Game Development: Creamy Crop Circle

[jorb]

We've been developing, and here's what's new.



New Implementations
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• Added "Crop Circle", buildable. A Crop Circle increases the local Quality Cap for all crops by a base of 10 points, modified by the quality of the salt and leaves used to build them. Crop Circle effects stack, and you can build more than one. Crop Circles disappear in the winter.

Key Fixes
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• Archery now takes combat cooldown into consideration, meaning that you cannot fire a ranged weapon while a combat cooldown is active.

Small Fixes
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• The animation for firing a ranged weapon should now take precedence over the animation for drinking. May have had sideffects elsewhere, so do report such if you find them.
• Rabbits now have proper avatar cameras.

As always, if you liked what we did here: Support the patch.

Today's Patch Items, for the fair price of $9 is the "Ice Cream Top"

$9 I scream, for ice cream, and, dressed in the Ice Cream Top, you look all set to deliver the goods! Cold treats abound!

All Gold & Silver subscribers have been awarded the "Ice Cream Top". free of charge.

In the Pipe
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• We are working on a slightly bigger system. Hoping to push next week.
• Loftar is working on implementing GPU side mesh animations for the client.
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Enjoy!

[ekzarh]

Mageeeks!!!!
Did not get - does it provide a boost to quiality boost of previous crop grows. Let's say I got +2 at replanting. Will I get +12 if a crop circle active nearby?

[Enjoyment_2]

"for all crops" in what radius?

[loftar]

Let's say I got +2 at replanting. Will I get +12 if a crop circle active nearby?

It boosts the local quality cap, not the quality growth rate.

"for all crops" in what radius?

All crop types (rather than being specific for, say, the barley quality cap or similarly). The radius is fairly large, roughly 15 minimap grids or so, but decreasing from the center towards the edges.

[Artemiswhb]

Added "Crop Circle". A Crop Circle increases the local Quality Cap for all crops by a base of 10 points, modified by the quality of the salt and leaves used to build them. Crop Circle effects stack, and you can build more than one. Crop Circles disappear in the winter.

Let's add bandaids on top of a system that's literally a bandaid for a broken underlying system. When does the bandaid-ception end!? Please just get rid of the crop quality cap, no one sane and self-respecting is going to go out there to look for better quality nodes for weeks to gain that sweet sweet +5 quality on turnips Crop qualities aren't even a major problem in the world and if anything they help keep the game going, hitting that cap 4 months into the game when a world is probably gonna last another 4-5 months after that is no fun at all and just cripples the game

[lordgrunt]

Great, another mechanic that benefits botters.
Why "creamy" tho...

[Enjoyment_2]

also - what does this circle changes? if anyone can build it to up local cap at the same amount - it solves literally nothing - just another wasted week

[CSPAN]

That is indeed an odd addition. Useful for some I am sure.

[jorb]

just another wasted post

Truer words were never spoken!

[valeriesusanne]

I'm confused, too. Do you build a crop circle? How? Or, how are they generated?