Comments on Game Plans

[Gregorius (Gregorius Techneticies)]

@ivaniesta14

Tickrate should be unified, as it is an implementation detail . There should be a difference as to when things tick and when they trigger . Consider ExtraUtils pipes¹ as an example: by default, they tick each MC tick (50ms) but trigger (search locations) once per second.
In code, this is represented by a variable incremented each tick and reset each trigger, only triggering when the variable reaches a threshold.

Yeah there is gonna be separate Tick Lists so that you dont need to “tick up” in order to achieve the same effect as you described. Optimization Detail.

@ivaniesta14

Will setting up a dedicated server be needed to play multiplayer on multiple computers in the same LAN network?

Not gonna be required to setup a dedicated Server, think of “Open To LAN” in Minecraft. Exact Details as to how that Feature is implemented will emerge when I do it. XD

@ivaniesta14

I suggest using radial menus. They are more inmersion-friendly without being too hard to comprehend. Iirc there was a MC mod that added that to conflicting keybinds.

As I mentioned in other areas of the Gameplans, radial Menus would be one of the Options a User could choose.

@ivaniesta14

Just two small suggestions:
Make sure keys are detected in a physical way (i.e. the key 1 is registered as 1 even if a modifier like Shift is pressed). I use a custom layout with switched number row and I would not like to have to change game controls each time I reinstall the game. This would also help German players with Y/Z key issues.
Also make sure the <> key (between z and left shift) on Spanish keyboards is usable. It is a minor thing but it is often overlooked.

I’m German, I know the Y Z thing and its annoying as fuck to me too. On Linux I can very much guarantee the Keycode thing, on Windows well, maybe that Subsystem for Linux that they have is required for better control over the Hardware… But that is something @OvermindDL1 will have to worry about probably. XD

@ivaniesta14

Some minor changes:
rotate should use Shift+MWheel , leaving ´MWheel´ to change items (like in standard MC), unless changing items uses a menu.
As for the second hand, I suggest defaulting non-bound, non-confilcting keybinds to Alt+<Primary Hand keybind> , example Alt+Left Click is whack with secondary hand.
For consistency with MC, swap should use F instead of E .

Ah right forgot the Inventory Key. Though that doesn’t really matter due to the many presets I’m gonna add, especially the Minecraft one.

@ivaniesta14

Instead of showing all descriptions at once add options to filter which ones to show or limit them to one at a time with controls to change between categories.

There would be an actual dedicated Description Window that just shows that Description, the Tooltips would only ever show things like Name, Type, Color and Amount but not the Description.

@ivaniesta14

If the thousand marker is going to be a problem I suggest using SI guidelienes (whitespace for thousands, dot for decimal numbers).

Yeah spaces as markers are good too.

@ivaniesta14

In some cases it may be useful to have big numbers in exponential form ( 6.022 × 10^24 ) but using kilo , mega , etc for slightly smaller ones is preferable. Also a keybind to switch between the two of them would be useful, such as holding Shift would turn 2.2M into 2 200 215 ¹ or 15G into 1.5 × 10^10

¹ Rounding is acceptable, as otherwise using suffixes would not make sense.

The reason to use the K, G, T, P etc in the way i described was to prevent decimals from showing up because those can confuse the crap out of people. Also just so you know, 128 Bit Numbers are doable with primitive Data Types, yes that’s twice as much as a long.

@ivaniesta14

A bit off-topic but I would like to have some kind of Thaumcraft-like magic in the game. Aspect-based crafting resulting in some helpful items, such as portable hole staves, or even weapons and damaging magic, enchanments and Skyrim-like spells like Spark or Frostbolt. Maybe even late-game alchemy allowing material transmuation to some extent.
This is in-between “normal” and “difficult” resource complexities but in a more abstract, concept-based sense: both iron and gold could have “metal” aspect but only the latter has “greed” in it; players could have different aspects based on the items they have, etc.

Yeah I thought of integrating Aspects of some sorts to the Resource System, though I wouldn’t use it myself unless I get bored after a few years and redo Thaumcraft in my Game. XD
It is just to make sure that Mods can use it and that Modders actually think about Aspects when adding their Items, so that there is no need to iterate over the Crafting Recipe List to “guess” the Aspects like Thaumcraft does.