Redesign Chicken Mode

[Arch-Shaman]

Chickens get kind of boring towards the mid to late game stages. This is because defenses become impenetrable at that point. At this point a major redesign of the entire chicken mode is needed.

Concepts:

• Menaces: Menaces are big enemies (like white dragons) that are semi-intelligent, strong, and have different abilities. They start spawning as chickens can no longer expand their 'territory'. They can retreat to recover health and generally like to strike weak points. May require custom AI.

Probably more as I think about it.

[luminaStuffphoton]

Prehaps the late game chickens could become ridiculously chonky? such that it's simply not possible to survive for 60 minutes as by around, say, minute 50 the waves might contain, say, hundreds of tiamats and blobbers each with prehaps strider level (or superstrider level) stats. Instead, the player is forced to actually go out and clear the roosts in order to rush down the queen before the super scary chickens have time to spawn changing the queen time and the roost time "penality", as well as making rafflesia an anti (so oblivion isn't the best way to clear roosts) might make for some interesting gameplay

Menaces sound fun, like, a super-unit that puts lots of pressure on a single point of your defense to make a hole. It'll need to be followed up by a horde of chickens but at least the hole is there. would also make units more viable in chix since units are able to focus down the menace as well as get out of it's way

In other news, chix early game may need nerfing. or not. suicidal should actually feel suicidal

[luminaStuffphoton]

Here's my list of ideas

• [ ] Rework the chicken tech progression to be based on absolute time (currently once you get the ball rolling it's stupidly easy to keep the chickens at pidgeon tech)
• [ ] Rework the PAR system into "Hive cookery", which builds up over time, is reduced by killing roosts, and is used by the chickens to spawn tricks (digger, spire and probably a giant fuck you unstoppable nuke to cook the most hardy lobsters),
• [ ] rework the spawning algorithm to be more balanced
• [ ] Give chicken "tech levels" so the tech progression isn't the same every game (e.g. some games you'll see spikers before pidgeons, but you'll never see lobbers before spikers or pidgeons)
• [ ] Allow chickens to spawn more than 2 types in a single wave
• [ ] swap around the location of basilisk and cockatrice for some varity in the models
• [ ] make all chickens spider movetype because walls are boring
• [ ] make rafflesia an anti (done, needs playtesting, which in turn is blocked by a major bug)
• [ ] make chicken queen and white dragons not lame (see above)
• [ ] implement a dynamic difficaulty system - if the humans are doing poorly they should have a bit longer before they get cooked while if the humans that are doing well the difficaulty should be rapidly ramped up
• [ ] make late game chickens much stronger (thinking of giving basilisk the stats of a vanilla assault and cockatrice the stats of a vanilla strider. tiamat should just have fuck you stats)
• [ ] Menaces as chicken dyncomms!??

Mana Required: ~1000-2000 in total, minus the modelling required for meances. Assuming nothing goes wrong (morbid laughter). Could do in 1 to infinity weeks depending on irl stuff (sorry if I'm writing too many logs, part of me just really loves thinking, please tell me to stop if that's required)

[luminaStuffphoton]

Finally Done