Game Development: Theatrum Chemicum

[Mereni]

It seems like pumpkin flesh, garlics and bellpeppers are the only things that are defined as "any plant" that also are grown. (Except the white mushrooms and grass..)
Of these pumpkin is the only mass-producable item on a field. It would be a great relief if the devs could inlude the cabbages aswell. I will go for the pumpkins in the meanwhile.

It does seem odd since cabbage leaves can be composted like plants and fed to turkeys like plants.

[MagicManICT]

So can meat, earthworms, seeds,...

[Darkside]

So can meat, earthworms, seeds,...

Would be funny if there was no plant food the worms started eating each other

[dageir]

So can meat, earthworms, seeds,...

Would be funny if there was no plant food the worms started eating each other

12 hours after the last plant is gone from a worm, he starts eating the closest worm. They should be able to move around aswell.

[Scilly_guy]

Wormaries! ... and Worm Armies!

[dageir]

The name of the game could change to "Worm". (Pun intended.)

[Darkside]

So can meat, earthworms, seeds,...

Would be funny if there was no plant food the worms started eating each other

12 hours after the last plant is gone from a worm, he starts eating the closest worm. They should be able to move around aswell.

[dageir]

Hehe. I just imagined the entire game evolving around the use of worms for everything. Combat worms, farmer worms, woodchopper worms and so on.

[Chiprel]

Lets spice the things up.

[forge]

Nope, I have actually not graphed all the formula's in the game. Have you?

No, I don't need to. I know what the graphs for the various formulas look like because I've actually looked at the formulas and I've done enough graphing of various functions in my life I know what many of them look like. As much as I hated the homework, having to draw all those graphs by hand in high school has paid off. Truly, you shouldn't either if you've looked at the formulas and thought about them for more than a few minutes. (Note: Not sure anyone has gotten the damage formulas for combat, but they're essentially the same as previously with multipliers for reel and imbalance. They can be found on the Paradox Salem forums.)

I have looked at how much fun I and others have been having while playing, though. Does that count or do I need to run all the numbers first?

Well, this isn't the first time you've brought it up. If a "logarithmic curve" is so much superior, you should probably present some numbers as to why. You may not convince the devs to rework everything, but you might convince us and future game developers.

But, if you're having that much fun, there must not be much anything wrong with the current system.

I made this chart to help everyone understand the problem. I used all datapoints in my "logarithmic curve" such as bile stats and friends averaged into fun stats. Fun stats were pretty hard to gather though so I ran out of valid fun stat datapoints near the end of my graph enjoy.