For Josh's convenience. (WIP)

Colored entries represent items that were promised at or during the Kickstarter.





Will be in Limit Theory 1.0:

• Technical:
  
  • Windows support
    
  • Linux support
    
  • Super hi-res display settings
    
  • Joystick and controller support
    
  • VR support
    
  • Powerful modding capabilities
    
  • Advanced game customization controls
    
  • Release on Steam
    
  • Release on GOG
  
  
• Core game:
  
  
  
  • Dynamic lighting
    
  • Music and sound (some sound optional for those that want silent space)
    
  • Visible damage on ships (beyond health bars)
    
  • In-game ship/station editor, with ability to import/export designs  [link]
    
  • Ability to name assets  [link]
    
  • Customizable UI  [link] [link] [link]
  
  
• Basic gameplay elements:
  
  
  • Infinite universe
    
    
    • Procedurally-generated history per universe  [link]
      
    • System maps (local and global)  [link] [link]
      
    • Warp rails
    
    
  • AI
    
    
    • Ship AI that can mine/trade/explore
      
    • Unique-per-NPC AI (each NPC is its own "person")
      
    • "Leader" AI (CEO-types)
    
    
  • Ships:
    
    
    • Shield and armor systems (instead of pure HP)
      
    • Custom ship outfitting (weapon/armor/shield hardpoints)  [link]
      
    • Carriers  [link]
      
    • Fleet formations  [link]
      
    • Combat and mining drones  [link]
      
    • Automated turrets (that aim and fire automatically)
    
    
  • Space stations and associated docking
    
    
    • Player-owned space stations
      
    • Player-constructed space stations
      
    • Asteroid bases  [link]
      
    • Ability to control weapon fire from an owned space station  [link]
    
    
  • Colonies on planets  [link] [link]
    
    
    • Non-seamless planetary landings
    
    
  • Graphical:
    
    
    • Planetary rings
      
    • Ice fields
      
    • Post-destruction debris  [link]
  
  
• Gameplay mechanics:
  
  
  • Tactical dogfighting and associated AI  [link] [link]
    
  • Large-scale conflicts that change the LT universe
    
  • Pirates  [link]
    
  • Colonies have "personalities" based on factions and locale
    
  • Law enforcement
    
  • Wormholes and associated mechanics  [link]
    
  • Real market systems  [link]
    
    
    • Information as a tradable commodity  [link]
    
    
  • Ship-based:
    
    
    • Ship power distribution and management  [link] [link]
      
    • Destructible subsystems  [link]
      
    • Stealth mechanics  [link] [link] [link]
      
    • Scanner mechanics  [link] [link]
      
    • Mining drones and extended mining mechanics  [link] [link]
    
    
  • Industrial production lines (factories to produce ship parts/ammo/trade goods from raw materials, ore refineries, etc.)  [link]
    
    
    • Player-owned station/ship-based production chains (Projects)
    
    
  • Fleets:
    
    
    • Fleet command, from "follow me" to RTS-cam mode
      
    • Owned fleet operations: trading, mining, missions
    
    
  • Factions
    
    
    • Reputation system  [link]
      
    • Player faction creation and management  [link]
    
    
  • Mission systems of all types, combat/trading/exploration
    
    
    • Ability for player to post missions for NPCs

• Core game:
  
  
  • Dynamic shadows  [link]
    
  • Planet's surface lights visible from space  [link]
    
  • Procedural character backstory (depends on character creation mechanic)   [link]
  
  
• Basic gameplay elements:
  
  
  • Ingame news console at stations  [link]
    
  • Alien/ancient artifacts/relics/ruins/wrecks  [link]
    
  • Ancient battlefield "asteroid fields"  [link] [link]
    
  • Space whales  [link]
    
  • The ability to alter a ship's basic design after initial building  [link]
    
  • Unguided, unpowered bombs  [link]
    
  • Fixed weapons (such as spinal/broadside cannons)  [link]
    
  • External carrier landings (landing on an upper deck)  [link]
    
  • The ability to fly "beneath" shields to attack directly  [link]
  
  
• Gameplay mechanics:
  
  
  • Bounty system (likely)
    
  • Optional permadeath mode with recycled universe (likely)
    
  • Colony creation, ownership, and management
    
  • Tracking of discoveries (Discovery journal/log)
    
  • Illegal goods  [link]
    
  • Terraforming  [link]
    
  • Warp rails as non-ship cargo transfer lines  [link]
    
  • Sandbox mode  [link]

• OS X support - according to Josh, it is extremely difficult to support the game on this operating system, but he may try to tackle it post-release and release an OS X version later.
  
• Mobile stations  [link]
  
• Player modification of colony productions (new buildings on colonies, etc.)
  
• Warp node disruption for warp rails  [link]
  
• Player-constructed warp rails
  
• Pareidolic icons as ship communication avatars  [link]
  
• True civilian ships/factions/planetary evacuation  [link]
  
• Management of planetary governments and politics  [link]
  
• Crew management  [link]
  
• Orbital bombardment  [link]

• Core game:
  
  
  • Multiplayer
    
  • Procedural languages/scripts
    
  • Megastructure backgrounds in systems (a system inside a dyson sphere for instance)
    
  • The ability to travel between stars with normal flight
    
  • Steam achievements
    
  • Seamless planetary transitions
    
  • Voice acting
  
  
• Basic gameplay elements:
  
  
  • Ramming mechanic
    
  • Towing cargo/other ships with tractor beams
    
  • Realistically-sized systems
    
  • Organic/alien vessels and stations
  
  
• Gameplay mechanics
  
  
  • The ability to create self-replicating ships
    
  • Minefields
    
  • Multiple currencies
    
  • Boarding/salvage operations ala Homeworld
    
  • Planetary destruction (planetglassers and planetbusters)
    
  • Advanced hit systems (damaged systems half-function and can fix themselves, etc.)