Stomping ground

[jorb]

Have considered this before, but I'm not sure we have any good way of implementing it.

[shubla]

Have considered this before, but I'm not sure we have any good way of implementing it.

Could be just a counter that each tile has that increases when player walks over the tile and decreases over the time until its 0. If its more than some certain treshold, the tile would change into stomped tile.

[loftar]

"A counter that each tile has" is not a trivial addition, RAM-wise.

[Ysh]

"A counter that each tile has" is not a trivial addition, RAM-wise.

What if this thing just happen along roadsign. If road is use with enough frequent per time unit, then some tile between road sign become stomped.

[Granger]

"A counter that each tile has" is not a trivial addition, RAM-wise.

According to what you wrote here I would say that ~10GB more for the map shouldn't make that a big of a difference.

[loftar]

According to what you wrote here I would say that ~10GB more for the map shouldn't make that a big of a difference.

That's perhaps one thing, but it's another thing when it's 10 GB for each such mechanic added. Also I was speaking about disk usage in the linked post, not RAM usage.

[Granger]

That's perhaps one thing, but it's another thing when it's 10 GB for each such mechanic added.

My expertise on creating space efficient data structures (stemming from coding on machines of the past where resources were still scarce) is for hire

[loftar]

To be sure, I'm not saying it cannot be done, I was just saying I didn't want to do it in that particular way.

[synaris]

how about if an area remains unloaded for a long period of time? how hard is that on the disk/ram?

[Luanes]

What if you use the decay hits for it too? Each time you step on the floor you mark as "stepped", when the decays hit the ground it would increase the "Stomping level" by a chance ( like 70% increase the stomp level, 25% keep, 5% recover) . Make 3- 4 levels to effectively stomp the ground?