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>Still, I feel like there are a bunch of lost opportunities: - Climate is global on a planet or moon. Why no ecosystems? - No tidally locked worlds - Gravity

>Still, I feel like there are a bunch of lost opportunities: - Climate is global on a planet or moon. Why no ecosystems? - No tidally locked worlds - Gravity is the same - No running water - No geological features (geysers, volcanoes, etc) What would be awesome, though likely totally infeasible would be the universe of no man's sky coupled with the individual world building of dwarf fortress, maybe not the civilizations, but the geological stuff. The way the world gen simulates erosion, and change over time to landforms. With different variations to the types of worlds generated, you could get some pretty cool geologically unique worlds. Have worlds with different primary mineral types and atmospheres form differently than earthlike ones and stuff. I'm sure something like that is years and years away. Even if it was on a smaller scale, so you could have people actually end up meeting eachother and because different planets would be different geologically there would be different resources and opportunities for trading and stuff.... OK...I'm sorry, i've kind rambled on in a tangent and gotten away from the original premise now...I'll stop here.

erikpukinskis 7y ago
Why would that be impossible? Building a NMS GUI+game on top of dwarf fortress seems like a great side project.
setr 7y ago
In general, all such mechanics are a dramatic simplification of reality, and when doing such a procgen, you don't do such a from-scratch approach, because it's unfeasible. What you do instead is realize that you want a tidallocked world, then figure out the most important outcomes of it, then fiddle with your generation rules till you get something that looks mostly correct. More likely than not, it's perfectly feasible in the nms engine, but the devs themselves haven't put much thought towards it. Also see heredragonsabound; you can get really far with parameter fiddling.
celeritascelery 7y ago
This has been my dream game since I was a kid. MMO dwarf fortress set in space.

erikpukinskis 7y ago

Why would that be impossible? Building a NMS GUI+game on top of dwarf fortress seems like a great side project.

setr 7y ago

In general, all such mechanics are a dramatic simplification of reality, and when doing such a procgen, you don't do such a from-scratch approach, because it's unfeasible. What you do instead is realize that you want a tidallocked world, then figure out the most important outcomes of it, then fiddle with your generation rules till you get something that looks mostly correct. More likely than not, it's perfectly feasible in the nms engine, but the devs themselves haven't put much thought towards it. Also see heredragonsabound; you can get really far with parameter fiddling.

celeritascelery 7y ago

This has been my dream game since I was a kid. MMO dwarf fortress set in space.