I think it would be a great idea to make a dredmorized version of this... a robot enemy, specifically an elite/miniboss type called Curiosity. I'm sure you could look at the actual Rover itself and come up with something appropriate. And some fitting special abilities and loot of course. OH and Baby Phelps too! They had this little paper doll with Michael Phelps they danced around while waiting for the rover to land, because only Phelps could hold his breath long enough to see if the landing went well (they eventually had to breathe). So obviously Baby Phelps would be encountered in watery areas and deal massive asphyxiation damage. He could also drop the "22nd Gold Medal" from time to time. Some sort of amulet with asphyxiation resistance and some other (random?) stats. Perhaps another food item too, Curiosity Peanuts. Perhaps a guaranteed drop from Curiosity, provides a Sagacity buff or a buff that provides extra drops for a time (like perception). Would be a great thing to save for a monster zoo. The peanuts are an old tradition in space landings since the first successful mission on the moon. You could see them on the live footage they were passing them around eating them, at one point you could see the bottles of peanuts they had that had all been labeled "Curiosity". I thought this might be a cool thing to do considering the DoD tendency to have lots of easter eggs and inside jokes relating to the real world today, what better than the Curiosity landing?
Considering they're not from the United States I'm not so sure this is high on the list of priorities. I think this is perfectly solid mod material though.
Funny story, both myself and Daniel are Americans. He's also Canadian AND Danish, read: Viking, therefore about 150% of a normal human being, which is why he's the CEO. And to comment for the OP, Mars is totally awesome but adding new features is a far, far lower priority right now than fixes and balancing in the post-COTW chaos. You should give modding a shot!
Heh, like dbaumg said, two of the team are americans. Not that it really matters, its still a really cool thing in a global sense. I'm not sure I have the skills to mod this. Though if I had the free time I definitely have the technical acumen to learn it. Longtime techie and IT guy actually. Yes new stuff maybe not needed right this moment, but hey *shrug*. Maybe if I can get some free time I'll figure out how to put something together. If I do that maybe one of the talented artists on these forums could provide sprites. In a semi-related topic.. can modders add completely new skill lines without replacing existing ones now? I thought that was a problem before but I could be mixing up my info from various games haha. *At the moment however I simply have no time to learn this.. I have about 3.5 days of preparation time left before the 12th. I have to be in Los Angeles to audition for a show.
Yeah, new skills have been possible since well, a few months after release. I don't think it would be too hard to add to say to a room as a custom blocker, assuming someone made a good sprite of it.
Yes! Curiosity tends to be.. curious.. which leads to delays. OOH SHINY!... oh thats just baby phelps and his gold medals. "A wild Baby Phelps appears" "Go, Curiosity!" "Baby Phelps uses Medal Shield" "Baby Phelps' resistances go WAY UP!" "Curiosity uses Illuminati Scan Device" "Curiosity's accuracy has gone WAY UP!" "Baby Phelps' uses Gold Toss" "Its Super Effective!" "Curiosity is reduced to a pile of smoldering rubiks cubes"
Depends on where in the U.S. you are located, obviously. If you are in Hawaii, for example, ALMOST everywhere is overseas.
Oh for fuck's sake I'm confused as all hell. I had some idea that you guys were over in Europe. i'll just, uh, be shutting up now
