Game Development: Credobility

[Amanda44]

Best update since pathfinding.

+ 1 ... I love pathfinding! When you have a row of cupboards you need to check in and you just slide effortlessly along them ... bliss!

[DDDsDD999]

I would like to develop the quest system significantly. Ideally, the quest-givers should have personalities, abilities, a conversation system by which you can interact with them to acheive goals and extract information, and the ability to tie together various, more complex, story archs of meaningfully related quests, based on the quest givers' relative likes, dislikes, and other relations to other quest-givers, and such. It's a huge project, and I'm not sure how best to approach it, but this at least creates a strong incentive to try.

Please make it so people can't just cut down all the quest givers if this is your goal. I remember early on people would build roads to them and you got these cool road networks with quest giver names. But then they just started getting cut down/chipped away and people just stopped bothering with them.

[algorithm]

Where can i find this credos?

[Granger]

Where can i find this credos?

Character window, one would guess.

[Scilly_guy]

Please make it so people can't just cut down all the quest givers if this is your goal. I remember early on people would build roads to them and you got these cool road networks with quest giver names. But then they just started getting cut down/chipped away and people just stopped bothering with them.

This! I did wonder about making the "spirit" transfer to another nearby tree/rock, or perhaps just have a new tree grow from the stump/on the same spot.

[Granger]

Please make it so people can't just cut down all the quest givers if this is your goal. I remember early on people would build roads to them and you got these cool road networks with quest giver names. But then they just started getting cut down/chipped away and people just stopped bothering with them.

This! I did wonder about making the "spirit" transfer to another nearby tree/rock, or perhaps just have a new tree grow from the stump/on the same spot.

Regrowing the tree would most likely be exploited (privatize it and you'll have an endless supply of firewood), so moving the spirit to an adjacent object would make more sense.
Especially should said spirit dislike objects that are claimed and travel a bit further in that case.

[jorb]

It would be cool if players could be incentivized to keep quest givers open, and protect them.

[loftar]

Please make it so people can't just cut down all the quest givers if this is your goal. I remember early on people would build roads to them and you got these cool road networks with quest giver names. But then they just started getting cut down/chipped away and people just stopped bothering with them.

I'm curious what experiences you have. In my area, I've only lost two quest-givers that I've had quests against, and the road networks and their destinations seem mostly intact, so in my experience this hasn't been much of a problem at all.

[DDDsDD999]

Please make it so people can't just cut down all the quest givers if this is your goal. I remember early on people would build roads to them and you got these cool road networks with quest giver names. But then they just started getting cut down/chipped away and people just stopped bothering with them.

I'm curious what experiences you have. In my area, I've only lost two quest-givers that I've had quests against, and the road networks and their destinations seem mostly intact, so in my experience this hasn't been much of a problem at all.

Lost a shit-ton of them early game and then I just decided to give up on quests. People were complaining early game all the time about this shit. We just stopped building roads to them, and I know a lot of other villages did to. Maybe with these new incentives people will try to keep up with the quest-givers, idk. But just getting them chopped down by naked alts and randoms is really tedious.

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[sMartins]

Very nice one!

For quest i suggest something related to the map coordinates ... you find the x coordinate, then the y, so you can find the place ... something on this line should not be too hard and giving fun and more sense to eploration.
If you are not sure to give or not coordinates on the map ... the reality is everyone already has them.