Evolution at the awakening stage

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

Is there any particular reason to you want to implement this force/persuasion of the player to the next stage? According to my best knowledge, the devs the plan is

@domin2ktr

your species can remain at a certain stage for an indefinite period of time, you will not be forced to progress further.

Perhaps a toggle can be implemented that allows a Player to automatically progress to the next stage when they have met all the requirements for it?

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I recall there is supposed to be a lurking danger of other groups managing to reach the next stage before you if it takes you too long to get to the next stage.

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

Perhaps that could be a hard mode thing?

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Again we should not go for “difficulty=realism”.

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

Maybe make that

@aah31415

lurking danger of other groups managing to reach the next stage before you if it takes you too long to get to the next stage.

a toggleable option? After all, more options to the Players, the more ways the game can be played.

[Poodelicus (Crazy, Curious, and Stubborn)]

It is pretty much been stated that you can stay in a particular stage as long as you want, but, due to the combination of how many people seem to want to be in a race with the AI and how many people don’t, I am fairly certain there is going to eventually be a Toggle/Option of some kind to turn on/off “the AI can reach the next stage before you”, but I am guessing that will be a Aware stage thing, after progressing that far has drawn in money, devs, publicity, etc.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

So I presume it would be a setting completely separate from difficulty then.

[Poodelicus (Crazy, Curious, and Stubborn)]

Probably.

AI and Time Limit Difficulty Setting

I am putting this in Aware Stage because I know our current Dev team cannot afford to give time to this right now. There has been a lot of discussions under various topics about: Whether or not the AI should be allowed to pass the player or not Whether or not the AI passing the player should automatically be a game over Whether or not the game should have a Time Limit There seems to be a lot of people who favor that realism means time limits and having to keep up with the AI. However, the wi…

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

By the way, I suppose it wouldn’t always be like that just one species/genus gets to awakening at a time and there could be cases where multiple got there around the same time, correct?

[domin2ktr]

Perhaps if another lineage that was very close to awakening could become awakened during your awakening stage.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Could they be a real competition to you?

[domin2ktr]

If they live on a very isolated continent or in a very very different habitat where your species could only live with very advanced technology (and because of the high cost, even with technology it would make little sense), an example of such a habitat would be water. (intelligent underwater species (without civilization) are quite possible)

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I wonder how would a stone-age underwater civ impact how does a land civ interact with water…

[Poodelicus (Crazy, Curious, and Stubborn)]

For one, for some time, they could mess with boats and fishing in the ocean. Assuming they are marine, they would likely not do much for river boats and fishing, but preventing land creatures from crossing the ocean or collecting its resources would slow down certain aspects of the land creatures development for some time. Ancient Hominids used Maritime craft as far back as 10,000 years ago, but what if they couldn’t until they developed a reliable way to keep sea creatures from sinking them?

Ancient maritime history

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I presume metal hulls would do the job or could the subaquatic learn to use scraps from these vessels for stronger tools?

[Poodelicus (Crazy, Curious, and Stubborn)]

Metal is not always better. The Titanic had a metal hull, and ice ripped through it. Grant it, I am sure the speed at which the Titanic was moving and the fact the iceberg was heavy helped. The wrong metal hull could circumstantially still be sunk.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I meant more like the undereaterfolk using the metal of ship hulls to produce metal weapons and stuff.