Game Development: Kicksleddin' on Thin Ice

[loftar]

Getting your siege engine shot down by archery towers immediately after breaking through the first wall of a palisade layer is what makes siege truly impossible.

Why is it that you don't take down the archery towers with catapults?

[blinx]

Now we just need to tame wolves and get ourselves some dogsleds. Iditarod anyone?

[jordancoles]

Neat

[iamahh]

drop a meteor and film the sled-pocalypse, sled is fun and chaotic, its perfect

[bmjclark]

Just popping in to remind people that this game was actual at it's most popular when siege was basically impossible against anyone with more than 6 IQ (much like now) in w5-7. That is all, carry on with your autism ants.

[ricky]

• Pickaxe is now required for quarrying stone from overworld stone tiles. Proper animation used.

okay, I GUESS.

could we at least be able to quarry rocks with an axe at half speed/half quality? rock patches are an early source of pavement material, otherwise its boulders and it can be difficult to get enough boulders of the same color.

[iamahh]

could add option to attach bell to sled, or some other noisy stuff

[Ants]

Just popping in to remind people that this game was actual at it's most popular when siege was basically impossible against anyone with more than 6 IQ (much like now) in w5-7. That is all, carry on with your autism ants.

I know nothing about legacy siege, but I assumed it was easier. I remember many people being afraid of raiders. Wasn't palibashing a thing back then?

Getting your siege engine shot down by archery towers immediately after breaking through the first wall of a palisade layer is what makes siege truly impossible.

Why is it that you don't take down the archery towers with catapults?

From what I understand, it's because if the defenders have built their base properly the catapult will be shot down before getting the chance to fire. I PM'd you a more detailed answer, hopefully it helps.

drop a meteor and film the sled-pocalypse, sled is fun and chaotic, its perfect

Maybe next world. Unfortunately, meteors haven't been PVP events for several months now.

[NeoBasilisk]

Palibashing was a thing yes but for that very reason everyone had brickwalls as soon as it was viable. Having just a palisade after the world was more than a few months old was like having no wall at all.

[bmjclark]

Just popping in to remind people that this game was actual at it's most popular when siege was basically impossible against anyone with more than 6 IQ (much like now) in w5-7. That is all, carry on with your autism ants.

I know nothing about legacy siege, but I assumed it was easier. I remember many people being afraid of raiders. Wasn't palibashing a thing back then?

No one had palisades. Everybody built a brickwall, which is exactly what would happen if that system were implemented here. Most sieges that actually happened were bug jumps or bug rams