The Ghost of Christmas Future, II

[NaoWhut]

Instead of a smaller world, have player spawns happen in more concentrated clusters in several places on the map.

I have strongly considered something like this.

How about making the "clusters" large islands. You'd need a large boat to travel from island to island (thus getting to your friends if they're not on the same island). Idk, just spitting out some random thoughts.

We're gonna need a bigger boat.

ugggggguuuuuu

-fap fap fap fap-

The chaos would be magnificent...

3 psychopaths all spawn on the same island and
befriend eachother in a mutually assured mass
destruction esque agreement... while the
carebears are building boats the psycopaths are
already hunting them down or killing them with
animals. It's a bloodbath with the carebears in
a stampede trying to get off the island quickly...
but all the islands have psycopaths.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH YES.

Soon the carebears of islands would themselves
turn to psychopaths out of the whole experience,
and everyone is now forming shady groups on most
every island.

Oh god that would be fantastic

[Amanda44]

I don't see why people would think this affects casuals more than no-lifers

Casual players aren't going to bother playing a game if they can't play with their friends. Hardcore players will play regardless

i wish it wasn't true, but it is
at least I'll still have the forums
and a dead game...

I just don't see it that way, I'm a casual player, idk, maybe you are right and I'm just more adventurous than most casuals.

[krikke93]

There is a reason I said "large islands" meaning like maybe a supergrid or something. Idk, there seems to be something missing in this whole no-hearthfire-spawn thingy.

[burgingham]

But will there be a heightened focus on aspects and features that might lead to societies and factions forming? Right now small "towns" are the biggest thing possible, limited by several factors. Will you lean more towards keeping it that way or even limiting it further? Or are there any ideas for bigger forms of society like networks between towns, kingdoms and the like to emerge?

I think it's safe to say at least that we won't try to limit any such things. I think we'd like to encourage it, but as ArvinJA correctly points out, the real problem is that we virtually never use those mechanics ourselves, so it's not something that constantly itches us personally.

That said, I've had some loose, minor ideas on such things, so don't count on it not happening, at least.

Allright, thanks for the information and the best of luck with your further endeavours.

[jorb]

Allright, thanks for the information and the best of luck with your further endeavours.

The same. Always a pleasure to see you around these parts.

[borka]

Allright, thanks for the information and the best of luck with your further endeavours.

The same. Always a pleasure to see you around these parts.

same

[Avulsio]

Jorbtar I'm like 50/50 on whether you're trolling or not

Hahah! agreed

[RubyRed]

I do think any flaws in the new way of doing things, will be ironed out once they are tried for a while. Which means we need to let do it, then see how it goes. For me at first it wont matter much, unless someone kills me within the forst few minutes (animal deaths do not count in a new world, its just gonna happen.)

[SilverBull]

can we do away with people punching down brick walls and palisades with bare hands, and maybe make swimming more viable

[SilverBull]

i want to ask tho, is there somthing nice instore for us parinoid hermits?