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... well, I will say my favorite solution (that, uh, I'm not sure I've ever actually seen implemented, closest being maybe something like Distant Worlds or Dominions surrender-to-AI thing ) to map painting, especially end-game you-must-clean-up-your-mess-to-win busywork is to just... automate that shit. Really heavily. Give me a button on basically everything of note that I can press and say to the game's AI, "I don't want to bother with this anymore, you deal with it." If something's annoying me, personally, let me have a way to slide it off the screen and stop thinking about it. From what I understand it's largely a time-inefficient pain in the ass on the developer's end, but... y'know, I'm not on that end, ahaha.

So far as continuing to make things interesting post blob, well, if you can't give me opponents anymore start letting me make my own problems. If I'm a world spanning ork horde, by the dark gods I should be able to unleash an undead apocalypse over trivial nuisances and then have to figure out how to deal with the runaway bone buddies brigade that just took over the planet's southern hemisphere. We're on the DF forums, of course most of us here want to dig too deep in more settings than just this one game. We should be able to pester our advisors until they rise up in rebellion, then defect to their side and crush the once great empire. So on and so forth. Doesn't apply as well to less fantastic settings, but they hold negative interest for me in regards to strategy games and I basically don't play them, so :V

Alternate take on that one is almost Spore like (or, perhaps more accurately, like a cultivation novel), where once you blob and take over the world whoops turns out you're just one tiny planet in a very active galaxy, guess what you get to do now :V

... and then you take over the galaxy and hey, you're not the only galactic superpower. Oopsie, conquered the galactic supercluster, but wait, there's more! Rule the universe with an iron fist and some idiot magitek engineer cracks open a hole to another. It just keeps going. That'd probably be pretty neat, too. Hell to develop, but neat.

Yeah pretty much. In my project I tried to design a fun imperfect information system. Aside from mechanical challenges you always have to consider whether players of traditional strategy/war games would enjoy it.

One thing it's good to remember sometimes, is that you don't necessarily have to care if players of traditional strategy/war games would enjoy it, especially from the perspective of coming from said games.

First and foremost, plenty of folks that indulge in that kind of thing would be perfectly fine with some degree (even a lot) of innovation or different takes. Some of us just really want something other than modern military or mundane medieval cruft, ferex. Beyond that, there's more players out there than of traditional strategy/war games (rather a lot more, from what I understand of the proverbial market, even). Don't worry too much about stepping on stodgy, hidebound toes, just worry about making something that works.

That feeling when you suddenly realize why the terminology looked so familiar, and figure out the magic system what you're reading is using was largely lifted... from a minecraft mod.

Work is Owlnother World, fairly decent animal isekai thing (person unsurprisingly reincarnated into an owl, this time) with some litrpg elements... and a magic system substantially borrowed from Thaumcraft. It translates pretty well to writing, but still. I definitely think it was improved from me not immediately noticing, though -- it namedrops the Thaumonomicon fairly early, but if you don't recognize it things probably flow a bit better.

Man wasn't made, and the sweet spot is a moving target. Questions without actual answers.

It'd be an interesting script considering it'd have to run, what, twenty something times, skipping around servers to follow time zone changes.

Though that's not really maximal. Maximal would be figuring out how to lay claim to and dictate the calendar system for another stellar body, so that instead of counting up, the year starts at 2222 and just adds another 2 at the end for each passing year. Adjust the days and weeks to add more twos, too, for that matter.

or, no, no

it would have 9 months, and tell the date by number of digits, each month changing the number. So first month, first day, first year, would be 1/1/1, first month, second day, second year, would be 1/11/11, third month, fifth day, tenth year would be 3/33333/3333333333, and so on. It'd be amazingly awful

oh hey, the thing piles of people thought was likely to happen, happened
who would have thunk it, the consequences of their actions :V

There's a thought. Pervasive augmented reality streamlining your day to day life! Advanced prosthetics adjusting your physical capabilities for a better user experience!

A whole host of lifestyle enhancement augmentations may be available in our future. I'm sure nothing can go wrong, there :V

Alternatively, trust in hypnotoad, I guess. They'd at least make sure you landed in life advice comfortably, probably.

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Quote from: MaxTheFox on January 31, 2022, 08:39:04 am

I have never heard of this, and I can't find any information about it from a quick search

I can't believe you missed the whole storming the capitol thing, which was very much alike the Munich Putsch.

I meant the legislation. Of course I heard about the storming attempt lmfao. A bunch of crazed alt-righters do not the whole party make.

Here's one example in Arizona. Iirc there's been similar moves in a few other states (Georgia, one of the carolinas? Isn't at the top of my head), trying to empower the legislature or executive with the ability to just functionally or explicitly yeet election results if they don't like them.