Digging the frog merchant. Glad he's got his own shop instead of a tiny bag of holding. Maybe fossils next yes please?
But what about the walking mechanic!?! I still can't spelunk or platform if my life depended on it!!!!!??????????
To clear something up about the NPC example in the post. NPCs are not necessarily planned to have text dialog with each other in the game. Behavior trees have nothing to do with dialog specifically, but is an AI system for controlling all behavior. Wandering, sitting, combat, etc. Behavior trees come with a lot of good stuff, but one challenge using them is coordinating several NPCs on the same tasks. Such as 2 NPCs chatting, or a bunch of NPCs cooperating to fight a player. For the last few days I've been working on a system for doing this. The point of the gif is not that they are saying text to each other, but that they are interacting with each other. It's not an amazing achievement, but I thought the conversation was funny!
Actually, I did... But I already posted twice, and was to lazy to post again. ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY GEORGE!
Hello, I have two questions for you ... - When new update will can be available (last update : 8th may) ? - When devs will speak of a new hunger system ? I think, it's a bit forgotten !
I really would enjoy that nerf on NPCs, them being able to take metaphorical nukes and fire to no end got rather annoying. Floran/Hylotl changes would be acceptable if more bigot ones were added. EX: all the older folks would hate the other, yet younger folks would be cautious or friendlier. Really not liking that refinery nerf, it was fine before. It seems a tad pointless unless you mine massive entireties of planets. Also, picks/drills need a durability buff. Their build speed is fine, but these things shouldn't be made of glass. (I could see silver/gold/platinum being feeble, but maybe iron/steel/titan/etc. can be added and be useful?)
once again i feel like they are confusing randomness with originality and creativity. Frogs that talk in space and sell stuff? sure, that could be creativity, if a theme or a style was built around making that fit into the game. Frogs that sell stuff in space for the sake of 'haha look at the funny talking frog. aren't we hilarious and original" doesn't make sense. it seems to me that starbound is going for a hitchhikers guide to the universe atmosphere and style in the game. the difference is that hitchhikers guides humor, while sophomoric at certain parts, held an overall charm and could still be sophisticated. The entire "humor" here is funny looking animals with funny hats. It lacks any charm, its been done a million times before, and it doesn't have any sophistication to it. Overall, not pleased with this posts content. PS and to all the people who think it IS sophisticated because he's wearing a fez and that's obviously a nod to Dr Who, copying a joke from a tv show is about as lowbrow as it gets.
Well, why should there NOT be giant talking frogs with fezzez in an infinite universe? (I know the universe isn't actually infinite, but the idea would be that it is)
I appreciate your feedback, but I do think you may be reading a little bit too far into it? It's not really meant to be funny or sophisticated or a nod to anything, it's just meant to be a cool frog in a hat.
Ah, I understand a lot better now. Thanks for clearing that up. In which case I wish you luck developing these behavior trees which I now understand yes definitely. I look forward to seeing how lively you can make colony environments in this manner.
