8th July - Traveling through space and time!

Discussion in 'Dev Blog' started by mollygos, Jul 8, 2015.

  1. Ordona submitted a new blog post:

    8th July - Traveling through space and time!

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  2. Crystan

    Crystan Maverick Hunter

    Given the fact that the player have been probably cloned already over 100 times - not so spooky if you ask me. :D

    Anyway, nice to see that the NPC interaction could result in some really interesting stuff. I wonder if they can even teleport to your ship or use the destinations you have in your bookmark list.
     
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  3. SecretlyRiot

    SecretlyRiot Void-Bound Voyager

    Judging by the polite amount of vomit I would judge that it was, more or less, cloning. However that third lung should come in handy later.
    Glad to see everything progressing nicely though (still super psyched by the whole snow pile up thing).
     
  4. Retr0

    Retr0 Pangalactic Porcupine

    Brain... Hurts... ><
     
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  5. GenoMech

    GenoMech Cosmic Narwhal

    NPCs......using teleporters......possibly teleporting on to my ship......sitting in my captains chair.......i'm stranded till they move
     
  6. Varixai

    Varixai Hard-To-Destroy Reptile

    Healthire posted a GIF of what happens when NPCs try teleporting without reading the manual: https://twitter.com/healthire_/status/618811838315237376

    Some other news:
    Last night 2 more critters were added, a Yeti that spawns on Snow planets and a "Cliff" critter that spawns in Alpine mini-biomes (on Snow planets). Cliff seems similar to a Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep.

    They also added Seismograph and a Snow Distress Beacon, which Katzeus added to the wiki. I'll be adding the critters soonish.

    Other than that it was more work on the Underground Maze, Snow microdungeons, and the cave generation from yesterday's blog. Metadept actually clarified some things about the cave generation this morning:
    On the subreddit:
     
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  7. Pilchenstein

    Pilchenstein Ketchup Robot

    I'm really psyched for this update but will all of this new NPC goodness work with existing NPCs? Or will our town's guard still be trapped in a basement, unable to figure out stairs, shouting "YOU LOOK STRONG WE'RE FRIENDS NOW!" at passersby for all eternity?
     
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  8. Retr0

    Retr0 Pangalactic Porcupine

    Control is key...
     
  9. demanrisu

    demanrisu The Original Agaran Menace NPC

    Molly, please. You'll give the children nightmares.
     
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  10. justbeast

    justbeast Industrial Terraformer

    Waaait a second. The NPCs will use our teleporters? To go where? (The video in the post doesn't make it clear, at all...)
    Is this just decorative behavior, or will they have access to the same network of teleporters that we do?
     
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  11. Unclever title

    Unclever title Cosmic Narwhal

    Seismograph: Glitch Description: "Informed. This device is measuring local atmospheric levels"

    Apparently not as well informed as he thinks. Or perhaps the Seismograph thinks it's a barometer or something.

    Also it would be awesome/immersive if the ship computer could pick up the signal of those Distress Beacons either when going to that planet or maybe even from the stellar navigation menu. Probably best if restricted to when in orbit around a planet, otherwise you'd have a method for detecting one specific type of mini biome. Unless the ability to detect such things is planned further in the game.
     
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  12. Magical_Dinosaurs

    Magical_Dinosaurs Seal Broken

    I like the face he makes when he's getting ready to tp and then after. It's like :DD that was fun! :DD
     
  13. RainDreamer

    RainDreamer Existential Complex

    Where are they going, though? If they are going to the outpost, I think it would be cool if we see them there hanging out with other NPC. Or maybe they are doing their own little adventure. In that case I hope they give us some loot to pay rent. Or even better, maybe we get to meet them on our travel by a % chance, and they would follow us for a while to adventure! As long as they are not following us to their doom, of course. We need them to pay rent.

    Talking about rent...I really hope we can charge them fee when we give them extra services and stuff like that. That teleporter is not cheap!
     
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  14. Varixai

    Varixai Hard-To-Destroy Reptile

    Look at the wiki page again, that's just a copied placeholder.


    And yea, like many others have said, it would be nice to know how this is going to work. Where do the NPCs teleport? Right outside their structure? To the player's ship? A random planet from your bookmarks?

    Would be nice to have some control over NPCs teleporting and flipping switches. Either locking them out or selecting where they teleport.
     
  15. BaTTaLioN CHaoS

    BaTTaLioN CHaoS Void-Bound Voyager

    smells like a reference to "The Prestige" (2006), in which the bait was already used.

    Simple to solve, put some security measures in place so they cant use it (like 2 buttons that are necessary to open the cockpit door)
     
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  16. Auraknight

    Auraknight Weight of the Sky

    That comic fucked me up.
    jeezus.
     
  17. Daldril

    Daldril Subatomic Cosmonaut

    Oh how I love the fact, that we wont stumble into half-open caves every other "screen". But at the sametime, is it possible to generate at least some natural occuring cave-entrances? Not only man made caves like the mine on the starting planet but like caves which serve as houses to some scary monsters?
    (http://agrandesrasgos.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/fingals_cave_entrance_staffa.jpg f.e.)
     
  18. kantey

    kantey Void-Bound Voyager

    Did that NPC vomit after he was teleported?
     
  19. Will Liferider

    Will Liferider Ketchup Robot

    So what is the functionality of the teleporters in regards to NPC's? Or are they just to look cool?
     
  20. glasspug

    glasspug Phantasmal Quasar

    Only Chucklefish can write a post with a video of someone puking & tell about how they may be murdering everyone, yet end their post with an exclamation mark.
     

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