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The sequel to the post-apocalyptic roguelike. Infinitely better.
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Zoo animals, for all! #13

Closed superninjakiwi closed 10 years ago

superninjakiwi commented 10 years ago

I added a bunch (15) of zoo animals, since I'm not the most wonderful at balance, Go ahead and tweak the stats to more reasonable levels, and if you do, please tell me so that I can improve. I'm glad to be helping out!

Next planned additions: Zoo area, likely a 3x3, smaller zoo. 'May' add 5x5 or bigger in the future. Re-organize Genera and Monsters, perhaps alphabetically. I might add more zoo animals if there is a demand.

Whales commented 10 years ago

This is cool, but there's a few problems with it! I'm not sure all these animals need their own genus, and even if they do, I'm not sure that the genus should have default monster values. Some of these are pretty goofy. Like a penguin attacking with a wing slap, elephants slapping you with their trunk, etc. Some of the AI doesn't make sense; why are pachyderms so dumb? The zoo map has some major issues. You use the symbols + and { but don't define what they are, and what's up with the big square of trees in the center of the map? Finally, now's not the time to be adding stuff like zoos to the game. Right now I want to focus on the common, core content. Maps like stores, houses, forest, beach, etc... monsters like zombies or common wildlife (wolves, bear, etc). Hold on to this patch, because it might be good down the road, but right now we don't need outlandish stuff like zoos.

superninjakiwi commented 10 years ago

I understand, and I'll archive them them right away. I did go a bit overboard with the amount of genus(genus's, genusi?) and I can see how this is not the time to add silly things like zoos. of course, my map was completely incomplete, as i was working in the middle of the night and i had to sleep. I didn't think any new changes i made would be pushed to the pull request(still getting used to github!) so i thought it wouldn't make much difference. Also, I'm still getting used to the values, so any stats I put down are just random guesses as to what it might be.

Sorry about this, I'll go fix it.

Whales commented 10 years ago

No worries! It's overall quality stuff, we're all new to this.

And the plural of "genus" is, unfortunately, "genera." Which gets confusing, I'm sure a lot of people aren't making that connection.