Stranded Worlds and Portal Creation

[abculatter_2]

I’m not sure what you guys have planned as far as how portals are actually going to be made, though something I did think of for interesting gameplay features I’d like to see in this kind of title is to make easily-repairable portal frames a scarce and valuable resource. To add to the ‘valuable’ bit, they could be able to be broken by Protectors, Titans, and, with significant effort, players, with a chance that the damage be permanent and the frame be rendered useless forever. This would also encourage the protecting of portals, which I think would be an interesting way to encourage cooperation among a planet’s community.

I also think that it would be interesting for there to be an engineering aspect added to the game, with basic, low-tech examples being player-made and placeable windmills and water wheels, with player-placed axles and a few low-tech processing machines to use it on. This would be far from the limit, however, with progressively higher techs being progressively more complicated and technically challenging, with the culmination of technology being the creation or repairing of Oort-based portal-generating reactors.

In addition to having a huge plethora of potentially fun and interesting mechanics in the preceding tech tiers, adding more progression to crafting and material availability, as well as adding ‘Engineer’ as another non-combat-oriented player class, the portal-generation technology would also provide worlds with a destroyed portal two options: Either scour the planet in search of another portal frame to repair, or pool resources together to begin the massive and daunting task of creating a portal yourself.

• This topic was modified 10 years, 4 months ago by abculatter_2.

[Rob]

Hi abculatter. Thanks for your interest in the game! At the minute we’re planning on allowing players to build portals and warps eventually through a process of using the very rare Oort Stones.

However, currently in the game we have placed a few static portals to allow players to travel in-game between worlds/servers.

Engineering is a very cool idea and something that I personally really enjoy in other sandbox games and mods. There are a lot of more basic features and building blocks for us to get to before we reach advanced crafting and engineering but with your help we’ll be able to get there.

Rob – Wonderstruck Designer

[Dasachi]

Question about portals as well. Whats the shape of portals going to look like?

Are they all going to be a basic rectangle or shape or will I be able to craft a semi circular portal(make my stargate dreams come true.:D)

[Rob]

Hi Dasachi. At the minute they are basic rectangles but are built on the same 1m block system as all of the other blocks. We can make them any size and rectangular shape at the minute. In theory we might be able to have different shapes. But they’d likely be ‘block circles’ rather than true circles.

Who doesn’t want to make their own Stargate? 😉

Rob – Wonderstruck Designer

[Grimoire]

So we can essentially build a portal in our house that is the size of a door and nobody would know if they crossed over unless they looked outside? lol

[ProfChrisK]

Thought on portals: Have you considered even providing your own key/DHD to save portal addresses? That would be awesome to throw in as a feature, maybe a neat little animation to boot when it connects?

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