Should there be underwater currents and storms?
ROBOCOPMAX
Frechen, DE Join Date: 2015-12-29 Member: 210544Members
Frechen, DE Join Date: 2015-12-29 Member: 210544Members
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p.s. I also couldn't help but notice the huge/close moon - should there be tides?
There could be, but it won't affect the game due to the fact that the whole planet is covered with water.
AS for currents, why not? currents always exist, and something I'd like to see is known as the "blue hole" which is a naturally occuring phenomena, whereby whirlpools form in large, upright caves. The reason for this is there is an inter-weaving series of grooves in the walls, sort of like an exposed cross section of a mini cave. Essentially the whole thing corkscrews, and as currents rise and fall, they generate whirlpools.
Many people are known to have died thanks to this. They got too close while snorkeling, get sucked in, and can't get out before they run out of air. It's an interesting potential hazard to have.
thunderstorms? I guess, only if they're exaggerated though, so that they're high enough voltage to transmit to the shallow starting area's height , through the water, providing actual danger instead of just a pretty light show.
Hurricanes? Well, they are a tropical storm, and the planet is essentially one big vacation island, if you count the floating island anyways. Other than that it's mostly ocean and a giant spacecraft. could fling the player into the sky, along with anything that happens to be floating along the surface.
Also if we get this then all floating structures should gain an anchor ability, like shooting a harpoon into the seafloor or rock so that the currents dont drag off your sub.
It's actually happening to me at the moment, my escape pod keeps floating away I keep having to swim to it and push it back into place the odd thing is the mobile sub builder is not floating away.. bug I guess.
My advice would be to build in a shallow area with 4 rooms (or as many needed to break the surface) surrounding the pod so it doesn't float away until they give us something like an anchor. It has worked for me so far.