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Some awesome answers people!

Aurora: I've tried it, was interesting, but too buggy and badly documented for me. Interface was not just cumbersome (I play DF occasionally, thats OK), it used archaic Microsoft programming tools and a UI designed for huge screens. Bad combination on my computers.

Gearhead and Gearhead 2 are really fun. I remember those.

Battleships Forever is just mods, isn't it? No balance/physical laws involved in making stuffs.

I play Cortex Command -- but there's, again, really no "system" of customisation. Just script what you like, no matter whether of not it's practical.

Gary's Mod is cool too, with wiremod, but my computers are, as a rule, at least 5 years old and slightly upgraded. Not conducive to FPSs. Lag is a major problem for me.

OpenLieroX... Never heard of it. Judging from the post, it's mod based, but I'll check it out.

RA2 and Mindrover I love very much -- RA2 is showing its age and engine limitations (I'm looking at you lack of self-collision, spastic joints, and internal/external duality!. Mindrover would be so much fin with custom chassis in a multiplayer environment with some kind of resource harvesting or some such to make new bots.

RoboRumble... with a name like that and being mentioned in the same breath as RA2 and Mindrover, it sounds great! I should check that out!

Engine of War sounds like an awesome time waster! I loved bureau of steam engineering but found it simple -- this sounds like a step up!

Thanks for the input thus far!

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  This is SOOOO cool! Now I see why Voxelspace was canceled! Somone beat you to it.

Ooh I can hardly wait...

Interesting. It doesn't destroy the radioactive  material, but its like a lead mushroom... and it grows on it... How much does this thing block, anyway? Must be dense.

Could these be useful in space-station-mounted farms that take waste (sewage, etc.) in and produce food/fuel and water vapour and a fuel/food source? And you could put solar panels on the outside without blocking the energy for the plants...

If you are really clever, you'll have your space station in layers with the crew in the center, followed by life-support pipes/wires/etc, then a fungus farm layer as a combined recycling/radiation shield, then solar panels on the outside...

I knew melanin was natural radiation shielding, at least for near UV, but I didn't know the energy could be harnessed. Oh, the possibilities.


And I know it wouldn't destroy nuclear waste any faster, but it could have its spores (if they were long-lived enough) introduced into waste storage areas where the growths of fungus would pinpoint leaks and slow them down from the radiation being absorbed...

We need sandbox trees. Now.

What if I wore 100mm Kevlar-covered Nerf?

Pity you can't mod in reactive armour...
Or wait...
Does heat transfer on strike?
If your species has a cold body temp...
But it would probably INcreace blunt damage. Or, you know, blast you with boiling stuff more than him.

I haven't played SS13 in a while, but yeah, I like it. Play mostly virtually exclusively on the BS12 servers. Got a new computer, don't have BYOND. Might have to find the server address again.

About Corewars: I remember reading about that. A bit too abstract for my taste (I never was a very good programmer, too impatient. Allways sacrificing efficiency to "make it work" sooner.) I used to play around with Darwinbots 2... I wonder how that's going...

Having a few problems with Aurora, but WOW! What a range of options. Too bad its pretty much "drop the newbie in the pile of buttons and don't tell him how they relate"... Tutorials insist on cheating up all the research it looks like, too.

I've always liked customization in my games, but lately I've become more and more genera-savvy and the feeling of "Yeah, I built that. Watch it kick your butt." of sticking lasers on a Mechwarrior 4 Mercs MP3 'mech has been fading.
I've played Roboforge, but being that it is a): a crashy, glitchy old Java game, b):pretty much dead, and c):too... I dunno, impersonal?... and less deep than it seems (physics are a lot simpler than they look for such a sword-fighting/etc-based game)
I was excited for Spore, but after I got it I was quite disappointed at   how only cosmetic changes are really made, and how the response I get   from my practical, helpful brother when showing him a creature is "you   could hide a pair of minimum-size wings here. All creatures have similar capabilities.
I've tried Garry's Mod, but being based on a FPS engine, all the objects are either fragile crates, made of explodium, or made of indestructium and even with Wiremod/Spacebuild/etc., there just isn't much room for improvement. You either use a premade spaceship weapon that damages tanks/ships/bases or you work hard to make something twice as large, half as reliable, and only effective against players/NPCs.



So I was wondering: Can any of you name a game where equipment is truly "Design-it-yourself"?
I don't mean "tech-tree", and the modular build systems of Warzone 2100 and some mech games are still not uniquely "yours".
I mean something where ingenuity can come up with weapons that your opponents can't defend against until they figure out how the heck they even work! Where you can spend lots of time looking at the way another player's equipment solves the same problems as yours, but by an entirely different principle.

I would really love to vent some of my mad-scientist ambitions on something like this.




<P.S. Sorry about all the TVTropes WikiWords, just escaped a WikiWalk and have to deal with a TabExplosion>