one element that i've only seen in the first diablo games (it may be in others but i grew out of them) was the possibility to replay the game with your winning avatar. Essentially making the game almost never ending. For example in Fallout 3 the actual story line is fairly short, but clever modders made it possible to roam its universe once the play had officially finished, and I believe was even officially patched in later.

Regardless of my ageing rants I wish you all the luck with your venture and as long as I have the pennies, FLT is definitely a game ill pick up, especially if it will run on low end machines.

Rgds

OrLoK