This thread is to discuss rules for future games of Thrive Odyssey. We’re in 50 BC and we’re almost at the Industrial Revolution, which doesn’t make any sense. However, the current game will remain the same. This thread is only to discuss gameplay mechanics and rules for future games after this one ends. While we can discuss them, we can also test them after agreeing on the rules.
The game’s original plan was divided in three parts :
Ancestors – Biological Odyssey
Divusion – Cultural Odyssey
Spacefaring – Technological Odyssey
I suggest that we divide each part into Stages of the real Thrive game while considering human factors.
For instance…
Ancestors – Biological Odyssey
a. Aware
b. Awakening
Divusion – Cultural Odyssey
a. Society
b. Industrial
Spacefaring – Technological Odyssey
a. Space
b. Ascension*
* The Ascension stage could be a part of the game where every player is playing god until most of them agree on starting a new game.
I also suggest that we do research on hominids and human history to make logical assumptions of realistic alternative history or gameplay.
I am unsure if there will be a game like this afterwards but i do think if there is another game , i feel like we should just skip to the divusion stage as the ancestor stage did not really have much too it?
I think that if we would go back further than Proconsul and play as the first primates, maybe we could simulate predefined evolution. The first primates were between Cretaceous and Paleogene, which means that they might have seen dinosaurs and how they got extinct. The question that remains is What was the common ancestor of all primates?
While the first stage has a kind of predefined path, it would allow us to simulate an evolution stage like in Path of the Wild, except that most species of the environment are already set in place.
I’m pretty sure primates evolved after dinos went extinct
and we shouldn’t go way far back into the past
it’ll get very boring halfway through the stage
also since we are in alt-history, shouldn’t we be able to evolve our own primates? there should be no predetermined path
Anyway, it’s because I think there wasn’t enough to the first stage.
No, it’s because this thread is to discuss all stages for future games. The first stage was us evolving into hominids.
It’s because if we evolve into a completely different species than humans, it would make it difficult to determine or predict what’s in the second stage because things would be too different.
The predefined path is just the evolution of primates species until we reach Hominids. It would be the Aware stage.
It’s also to avoid creating religion when the species doesn’t have a big enough brain to conceptualize such a thing. It would also avoid zenzone creating a religion out of shitposts he started.
For the inventions and hominids, we’ll see as they would be part of the Awakening stage.
Aware substage
We choose a set of species. We, the players, decide how are we evolving into the following genus. Should it be by mating? What kind of actions should we use? Should we just try to survive like in Thrive? Sure, it’s boring to just pickup fruits all the time so we’ll have to make decisions.
The Aware substage ends when we all learn how to create basic tools.
Awakening substage
This substage would be us playing as the advanced hominids (Homo genus). Evolution this time could be performed by us discovering new technologies. Every time we discover a technology, we become the next hominids. It ends when we discover fire.
Hmmm… I need more time thinking. I might edit the comment later.
Yeah. primates is too early, but evolving our own species deviates the game from what it was supposed to be. That’s the problem. You want to evolve your own species, but I don’t want to completely change the OP.