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Difficulty Scaling
I believe the game would benefit from adding difficulty options during character creation. Options that will add extra challenge for those of us who want it. Without ruining the base experience for new players. What I suggest are things that affect the entire game world such as animal spawn rates, bandit spawns, average item quality in villages, average temperature and so on. All of which intended to make the game harder only. I think it would be a fair design decision to avoid adding anything that would make the game experience easier. Here's what the Difficulty menu should look like before you roll your character.
November 08, 2019, 10:52:26 PM |
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Snowstorms and Blizzards
UnReal World should have periods of severe weather to make winter properly dangerous and scary. Blizzards with their high winds would make freezing temperatures much worse and turn layers of clothes into more of a necessity. Right now a person can easily go through winter without worrying about the temperature much. Cabins aren't that necessary for warmth. Mechanically a blizzard would be a period where for 10 hours, or much more the snow animation is constantly on. With some random tiles in your view sometimes completely going white for a single turn. Visibility is reduced on the local map and global map. Temperatures drop severely and should go lower than whatever the minimum is now. The interior of a building and cave should provide the most protection. Shelters made up of conifer branches can still help, but you should require a large fire going constantly on the tile beside you. Frostbite on your hands, face, and feet would be a big hazard during the storm. Weatherlore will need to be updated for blizzards. Based on your skill, you will be able to detect if one is coming in the next day. Or couple of days. As you become more skilled, you can guess more details about it, like how herblore works. Like at 10% skill you can guess if you're on the edge of a blizzard or not. Maybe how long it will last once you're in it, with A LOT of room for error. At 30% you might be able to see a blizzard a day ahead. And so on. Perhaps it's not very realistic to accurately predict a snowstorm in the dark ages, but it would make the weatherlore skill more interesting and valued. I think it would be interesting to put all the features of a blizzard on some kind of Bell Curve using multiple dice. Making snowstorms with "mild" values the average and expected. But once in awhile you may roll very brief storms or very long ones that last a week. Some may have worse visibility and temperature, or not. This way not all blizzards will be the same and it will allow for more memorable moments where characters can become lost and stranded in severe weather. Certain months during winter should be at more risk for blizzards as well. Like the "Winter" month(December) and most others during the season may have a 4% chance per day of developing a blizzard. Center month(January) may have a 7% chance each day. I don't know Finland's weather cycles very well, so I don't know which parts of the year is most at risk for bad weather. This is just an example for weather chance. This would open up the way for more quests too. Like a questgiver in a village might ask you to go rescue a family member that was returning from a hunt or their traps. The quest could be open during the storm or afterwards for awhile. February 05, 2020, 07:57:45 PM |
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Things are going pretty well in 3.70b
The first village I found under this new starving adventurer allowed me to do some menial labor in exchange for some much needed supplies before I had to set out into the wilderness again, part of my reward being one of these fancy new fishing poles with an iron hook attached to it. Thankfully fishing poles are now dirt cheap in this version only costing a few squirrel hides and I was able to buy a handful of food along with it to get my character by another few days. Well the food went out fast. Fishing with a bare hook on the nearby lakes had been hit or miss since my Sartolainen adventurer wasn't much of a fisher to begin with. And with no other skills, valuables, hunting supplies, or even a nice trapping fence to use, I didn't have anything to put on my hook and starvation creeped back into being a daily threat. The best thing I was able to catch were a few roaches, if I was lucky at all, which barely give any nutrition for the effort spent anyway. Sharing my dwindling food with the spirits as offerings might have been a good decision though, because eventually I came across a lake with grouse in big enough numbers that they're nearly choking the sky and they basically fall into my lever traps every hour on the clock. Fish even love the fat I get off of the little birds, I'm reeling a decent amount of perches and barbots every day with even novice skills with grouse fat. So with a new supply of food every day(a wisely portion set aside for the spirits of course), spare yarn bought from the village, a bed of spruce twigs under my adventurer's back, and a view of the stars and changing moon phases every night. I like to report that life is going pretty well for this character. The new features are neat. 
June 28, 2021, 06:16:14 AM |
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3.70b Rescued Adventurer Hunting Village Livestock
Hi. I came across quite an odd bug in this new playthrough. I was in a seal-tribe village looking around and trying to find things to trade, and eventually left when I saw everything I wanted to. But I realized I hadn't talked to the villagers for any new quests. So I went back after a few steps on the wilderness map, and saw all the villagers were in combat mode for some reason, when everything was fine just before. Odd. The next turn, everyone left their combat state back into normal again. I ran into the center of the village to see what was going on, and discovered that the lost adventurer I found in the middle of the wilderness from several weeks prior, must have suddenly started hunting inside the seal-tribe's own reindeer pen. (I know it is him since I still have his quest log) He had a really easy time I think since the reindeer were trapped, by the time I found him, he was in the pen with two dead reindeer, skinning one, and had a puncture wound on his shoulder, from what I assume from maybe a villager attacking him. I didn't see the fight actually happen. From the arrows I found in the pen, it's also possible that a villager on the outside of the pen tried to fire inward at him, and accidentally killed one of their own reindeer too. It's odd that a "hunter" would kill two of these on his own and then decide to start skinning.  The good news for me is that I now have two full reindeer corpses to take home without anyone in the village caring. July 01, 2021, 12:53:24 AM |
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Re: 3.70b Rescued Adventurer Hunting Village Livestock
Good news. I did have an earlier backup of this character that took me to a save two days before this whole thing happened. I had my character rest in the village for some time to see if the battle would take place again, and it actually did. The hunter I rescued before came back to the village and charged the reindeer pen with his spear. Oddly. The rest of the village actually joined his side and helped to kill their own livestock. So that seems to be all what actually happened. Maybe they counted him as one of their own for being a fellow seal-triber. July 01, 2021, 01:22:07 AM |
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Re: How far do you travel at start?
I typically make do with what I have and spend time hunting and trapping in the surrounding area until I get a bit of animal products to trade. If there are villages though that are within a day or two's walk and I started that far away, I end up using my remaining food stocks to get back to civilization. That way I can trade my cuts of meat I manage to hunt without it all spoiling faster. Then that area becomes my base of operations until I decide where I really want to settle. You should be able to manage some kind of minor food source though within your first week, if not by hunting, then by laying lever traps around lakes or rivers with active wildlife. October 15, 2021, 06:21:39 PM |
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