Idea for Explorable, Close-Up Areas

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After reading one of Frogboy's Elemental journals (I forget which one), I began pondering how you could explore the viliges, cities, and certain other locations in the Elemental world. The solution I came up is to have a party comprised of a small number of skilled characters (somewhere in the neigborhood of 1-6) would explore a isometric version of the place in question. You'd be able to walk around, converse with people, take part in various events, such as auctions and combat tournaments, fight enimies, etc. The reason I chose an isometric view to represent it is because on minimum-spec computers, everything could be represented by resource-light images while being shown in true 3-D, albeit still in the isometric perspective, on more powerful systems. Also, regarding combat at this level, you'd be able to fight battles in a turn-based style similar to Fallout 1 & 2. The locations would be constructed on a grid and would probably be created procedurally.

My above-discussed idea does have some foreseeable problems. Just to list a few, how will custom assets be properly translated into images? Could locations that look great and have good gameplay be generated procedurally? If so, could they be generated on a minimum-spec computer? And, for those times when you get caught inside a city/fortress during a siege, could a minimum-spec computer handle a massive battle, even in the previously-discussed isometric enviorments? Clearly, should my idea be implemented in some form - which if they were, I'd be shocked and amazed 8(| - these and any other problems that should show up.

Should any Stardock employee working on Elemental read this, as well as anyone else, thanks for taking the time to read my idea!

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

You already made a thread on this here

https://forums.elementalgame.com/376363

 

It might be best to just leave it there or let a mod move the thread to this section.

Splitting the responses to the idea will confuse folks.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Cerevox, reply 1
You already made a thread on this here

https://forums.elementalgame.com/376363

 

It might be best to just leave it there or let a mod move the thread to this section.

Splitting the responses to the idea will confuse folks.
End of Cerevox's quote
I agree completely, Cerevox. Unfortunately, I made the original post (not this duplicate) using the Impulse client, which uses the main Stardock forums that doesn't have the Elemental Ideas subforum. Not knowing that the forums here on the Elemental game site were intertwined to a degree with the main Stardock forums, I duplicated my idea here. So, yes, it is my fault for not paying more attention. Sorry. :(

 

Going off-topic breifly, how does you request moderator action on your own post without doing anything out-of-line (such as blatently replying to your own thread just to requesting moderator action)?

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

PM one of them. The mods around here are awesome cool. Plus they are also the devs. Stardock is small but its awesome is all out of proportion to its size. IIRC their games typically make the top of the selling charts and beat out game by EA and blizzard and such, companies that have 100 man teams for animating a single character.

No need to get be unhappy about the post, we all make mistakes. Folks around here are cool.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

As far as the small areas, maybe you can only take in certain unit sizes. So, for instance, you happen to have only legions with you, you might could only Enter the Cave or Dungeon with Companies or lower (about 10 units or so).

So even if you have a huge army, you would have to enter the map piece by piece ... and therefore targetting the player audience to WISH that they had a small band of highly elite soldiers to acompany a Hero on a Dungeon Crawl, as opposed to sending many tiny mobs of weak creatures, wasting time with battles or autoresolve, as it couldn't be done all at once.

Of course, you also (I suppose) have the option of destroying it and allowing the strong baddies from the site to simply spawn atop the map, with almost no hope to get the reward item. And certainly not complete any related quests.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

lol, are you posting the exact same response in both threads? thats hilarous. Just let this version of the thread die and only post to the other one.