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Yeah, there's nothing in KSP 2 to recommend it over KSP 1 aside from better part graphics, which is not a great look for a sequel, even if it is in early access. Especially when you take into account the depth of the modding community and the sheer scale of some of the graphical mods that have come out in recent years like parallax and whatnot.

I also threw a slab down a volcano on my first turn, and later threw Iden's corpse down the same volcano on my third turn.

Noticed in the CDDA commits , there was something rather amazing :
https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/56778

https://preview.redd.it/if4q4u81b0u81.png?width=1069&format=png&auto=webp&s=a664ae14406b92b3316e64d7710a2e3bccc306ed

I hope it means some people will be able to make more real life locations maps like this one in the future.

It's a neat gimmick, but until they actually rip the guts out of the godawful city and road generation, it'll only ever be a gimmick. My big pet peeve is the massive Isherwood special that always looks so out of place, especially on the pics from that mod. Speaking of bad map generation, I had this wild bit of map gen recently:


Even aside from the many many redundant bridges, there's a lot to unpack there.

The dev's been working on Decisive Campaigns: Ardennes Offensive for a while, but now that that's out he's back to working on Shadow Empire. Latest blog post is laying the groundwork for some very cool future stuff:


That's right, oceans and watery planets, with player controlled navies coming at some point in the future after some AI development.

Unfortunately there seems to be no current development in that direction in either DDA or BN. Maybe eventually.

That's sad to hear, it's always been a sore spot for me with Cata. Fingers crossed we see some actual movement in that direction. This PR seems like it could be a starting point for work on making a more realistic overmap, but who knows.

Finally came back to Cata after having not played at all since pre-release O.D. As someone who's been playing Cata since the early Whales days, it's disappointing that there's been very little work done on the map gen in a while (I'm talking overmap gen, not local map gen, which has gotten way better even since the last time I played). It really feels like overmap gen hasn't been touched (outside of adding lakes and adding more junk to spawn) since they took out highways and made cities more coherent. It's a shame too because of how nice the local maps are now, but some of the city generation and rural special generation is deeply nonsensical. Why are steel mills so far from cities? Why are there random swamp tiles in the downtown of a big city? Why is there a strip club in the middle of a residential neighbourhood? Why is there a trailer park in a city block? Why are the rural areas so empty when they should be full of farms in non-forest areas if we want to carry the game's insistence on realism into the world generation? Why is road generation still so weird? Why is there a farm with no house on a tiny island with two bridges leading to it? Why are two tile houses generating at road ends so half the house fronts onto a field. etc. etc. Sure, some of these are edge cases, but stuff like road generation out of cities still hasn't been touched, and it feels like has in some way gotten worse since highways were removed ages ago.

I'm very out of the loop with Cata dev drama, but has there been any effort towards making world gen more coherent/realistic in any of the branches? I'm speaking here about DDA because I haven't tried any of the big branches yet, but it is disheartening to see a lot of the same weirdness with world gen that there was back in like 2016.

Also holy fuck, the pocket system shouldn't have been added to a full release without an actual UI for managing it. It is deeply frustrating to keep putting my 3.5 litre jar in the long rope I'm wearing on my person and have no easy way to manage where to store it.

Quote from: AvolitionBrit on December 24, 2021, 08:56:53 am

As for Lady Ishes Shovelscribes the Ugly. She has killed five people, become a lady of the creamy confederacy fifty three years late and then settled The Shelter of Adventures. For some reason it doesn't list that this was a traveling companion of Glloyd Ancientborn the Round

Thanks for the info, nice find. It's fitting then that such a creature becomes Lady of the Shelter of Adventurers (and it appears she's also a diplomat for Boltspumpkin, at least role-playing wise).

And the Ugly and the Hideous... this game almost tugs at my heart-strings with its naming conventions of what turn out to be our heroes.

I just realized I never posted the end of my last turn, which I'll endeavour to do when I'm back home. I gave her my title as the lord of the Shelter of Adventurers at the end of my last turn. I originally found her in an abandoned worldgen fort and she was my companion for most of my first turn, back in 726/727. She's just been hanging out at the Shelter since then.

My turn is rapidly approaching, so I'm going to get ahead of things and say I won't be able to do it. Don't sign me up for another one just yet, but I'll definitely come back and sign up for another when I have more time.