0007877: New permadeath mode

ID	Project	Category		Date Submitted	Last Update

0007877	Valley 1	Suggestion - Balancing Issues		May 17, 2012 5:55 am	May 17, 2012 12:08 pm

Reporter	EtherealOne	Assigned To
Status	feedback	Resolution	open

Summary	0007877: New permadeath mode
Description	With the way that the game is moving away from permadeath I was thinking about an additional mode to bring back some of the penalty for permadeath. Each time you die, you get to choose from the remaining characters in your settlement rather than randomly generated new ones. If you have no more lives then you start at a new settlement on the continent back at Tier 1 (When starting on a new continent you could give the player a buffer of several characters to make this easier). This would bring back the tension associated with a loss of character since you now have finite "lives". In order be slightly more forgiving, you could possibly increase the seed rate of the Rescue missions and it would provide an incentive to use "Seek Survivor" scrolls once you have unlocked all the time periods.
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BenMiff May 17, 2012 6:23 am reporter ~0024378	I can see this being a option on the difficulty screen (tick box.) However, I'd suggest that if you run out of characters and die, you wouldn't go back to the same continent; the continent gets dominated by the Overlord as the last vestiges of resistance are wiped out, and the continent becomes inaccessible and only visible from the seas. The player then starts again on a new continent; failed continents would lose their continent number to avoid dying to accelerate through a number of continent unlocks quickly.

tigersfan May 17, 2012 11:59 am reporter ~0024410	Your thoughts on this? http://www.arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,10723.msg105338.html#new

7foot_sativa May 17, 2012 12:08 pm reporter ~0024412	This idea makes a lot of sense, and it isn't exactly hard to get new survivors, but where do the randomly generated ones come from? I still prefer randomly generated, whether it makes sense or not.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
May 17, 2012 5:55 am	EtherealOne	New Issue
May 17, 2012 6:23 am	BenMiff	Note Added: 0024378
May 17, 2012 11:59 am	tigersfan	Note Added: 0024410
May 17, 2012 12:00 pm	tigersfan	Internal Weight	=> New
May 17, 2012 12:00 pm	tigersfan	Status	new => feedback
May 17, 2012 12:08 pm	7foot_sativa	Note Added: 0024412