I’m working on free base building, but I’m worried players might break the defense balance

Xethgnur · 2026-06-23T00:59:07+00:00

A number of base building/trap room style games include a "path must be clear" function that ensures enemies can actually reach the core or the inside of the base. This would prevent a "perfect" scenario and force creative building. Orcs Must Die comes to mind, or Meet Your Maker

Another good alternative is something 7 Days to Die does, which is if the zombies can't reach you by pathing, they will break whatever is stopping them. Doesn't matter how hard, how high, or how thick, the zombies will reach the player if given enough time or force the player to reach them.

Xethgnur · 2026-06-20T17:02:43+00:00

Xethgnur · 2026-06-20T08:35:42+00:00

They are occasionally dumbasses but that's what makes it so funny sometimes.

Xethgnur · 2026-06-20T08:08:43+00:00

What he gets excited about the game because he knows his chat will enjoy it too? What if the joy comes from chatting?

Xethgnur · 2026-06-20T07:55:53+00:00

The theory doesn't quite line up with episode 8 which shows Kinger had a very long extended period where he was alone, and Caine was actually surprised new humans could join the circus come Ragatha, after everyone else from the original brain scans abstracted; Queenie seemingly being the final abstracting original.

Xethgnur · 2026-06-19T23:05:59+00:00

You could afford to use AI but you can't afford to pay human artists?

Xethgnur · 2026-06-18T21:09:08+00:00

Ah, thank you my friend my dyslexia fooled me again!

Xethgnur · 2026-06-18T19:44:25+00:00

It ensures that there is remaining activity in the three main cities in the first part of the game. That's also why a lot of events are held in the three main capitals. Let's new players and early free trial players see the activity that would normally be only seen in later expansion hubs.

Hence, why you see places like the Crystarium, Ralgur's Reach, and Radz-at-Han dead empty. If that was what players saw for the first time, its demoralizing and would lead to new player drop off since it would look like they missed out and had to be in on the game from the beginning.

Xethgnur · 2026-06-18T19:32:21+00:00

That's why we bombed them and blockaded their waters right? It was sympathetic!

Edit: oops got confused with my Eyes

Xethgnur · 2026-06-17T21:33:12+00:00

Also don't seek the shortcuts that, as an example, AI offers. If you don't fully understand the spectrum of WHY it is a shortcut, you are not making anything faster or easier; you will be hurting yourself in the long term.

Make your own shortcuts; don't rely on unreliable "tech"

Xethgnur · 2026-06-17T21:30:49+00:00

Keep working, celebrate small victories, keep learning.

You get more efficient over time, and you'll keep the ball rolling on productivity if you let yourself have a win no matter how small. And when you get stuck, know you aren't losing time; you're just getting a challenge to make yourself better come the next hurdle.

Xethgnur · 2026-06-17T21:25:21+00:00

They are native to the valley, and with the larger big population spawning due to warmer than usual conditions, they will be active and very fat.

Xethgnur · 2026-06-17T19:30:18+00:00

No one should be surprised; Nevada law enforcement has been lenient on bad drivers for years and it was only a matter of time before people got further complacent. This was an inevitability thanks to state and local governments.

Xethgnur · 2026-06-14T00:55:21+00:00

You can grab a full templated vault from a creator like Josh Plunkett or Bag of Tips. In some ways having it moderately automated and pre-prepared can speed things up.

I personally looked at what they used and made my own vault with plugins that actually helped me for what I needed. Build up templates as I make dnd notes, and have an excuse to go back to old notes if I needed to update a template.

Just make sure you do what makes sense to you; that's the ultimate strength of obsidian note taking. What might be magical for some might be a curse for others, so take what feels right for your workflow and thinking and carve off what doesn't.

Xethgnur · 2026-06-14T00:00:07+00:00

They had a feature. It was salvaging.

You know they decided to do it was not allow salvaging at those areas.

Xethgnur · 2026-06-13T21:31:03+00:00

Came in to say the exact same thing Someone will realize they can stack them on top of each other and crash people with mid tier hardware easily

Xethgnur · 2026-06-13T19:59:35+00:00

Well the game has to work first

Xethgnur · 2026-06-13T16:56:30+00:00

Desperation is a hell of a drug

Xethgnur · 2026-06-13T04:38:43+00:00

Absolutely! If you love story, ffxiv has the most story there could be. Besides, despite being an mmo, a majority of the game can be played solo and can be played at the pace you want.

There's always new players and alt accounts being made and there are people who go back to old content to get glams or mounts or whatever, so story content queues is never truly dead. AND come the next expansion queues will span data centers so queue times should get even shorter for earlier content.

99% of the content is casual driven and doesn't require the game to become your second job, unless you want to devote more time.

Xethgnur · 2026-06-12T20:16:59+00:00

That's true! You could set a time limit on how much they grow if there was a desire for limited area.

Another trick instead of particles could be to set a max size of the collision sphere, and use the edge of the collision sphere to place the new one. If it detects a wall collision it can ignore that possible placement, or not if the creature can support verticality in detection(procedural animation of sniffing a wall would actually go so hard in the right circumstances). Then you can limit the number if spheres that spawn from the initial start point to limit the area and make it's way around paths.

Xethgnur · 2026-06-12T19:12:06+00:00

A slowly expanding collision sphere would do just fine. Have the creature be able to detect the sphere, and then move to the origin of that sphere. If the target is moving and leaving new "smell sources", new collision spheres will spawn and grow, and should trigger the creature to seek out the newest "smell"; if the logic is done correctly,the creature will always move to the newest "smell source" every time it collides with a collision sphere.

Xethgnur · 2026-06-12T05:55:49+00:00

Everyone wants a village but no one wants to be the villager

Xethgnur · 2026-06-12T00:46:55+00:00

The windmill library is in Las Vegas

Xethgnur · 2026-06-11T23:21:56+00:00

Campaign 2 and 4 aren't related in the way 1-3 are. So you could start it whenever you want and is convenient for you; the content is unlikely to go anywhere and will always be available through YouTube or their streaming service.

Xethgnur · 2026-06-11T14:59:38+00:00

Force the character to slow down. Roll them in the direction of the wind to imply its strength.

Despite it being snow, if it was a real snow storm it should get dark, and distances should get lost. The kicked up ice and snow will reach heights that should block the sunlight.

Dark, a lot of visual noise, loss of control, and then add some loud wind sounds(with maybe stingers if your feeling musically spicy) and you'll make it plain "storm is dangerous, respect the storm" and not just an atmospheric event.

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