Game Development: Criminally Thanksgiving

[Droj]

We've been developing, and here's what's new.

New Wall Type.
Fangorn burns tonight. Build me a Plank Fence worthy of Mordor.

9 hours 58 mins to go!

[darnokpl]

We've been developing, and here's what's new.

New Wall Type.
Fangorn burns tonight. Build me a Plank Fence worthy of Mordor.

9 hours 58 mins to go!

It is only fraction of time that you need to spend to build it

[Droj]

We've been developing, and here's what's new.

New Wall Type.
Fangorn burns tonight. Build me a Plank Fence worthy of Mordor.

9 hours 58 mins to go!

It is only fraction of time that you need to spend to build it

I know! just placed down a construction, planed, oiled and dry boards wth LOL

[_Gunnar]

This update is awesome

Does anyone know the soak of the plank walls yet?

[EnderWiggin]

Anyone figured what you can put into new equipment slot? This one:

[Gauteamus]

From looking at the Thanksgiving equipment pack on the shop, I would guess it is a necklace/scarf slot.

[Potjeh]

I think it's kinda weird that the popcorn recipe uses any corn.

Also, did you fix the tanning bug? I felt the leather to brain ratio was just perfect with it

Anyway, I think the crime change is good. But maybe in darkness you should've reduced the crime debuff duration? Pushing up the light levels on your settlement should be desirable, IMO.

[Darwoth]

37 charges of crime debuff, took 43 minutes to wear off after walking in a straight line directly north for over a supergrid. once i was that far away it was under a minute per charge, but getting that far is what ate up all the time.

issues......

1> since every item you open or use on a claim leaves a trespassing scent instead of just the initial trespass under the new system you get far more "charges" than you should.

2> there was barely anything worth raiding in the game before under the old system (for a semi developed character), since you have effectively quadrupled the time it takes to raid there is now absolutely nothing worth the effort. this is magnified ten fold when factoring in the fact that 19 of 20 spots you raid will be filled with low end trash.

3> this makes it impossible to attack a location defended by even one semi afk person, since the attackers will have to walk 3 states over to expire their criminal tags the resident simply emerges and fixes whatever they damaged.



maybe if there were horses etc implemented and those horses moved along 3 - 4x greater than normal movement it would be less of an issue, but as it stands simply walking far enough away from snooping a few boxes and lifting a couple items now takes three times as long as it did before and that is not factoring in the time to go back.

the atrophy rate on the charges needs to be increased drastically, trespassing needs to only give a scent on the initial breaching of the persons property, masks or something should be implemented to increase atrophy rate and a return to the old system (which was more than ample enough, even moreso now with new walls) would be the best course of action to take.

[Potjeh]

I think they just need to adjust the base values for different crimes. So trespassing should be negligible, theft should be managable, and vandalism should take bloody ages to wear off. Completely destroying a base should take a lot of effort.

Hm, what if vandalism charged up time while it was being performed, so the crime debuff duration would be proportionate to the hitpoints of structures destroyed?

[staxjax]

So basically, you are saying that it takes you 4x as long to raid a base solo than it normally would? Sounds like a good change to me. Hardcore raiding with only 1 or two people should be nearly impossible, as far as I am concerned.