@o4kapuk said in Season #7 announcement:
Upper areas are teeming with resources, while the lower areas present a more challenging landscape
So this seems to be ~2/3rds 2 source rooms up top, vs ~1/3rd on the bottom.
Does this include score spawning more at the top, less at the bottom?
Does score choose a room, then a spot in the room? Or does it choose a spot from non-wall spots? That is, does a room with more walls get the same or less score than a room with fewer walls?
It sounds like you're bashing something you don't understand, while trying to create a competing product that you don't seem to have any progress on in the last 3 months.
Literally nothing in your comment there makes sense. The whole point of the game is that your bot plays even if you don't have the game open.
What is touch abuse? I've never heard of any claim bugs. By deals do you mean market? Market works fine.
IMO @o4kapuk should just delete this whole thread, you're clearly way out of touch. Again, I'm normally one of the first to go after the devs for issues.
It's an excellent game!
I think with Seasonals, Arena and now Discord the game will grow well.
Were you ever able to find anyone for this? Would be nice to get one last snapshot of slack
Did this ever make it into the game?
Sorry but in my opinion (as someone who often has a lot of opinions on game devs), the devs are actually doing a great job.
Seasonal is really the only path forward for World.
Arena is the future for the game to grow overall.
World & Shards are already in a decent place. Could there be more balance changes? Sure. But adding too much more to them just increases complexity in an already complex game. There are plenty of rooms to start your bot in. Even if you get murdered occasionally, your progress is your code, not your RCL. Even GCL doesn't really matter.
Per discussions in slack:
Portals should start rare/short range, and increase in frequency towards the end. This helps accomplish many of the goals I talked about previously for smaller maps.
Energy gets very abundant at some points. However, "temple" rooms and power creeps - the two ways to increase energy use - aren't very feasible in season due to the time limits lowering their time horizon. Should seasonal see the removal of the 15e/t cap at RCL8? Or incorporate energy into scoring (eg having to process it first like power) to provide a new sink?
A further idea - being able to change a symbol using energy. It would cost X energy and Y ticks in a lab reaction to turn one tick in either direction per the wheel. This would provide an energy sink. This would allow better solo play, while retaining co op as the most efficient path. Good decoder choice would still be important, as the further away on the wheel the symbol is, the more lab time and energy it takes to make compatible. With a good choice of rate cap on a decoder, it may not be feasible to force 5 different symbols into it anyways.
Finally, a lot of us want to see the convoy lifestyle that would arise from no terminals at all. What if symbols couldn't be sent thru terminal? This would increase the value of locality of decoders. I think this would create an interesting counterbalance to the "maximize remote sources" meta of MMO, which was amplified by the "maximize score gathering reach" of season 1. This would mesh well with being able to modify symbols - with a far decoder, do you pay energy to transport, or to modify?
Even prior to the amazing CGP Grey video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thOifuHs6eY) hexagonal grids have been known to be a better coordinate system for non-continuous grids.
https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/ covers that in depth
Arena has already gone in the right direction eliminating rooms & adding persistent objects, let's complete the trifecta and get hex tiles!
Obviously some debate over how much effort, etc but the long term health of the game will be benefitted tremendously. Squircicle coordinates introduce a lot of 'jank' to the game, and jank limits playerbases.
@Gadjung Read what I wrote. Not GCL 22. 22 symbols. I went on to state that the idea I was putting forward applied to whatever style of alliance secured their symbols - few big players, mix of big/small, etc.
@Bogden If players want a publicly hosted safe zone to learn in, they should go to a novice zone on shard3. That's why it exists. Attempting to create global co op is entirely in contradiction to what makes seasonal interesting - the competition.
@Bazsi1224 I think you'll find this mechanic better for avoiding wipes. Anything that gets added to push that further is going to be artificial and to the detriment of overall gameplay.
I think overall, it's perfectly fair to say that seasonal does not need to explicitly cater to new players.
I do think it would be interesting to have a rolling shard that resets every 3 months. No leaderboards. Relatively large map. No rewards of any sort, but very low access token entry that gives 'subscription' to that shard independent of MMO shards. Gives new players another option of a place to start out & learn. But, this would be totally separate & independent from seasonal, which is on a good track right now.
