Day-To-Day Work Logs and Woot! Engine Stuff!

Do items like cannons, steam suits, and wagons have durability? Can they be hurt. Will certain soldiers in the same group be able to use the steam suit better than others? Or more approrpiately, would some of them have ego's that develop from getting to use it a lot that might cause them to do unpredictable or brash things in combat? If the soldier piloting the steam suit in combat is killed, and the suit is by enemy combatants, does the assignment to that squad mean that the enemy cannot just confiscate the suit?

 

And how would you then arm the Suit ? Or would it just be one type of weapon equipped ?

 

Which brings me to a question: If they are able to eat berries that are already inside other people, how detailed does the game keep track of single objects? Would have expected that the berreis become abstract "food" the moment they are consumed. How does this work?

Also: Will the trees simply disapear or will you add stumps later on?

Finally: Is that severed head a grafic bug or are severed heads part of the game?

 

When you say "Suffers from the same problems as dredmor's spellDB.xml" I assume you mean that it suffers from "Can do almost anything provided you're willing to hentai the code enough."

 

I can't say that with full certainty (seeing as I'm not one of their team), but I think they wanted to make it so that citizens would "use up" food they eat over time instead of it just being a simple "hunger" value, and equipping food to citizens' innards was easier than adding a bunch or parameters to the citizens (a simple pointer to something, or perhaps an array of pointers, versus a few arbitrary values which would make it more difficult to edit effects of food for future modders); because the game is still in development (well, duh) some things aren't yet checked and thus citizens being able to eat food equipped (either "held" or "consumed") by other citizens.

That is my take on it, at the very least.

No, it means "people having to resort to doing atrocious things to the code because of vital data hooks and data calls being hard-coded and thus not modifiable".

That being said, it is almost the same thing, but from a different perspective and with somewhat different implications for the developers.

 

In case of no other food being available, eating the poets does sound like reasonable behaviour for the clockwork citizenry. The populace gets sustenance, the poet gets the invaluable career-enhancing trait of being dead. It's win-win.

 

It looks like the core systems are very close to fairly acceptable state, which is cool. Hopefully we can look forward to seeing the actual gameplay implemented soon!

What state is the city building in? It seems like a long time since we heard anything.

 

I certainly sense there is a certain sense of antipathy towards poets within the development crew. Too many poets steal away girlfriends in younger days ?

 

But... but... what about sustenance for their hearts?

 

Who needs Poets when you have an unshakable faith in the Empire !

 

For inventing new ways of expressing your unshakeable faith in the Empire!!!

 

Speaking of poets, I wonder if there will be morbid and depressing poets in the game? Like an Edgar Allen Pipe or something?

 

I was hoping that, although I would suspect that any moderately successful poet in the Clockwork Empire that lives long enough eventually goes down that route. Then they either get grusomely exterminated like josiah nutpin, or goes mad and starts a poetry cult that writes by day and harvests souls by night!

 

The punchline on slashdot today 'has' to be about CE!

it says:
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

Just thought I would share

 

On the bright side. Landing craft ! And Nostalgia !

 

It is a lovely landing-craft, despite the design flaw, which makes it fit in with the spirit of the game that much more!