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Volmarias posted:Looking at all of the updates, I would say this is one of the prime aspects of the game. I get that you can find odd stuff and make use of it, but I'm thinking more like turning a ruined temple into your city hall, or helpfully
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So just how colonial can we get? Full on iron (steam powered) boot? How much authority can I abuse? I must know, for science.
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Carnalfex posted:I haven't seen this mentioned so I thought I'd bring it up: will there be checks in place to give a sense of progression without frontloading difficulty or making later gameplay stale? Yes and yes. For one thing, it is worth noting that your distance from the Empire is inversely proportional to the amount of madness that you may encounter, and therefore the level of Excitement and Difficulty. For instance, "The Bay of Hugs" will be somewhat quieter than "The Mounds of Insanity". It's not quite a difficulty slider, but it's something. Essentially, the closer you get to the edge of the world (after all, the world is square) the more you are exposed to the cold vacuum of the Void. There is, of course, other stuff, and balancing will be an ongoing thing. I hope you are all looking forward to Terrible Betas. ScottyBomb posted:Totally random question - part of the game is about exploration around the colony as you develop, yes? So can you find things other than monsters and evil... things? Yes.
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nvining posted:There is, of course, other stuff, and balancing will be an ongoing thing. I hope you are all looking forward to Terrible Betas. Around Christmas last year I thought "2013 is going to be a great year for games!" I've come to realize, no it isn't, it's going to be a miserable, horrible wait for all the incredibly promising games that were Kickstarted and started being produced by various indie studios. Q1 2014 is going to be a great year for games. 
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A friend of mine, upon being informed of this game, has stated "all I ask is the ability to build fortresses, and then mock my enemies from the walls. With my ball lightning gun." Will there, in fact, be ball lightning guns?
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Orv posted:Around Christmas last year I thought "2013 is going to be a great year for games!" I've come to realize, no it isn't, it's going to be a miserable, horrible wait for all the incredibly promising games that were Kickstarted and started being produced by various indie studios. We're still planning on having things done before Q1 2014. ToxicFrog posted:A friend of mine, upon being informed of this game, has stated "all I ask is the ability to build fortresses, and then mock my enemies from the walls. With my ball lightning gun." Yes. Also, the Automatic Defense Tesla Coil.
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nvining posted:We're still planning on having things done before Q1 2014. Oh yeah, and I'm definitely looking forward to trying to break your game, but I've finally run into the problem I've been having with book series for about a decade now. All these great things to look forward to, so far away. Though to be fair I thought Halloween 2011 was about a week before 2012s, so maybe I won't notice the wait. 
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nvining posted:Yes. Also, the Automatic Defense Tesla Coil.
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nvining posted:Yes. Also, the Automatic Defense Tesla Coil. Although you seriously can't make me throw my money at you any faster, you really are trying aren't you?
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Cicero posted:But will they be as horrendously overpowered as the tesla coils from Red Alert? Please say yes. By "horrendously overpowered" do you mean "indiscriminate"? (The art department has just informed me that next week's production is CREEPY WEEK. I will keep you informed.)
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nvining posted:By "horrendously overpowered" do you mean "indiscriminate"? Provided they discriminate towards random electrocution. And you can mount them on aurochs. E: That's a thought. How far into weird steampunk are you going? Are we talking giant mechanical tanks/spiders, etc, or more mundane stuff? Orv fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Feb 4, 2013 |
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nvining posted:Also, the Automatic Defense Tesla Coil. Boy, I sure hope those can "malfunction" like the things in Dishonored.  
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Orv posted:Around Christmas last year I thought "2013 is going to be a great year for games!" I've come to realize, no it isn't, it's going to be a miserable, horrible wait for all the incredibly promising games that were Kickstarted and started being produced by various indie studios. 2013 is going to be a great year to wait for games  quote:I hope you are all looking forward to Terrible Betas. Don't you toy with my emotions
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nvining posted:There is, of course, other stuff, and balancing will be an ongoing thing. I hope you are all looking forward to Terrible Betas. Give me a super terrible Alpha, I really can't wait to try this out 
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In a perfect world, this game would have fully realized versions of all of Tesla's failed, incomplete, or supposed inventions---a better world for us all. Pigeon familiars/friends would also complete this.
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Nvining, I demand the ability to replicate the entirety of The Prestige within your video game. 
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ExiledTinkerer posted:In a perfect world, this game would have fully realized versions of all of Tesla's failed, incomplete, or supposed inventions---a better world for us all. Pigeons, pigeon pets, and an inordinate fondness for pigeons (the actual trait name is "Pigeon Fancier") is already in, and has been for a couple of weeks. There are various other Tesla-things in the design documents, including Teleforce. EDIT: Uh, what are the other major "failed, incomplete, or supposed inventions" of Nikola Tesla? I know about Teleforce and the Free Energy stuff, and all about the things where Edison would publically discredit him via electrocution of elephants in public spectacles, but what else am I missing...?
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nvining posted:Pigeons, pigeon pets, and an inordinate fondness for pigeons (the actual trait name is "Pigeon Fancier") is already in, and has been for a couple of weeks. There are various other Tesla-things in the design documents, including Teleforce. Didn't he also "invent" a couple of earthquake machines, that would pound the ground hard until an earthquake was produced? Or I just made it up/it was another mad genius that came up with those. I don't even know why you would want tho invent that 
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Markovnikov posted:Didn't he also "invent" a couple of earthquake machines, that would pound the ground hard until an earthquake was produced? Or I just made it up/it was another mad genius that came up with those. I don't even know why you would want tho invent that Not that I know of, but he did invent a bunch of things, and experimented with shittons of more stuff, and patented various stuff that laid the groundwork for hundreds of inventions or devices that came after him. Tesla was the Great Geek Ever. (p.s. gently caress Edison)
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Markovnikov posted:Didn't he also "invent" a couple of earthquake machines, that would pound the ground hard until an earthquake was produced? Or I just made it up/it was another mad genius that came up with those. I don't even know why you would want tho invent that He had a device that was basically an actuator (think a jackhammer without the hammerhead) which vibrated back and forth, and claimed he was able to tune it to a building's resonant frequency to shake it apart. This should be one of the animations that plays when you demolish buildings.
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Or a demolition upgrade. Reduces a building to rubble in a fraction of the time. (may cause other similarly shaped buildings to also collapse)
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Triskelli posted:...and said that he could split the world in two "like an apple" with just enough dynamite in strategic positions. But then which of us hasn't on a bad enough day?
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My favorite were the electric tentacle zeppelins. They were zeppelins, with tentacles hanging down from them, that would slowly drift through the city electrocuting everything. This was before airplanes, of course. He thought the idea would end war. :iamafag:
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Schizotek posted:My favorite were the electric tentacle zeppelins. They were zeppelins, with tentacles hanging down from them, that would slowly drift through the city electrocuting everything. This was before airplanes, of course. He thought the idea would end war. :iamafag: Is the stage in his life where he'd basically gone completely crazy?
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This conversation just makes me want enormous flying electric squidmonsters in the game. A captured specimen of the Aetheric Squid can provide power to an entire city for a year, but beware- Aetheric Squid anger easily and never forget a grudge. 
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Afternoon forecast: Partly Cloudy with a 40% chance of electric squid floaters. Remaining indoors and inside a Faraday cage is strongly advised.
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Volmarias posted:Is the stage in his life where he'd basically gone completely crazy? Birth?
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Schizotek posted:Birth?  You know what I mean.
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Yep, that's more of Tesla for sure. I think there's yet more in the fringes, but it has been a good long while since I delved the lands to marathon all the Tesla documentaries in existence in English---so beyond that it'd probably come down to an Afternoon Googling at Gaslamp or Wiki-diving to shore up all that wonderful madness. Who knows? Perhaps if you include the lot of it with tender care you can get a nod/shout out from the Tesla Foundation or some such as the edutainment game we all know Clockwork Empires shall surely be.
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Schizotek posted:My favorite were the electric tentacle zeppelins. They were zeppelins, with tentacles hanging down from them, that would slowly drift through the city electrocuting everything. This was before airplanes, of course. He thought the idea would end war. :iamafag: Well if there were no airplanes and you could manage to get your electro-death zeppelins in position in some innocuous fashion before dropping the zapping tentacles, it could sort of work in theory... Then you just say 'everyone be nice and friendly or we switch on the tentacles'. Of course, like any plan to end war it only works if you can find a perfect honest person to control the death button. Also you're going to need a hell of a lot of zeppelins. Wait, why am I even trying to figure out the logistics of this crazy idea? I think there's some eldritch madness-inducing miasma seeping out of this thread.
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I'm not even sure I believe you guys about the electro-death zeppelins. Also, having been told off by People for answering questions directly: be aware there *is* wacky stuff, but the specifics of Wacky Stuff may change from now until release. So please don't get your hopes up if, say, your death zeppelin does not make it into the game. That said, it's good to know that we all care about Tesla.
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Team Edison 4 lyfe. Good to hear on the wacky stuff front.
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President Ark posted:This conversation just makes me want enormous flying electric squidmonsters in the game. A captured specimen of the Aetheric Squid can provide power to an entire city for a year, but beware- Aetheric Squid anger easily and never forget a grudge. Yes, this please: 
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As long as things get crazy via the abuse of SCIENCE! And Things Man Was Not Meant to Know (especially combined) I will be happy.Orv posted:Team Edison 4 lyfe. 
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Orv posted:Team Edison 4 lyfe. Go electrocute an elephant or something
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Just want to be clear that was for dramatic tension.
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Volmarias posted:Go electrocute an elephant or something Better yet, save the elephant and just electrocute yourself
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nvining posted:Also, having been told off by People for answering questions directly: be aware there *is* wacky stuff, but the specifics of Wacky Stuff may change from now until release. So please don't get your hopes up if, say, your death zeppelin does not make it into the game. 
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Today's blog post: http://www.gaslampgames.com/2013/02/06/shrub-week/ Shrub Week! Please enjoy all the shrubs. (also, the new website for Dungeons of Dredmor if you haven't seen it already.)
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