[0.802][Suggestion] Custom creations shared randomly with other players (kind of like Spore did)

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This would definitely be something for post release...but here it goes:

 

Has anyone here played Spore? Remember the feature that would allow other peoples creations (or only your friends' creations) to appear at random in your play-through of Spore?

 

As people inevitably create new map tiles, custom sovereigns, and custom items - wouldn't it be cool if those periodically wandered into other people's games? You could off course opt out from sharing and being shared with, but I think that would be a pretty cool idea, to the extent that it would work in conjunction with the various editors which are being rolled out with the game.

 

Someone could make some combat powerhouse sovereign that would have that kind of behavior on any game he migrated into. Another sovereign could be a diplomacy expert and be very helpful and cooperative with the player(s).

 

I've just been rolling this idea around in my head for a few days.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

great idea. Spells, etc would be cool as well.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

And like Spore we will be infested with a million penis monsters.   :thumbsdown:

Please don't allow this to happen!  Keep the stuff as mods only that the user can download themselves.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

^ That was the first thing that popped into my head. *shutters* People are disgusting, you don't want anything to do with their "creations," seriously.

I'm sure there will be websites with content you can pick and choose what to download from, probably with rules so you don't see 362 objects based on genitalia.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Wintersong, reply 4
https://forums.elementalgame.com/349782?
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thanks for the link; it's good to know that this was being thought of a while back. where things are at now, is there any indication of whether this will be part of beta or release?

 

and the "spore" monsters...yeah...the spore editors were flexible enough that all kinds of nasty things were going around; im not sure EWoM will have that trouble tho. ^_^

 

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting weez2mo, reply 5


where things are at now, is there any indication of whether this will be part of beta or release?
 
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Beta 4 has modding but I don't know if the sharing part will be on and/or how exactly it will work (I'd suppose it needs testing too?). Hopefully, Frogboy/BoogieBac will provide us more information about it when they consider it's time.

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Lol I didnt play Spore but I'm aware of how many users made creatures from different body parts xD. This is a cool idea, and to add to this I would suggest that maybe you could have the option to manually decide what randomly appears in your game.

Like for instance it could look like this:

X: Random Tiles (cosmetic)

_: Random Units

_: Random Building tiles

Etc, in this case I want random tiles to spawn accross the game world so I could get a different landscape everytime I played.

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Civfreak, reply 7
Lol I didnt play Spore but I'm aware of how many users made creatures from different body parts . This is a cool idea, and to add to this I would suggest that maybe you could have the option to manually decide what randomly appears in your game.

Like for instance it could look like this:

X: Random Tiles (cosmetic)

_: Random Units

_: Random Building tiles

Etc, in this case I want random tiles to spawn accross the game world so I could get a different landscape everytime I played.
End of Civfreak's quote

 

yeah, something exactly like this, with the option also to have a blacklist to block contributions by certain users.