Q & A

[Penumbra]

I can't find the exact post, but someone once suggested generating a small "region bridge" to another larger area. I thought it was quite interesting. It would allow those settlements you have freed to actually be free. This wouldn't happen every time an overlord is spawned, but maybe every 5 or so. The intervening area could be generated as normal, in small spurts.

[x4000]

That would be a pretty major overhaul of the way that the world map works at present, but it's possible that we might split things into multiple "planes" for the world map.  Having a contiguous world map that is infinite gets unwieldy past a certain point, so perhaps every few hundred civ levels it would be a good idea to split these out into larger shards you have to move between.  Not sure; it's not a technical requirement, but it might be good for long-term usability.  I've got various things like that swirling around in the back of my mind, but it's too early to say what would really work best, and feel best to players.

[Coppermantis]

Nevermind, this one was my fault.

[Coppermantis]

Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but I noticed that minibosses do not regain health whn you leave and return, but Leiutentants do. Is this supposed to happen? I died while fighting a miniboss (Curse you Jevel the Gruesome! That was my first character!) and then came back with a second guy and the boss was at the same health I had left it at. Then, I was fighting the leiutenant (No small matter, he was twice my level) and hit the wrong hotkey by accident. that was my "Warp to map" Scroll, so I came back and He was fully rehealed. He was at 4000 of about 300000 health, I'd just spent quite a while kiting him around. Are leiutenants supposed to recharge differently?

I beat him anyway, though. That was a really epic fight, more stressful than attacking an AI homeworld.

[syndicatedragon]

Q: I found a neutral Ilari stone and what appears to be another NPC in a cavern. I don't seem to be able to interact with them though. Is there something I should be doing?

[Coppermantis]

You can't use those like you can the Ilari in your settlement. The neutral ones only heal you/restore mana.

[Dizzard]

Q: I found a neutral Ilari stone and what appears to be another NPC in a cavern. I don't seem to be able to interact with them though. Is there something I should be doing?

The only thing you can do with them is recruit the survivor when you are at one of your settlements. An icon for saving a person will be over the tile in which you found the underground npc.

[wyvern83]

Are plum trees in the game yet? I've yet to find one and I'm at level 54.

Also given how common it is to have magma in recipes, is magma supposed to be so rare?  Magma is scarce as it is right now, especially when compared to moonstone and sunstone that are involved in fewer recipes but literally liter my world map. Are new worlds more magma plenty these days?

[Underfot]

Plum trees are in there, but they're nearly impossible to hit.  Energy pulse can't reach low enough to hit them, so you have to stand directly in front of the tree and fire touch your toes.  I believe I found most of mine in abandoned towns.

[wyvern83]

So in other words it's a bush? I've have to take a closer look then, thanks for the tip.

[x4000]

Hey guys,

Been away as noted in the last release notes, but I'm back now and going through all my backlog.  100+ emails to catch up on today -- not a lot of time for much else!  Whew.  To some of the questions:

1. Plum trees actually look like trees, but their hitbox may be in appropriately miniscule.  Will need to investigate, but if so that would be great in mantis.  If you look at the grasslands areas with trees on the world map, there should be plum trees all over the place there.  Also I think maybe sometimes in the small towns, but that would be more rare.

2. Regarding boss health regenning, that's something we haven't fully settled on yet in terms of how it will work, but what you're describing is intended for the time being.

[x4000]

Oh, and:

3. Yeah, magma is meant to be really rare, but not quite THAT rare.  There's some new stuff that is coming for rare commodities in general so that they won't be so scarce; and even in existing worlds this will help a ton. Hopefully this week.

[wyvern83]

I found them, but they were no where to be found in either of the two grassland regions with groves, 22 and 32 in level. I found six in the first abandoned small town region I checked. One of them was practically right at my feet when I entered the first or second surface region.  I assume a grassland with grove would have had more.

Energy Pulse went right through it, leaving it standing by itself. I had to aim down to get it.  There's already a post in mantis about the plum tree's hitbox so I just made one for plum trees not spawning in the appropriate grassland regions.

I look forward to rare commodity stuff you have coming soon. Now if only there were other places to find citrine gems. I have a desert of deserts in my game and I'm not looking forward to walking everywhere in regions where I can't fly without taking damage.

[Coppermantis]

Why do neutral skelebots require food? It seems like they wouldn't be the type to eat. 

[zebramatt]

They run on a naturally derived organic fuel.