More cave terrains
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Nice. I'd been thinking that underground scenarios needed some greater variety. Campaign creators try to add variety to the caves by putting in water, paths (HttT), or even swamps (TRoW), and by varying the width of the passages, but more was needed. These two additions will really help improve the possibilities.
I don't think I like aliasing the mushrooms to forest, but OTOH I don't have a better suggestion, other than creating an entirely new terrain type. If you do create an entirely new terrain type, I propose that at least one race have worse defense in mushrooms than in open cave, on the grounds that they're allergic to the spores. Dwarves seem like an obvious candidate for that, since they're generally not bad in caves and also hills (assuming you keep the rocky cave areas aliased to hills, that is), but there are other possibilities, e.g., Orcs. Then again, that makes it similar to forest, so you'd want to differentiate it in other ways to justify keeping it separate, or else just alias it. Maybe some playtesting (for balance issues with different races) is desirable for making a final decision on that?
Hmmm... it also springs to mind that fungi can represent decay, which might have some relevance when considering undead, i.e., perhaps they should have a natural affinity for the mushrooms and good defense there. Perhaps that's not an important consideration, though. update: zookeeper beat me to posting these ideas for undead and dwarf races, and I think I agree with what he said about drakes, too.
I don't think I like aliasing the mushrooms to forest, but OTOH I don't have a better suggestion, other than creating an entirely new terrain type. If you do create an entirely new terrain type, I propose that at least one race have worse defense in mushrooms than in open cave, on the grounds that they're allergic to the spores. Dwarves seem like an obvious candidate for that, since they're generally not bad in caves and also hills (assuming you keep the rocky cave areas aliased to hills, that is), but there are other possibilities, e.g., Orcs. Then again, that makes it similar to forest, so you'd want to differentiate it in other ways to justify keeping it separate, or else just alias it. Maybe some playtesting (for balance issues with different races) is desirable for making a final decision on that?
Hmmm... it also springs to mind that fungi can represent decay, which might have some relevance when considering undead, i.e., perhaps they should have a natural affinity for the mushrooms and good defense there. Perhaps that's not an important consideration, though. update: zookeeper beat me to posting these ideas for undead and dwarf races, and I think I agree with what he said about drakes, too.
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Hmm... How about, an occasional occurance, not _unusual_, but not as common as forest or hills or grassland, I would think. With that proviso, I think I like this idea. Obviously different graphics would be required for above and below ground mushrooms, but they could be aliased to the same terrain type.zookeeper wrote:I'm in favor of making mushrooms and mushroom forests a common occurrence on the surface of the world of Wesnoth, not just underground.
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I think that the last mushroom (the least straigth) could use some variants. I mean it could bend into other directions too. They look a bit odd at the moment in game.frame wrote:
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(It's for 4th graders though. Schoolstuff for 10 year olds. It seems that they have to learn those mushrooms.)
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The main thing is that some unit will do well in some of the new cave terrains and others will do badly. That's what is needed to make the caves tactically interesting.Lord Aether wrote:I like the idea that dwarves have disadvantage in them, and that undead are good in them.
2 other reasonably possibilites for in-cave variety are mud (similar to sand or swamp) and cave-floor-lit-by-beam-of-light.
It would be really nice if a terrain could have an illuminated_Time applied to the terrain description.
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I really like the look of mushrooms in caves and underground terrain, they fit in perfectly and make a lot of sense, growing in dark, damp places. Very nice indeed.
I'm not so fond of the open terrain 'mushroom forest' idea though... Reminds me of Morrowind and those horrible giant mushroom-towers and mushroom-cities which made you feel like an insect lost in toadstool paradise. Very unrealistic, very absurd, quite annoying and just plain ugly. They ruined the game to the point that some fans made mods replacing the mushroom trees with 'normal' trees. In fact I'd love to see more varied forest and jungle type terrains in Wesnoth.
Anyway, regarding our potentially edible/poisonous friends: maybe smaller mushrooms mixed with swampy terrain would be ok, IMHO.
I'm not so fond of the open terrain 'mushroom forest' idea though... Reminds me of Morrowind and those horrible giant mushroom-towers and mushroom-cities which made you feel like an insect lost in toadstool paradise. Very unrealistic, very absurd, quite annoying and just plain ugly. They ruined the game to the point that some fans made mods replacing the mushroom trees with 'normal' trees. In fact I'd love to see more varied forest and jungle type terrains in Wesnoth.
Anyway, regarding our potentially edible/poisonous friends: maybe smaller mushrooms mixed with swampy terrain would be ok, IMHO.
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I wonder if we could alias the flat cave floor to hills and make anything with a feature (including the rugged cave) aliased to cave.
It would be a reversal of sorts, but it would improve many units' movement on what looks like flat terrain and retain the flexibility to slow them down with rougher terrain.
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I wonder if we could alias the flat cave floor to hills and make anything with a feature (including the rugged cave) aliased to cave.
It would be a reversal of sorts, but it would improve many units' movement on what looks like flat terrain and retain the flexibility to slow them down with rougher terrain.
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We are. These use "[" and "]".scott wrote:Lichen-illuminated cave wall!
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I like the idea of more variety in cave terrains, and I like the mushroom forest graphics, but I don't quite see why they need a new terrain type when they could be aliases of others; movement of cave and defence of forest, perhaps, or movement of cave and defence of swamp...
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