OK, Ageing City's, im going to start off with an example: You go to a planet, you find a small village of Avians. You buy go to the market, they only have small foods and almost no equipment. So you leave and come back say, 30 in game days. They have more buildings and batter things at the market. So basically it is evolution of the village. But then there is this: Say you go to the village, they are thriving with great equipment, then they have outrageous prices, so you get ticked and say "I dont need your stuff!" You kill the shopkeeper, everyone try's to fight you, you kill them all. Then nobody is in the village. Once again you come back in about 30 in game days, either the village is kind of crumbling, broken things, webs. GHOST TOWN, it becomes ruins. OR here is another thing. The village looks slightly different but with a new race that took it over! So they sell different foods/equipment and have various prices. Maybe even have a few quests on helping upgrading, or some other quests were village1 wants you to wipe out village2 So here is a run down: leave Village Alone for 30+ In game days: Village Gets Bigger Better Equipment Better Food More Villagers Kill Everyone In Village come back 30+ In game days: Option 1: Broken Buildings Maybe Skeletons Maybe Loot lying around Option 2: New race Takes Over Village Small Damage to building for first few days Different Equipment and foods and prices. 30% Chance of old race coming back, then war happens for the village, between the two races
I like love everything about it except the number of days, seems a little excessive and I would get extremely bored waiting...well maybe not it's Starbound, there is always something to do! Well you should maybe make the days variable like 10-35 or something like that.
Ah yes, maybe there would be different stages of the city, like small: 5-10 days: medium: 15-20 days Large: 25-30 days.
So what if you stayed in the village during the waiting period? Would you see the (d)evolution happening?
hmm that's a good point....maybe, you could actually see them carrying wood or hitting hammers, then after the night it just has more building maybe, or maybe it would be complicated and you actually see them creating the building.
That would be cool! Maybe hard to make for the devs though. What if while they were building one or two of them would come to you and ask for help (asking for materials, tools, a hand at placing certain blocks) and whether you helped or not would also affect the outcome like unfinished buildings!
This strikes me as the type of thing that would require you to leave the planet to have it happen, since I sincerely doubt that in-game NPCs will actually go around placing blocks to build things. Otherwise I like it.
This is true but it IS possible. Tiy says that a group of people will stay on this project after release and maybe they can do this after a while, I would love it.
Should add a fourth point to option 2, the same race comes back and fortifies their city and are now hostile to you.
Hmmm maybe, except im going to add onto what you said, So they come back, then a war happens on the planet for the village, two different races trying to take it over!
You made me think of an idea! There could be quests for helping to build the village, like gather resources for them...but as of building it for them...probs not
There could be a chance that you would come back and find looters ransacking the place. Oh and now that I think about it, this WILL be in the game. Remember when Tiy announced director mode? Well it allows the director to take control of any NPC (even spawn in their own NPCs) and have it act like a character, so, in concept if the director went with it you could easily do this, even without the actual players knowing you did! (leave a nasty little surprise for 'em!)
Could you command a village to do things should you get on their good side or even become leader(if you were same/friendly race)
This is the type of stuff I'd love to see in games. Here is a direct link for voting: http://playstarbound.com/suggestions/?p=view&id=6996
