Dev Diary: Mad ramblings

[warrri]

yeah tbh i'm not that into the poison ivy thing, rest of it sounds great though

this.

[pandesmos]

yeah tbh i'm not that into the poison ivy thing, rest of it sounds great though

this.

Questionable Content is such a fantastic comic.

[niltrias]

I actually like the concept of the aggressive plant, but it seems a bit fantastic for the setting. The devs have said that caves are supposed to be a more fantastic, supernatural place than the sunlit world. Maybe rename it and toss it into caves, where it wouldnt stick out so much? I mean, if there are going to be trolls down there, I could see a killer plant.

[martinuzz]

I think the idea of forces rising up at the border between civilization and wilderness is really great, and original!

Also.. Moose!
Can we have chocolate too? Make chocolate moose?

[Kahim]

So you listened to my ideas on the dogs and the blood trail and the whole how it was ahrder to kill a animal with your hands(or a sword) than with a bow. Make this a update like now and ill be a happy hearthling

[Chakravanti]

yeah tbh i'm not that into the poison ivy thing, rest of it sounds great though

this.

Fail.

[KiT]

Considering archery, i believed real reason it shouldnt work on soldiers while working on animals is shields and armor. I am quite sure that people more commonly just block arrows with the shield instead of dodging. And with the "move to break the aim" system, it seems to me that large fights would just look silly as all the soldiers who are engaged in melee would have to run around constantly to dodge arrows. Looks silly and unrealistic, like, say, bunny jumping in CS.

Considering "dark forces" appearing as the civilisation grows, i'm more of a PvP man than a PvE man, so i'd prefer if more incentives and mechanisms to wage war were implemented. Of course at the moment we just dont have enough players to have anything even remotely resembling mass PvP, but still, i believe the best possible oponent for a player is another player. Maybe some kind of NPC soldier framework, allowing people to guard their towns when they are offline and generally have a larger scale combat. But thats for the distant future, i guess, so distant that nobody have any idea how everything will be turning out.

And i really hope that by the time you implement the new hunting system you will remember to fix animals being afraid of water.

[Nemu]

yay add more scenery sprites so that my 4 year old pc comes to a grinding halt.

I ran HnH on a 9 year old PC just fine, right now im running it on a 5-6 year old laptop. Other than the fact that it needs to be wiped sometime soon I do just fine with it.

running a game "just fine" is relative, someone who gets 10fps might think that it runs fine, then another person might complain that they are down to 20fps and its too slow, hell ive heard people say that its fine and when asked they said "oh 4fps" o.o
my game is getting down below 9 which is starting to make moving items around a bit tedious because i have to do it slow, waiting for the curser to catch up, but i could say that it runs "just fine"

devs have stated performance is unaffected by frogs, rats, chicken and rabbits... so i doubt any of the above would have an effect. maybe thickets and pathfinding

they are referring to the resources used to run the pathing and movment of the animals not the actual rendering of the sprites, which is a totaly different issue. i know that as my camp gets more and more dense with objects and my pc has to render more and more sprites that the frame rate goes down, also when i increase the window size to see further and having to render even more objects, again the frame rate goes down, so adding more sprites just to look at might make it look nice, but it will hurt the fps.

[Mopstar]

Mountains, generally, are ominous and bad places. A mountain disturbed by a mining operation... don't dig too deep and greedily in her seams, young hearthlings.

so is that just a bit of sarcasm or is it hidden fun stuff? Mines are already very valuable without the need of hidden fun stuff lurking beneath the ground.

[niltrias]

Mountains, generally, are ominous and bad places. A mountain disturbed by a mining operation... don't dig too deep and greedily in her seams, young hearthlings.

so is that just a bit of sarcasm or is it hidden fun stuff? Mines are already very valuable without the need of hidden fun stuff lurking beneath the ground.

Hehehe, you sound like a B12er.