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MILF destroyer posted:Somebody explain why the industry (besides the guy at spiderweb) stopped making these types of games again? Eh. There's Eschelon, Sacred, Divinity et cetera. One of the bigger reasons for a while is it probably was harder to transfer controls to consoles.
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MILF destroyer posted:Somebody explain why the industry (besides the guy at spiderweb) stopped making these types of games again? (One guess) Outside of a handful of specialty nerd circles people will not read a 7-23 part series of novels where each volume is 500-1400 pages. There is a pretty large overlap between the people that read those kinds of things and the people that like these games. Its a large enough group to make money on, but not as much as shooter/rape/pillage games with no words. (Another guess) Related directly to that are consoles. Its harder to play these games when the controls are based on pulling triggers.
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Apr 30, 2014 13:46
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The increased focus on 3D, and the decline of Interplay Entertainment was probably also a part of it.
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Apr 30, 2014 14:02
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Wait, what happens to this place when there's a tide? Or slightly bigger waves? It's very pretty though
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Apr 30, 2014 14:13
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Maybe it's a lake.
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Apr 30, 2014 14:15
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If not it could be located in a sheltered inlet and the screenshot was taken at high tide? Oh, does the world even have a moon and/or tides?
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Apr 30, 2014 14:17
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fuckpot posted:Maybe it's a lake. It's a lot of waves for a lake. The post also tells you it's an ocean beach.
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Apr 30, 2014 14:18
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Disco Infiva posted:Wait, what happens to this place when there's a tide? Or slightly bigger waves? That was the first thing that came to mind for me as well. Maybe this planet has a smaller moon or none at all so tides are less pronounced. But yes, looks great. e: pun pundit posted:If not it could be located in a sheltered inlet and the screenshot was taken at high tide? I can't believe it, can't even get a decent sperge in
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Apr 30, 2014 14:26
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Disco Infiva posted:Wait, what happens to this place when there's a tide? Tides are rather complicated. There are several places on the Earth called amphidromic points where the main component of the tide is null, leading to a tidal range of a foot or two. Here's a pretty map of them: 
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Apr 30, 2014 14:29
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I don't think they will bother, but given their 'raising and lowering the river' bit from the demo, they could actually have dynamic tides tied to the day/night cycle. 
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Apr 30, 2014 14:31
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Haha, my post was made half-jokingly, but even then this is pretty loving cool.
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Apr 30, 2014 14:33
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Whenever I drink coffee I can only fill my mug up halfway or else the moon will slosh my coffee over the side of the cup.
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Apr 30, 2014 14:46
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Drifter posted:Whenever I drink coffee I can only fill my mug up halfway or else the moon will slosh my coffee over the side of the cup. That's what you get for not living in an amphidromic point. I had to pay a little extra but it was worth it
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Apr 30, 2014 14:47
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pun pundit posted:Oh, does the world even have a moon and/or tides? I just checked, and it seems that there is Ondra, god of water and the moon. And moon/water godlikes were shown in one of the updates. I think. EDIT: fixed fuck off Batman fucked around with this message at 14:52 on Apr 30, 2014 |
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Apr 30, 2014 14:49
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Drifter posted:Whenever I drink coffee I can only fill my mug up halfway or else the moon will slosh my coffee over the side of the cup. I heard about goons having fat asses, but I think that's a new record.
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Apr 30, 2014 14:49
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pun pundit posted:I heard about goons having fat asses, but I think that's a new record. I like big butts and I cannot lie.
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Apr 30, 2014 14:54
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Disco Infiva posted:I just checked, and it seems that there is Ondra, god of water and the moon. And moon/water godlikes were shown in one of the updates. I think. But we don't know if it's a tiny wimpy moon or a huge throbbing one like the Earth has (Earth best planet). ropekid please post the exact diameter and atmospheric composition (if any) of the PE moon(s).
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Apr 30, 2014 14:57
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ropekid, please troll spergs by their literally being a tide wizard who controls the tides and is responsible for unrealistic behavior.
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Apr 30, 2014 16:48
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Agean90 posted:ropekid, please troll spergs by their literally being a tide wizard who controls the tides and is responsible for unrealistic behavior. I wanna be a wizard of the Red Tide.
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Apr 30, 2014 17:06
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Apparently the answer is... the creature that built it was stupid:Brandon Adler posted:It's a xaurip hut... they aren't the smartest creatures. P.S. : Also, the areas shown in the screenshots haven't received the paint-over pass yet, in case you were wondering.
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Apr 30, 2014 17:25
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As far as most people know, there is one moon, Senn Beläfa (or Ondran Beläfa, "Ondra's Beloved", but most people just call it "Beläfa"). It is smaller than Earth's moon but closer to the planet and has a faster orbit. Tides in some coastal areas are more extreme than on Earth. Though uneducated people are unaware of it, there is also a second moon called Cawldha Dev (Glanfathan for "Black Runner"). It has a very fast and irregular orbit. When circumstances are right (wrong), Beläfa and the Cawldha Dev create what the Glanfathans call "Lovers' Tides", which are catastrophically destructive. During the Dyrwoodan revolution, the Glanfathans predicted a Lovers' Tide and helped the colonists use it to their advantage when the Aedyran navy attacked Defiance Bay (then New Dunryd). A huge number of Aedyran ships were destroyed and the ancient adra levee facing the Pearlwood Gulf was broken, creating the still partially-flooded district now known as Ondra's Gift.
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Apr 30, 2014 17:28
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I am geeking out about the level of detailed thought that's gone into the creation of this world SO drat HARD. I'm almost as excited for the campaign almanac as I am for the game itself! (Upon further thought, that hut does look somewhat sturdy and laborious to build for something exactly on the shoreline though. I guess it is high tide - they wouldn't have had time to knock it up before it got swept away otherwise!)
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Apr 30, 2014 17:40
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rope kid posted:As far as most people know, there is one moon, Senn Beläfa (or Ondran Beläfa, "Ondra's Beloved", but most people just call it "Beläfa"). It is smaller than Earth's moon but closer to the planet and has a faster orbit. Tides in some coastal areas are more extreme than on Earth. Though uneducated people are unaware of it, there is also a second moon called Cawldha Dev (Glanfathan for "Black Runner"). It has a very fast and irregular orbit. When circumstances are right (wrong), Beläfa and the Cawldha Dev create what the Glanfathans call "Lovers' Tides", which are catastrophically destructive. During the Dyrwoodan revolution, the Glanfathans predicted a Lovers' Tide and helped the colonists use it to their advantage when the Aedyran navy attacked Defiance Bay (then New Dunryd). A huge number of Aedyran ships were destroyed and the ancient adra levee facing the Pearlwood Gulf was broken, creating the still partially-flooded district now known as Ondra's Gift. Did the Aedyrans make the connection between the Lovers' Tide and their defeat? Or did they just go "poo poo, that was some high tide. Better luck next time."?
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rope kid posted:As far as most people know, there is one moon, Senn Beläfa (or Ondran Beläfa, "Ondra's Beloved", but most people just call it "Beläfa"). It is smaller than Earth's moon but closer to the planet and has a faster orbit. Tides in some coastal areas are more extreme than on Earth. Though uneducated people are unaware of it, there is also a second moon called Cawldha Dev (Glanfathan for "Black Runner"). It has a very fast and irregular orbit. When circumstances are right (wrong), Beläfa and the Cawldha Dev create what the Glanfathans call "Lovers' Tides", which are catastrophically destructive. During the Dyrwoodan revolution, the Glanfathans predicted a Lovers' Tide and helped the colonists use it to their advantage when the Aedyran navy attacked Defiance Bay (then New Dunryd). A huge number of Aedyran ships were destroyed and the ancient adra levee facing the Pearlwood Gulf was broken, creating the still partially-flooded district now known as Ondra's Gift. I'm going to pretend that this is a dialogue option for a high-INT PC in a conversation about cosmology. I'm also going to pretend that the equivalent for a low-INT PC is "M-O-O-N that spells moon!"
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Phlegmish posted:But we don't know if it's a tiny wimpy moon or a huge throbbing one like the Earth has (Earth best planet).
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Phlegmish posted:But we don't know if it's a tiny wimpy moon or a huge throbbing one like the Earth has (Earth best planet).
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CommissarMega posted:Did the Aedyrans make the connection between the Lovers' Tide and their defeat? Or did they just go "poo poo, that was some high tide. Better luck next time."?
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Mordaedil posted:Looked it up on wikipedia and I still wonder why Python gets so many copycats. As usual, there's a xkcd for that. rope kid posted:As far as most people know, there is one moon, Senn Beläfa (or Ondran Beläfa, "Ondra's Beloved", but most people just call it "Beläfa"). It is smaller than Earth's moon but closer to the planet and has a faster orbit. Tides in some coastal areas are more extreme than on Earth. Though uneducated people are unaware of it, there is also a second moon called Cawldha Dev (Glanfathan for "Black Runner"). It has a very fast and irregular orbit. When circumstances are right (wrong), Beläfa and the Cawldha Dev create what the Glanfathans call "Lovers' Tides", which are catastrophically destructive. During the Dyrwoodan revolution, the Glanfathans predicted a Lovers' Tide and helped the colonists use it to their advantage when the Aedyran navy attacked Defiance Bay (then New Dunryd). A huge number of Aedyran ships were destroyed and the ancient adra levee facing the Pearlwood Gulf was broken, creating the still partially-flooded district now known as Ondra's Gift. You said before that you didn't make stuff up on the spot and then integrate it in the lore, so I believe you, so you are insane for having thought of that kind of details. Please, do a lore dump on the Wiki or in some novels or something at some point.
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Apr 30, 2014 18:16
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Celestial bodies and calendars go hand-in-hand and just seem like sort of basic world-building stuff to me.
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Mordaedil posted:Looked it up on wikipedia and I still wonder why Python gets so many copycats.
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Apr 30, 2014 18:44
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No, he's suggesting Boo is a python clone.
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Apr 30, 2014 18:45
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Otto Skorzeny posted:No, he's suggesting Boo is a python clone.
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Apr 30, 2014 18:56
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Boo is basically there as far as I can tell because it's quite similar to python and is compatible with Mono so it's pretty much trivial to add in support, and python is nerd candy.
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xthetenth posted:Boo is basically there as far as I can tell because it's quite similar to python and is compatible with Mono so it's pretty much trivial to add in support, and python is nerd candy. It's because UnityScript is written in Boo, and the creator of Boo works for Unity.
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One Eye Open posted:It's because UnityScript is written in Boo, and the creator of Boo works for Unity. Ahh, interesting. Did he make it for Unity?
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rope kid posted:Celestial bodies and calendars go hand-in-hand and just seem like sort of basic world-building stuff to me. Magic always makes this kind of world building confusing to me. So often a world is in the eye of a giant, on the back of a turtle or a straight up dimensional pocket world of some sort. Did you line up a whole star system with other planets being given names and associated with gods, or did you just stick to the two moons and the sun?
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I haven't developed the rest of the star system, just the planet itself, the star, and the two moons. It's easy to give the impression that I've planned all of this stuff out if I only answer the questions to which I have answers but there you go, I just *~ ruined the illusion ~*.
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Apr 30, 2014 21:14
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rope kid posted:I haven't developed the rest of the star system, just the planet itself, the star, and the two moons. It's easy to give the impression that I've planned all of this stuff out if I only answer the questions to which I have answers but there you go, I just *~ ruined the illusion ~*. what the gently caress I demand a refund immediately
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rope kid posted:I haven't developed the rest of the star system, just the planet itself, the star, and the two moons. It's easy to give the impression that I've planned all of this stuff out if I only answer the questions to which I have answers but there you go, I just *~ ruined the illusion ~*. Can I be a star
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xthetenth posted:Ahh, interesting. Did he make it for Unity? Not as far as I know. I think he made it before getting hired.
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