The Worlds of Kaomaris

I eliminated almost 100 specimen of Malik in a little over 3 turns. Even if it were to take me 8 turns to do it, that's 2 hours. Not very much time at all. 8 turns out of 3024 is nothing. I think it would be more reasonable for it to take about 50 turns per 100 specimen. It would make killing a person an undertaking, not just a few turns of playing with the other player.

I also think it's important to look at how little player-player interaction there is in the game. This is also probably due to the large map size compared to the players. Until a person reaches omnivore, it is beneficial to avoid people, then you can only interact for 8 turns? Seems pretty poopy to me.

I'm not sure how the Clan team game is going to work but I really like the fact that player interaction is going to be increased.

Donut

I'll join the queue for changing some of the game design on two important areas.

Donut wrote: ..... I think it would be more reasonable for it to take about 50 turns per 100 specimen(species?). It would make killing a person an undertaking, not just a few turns of playing with the other player.

I agree wholeheartedly with this comment. Although we discussed this at length a long time ago, I still believe that it should take more than a few turns to kill somebody. It should take a day or two of intense fighting, and it should be 2-sided, not one-sided as now. I had an idea a long time ago that if kills were less (say 10% of current kills a turn), but you gain 10x the current saturation, it would help people to survive longer, and have the dual benefit of increasing player interaction. I fully expect Al to give me a blast for suggesting this again, but I think it is important enough. I you don't like the suggestion then that's OK --- as long as something is done about it the quick death problem.

2. Death from inactivity.
I don't care if it's hibernation or we change the formula to reduce the deaths from starvation or whtehr we do something else, but I think we deparately need *something* so that players don't simply die if they don't log on for a day or 2. People have real life to attend to, and that includes being away from the computer for a while sometimes. A game should never be that demanding that their position will die after only 1 day away. I don't think many players will tolerate the game once it goes into production if that sort of thing happens to them. As I said, I don't much care what the fix is, but I think we need to do something if we care about the game. Any ideas? (other than hibernation)

Further proving Great minds join the Brotherhood.

Donut

Ive moved the answer to this into the WOK SP WISHLIST thread. Try using the appropriate threads plz.

MOJAVE just endd an hour ago. Seems I had the most fun again.

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