Yes we had that #gate before.
If I had the purple crayon(BTW, what's that in reference to), I would also remove XP, but I would also have no point system. I'd use an under-the-hood set of mechanics that improved the quality of your cooking, the more you did it, bettered the effectiveness of your weapons the more you used them, increase the quality of your crafting the more you crafted and repaired; then, I'd put a slow decay on everything. Being able to craft steal? Cement? Only limited by the resources you could find. Then... I'd make the zombies more interested in you the longer you lived, and the more you interacted with them... with specialized zombies being more attracted to your base the bigger or more complex it was... Zombie deaths attracting more zombies, so traps would eventually wear down...
Again it's a matter of preference isn't it? There is no way for TFP to meet everyone's preference on every game mechanic or structure. But they have allowed us the ability to mod almost every preference, guess that's why I enjoy the game so much. What I don't like I mod, what can't be modded I find ways to adapt and accept the challenge.
I'll agree that telling someone to play creative mode isn't a good answer to a game that can't suit multiple player styles, even though the devs seem to be interesting in fulfilling as many as they can.
We should mod the things that we want to enhance or accentuate , not mod out because they simply suck by design.
With the addition of traders quests, they could install stop gaps if RNGesus is being spiteful.
This is a completely false statement, and I suspect you're using it as your goto strawman. The Fun Pimps can absolutely satisfy everyone, even if a person do not know how to mod. Ark has sliders, check boxes, and all the way back in the days of tetris, games had modes... But you keep pushing the narrative that if you don't like it, mod it, or play creative, and looking back on your comments, you present no nuance... just one message, repeated ad infinitum... do what I do...
To some degree. If a system is presented that is achieving the goal better than the way I prefer it I'll accept it gladly. Like a16. I enjoy grinding and had no problem with spam crafting. But a16.4 handled progression better than a15.
I can’t tell if you are joking or not...
I neither hate, nor like, the perk system. It doesn't bother me all that much. Still think the perks need to be fleshed out more.
I wouldn't really call it a level gate, since the quest itself wouldn't really be a 'need', but more a 'want' to accomplish. You could still choose to allow rng to dictate your playing in finding certain items, or You can accept the quest since your luck isn't turning out well.
Aren't these games you are referring to mainly story based?
I am not joking... but nor am I saying it should be done one way or the other because of X, all I've done is give examples of "RPGs" where such mechanics are not used... You were the one who said, "Now you named a whole slew of games that are survival but not rpg’s that don’t use gating of some sort to save better powers for higher levelled characters." I then countered your argument with one of my own using examples... But you accuse me of chary picking? Yet choose to point out Final Fantasy as your example of how my argument is ill contrived? And you attempt to debase my argument by suggesting it's laughable?
True madmole said they will not revert anything from the Alpha 17 changes.
That is a good point. In this game we largely create the story ourselves and this is how I largely play by creating a story of living during a zombie apocalypse and I DONT notice the level gates very much at all.
