Change the map up.

Started by AtomicHat, November 05, 2016, 03:28:03 AM

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AtomicHat

- When digging into mountains you sometimes open up random areas of open spaces. I think if you are digging into a mountain you are more likely to open up a cave rather than open sky. a new cave ecosystem would be needed. adding new animals like bats, crazy cave monsters, maybe some sort of glowing cave mushroom that could be used for drugs or planted to provide a calming light that reduces stress.
- Maps, every new map you make is pretty much the same. Just if different proportions. Instead every world you make will be different. One map generation would be really hot, almost the entire map would be desert/jungle. Then the next map would be an ice planet. Each world could have some sort of good effect and bad effect like a planet could grow plants twice as fast as normal, but this causes some sort of hostile plant to grow. Another will have gone through a nuclear war have have the nuclear winter as a constant weather effect. Day/night cycles could change per planet. On one cycle could be 40 hours of light and 40 of darkness or be some sort of perpetual darkness or day and would have different type of wildlife than all the other maps. the year/seasons would be different too. each season could be only 5 days on one map but then be 30 on a different.
- buildings already on the map when you start the game could have some items in them that require repair like an ancient power source or some sort of food replicator. On rare occasions an ancient item that adds a permanent passive buff to your colonies like a statue or something.
- more events would be a nice break from the raids and psychic ships. like maybe some sort of earthquake that would do slight damage to all walls and open up new geothermal vents. have some sort of meteor shower that would cause heavy damage to random areas of the map. adding blizzards or really heavy hail storm that makes it so colonist cant go outside. Having some sort of ultra scarab move through the map like the thrumbos. but it would be hostile if it has line of sight on the colony and be able to break through walls easily.

LouisTBR

Just to say, good ideas, but in future I would format this a bit better using paragraphs, spacing and some of the font tools to make titles. Currently it is kinda hard to read :P
Only in RimWorld is the phrase "31 Heavily-Armed Siegers are currently bombing your base" preferable to "50 manhunting squirrels are attacking your colony"