Q & A

[arcee]

Ability to destroy items would be nice also as an alternative.

you can store items by dropping them, throw them out by dropping them somewhere you aren't likely to go back

[zebramatt]

A bank is nonetheless a nice idea. It feels more gamey than just leaving your junk lying about on the floor.

And I'm all for a way of converting my (whoops why did I craft that) second coldsuit into resources!

[tigersfan]

A bank is nonetheless a nice idea. It feels more gamey than just leaving your junk lying about on the floor.

And I'm all for a way of converting my (whoops why did I craft that) second coldsuit into resources!

There are plans for some type of "bank" mechanic. :-)

[Spejs]

Q: Is it normal to find mainly 1 type of gem in similar dungeons? I found 11 green gems in 3 different dungeons on similar chunks and 2 yellow. Right now I'm in another dungeon, found 4 yellow gems and can see room with one more vein. But my desire to explore more of one cave almost completely vanished.

Q: Is there any way to drop full stack of items? Low-lvl potions and scrolls are starting to clutter my inventory and it'll take too much time to drop them one by one.

[x4000]

Q: Is it normal to find mainly 1 type of gem in similar dungeons? I found 11 green gems in 3 different dungeons on similar chunks and 2 yellow. Right now I'm in another dungeon, found 4 yellow gems and can see room with one more vein. But my desire to explore more of one cave almost completely vanished.

Yes, those vary by region type.  Check the tooltips on the gems themselves to see which regions are richer in which kinds of gems.  And don't worry, you're not expected to have to go through the entire dungeon at once if you don't need that much of that type of gem at the moment.  But you have somewhere you can go back to if you need more.

Q: Is there any way to drop full stack of items? Low-lvl potions and scrolls are starting to clutter my inventory and it'll take too much time to drop them one by one.

I'm going to be switching it to only dropping the full stacks in the next version, since the one-by-one really serves no point until we have multiplayer.

[Dizzard]

Are the wind tower locations considered as settlements too? (more importantly if they are settlements are they considered part of my empire? I assume that's what the roads mean...) Since there's always 3 npcs walking around there.

On another note, I was thinking it would be neat if we could rename our settlements. I'm lucky with my starting settlement "Settlement of Firm Range" sounds nice but I'm not sure I'd be as fond of something like "Settlement of Dizzy Plateau"....

[x4000]

Wind shelters are considered part of your empire, but they don't work at all like settlements.  Right now all they do is provide wind protection.

You can already name your settlements, but you need to get to having the settlement management interface at civ level 6 before you can.

[keith.lamothe]

Are the wind tower locations considered as settlements too? (more importantly if they are settlements are they considered part of my empire? I assume that's what the roads mean...) Since there's always 3 npcs walking around there.

They're not the same as settlements, but they are what the game considers "human usable sites".  The NPCs there still have to be "rescued" (migrated to a settlement) before you can give them orders or whatnot.

On another note, I was thinking it would be neat if we could rename our settlements. I'm lucky with my starting settlement "Settlement of Firm Range" sounds nice but I'm not sure I'd be as fond of something like "Settlement of Dizzy Plateau"....

You can rename a settlement from the settlement management interface (which unlocks at level 6)   You can also rename an NPC by right clicking their portrait in the strategy or settlement-management interface and clicking the rename button.

(ninja'd by Chris)

[brianc]

I'm going to be switching it to only dropping the full stacks in the next version, since the one-by-one really serves no point until we have multiplayer.

Just let us shift-alt-click like AI Wars solves current and future problems

[Nalgas]

On another note, I was thinking it would be neat if we could rename our settlements. I'm lucky with my starting settlement "Settlement of Firm Range" sounds nice but I'm not sure I'd be as fond of something like "Settlement of Dizzy Plateau"....

You should visit my lovely village of Human-Usable Site Test Instance 1.  Your randomly generated names have nothing on what it assigned me.  Heh.

[Dizzard]

Does making an npc in your settlement set up a wind shelter instead of you going and doing it manually have a penalty?

I ask because I made two with my own character and there was three npcs in each.....however I made another two using my npc settlers on the strategy map and there was only one npc in each of those. Was it just bad luck those times?

[Nalgas]

Does making an npc in your settlement set up a wind shelter instead of you going and doing it manually have a penalty?

I ask because I made two with my own character and there was three npcs in each.....however I made another two using my npc settlers on the strategy map and there was only one npc in each of those. Was it just bad luck those times?

It was just bad luck.  It is free if you do it yourself, though, or it was last time I did it myself.

[keith.lamothe]

On another note, I was thinking it would be neat if we could rename our settlements. I'm lucky with my starting settlement "Settlement of Firm Range" sounds nice but I'm not sure I'd be as fond of something like "Settlement of Dizzy Plateau"....

You should visit my lovely village of Human-Usable Site Test Instance 1.  Your randomly generated names have nothing on what it assigned me.  Heh.

Yea, from back before settlements even showed their names

Ah, the relics of the alpha days...

[keith.lamothe]

Does making an npc in your settlement set up a wind shelter instead of you going and doing it manually have a penalty?

I ask because I made two with my own character and there was three npcs in each.....however I made another two using my npc settlers on the strategy map and there was only one npc in each of those. Was it just bad luck those times?

Yea, no difference other than doing it strategically has a cost.  A cost which will probably become more significant in the future, but we'll see.

[zebramatt]

Does making an npc in your settlement set up a wind shelter instead of you going and doing it manually have a penalty?

I ask because I made two with my own character and there was three npcs in each.....however I made another two using my npc settlers on the strategy map and there was only one npc in each of those. Was it just bad luck those times?

Yea, no difference other than doing it strategically has a cost.  A cost which will probably become more significant in the future, but we'll see.

I'd vote that up.