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Hey just saw your post after watching Nookrium's feature. Really cool game and I love and respect the strong vision you seem to have.

Wondering if you can explain a bit more your vision on the future of this game. I really like the fact that you blend a city building rts with a greater open world. Really had an awesome 'mount and blade' kinda feel to it when I saw military groups being sent out to different maskling encampments.

After reading about a future introduction of nobles, really seemed to have alot of potential in terms of politics with nearby settlements and trying to make your newfound civ survive as part of a greater world.

Looking forward to future updates and your thoughts! Cheers!

Commodore Shawn6 years ago

Caveat: This is subject to change, and not set in stone.

Bronze Age will be "finished"when you can grow from your first 7 citizens to an entire Empire. A dozen major cities, linked with trade networks, and a total population in the thousands. You will deal with the several races of local tribes through both warfare and diplomacy. There will be rival empires along your border, with which you can trade and wage war. Armies in the hundreds will clash on the battlefield. Charriots, spearmen, archers, and auxilaries pledged by friendly Maskling (and other) tribes. The gods themselves will take interest in your empire, as your priests invoke their favor.

TL;DR: Civilization and Dwarf Fortress had a baby, delivered by Factorio, and they named it Bronze Age

der Kobold6 years ago

sounds great what you are planning.

Will you also aim to publish your baby on steam?

Your plans sound very solid and I am looking forward the progress of this project. Even with simple graphics it convinces with its unique charme of the great RTS games back in the 90s :)

Do you have any ideas about economy and resources? The idea of different major cities offer great potential of strategic resources and their trading and distribution all over the empire and potential allies for support ;)

Commodore Shawn6 years ago

I'm aiming for Steam evenually, when it's more feature complete.

As for resources, 1.3 will introduce Copper Ore that is only found in some areas. Over time more location-dependent resources will be added. I'll need Tin at least, it'd be silly to have a game called Bronze Age without the ability to make bronze.

der Kobold6 years ago

yup for that I was aiming, will there be bronze in this game ;)

The mining for the metals and to produce bronze offers some good ways to increase the possibilitys of trade and of the production tree.

Btw, I encountered some lags in late game, I focussed on one town and expanded it, now it seems a bit laggy when I want to place buildings.
Is it some optimization bug or is my PC telling me that it is getting old?

Commodore Shawn6 years ago

It's almost certainly an optimization bug. I'm aiming to do another performance pass with 1.3.

It could also be a bug in pathing that's already fixed for 1.3. If an entity or warband gets stuck trying to reach somewhere, performance takes a major hit.

der Kobold6 years ago

thx for the info. But it is appearing also without moving warbands. So I guess it is not caused by pathing. My settlement population has crossed 150 ppl, could this cause lag or crashes?

Commodore Shawn6 years ago

If it's the same world from your bug report, there don't seem to be any stuck warbands, just run-of-the-mill poor optimization.

The longer world updates take, the more chance of encountering an edge case that crashes the game. So the bigger worlds get, the more likely a crash will happen.

der Kobold6 years ago

yes this one is the crashed savegame. ok I will see how it will be working then.
I will try not to expand the world to much ;)

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