Feature request thread

Extra Credits are right on the money as usual - I think many developers could learn from their videos if they only chose to listen....


As for voyages being stand-alone? They'd need a bunch of refining and offering the player more options and tools.
But if they could pull that off it could be quite interesting.


A slight side-note.
If you do like the concept of lemmings, check out "Flockers" by team17 (the guys behind worms) - I haven't played it myself but it seems to combine the tongue-in-cheek humor of worms with the concept of Lemmings.

Then we need less houses, and followers, not more. Less of this exponential number growth stuff. More complexity through combinations and connections.

i.e. Have the number of jobs and job types that need filling grow to become larger than the population so you have to play a balancing game. Have an inherent cost in maintaining followers, so not a popcap itself, but something that forces you towards a max population. Have distant goals that can only be achieved by solving the complexity of the game rather than grinding.

I couldn't agree more. I think.

I couldn't agree more. Its definitely something we as players have talked about before, sometimes going into great detail.
An old but very engaging thread on the steam boards was "Predestination versus Free Will (a v2.0 perspective)" going into great detail and touching on various aspects that would achieve these goals.

A particular noteworthy part of that lengthy discussion/brainstorm would be the scaling system.

Where we ended up putting various playstyles at odds with eachother:
 - Good vs Evil (morality)
 - Expansionist/Consuming vs Balanced/Preserving (environmental aspects)
 - Free-will vs control


Definitely a worthy read if you have the time.

That's a great thread. The only problem for me is it's too long to be able to get through it all! Also, I stopped because I felt a little depressed that no matter how brilliant the idea was, I'm not the person to be its voice. It could just be that my ideas are trash, but none of my suggestions have made it into the game.

It's so refreshing to see a 22Cans employee actually brainstorming with backers about Godus.

Remove belief bubbles entirely. Remove stickers. Instead of clicking houses, your followers come up with ways to try and show their appreciation. Burning effigies, sacrificing people to a volcano, praying to a statue of a golden calf. Whichever way the player likes aesthetically, they can encourage by showing their blessings upon those followers, soon that form of showing belief grows throughout your population. Now, belief replaces stickers.

Unlock god powers through increased belief. Instead of spending belief, you're simply trying to raise enough to unlock new abilities. Start off with the god hand to "guide" your followers. Let followers build houses without having to sculpt the land. Land stays beautiful. Sculpting the land makes your followers rush out of their homes and worship the ground which you move, I don't know why that should "cost" belief. Unlock the ability to generate a prophet. Use prophets to organise more advanced shrine building. Spend a prophet by making a town shrine.

Resource management shouldn't require gods to click fields. Workers are literally there to harvest that already. Implement trading between settlements. Introduce the concept of tools, fire, education, houses to your followers with belief. Followers cut down trees to build houses. Use god powers to sow an improved harvest. Early food gathering based on luck without divine intervention. Guide a herd towards your followers. When your civilization unlocks agriculture, wheat farms become a more reliable source of food.

Mid/Late game when approaching other civilizations. Happiness should be irrelevant. Do you assimilate other civilizations? Do you join forces for a multi-god system, pooling your belief and both growing stronger? Do you wipe them off the map with a crusade? Defend against assimilation by being more prosporous, or by instilling the fear of god in them. Use prophets to persuade enemy citizens to join your religion. Don't let players attack each others cities with god powers. Your sphere of influence should be within your citizens lives. If two disparate followers meet on the battlefield, however, divine intervention is up to you.

"Natural disasters" can be god powers too. Put them on a respectable cooldown. Extremely late game god powers could involve manifesting physically as a giant and stomping on everything. Leave a cool stone corpse after your fun in the sun.

Instead of voyages giving belief/resource/sticker rewards, make them continent rewards. A new island for you to settle on. You can keep the puzzles. It would be a continuation of the tutorial, your followers start on the beach, travel towards a suitable land to settle. Introduce mythological creatures / buried wonders. Unique rewards/shrines. Getting copies allows you to trade them to other players.

But those are just my ideas.

There isn't even a reason why a casual game couldn't have a complicated and interesting simulation running. As we said before in this thread you can implement a resource system without the player ever being involved in it. And that's just one example.