andrew wrote: > ... I don't like the idea of leaving globs in buildings > constantly, because it would be confusing: it would be hard to tell > whether your buildings were being used for training or just storage, and
what could be solved with an extra indicator. > looking around your own town(s) would give a misleading impression of > how many globs you have. 1st that's indicated in the top row, 2nd that could be dealt with some indicators on hoses occupied by idle citizens. > I do like the idea of idle globs consuming food at a low rate. I've > mentioned on IRC that it would have to be a significant fraction of the > normal rate of consumption (say about half), half of the lowest consumption of basic globs or also increased by speed-updates? > because otherwise > everyone will build up a huge army of warriors, send them into battle, > then find they all starve to death because there are no inns to feed > them. agree > Actually, allowing globs to idle in buildings also encourages the player > to build up huge armies, because they don't sit about taking up space. > > With all that said, I can see a benefit in having a few warriors sitting > in each of your guard towers. How about globs stand idle when they > have nothing to do, and guard towers can contain up to 4 warriors? standing idle brings us the problem of proper pathmanagement. (2 bit trail gradient that's locally lowered by occupied globs each time they step on a tile and globally rised every once in a while. idles follow the trail-gradient and sit down on peaks.) greets, giszmo P.S.: Sorry for Steph wrote: > Unfortunatly your sent it twice... i appologize, but didn't want to send a confusing mail, an apologizeing mail after that and an apologizeing mail for the apologizeing mail as you all must have seen for yourselfe i did weired things. (at work i'm not allowed to use a mailclient, so i use the web-interface.) *checkingforattachements* *doublecheckingrecipient* _______________________________________________ glob2-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/glob2-devel
