Game Development: Princess Thraxyr's Endless Levee of Dreams

[loftar]

Why can't we leave with lifted objects?

That was just an oversight. I've committed a fix, which will be in effect after the next restart.

why random? could you instead make them easy to calculate where the next one spawns and at certain times so we have some competition.

We did consider some options on that theme, like making them "closed off" for a few days after spawning so that people can coordinate for when they open up, and/or perhaps announcing their presence in the area in some way (perhaps even indirectly, like via quests). Feel free to opine.

[azrid]

from 30 fps to 4 fps

[DreadDawson]

Why can't we leave with lifted objects?

That was just an oversight. I've committed a fix, which will be in effect after the next restart.

Here I was thinking it was to stop people from being able to carry all their kills out without the chance that somebody else goes in and kills the boss before they can bring out all the dead beavers.

[magisticus]

why random? could you instead make them easy to calculate where the next one spawns and at certain times so we have some competition.

We did consider some options on that theme, like making them "closed off" for a few days after spawning so that people can coordinate for when they open up, and/or perhaps announcing their presence in the area in some way (perhaps even indirectly, like via quests). Feel free to opine.

Maybe just make them more common? Don't see any fun/skill/challenge/satisfaction in spending hours of life searching for a thing, unless it is your intent that people don't search for them but instead just interact when they find them which we know is not how this playerbase approaches things... but maybe that would become the case if further content on a similar theme is added.

[ricky]

I would rather these events not be so common as to invalidate their existence completely, where people just pass them over. Don't forget that there's going to be a lot more of these dungeons coming as well.

I think maybe a lore-friendly way of seeing where the next dungeon is going to be would be cool and fix having players actively searching for them.

Realm of the Mad God does a similar overworld/dungeon system that is very popular. Perhaps instead of having dungeons randomly spawn you could have rare key/token drops which allow you to unlock randomly spawned dungeons. The downside is mob grinding to get keys, and then we're tiptoeing into that "stereotypically MMO" territory again.

Ultimately:
I feel there should be a way for discovering dungeons without having to search for them
I feel being able to enter them should be limited in such a matter that simply finding one isn't enough (keys, sacrifices, exp/lp costs)
I haven't seen how much regular material such as hide, bone, meat, etc. You can extract from one dungeon, but I hope it isn't enough to stop people from hunting in the overworld.

[shubla]

I think some quest would be a good idea. Like if you have explorer/warrior credo, you might randomly get quests for nearby ones.

[Dakkan]

I haven't seen how much regular material such as hide, bone, meat, etc. You can extract from one dungeon, but I hope it isn't enough to stop people from hunting in the overworld.

A lot, since some rooms will endlessly spawn creatures until you kill them all rapidly enough. I went through a few hundred last night at one point just to see.

I understand that they want to make it a challenge to clear the rooms, but there should probably be a secondary room victory condition after a certain number of kills.

[ricky]

I was thinking dungeon mobs simply shouldn't drop materials, and a chest at the end of the dungeon has a sizable amount of meat, hide, bones, loot. Etc.

Would allow players to focus on dungeon crawling inserted of "did I check beaver#345's quality?"

[MagicManICT]

I was thinking dungeon mobs simply shouldn't drop materials, and a chest at the end of the dungeon has a sizable amount of meat, hide, bones, loot. Etc.

Would allow players to focus on dungeon crawling inserted of "did I check beaver#345's quality?"

Would also solve the problem of an excess amount of cheap hides, fat, etc floating around.

Should be some extras, but if mobs are going to spawn in large masses, they should be worth little.

[Carnation]

what if doing a quest gave you a key and spawned one that only you could enter? and you could lock the door behind so you dont get ganked or some shit.