Game Development: Magnifying Cook

[wonder-ass]

slight drift btw

fucking beautiful.

[loftar]

Does that include ingredients like rennet and butter?

No, it includes eatable things, not pure ingredients.

[Ants]

Wait, cave decay was a thing? I thought things never decayed in caves.

Not for objects. Items -- branches &c still decay away.

Ah, good. Please don't make objects decay in caves for a while! And if you do, please make the decay slower the deeper you go. It's nice to be able to mine out huge storage houses and build fancy buildings where you know it won't decay even if you leave the game.

[Dakkan]

Wait, cave decay was a thing? I thought things never decayed in caves.

Not for objects. Items -- branches &c still decay away.

Ah, good. Please don't make objects decay in caves for a while! And if you do, please make the decay slower the deeper you go. It's nice to be able to mine out huge storage houses and build fancy buildings where you know it won't decay even if you leave the game.

That's a good idea for eventual cave decay, the deeper you are the slower the decay.

[loftar]

That's a good idea for eventual cave decay, the deeper you are the slower the decay.

While that does seem kind of reasonable, I also think that caves should be less and less hospitable the deeper they go. I've generally considered such things as 1) not being able to Travel to Hearth from lower cave levels, 2) not being able to log out from even lower cave levels and/or 3) turning off permadeath protection from lower cave levels (possibly having Cave Hermit restore some of these). It has mostly been Jorb holding me back from it.

[boreial]

That's a good idea for eventual cave decay, the deeper you are the slower the decay.

While that does seem kind of reasonable, I also think that caves should be less and less hospitable the deeper they go. I've generally considered such things as 1) not being able to Travel to Hearth from lower cave levels, 2) not being able to log out from even lower cave levels and/or 3) turning off permadeath protection from lower cave levels. It has mostly been Jorb holding me back from it.

I could fully get behind option 3, if the scale of rewards for delving deeper were scaled up considerably to compensate the risk.

[jordancoles]

I'm going to fucking kill myself
ingame

[Dakkan]

That's a good idea for eventual cave decay, the deeper you are the slower the decay.

While that does seem kind of reasonable, I also think that caves should be less and less hospitable the deeper they go. I've generally considered such things as 1) not being able to Travel to Hearth from lower cave levels, 2) not being able to log out from even lower cave levels and/or 3) turning off permadeath protection from lower cave levels (possibly having Cave Hermit restore some of these). It has mostly been Jorb holding me back from it.

It seems like the difficulty of lower cave levels should come the content down there, not arbitrary limitations. More danger for the benefits. Another couple cave levels with drastically increasing challenges in the form of monsters and environments would be fun. But on cave object decay, the closer you are to the surface, the more similar the decay to the surface, always seemed more reasonable. Plus having deeper objects last much longer would be better for later discovery by other people.

[loftar]

not arbitrary limitations

The permadeath thing may be arbitrary, but I thought of the teleport/log-out limitations as highly thematic for the caves. I've long been a bit bothered by the fact that you can't "get lost" in the caves, or get stuck behind a cave-in, or similar things, and those limitations were intended to remedy that.

[abt79]

That's a good idea for eventual cave decay, the deeper you are the slower the decay.

While that does seem kind of reasonable, I also think that caves should be less and less hospitable the deeper they go. I've generally considered such things as 1) not being able to Travel to Hearth from lower cave levels, 2) not being able to log out from even lower cave levels and/or 3) turning off permadeath protection from lower cave levels (possibly having Cave Hermit restore some of these). It has mostly been Jorb holding me back from it.

Good on Jorb