Feature request thread

Hmm, interesting concept, raising land bastion style - though I don't really see this work.
It'd also feel out of place when looking at how the game has been so far. But thats just my own opinion.

The animation for the raising would also be annoying considering how everything is layered.
I imagine that if you'd do that, there'd effectively be a massive amount of autosculpting happening (or you'd need to jump-cut).
Both would result in a jarring or very lagging experience I suspect.

jarring, lagging, or potentially awesome....

The reason I posited my take on the Belief meter is due to the fact that the Belief meter needs to mean something. As it stands in Godus, it acts as an indicator of required activities rather than a reflection of player game play status. It shouldn't drive required activities but give a visual reflection of choices made. (I don't really like the happiness meter, but expect it to be as unmovable as stickers)

I'm not proposing that all direct violence powers only be allowed by "evil" gods, but to have a certain subset of thematic abilities unlocked as a reflection of the level of happiness or unhappiness. It'd have to be a spectrum of abilities and structures to allow for a god to go unhappiness if the mood struck him/her.

The happiness meter needs to have meaning and a reflection of game play. Performing chore activities to ensure it's full isn't going to result in a satisfying game. I'd like choices to have consequences (both positive and negative) and happiness just begs for something more robust.

Floating land would be totally rad, but not sure it's really worth the effort.

Now if the whole world was desolate beyond the borders or your (or other factions) control, and the beacons of expansion were actually towering shrines of mighty god-power that, when fully charged, exploded outwards over the land changing it from a desolate waste into habitable land/jungle/forest/pick-your-own-biome-type then that'd be totally awesome & allow for the customization stuff that not generating the land at all would give.

Further, a high level god power could involve placing minor versions of these, allowing you to rapidly terraform land. Think in terms of "raise a mountain" or "flatten a plain" or "create an island in the ocean" level of awesome power.

Seeding a desolate world seems a lot more plausible than raising the land as (floating) islands of sorts.
Having the world be a desolate or barren place with little to show for it. But getting revived by your divine presence would play very much into you being the god.

It'd also go hand-in-hand with restricting powers as a god, since if you are a weak god with few followers and you're spending ALL your divine energy in revitalizing the planet for your followers to live on, you are actually doing godly things.

Subsequently it'd also tie in nicely to the aesthetic element. Depending on your choices and moral allignment etc, the land you revive would be rich in certain resources. A god that is very nature focused would get more of that, a god that is an industrial giant would get the resources for that.
As time goes on you'd get more options as to what you would be creating for your people - and by creating these lands they in turn are guided indirectly.

There would be less need of a direct "I tell you to build X on location Y" and more of a "Hey dudes, here's a ton of *resource* - go use it!", having your followers figure out what to do with it.
It'd also allow for a wide variety of aesthetic options to diversify the land between players depending on the decisions you've made along the way.


Ideally I'd also like to see rival factions (be it native tribes who perceive your meddling nature as destroying their way of life or rival deities who want to carve out their own little piece of 'paradise'), who would resist your efforts and similar such obstacles to overcome.
Not just chores and minigames. But a thriving and growing civilization guided by your divine efforts.

a feature that Peter gets kicked in the nuts every time the game asks for gems.

I'm flattered you like my ideas, but I'm part of a team, and really, most of these ideas are dreams, not useful stuff. A good designer is someone who can come up with off the wall stuff that gels with the existing game, extends it without alienating people, and doesn't lead us down a path to a local maxima of design potential. The reason we don't let coders design things, is that they only come up with minecraft about 1% of the time. The rest of the time its daikatana.

By the way while we are talking about abilities we want how about the ability to dig. It was in 1.3, lets bring it back.

I'm glad you approve of my ideas, and to be fair, I'm only taking inspiration from this forum before posting. I'd have never come up with what I just came up with in isolation. Involvements with others is important for creativity, and that's why we need the people of the forums to give their feedback. But the feedback that's been driving me has been the crazier ideas, not the complaints. This is a great place to vent, but don't use up all your power negatively. We've had some of the best discussions on this board since the mood changed from "don't like"s to "would like"s. I say, keep it up, and don't ever think that something might be too technically hard. I am a coding god, and so is Gary, there is very nearly nothing we can't code if we put our minds to it.


“The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer.”—Motto of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World War II, according to The Home Book of American Quotations