It sounds like you want to turn Rimworld into a competitive RTS.
I could not be more against this idea.
I could not be more against this idea.
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Booze does all the work in forts. Dwarves are just booze exoskeletons.
Quote from: Playbahnosh on January 02, 2015, 10:08:30 PMAnd to continue the point here, the performance would decrease at a geometric rate. It's bad enough already with larger colonies; until serious optimisations are made, Z-levels cannot be a thing.
Z-levels have been requested countless times, mostly because it's a logical addition to the game. But it's much harder to implement than most people think. Terrain generation, pathing AI, the graphics engine, the combat system and basically everything else has to be completely rewritten to accommodate the new dimension. New physics engine for gravity and effects on pawns, objects, projectiles, etc. Revamp combat and cover mechanics for vertical line-of-sight. Not to mention extending the existing weather and temperature system for Z-levels... and fluid dynamics is not even in the game yet. Many people bring up Dwarf Fortress "that game has Z-levels no problem", and that's true, because DF was designed from the ground up with Z-levels in mind (mining is what dorfs do). Rimworld is using Unity for a baseline 2D engine. And while theoretically could be modified to include a sort of fake-3D with multiple 2D layers, the implications of Z-levels are way more far-reaching than most people can imagine. Basically you have to rewrite almost the entire game to do it.
Quote from: DrakePork on December 31, 2014, 09:26:50 AMWhy would you need any of that?
Maybe that the ships was more complex? that you actually built a ship you could live in and that stuff, so when you launch into space to a new planet it takes like 1 in game month for you to come to the new place and that time you can spend growing stuff on the ship and build on it. This would add like that you needed oxygen tanks, space suits, cockpits, and maybe even a new skill.