1.0 Maps

[sedgwick]

• New Overworld: Any reference material for next overworld? Will be it something completely new? How will the new overworld connect to Norkos? That is, should there be something like a passage map that you travel to connect them, or added in the teleport hub in towns? Other ideas?
• Map Ideas:
  • Could feature locations based around the shrines and anti-shrines. Lava filled rivers around dirt and dead trees with anti-shrine temples, and grassy hills with shrine temples.
  • Large desert with an adequate level of cacti and skeletons. Maybe living skeletons too. In a scary graveyard.
  • A new large map mountain range. This one, however, passes through the desert. New terrain type we haven't used large scale!
  • Wilderness Guild Hall: I think something like this could work one of two ways. (edit: added the rest) One, a small guild hall that might be good for those who don't plan on making a big guild. Would have a small amount of building slots. The second way could be a large/standard size one, but I'm more of a fan of a tiny guild hall than another full size one.
• New Dungeons:
  • Cliff side mountain cave. Similar to draygon mountain, a thin slice of land overlooking a desert valley. The trail wraps around the mountain precariously, littered with holes the player could fall through back to the base. You climb higher until you reach the final summit. #796 mechanics would require the player have the proper collectible (or collectibles) to reach the peak. On top of the peak is still undecided!
  • Desert canyon town and cave system. The homes are built in to the rocks in the lowest canyon level, and a series of tunnels spirals above and below. Could be a part of the same range of mountains the cliff side cave idea is in, located in another part of the mountain.
  • Cave lake. A large lake deep underground containing strong bosses who have grown strange in this once sealed off cave.
  • Graveyard catacombs: A more symmetrical map, a large mesh of connected tunnels connect the graveyard's 4 corner temples.
• New Collectibles/achievements:
  • If there is some sort of connecting passage between the two overworlds, it could have a difficult to navigate side path that leads to a collectible.
  • Any other ideas you already had in mind for the new maps?
  • Any difficult/secret to reach maps that should be mapceptional?
• New flavorText/customMessages:
  • Any specific ideas/places/people/things that you have in mind that would warrant them? All collectibles I make from here on out will start with flavortext, so that's less of an issue. I believe this will probably evolve on its own as part of a new lore issue later.
• Other thoughts:
  • Quests: Should they be available to generate while creating maps, you could do story based map releases. Add the next maps after some time has passed and people have made it through some of the first ones?
  • Adding the maps: Should it be done as one big PR for 1.0? Or spread out over time like above?

[seiyria]

If we wanted to, we could do this one. For this map, the original way to get there was a portal in Norkos -7 (behind Slicer). Realistically, I think there should be more portals than that -- one in this dungeon in the same spot, as well as a few others in "deep" locations. Alternatively, it could just be a portal in Norkos but I think it should be harder to get to (although, since the game is random it should be more accessible, ie, in a few more dungeons).

I like the map ideas. New Guild Halls work for me. Generally, so far, I have one hall per town and they're all unique. It's going to be harder to do that with another ~4 towns so there might have to be a new mechanic introduced into these guild halls.

The dungeons would fit the map that I linked above, I think.

New collectibles, yeah, I can give some guidance depending on where you start with the maps. I can't think of any mapceptional places yet, though; we'll have to see how the maps turn out.

Nothing yet on flavortext / custom messages. Those sorta just come up.

Quests: Yes, I think this would be a good idea, but it might require some more framework. I'm taking a break from actual code for IdleLands for now in favor of a newer project (I still plan on facilitating the project though), so this may have to get put aside for now.

I'd say send each one as a separate PR. It's easier to do small chunks and not get caught up in it all being perfect if you just push them out bit by bit. Basically, what we were doing before.