Devblog 49

Assign to Friend

Something we've been thinking about for a long time. We've talked ourselves out of it and talked ourselves back into it. Our primary problem with this solution was that we didn't like that people would be killing themselves to spawn near a friend. Which probably seems like a silly thing to worry about. So now I'm pulling the trigger. The idea is as simple as it could be. You hold E on a sleeping bag that you own, select assign to friend - then search for your friend's name and click on it. Your friend now owns this sleeping bag and can spawn at it. The player list is collected from players on the server and from your friends list. There will obviously be some issues with this. Maybe I will spend a buttload of resources to full your screen with sleeping bags calling you a bitch. Maybe I will make a sleeping bag for everyone on the server to fool them into spawning into my jail. I don't think the effects of these things are too devastating right now, so we're going to handle them as they become issues, instead of removing opportunities for emergent gameplay.

No More Demolishing

Demolishing isn't used properly and mostly isn't needed, that's our conclusion. When you break into someone's base and you find their cupboard we don't think you should be able to pull out a hammer and demolish walls and doors to find secret rooms. You shouldn't be able to remove the entire building in a couple of minutes. You shouldn't be able to place a cupboard next to someone who doesn't have one, and demolish their base. That seems like common sense game design. There is one legit reason to use demolish. You are remodelling your base. It seems to us that this is something worth sacrificing, worth making people think around. Maybe we'll add further tools in the future to make remodelling easier, but we need to see how this changes gameplay before making those kind of decisions. The benefits of removing demolish are obvious. Penetrating a single wall and getting access to your cupboard doesn't give them access to your whole house. You can have multiple chambered safe rooms that take time for them to break into. Your house is probably still going to be there when you log in, even if you have been raided. Continue Reading (Too long to post here)