--- tags: Design, Golem title: Golem redevelopment --- # Golem redevelopment [toc] # Maintainer Design Flows :::warning This section describes design flows that are meant to be upheld in the PR process. **PRs that go against this section are subject to closing.** Please do not edit this section unless you are a maintainer. Comments via sidebar are welcomed. ::: --- ## Problem statement Golems, although they have a reasonably large number of subtypes, are not particularly mechanically or materially interesting to actually play and or interact with. Most of the subtypes boil down to human, but with x gimmick and a lot of the gimmicks are not particularly good either. ## Outcome desired Golems are reduced in subtype complexity, but have a greater amount of player choices they can make and are more worth playing and creating as xenobiologists, and the player feels like they have more agency in choosing what happens as the golem. ## Solution Reduce the golem subtypes to zero, add a single golem race, they are mostly like a human, with a unique mineral based sprite. and give them better mechanical crunch ### Mineral consumption ideas Their main mechanic is that they can consume minerals, to gain temporary buffs that last 5 minutes While in a buffed state, they can only consume the same type of mineral that relates to that buff (or glass). Golems get hungry over time like humans, however hunger has a lot more meaning to a golem, if you don't eat enough to stay satiated, you start to turn back into a lifeless stone form! You will move slower at low fullness and eventually at zero, you will revert to a statue form, until someone comes and feeds you. This means that if you choose a type of buff, you should hope to have enough minerals (or glass) to survive until the buff wears off, otherwise you could find yourself in real trouble! ### Smelting Golems are immune to lava, and while standing in it they can smelt ores into sheets, using the lava heat in their internal forge. #### Nutrition minerals Glass - can be eaten at any time, but does not give much to your hunger at all (as in you'll eat a full stack of this every minute), but you can eat it while buffed Iron - heals the golem a bit too, is the only way they can be healed, is their basic food #### Buffing minerals Uranium - Stops your hunger for 5 minutes Plasma - Become fireproof, prevents heat temp damage and when taking heat damage, that heat damage is converted into power that goes into the local area APC Plassteel - Makes you immune to space pressure damage and cold heat damage Silver - Gives the golem magic resistance Gold - Gives the Golem energy projectile reflect, and gives you shock immunity Diamond - Makes the golem invisible when not moving and semi transparent when moving (like the xeno stalk mode) Bananium - Gives you noslip and you become slippery when laying down Titanium - Gives the Golem extra brute strength hitpoints during that 5 minute period ### Special one offs Bluespace crystals - Makes you teleport to a chosen target destination, within 7 range, but randomises the end point by a few squares (has charge up time and shows target location with animation) Lightbulb - Makes you give off light Telecrystal - Eating this gives you a badass syndie skin, eat more than 5tc total to get it permanently Gibtonite - Allows them to fire out the gibtonite as a rocket shot after consuming it, up to two shots can be stored for several minutes, but then the gibtonite pops out armed on the tile the golem is on (and you can disarm it as per usual) ### Golem speed is the same as humans ### Non goals Adding interactions with every single type of mineral and item in the game, for now we are limiting it to things you mine on lavaland and a few funny exceptions --- # Non-Maintainer Design Flows :::info This section describes various design flows that are not yet incorporated into the maintainer-approved design. **Working towards these flows does not guarantee merge, nor does going against these flows guarantee close. Please resort to `##` and below for heading tags, and preferably `Title (Author)` for easy reference. Titles can be set with YAML metadata. Ping Cobby on Discord if you need assistance embedding/generating your note.** ::: --- embed notes here ---
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9/25/2023
Melee combat revamp

Melee combat revamp [toc] Maintainer Design Flows :::warning This section describes design flows that are meant to be upheld in the PR process. PRs that go against this section are subject to closing. Please do not edit this section unless you are a maintainer. Comments via sidebar are welcomed. ::: Problem statement Right now, melee combat does not seem like a good gameplay option, mostly it involves pixel hunting based clicking with the focus entirely around stunning your opponent or dealing as much damage with the biggest weapon you can find, and there's very little beyond that. Most of the different classes of melee weapons do not play any differently to each other, and only differ in amount of hand slots used or damage dealt (with the associated impact on wounding)

9/28/2022
Construction

The current construction system as it exists on TG is functional, but is also too slow and clunky to really make for any good content. This proposal aims to make construction easier, particularly for engineers. However, we have to balance this with the fact that being able to construct walls, windows and other items has significant grief and combat value, therefore, any such large scale construction system needs to handle this. The easiest way to manage it, is to require a large bulky item that is impracticable to use in a combat situation (outside of unique scenarios where the payoff is worth it), and also make automated construction take time, but be faster in a bulk scenario. This document intends to outline an approach that hopefully meets these goals, allowing significant large scale construction and repair, without turning the combat meta into a game of tower fortress where everyone duels with construction systems (although that does sound like an interesting gamemode someone look into that). The New Construction system A new mobile vehicle (that operates kind of like a mulebot, but has good code) called the Rapid Assembly Tractor or RAT is added. This vehicle can be driven to a location (run speed), and has a slower auto follow mode (walk speed), where it tries to follow you around as you walk, this has a far larger inventory and is the right choice for long term building.

6/12/2022
Titanfall lavaland

Lavaland overhaul that focuses on managing the power imbalance between lavaland and the station. It will achieve this by making mechs a lavaland only vehicle (leaving more room for modsuits in the station environment). With the miner piloting the mech on lavaland against the environment and local wildlife. Reasoning A lot of lavaland was designed in such a way to prevent cheeseing, because kor wanted to protect the value and sanctitity of the leaderboards for the PvE aspect of the lavaland areas. That means that lavaland creatures resist large amounts of normal crew weaponry, have massive amounts of health and are generally indestructible by a lot of the normal cheese methods you might be able to use against a regular player or NPC This imbalance between the miner and lavaland creatores is then dealt with by the rather fridge logic crushers, that deal greatly increased balance in lavaland like environments, but are nerfed heavily on station to ensure they are fitting within both locations power levels. This differing power level leads to a situation where mining loot becomes very unbalanced because it has to be effective on lavaland, but lavaland is a much higher power scale area than the station. This in general has caused a lot of design headaches for the maintainer team as we're constantly fighting against the power imbalance, and mining loot leaks back into the station and causes problems to the standard meta.

11/7/2021
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