Game Development: Removed Grievous Damage From Ants

[jorb]

I also thought of small areas inside caves that can be excavated using the dungeon keeper model. Some tiles can be excavated for gemstones, and disappear, while others stay forever but have an extremely low yield. These would of course have quality.

[jorb]

Crafting with gems could have a decent chance at failing, depending on skills and industry/nature setting, favoring industry.

[jorb]

All clothing should suffer decay, wear and tear, and be possible to repair.

[jorb]

Pines should yield more wood.

[Alkarym]

wow jorb yer on fire!! i like the cave and gem idea but would you make it so you can find low traces of metal as well?

[Leonard]

Sounds pretty cool, but gems should be a finite ressource, because making them infinite really dumps their value. Or are they intended to be cheap?

Edit: and regarding swimming: You could make it very well into some fun skill, just make the rivers more hazardous, for example with dangerous currents. This would make boating more challenging too.

[jorb]

The infinite pillars would not yield high Q gems, unlike the finite ones. The same model *could* potentially be extended to mines as well in one way or the other.

[jorb]

As a god, I can lift boulders. I look so cool.

[Leonard]

Well then yay, a new ressource. Some low quality spot in other mines sounds decent, so you dont have to waste your "good" metal for repairing. But please dont make mines more common, it would encourage isolation even more -.-

Also, I edited my post above.

[jorb]

Bog ore could potentially work in a similar way. You have a "seam" object that generates bog ore tiles around it. You can dig from the seam itself, but the seam will only generate new exhaustible tiles if its quality is maxed out.