Topic: Building other things?

[nRage]

Too complex. Will's aiming for simplicity.

There might be something that lets you customize your tribal belongings... but it won't be that complex, if it exists at all.

-Craig

well, i just hope that there will be a game that lets you do this in the future. that would own

[Tarious]

Too complex. Will's aiming for simplicity.

There might be something that lets you customize your tribal belongings... but it won't be that complex, if it exists at all.

-Craig

Would require a whole lot.

well, i just hope that there will be a game that lets you do this in the future. that would own

[Scipion]

Once again I can't see every creature in the Galaxy being confined to using a spear? There's just no logic to why some of these things would use a spear with the way they are.

[Tarious]

That was a problem I saw. In the demo that was shown and I know it was just a demo, but it went from tribal to modern. I'd expect something greek,egyptain, medieval in between their.

To get to guns you need to have the bow and arrow first.

[Scipion]

He did speed up the demo so I imagine we missed those other parts, just so he could show us the City.

[Tarious]

hopefully they are in the game, it'd make a better experience playing and you can start military things and such after the tribal phase or even during the tribal phase.

[kushinagi]

really, should weapon making be simple? All primitive weapons either stab, bash, slice, throw, impale, and/or castrate. Merely figuring out which one(s) the weapon is capable of should be the only major hurdle.

[Voss]

i just hope i get to make my own evil looking rifle !!

[Scipion]

If the AI can make our creature walk, it's bound to be able to figure out what part of an item is most sutable for killing. Jus tlike it figureds out what limb to wield with.

[krjal]

I was wondering, after reading a post about bows n arrows, how the game might handle throwing/projectile weapons.

Say for a bow, will the game spontaneously generate an arrow? Will it need a quiver? Will any creature be able to use a bow? Somehow I doubt that but anyway...

Thoughts?

[Scipion]

That brings up a very good point. I thin kfor simplicity, just generating the arrows would be fine, it's kinda what they do for every other RTS.

[lemurbouy]

I really like the idea that different weapons allow for different personalities and cultures to develop.  Using a lot of long range weapons might incline a race to be more cowardly or more stealth based while slow, heavy damaging weapons like axes lead to higher aggression.  If they're simply for the aesthetic choice of the player, that's fine too but if we are using this Sporum as a way to consider all possibilities, this one highly intrigues me.  -leeman

[krjal]

I agree, there are many paths even these little 'extras' could be developed into.

I'd like to know, still using the bow and arrow eg, how the game would handle 'inanimate' objects interacting such as the quiver of arrows and the bow. Would a creature actually use a skateboard?

[Stromko]

There was mention of going via UFO to that other planet where they wielded Tridents, instead of Spears, so I think we can safely say that at least some items in the tribe-stage can be customized.

It doesn't seem implausible that fire pits and tents and all that could also be customized, just like in the Civ era you're making cosmetic changes to your city center but the game still knows how to interact with it because it's the same base structure.

Wasn't there a mention of the machine culture having glowing lights or whatzit on their buildings? That would suggest that you can place complex things, not just colors and shapes, on your custom content. So placing the particle emitter for a firepit isn't totally out of the question.

Huh, I wonder if the editor will need to have a system of checks on the editor to make sure content can't lag the crud out of people's systems if they make hyper-complex buildings or gigantic firepits that are spewing particles like a hose... but, Maxis didn't seem too shy about putting up lagtastic houses for Sims 2, such as a four-story bunker complex that could bring most any machine to its knees. The potential for content that could make performance suffer, might not even be a consideration.

[krjal]

I'm in no doubt about having customisable doodads such as spears -> axes etc.

Interesting point about performance but I still believe that because of the basis of the enigine it should be easily scalable depending on your configuration. Especially things like shadowing, emitters, poly detail and most especially animation detail.