GaraDasha wrote:AHONEN wrote:I'm also interested in what will happen if all hearthlings cooperate together to the one goal; wiping their world.
Since all worlds are roughly going to go through the same story(and population graphs), maybe it is a good timing to try a short and new way of playing, even it may turn out to be a failure.
If the "Terminator" of the world would have some sort of special ability or something like that (which should be something that gives fun probably so that people would love to be that guy), people would work for the ending to have the ability next world. How to end the world can be something like summoning and fighting with Cthulhu maybe but it should require brain, progress, abilities, maybe a small group but it 100% shouldn't be able to get done with bots. imo ^^
The only way my limited knowledge sees this working in a way that minimizes potential for bot abuse is to make the catalyst time gated, somewhat random and extremely difficult.
So an example would be something like:
After 6 real world months from a world's launch, some powerful being spawns in the underground, super deep, and is extremely powerful. The problem though is ai is dumb and cheesable, but there are some things that can be done to make this particular critter super tough. Once said catalyst creature is killed, that triggers the spawning of a building of some kind. Could be completely random placement or maybe by a Thingwall? I don't know exactly how this part would fit right if at all. That being said, the creature you had to kill drops a body part or something and that needs to be taken to the building which triggers the end of the world. Not outright obviously because there's a shit ton done behind the scenes but, that would maybe alter the world in some way that lets all players know what's going down and also sends some form of alert to Jorbtar that this crazy event has been completed and they need to kick off a new world. Or all that last bit could be automated. All this is just spun from a pretty spiffy idea GaraDasha had.