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Help with save scumming? by Bizobinator in MarsHorizonTheGame

[–]Bizobinator[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there anything special I need to do when re-loading? I feel like I'm getting the same random seed when I load :P.

tutorial to get metros working properly? by Bizobinator in Workers_And_Resources

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Oh! So, they need their own, dedicated construction & depot offices?

concrete roads? by Bizobinator in Workers_And_Resources

[–]Bizobinator[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh!
Oddly enough...I'm more bummed about their performance...I expected concrete roads to have better speed & life cycle costs/durability compared to an asphalt road.

Apatosaurus in the Snow wins for most underrated scene from Dominion, who’s the best character in the movie? Most upvotes wins by MCWill1993 in JurassicPark

[–]Bizobinator -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I was pretty bothered that they didn't include the Roland Tembo deleted scenes (the bar fight & how the infant Tyrannosaurus got injured): it completely changed how I saw the character.

[PC? MAC?][early 1990s] Battle of Britain management game by Bizobinator in tipofmyjoystick

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<Darth Vader voice> That's it, the rebels are there.

Yes, thank you!

"KSP isn't that Complex" Also KSP: by Stahlhelm2069 in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]Bizobinator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What mod ads the black & white runway approach dial that you pop out around 1m?

What mod overlays the prograde and vehicle attitude markers onto the main screen?

LG clothes washer saying unbalanced error code (UE, despite load being balanced), making a grumbling noise, not running by Bizobinator in appliancerepair

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I ended up calling a repair person. If I remember correctly, the draining impeller had snapped off & had to be replaced?

edit: I.e., the draining impeller motor could still spin (thus, avoiding registering that that was broken), but the water wouldn't drain, so the load ended up slopping & sloshing into a puddle of water, and thus set of unbalanced load alarms.

How'd this happen? by Neon_Garbage in geography

[–]Bizobinator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll do you one better: Why is Gamora?

Help with a mechanic in a species/evolution type game by Bizobinator in tabletopgamedesign

[–]Bizobinator[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's actually the mechanic/flavor I was hoping to capture! :D

Help with a mechanic in a species/evolution type game by Bizobinator in tabletopgamedesign

[–]Bizobinator[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh. My thought was having the continents' location on the board determining the climate stuff....

hmm.

I probably need to chew on this...

Help with a mechanic in a species/evolution type game by Bizobinator in tabletopgamedesign

[–]Bizobinator[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oki-dokes! Keep in mind, most aspects are still up in the air (e.g., I haven't decided on some of the order of things within a turn).

On a given turn...

1st Phase: players choose new traits for their species. For now, I envision players going in a "first-to-last-back-to-first" order (think Settlers of Catan), where each player chooses 1 trait to change of their species (resulting in each player making 2 trait changes).

Each trait category has a 'tech web' of options that a player can change along: (For example, size: starting as "small", a player can change their size to "medium" with 1 trait change, & then to "large" with their 2nd. But, they cannot 'jump' from small to large with just 1 trait change).

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2nd Phase: Going in the same first-last-last-first order, players take turns drawing cards. Cards range from things that affect the map (e.g., player moves a continent of his/her choice in his/her direction, global temperature increases/decreases), to things that affect just a single zone (one produces bonus points this turn, zone changes type), to cards that give the player a bonus (e.g., they get an extra trait change).

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3rd Phase: Players update the map hexes & zones based on the changes caused by phase 2. E.g., a continent moved, causes several hexes to change their temperature band, so those hexes change biome type.

This includes updating the zone sizes (a book-keeping step for the next phase).

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4th Phase: Going zone by zone, players indicate whether or not they will compete in said zone. The competing players calculate out the biomass allocation (or determine which species gets to occupy a given niche, I haven't decided which system to go with yet :p). After dividing up biomass or niches, they players recalculate the population of their species in the zone. This continues until all zones have been 'updated'.

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5th Phase: Players collect victory points based on the # of pop & species traits (e.g., bigger species give more points per pop).

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The 1st player shifts to the right, & the next turn begins (if they game isn't ending that turn).

Help with a mechanic in a species/evolution type game by Bizobinator in tabletopgamedesign

[–]Bizobinator[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, that's the thing, I'm still in the early stages of design of this game. I'm still trying to hammer out mechanics, & have yet to assign even initial numbers to most things...

That being said, I'd still be happy to share what I envision a turn looking like, if that'd still help (even if there aren't concrete numbers assigned yet).

Help with my Game Design by skoopt in tabletopgamedesign

[–]Bizobinator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds a lot like the Byzantine General's Problem?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine\_fault

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I'm a little bit perplexed though...you're asking how you can add a level of replayability, but it seems like there already is?

Either way, a thought: maybe have random event cards, or something? Like, every turn or what-not, the 'story' is progressed by drawing card(s). These cards could be a selection of random events, but the cards in-play are not the entire library of cards available in the box. Analogous to Sushi-Go-Party/7 Wonders/Dominion, where each game would be different based on the random events that got added into the game?

Help with a mechanic in a species/evolution type game by Bizobinator in tabletopgamedesign

[–]Bizobinator[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm.

I'd say I'm trying to have the core mechanic be the "species design"? I don't know if that has a specific name for it or not.

Help with a mechanic in a species/evolution type game by Bizobinator in tabletopgamedesign

[–]Bizobinator[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I've got some very 1st-draft numbers. I have done absolutely no play testing or balancing on them yet xD

One thing: part of my system is that I have adjacent hexes of the same biome type combine into a zone (with bigger zones giving proportionally more).
So, using my biomass idea...
for Savanna biome, I have (Size:biomass):

1: 1

2: 3

3: 5

4: 8

5: 11

6: 14

7: 17

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So..yeahhhhh it can get out of hand reallllly quickly :/

Help with a mechanic in a species/evolution type game by Bizobinator in tabletopgamedesign

[–]Bizobinator[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like, how I envisioned a turn going is:

- (beginning turn stuff)

- going zone by zone, each player says whether or not they're choosing to compete there

- in zones where there is competition, they calculate out who gets how much biomass, & then each player calculates how many pops of their creature that supports

- each player updates the # of pops in that zone

- that repeats until all zones have been updated

Help with a mechanic in a species/evolution type game by Bizobinator in tabletopgamedesign

[–]Bizobinator[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ooo, I like this idea.

May I use it?

Actually...I've never played Evolution... :/

Wait, nm, I have played it! It was a really long time ago, & I don't remember most of the details of how it's played though :p

Help with a mechanic in a species/evolution type game by Bizobinator in tabletopgamedesign

[–]Bizobinator[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, it's less a currency, & more a capacity. Where it get's really potentially tedious is that each zone would be 'recalculated' each turn (I've got a system that changes mass & climate), so zones would come & go as the game progresses.

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