IOT Developmental Thread

[NedimNapoleon]

I'd talk about other stuff..........


knowing me, this should disturb you

 

[Tee Kay]

I'd talk about other stuff..........

Yes, yes I do.

 

[Double A]

Half of the conversations would get you banned on CFC.

 

[NedimNapoleon]

More like 99% of the content would be banned on CFC.

 

[JohannaK]

Especially if its posted by Mech.

 

[Mosher]

He posts way too much explicit pony images.

 

[Tyo]

Much too many. But hey, it's what he likes.

 

[mechaerik]

Especially if its posted by Mech.

He posts way too much explicit pony images.

Much too many. But hey, it's what he likes.

die in grease fires

 

[SamSniped]

die in grease fires

Why not use thermite?

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

Further musings on a stone-age start:

There would be dozens of NPCs around players, representing rival tribes and city-states. Most of these can be easily dispatched and are primarily there for colour. As time goes on and players' local influence grows, barring hyper-aggression on their part or diplomatic blunder on yours, they will likely passively assimilate. Distant tribes will form their own conglomerates in relative scale to the players. The basic idea is, the early map will look like a patchwork quilt, and slowly homogenize as regional power centralizes.

Another thought I had is a vulgar fog-of-war: players always know where their fellows are, but until distant travel and communications become more reliable, NPC activity occurs in the dark. I keep track of all their machinations on a master map; you only see as far as your state has stable contact. T'would make New World scenarios a little more interesting.


And speaking of maps, how big a resolution do we think we want?

 

[NinjaCow64]

Further musings on a stone-age start:

There would be dozens of NPCs around players, representing rival tribes and city-states. Most of these can be easily dispatched and are primarily there for colour. As time goes on and players' local influence grows, barring hyper-aggression on their part or diplomatic blunder on yours, they will likely passively assimilate. Distant tribes will form their own conglomerates in relative scale to the players. The basic idea is, the early map will look like a patchwork quilt, and slowly homogenize as regional power centralizes.

Another thought I had is a vulgar fog-of-war: players always know where their fellows are, but until distant travel and communications become more reliable, NPC activity occurs in the dark. I keep track of all their machinations on a master map; you only see as far as your state has stable contact. T'would make New World scenarios a little more interesting.


And speaking of maps, how big a resolution do we think we want?

Hmm...how would the fog of war work exactly? If one person started in North America and another started in Asia, would they see each other? If so, would they see the NPC activites that their PC counterparts see?

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

For the purposes of not driving me completely batspit insane, yes.

 

[Tani Coyote]

Just put mechanical limits on contact. Not too hard. I did it with Sons of Mars I.

 

[Ailedhoo]

I look forward to making contact with the NPCs!

 

[Sonereal]

You guys can't go wrong looking at how some NES handle the "fog of war".

 

[Terrance888]

Yup. Especially look at BirdNES 2 and 3, and LINES II. BirdNES 2 and LINES II are both cradle fresh starts. BirdNES 3 is a Exploration Age NES with a redesigned new world and "private maps", with the main "New world" map a sum of its rumors.

 

[Double A]

Thorvald seems to think private maps are a pain, though.

 

[Tani Coyote]

Yeah, I can only imagine how tedious it gets to send each player a different version of the map.

 

[Double A]

Maybe if it was by continent or region? But hell, we'll probably just send each other the different maps anyway, so it won't actually matter.

 

[Tani Coyote]

This is why in Civ they say to sell your map to everyone when you do it. Cuz the AI will trade it to every other AI. So may as well get all the profit yourself.