You obviously haven't been mining during a cave in.
I think by Johny Newcomers he just means people new to the forums or this thread that have not been closely following his posts on the developments of a18, and thus are not aware of the things he has already stated on the matter. You're assuming a bit too much if you think that it means that he wants you to shut up. If he doesn't want to hear people discussing his ideas he has a simple solution - to not get on the forum at all. But he does so regularly.
Am i crazy or do i remember it being said that ALL ammunition will require brass in 18?
And that slim bar still take up the space of a full block when building. The reason all block shape have same hp is that this is a game. As gamer, we will use every advantage we can get to win the game. So what does that mean? Cube steel bases everywhere. Why would I build a nice looking base that only have 50% hp of a steel cube base? So then why bother having any other shape?
Wood < flagstone < concrete < reinf. concrete < steel
They making the shape selector to eliminate hundred of recipes in the crafting menu. That was the primary focus. The nice bonus is that we don't have to make extra crap in case we f up and have a chest fill with a bunches of random blocks in case i might be needed in the future. Or run back to storage room when we're one short.
and the magically fit 10k blocks in your backpack didn't get you?
You'll be surprise how those goes hand in hand.
Sounds good! When can I play
So turn down your xp slider? What pressure? Build turrets and amp up your defenses. That is the whole point of the game, to try and keep up with the increasing pressure.
No it was way more than just rendering them, generating them caused a lot of extra overhead and we no longer generate any terrain on the fly, everything is pre calculated. Culling something doesn't mean its free, the more things you can cull the time to cull them increases too. We need to focus on the future of bandits and faction quests, not dwell on experimental features that got cut that will not improve performance.
Its a bunch of work for no return, so no. I see the base as a binary on or off position. A block is there its 1, if not its 0. Adding some .1's for railings and .5's for half blocks doesn't make the game any better and makes balancing a nightmare. Zombies target weaker blocks so suddenly they go for railings instead of walls and it would look dumb.A half block would take half(ish) the resources of a full block, the same way a single-thick wall takes half the resources of a double-thick wall. So I don’t see what the “weird exploit” would be if zombies prefer to attack the latter, all else being equal.
What we have now looks like an exploit. You can build a column of single full blocks or double half blocks or quadruple quarter blocks, and they’ll look identical but have 1x, 2x, or 4x the HP. And zombies may avoid certain walls in a POI simply because there are decorative trim blocks on one side, which no human would give a second thought to, but they have the same HP as full wood blocks.
I get that addressing this wouldn’t be easy, but I don’t get how it would be worse in terms of exploits.
What performance?
The goal is to increase game stage in some biomes we want by design to be harder. You need game staging for teams, and proper scaling of enemies based on all the conditions, like I'm dying a lot so we scale it down. Going to the easy biome is not a solution if you spawn in the wasteland. How do you get there? You get killed by vultures and puking cops and radiated ferals over and over again. Ark is not fun the first 2 hours.