Ship names, farbs.log

[10tativ]

Why do the names Nemesis, Eris and Narcissus still appear in Jameson? Why would they want to fight you?

Is FARBS.LOG going to be updated anymore?

[Farbs]

Since all ships are named from Greek or Roman mythology there are only so many names to go around, so yeah you'll see duplicates. From memory there are about 700 of them in the game.

FARBS.LOG will be updated when Jameson is finished and becomes canon.

[10tativ]

Woohoo! My first forum reply from you! :')

Also, how do you do those ship voices? Do you use a ring modulator,
like they use for the Daleks?

[Farbs]

The voices actually build the phrases at runtime, using tiny little samples of speech called phonemes. You can play around with them using the same voice in this test application here:
www.farbs.org/LofiLarry.html

This allows me to create a huge range of phrases, but unfortunately they all come out sounding a bit robotic.