Anyhow, things are going great. Satellite system is up, I need to still implement the more gameplay-ey things, and add the secondary weapon, but the hard stuff is done. Right now, it seems that the satellites are a total bitch, which is exactly right. I will be working more on story stuff (opposed to graphics stuff) today because I need to get some more things in. Mainly I will be working on the court/outlaw system. This is very neccesary system, it ties into your status with each culture. Do something bad, you get a court summons. Don't show up to court, and you get branded an outlaw. Do show up, and they may slap you with some ugly penalty. Then, I go and make doing bad things very, very appealing from a gameplay perspective. I kind of think, if you let the player get into a huge mess, well, that is fun. As long as they know they made that mess themselves and it's not the game punishing them...
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So, today is court system and finishing satellites, crimelib, so forth. Maybe a bit of work on the senate system.
2005-01-27