Respawn Resources.
Taiphoz
UK Join Date: 2016-01-01 Member: 210749Members
UK Join Date: 2016-01-01 Member: 210749Members
Real simple idea , limestone grows like a crystal, when you harvest it you don't destroy the root you simple smash a big enough chunk off to expose what was inside, the root then rng picks a new core and over time regrows and builds new layers of limestone until its big enough to harvest again, this simple mechanic could be applied to everything that we harvest from table corral to lithium.
With a system like this the scanner room will actually be able to scan for all the resources because their in world hidden in the resources as the rng has already been done..
From the players perspective nothing would change, at least not until they got a scanner room, which is kinda mid to late game anyway so should be able to see Silver for example.
With a system like this the scanner room will actually be able to scan for all the resources because their in world hidden in the resources as the rng has already been done..
From the players perspective nothing would change, at least not until they got a scanner room, which is kinda mid to late game anyway so should be able to see Silver for example.
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Personally, I kinda make the cyclops my home base to begin with, as soon as I can get one.
I also think that if the respawn rate is low enough, it doesn't change one bit about the current gameplay. Say, 100 days. Who's going to sit around a 100 days to afford that window in the new east wing instead of going out to find quartz elsewhere? (And even if they do, eh, their choice.) Meanwhile, for those of us who dislike how non-respawning resources limits multi-basebuilding and promotes destruction of the environment when that very environment is part of what makes basebuilding fun, we get something of a solution.
Things like the sandstone and other nodules, those should not come back. Nodules like those take tens of thousands to millions of years to develop and even then only conditions that permit it. That they should "grow back" in a week or a month is unreasonable.
However, this can be gotten around. If we had weather events, it's entirely reasonable that wave action would "unearth" new deposits of quartz and the like - things which can be plucked off the bottom, not nodules that are broken open. That would solve the problem of, say, quartz depletion without appearing like resources are just magically being refilled.
Realism vs gameplay at work. If the FO4 areas didn't restock/reset themselves, there would be (at least) 2 issues. 1: The game would have to save EVERY SINGLE THING you pick up, indefinitely. It could never forget an area and re-generate it. This would balloon save files over time, even worse than currently. 2: It would eventually result in a lack of resources. Once every area was picked clean and stocks were depleted, the game would slowly run out of things not generated by enemies.
And at that, why is there an infinite supply of enemies? You'd think that with enough murder, you could eventually destroy factions. And once every opposing faction was wiped out, the game would go outright boring. Who is MAKING all of that gunpowder? I can but power cells as craftable and charge-able. And the game doesn't even bother to make you fuel generators, because that would be outright busywork.
These aren't issues that would occur for a long time, but they would eventually impact the more enthusiastic fans of the game, the ones who are still there years after release, still helping to drive word of mouth for new sales.
As far as Subnautica, could the game track available resources? Once an area is picked clean, there's eventually an earthquake, and a few new nodes corresponding to the area poke through the seafloor? That's believable enough, I would think. Say that alien tech to pull resources gently out of the planetary crust is still working as intended, though the automated harvesting has failed.