Upcoming 0.75.0

By Nat Posted On 21st 8 月, 2015

Sorry for the delay of the latest update, it has grown into a big one again. I have added thievery to the game now, along with AI crime-recognition and prison sentences, but consequently need a lot of time to balance everything. Currently there are a lot of situations where it’s too easy (eg standing behind a shopkeeper and stealing from under his nose) or has unrecognised contexts (eg AI forgetting about crimes, or ignoring alarms), all of which I am currently hunting down and ironing out.

I hope to make a rough release next week, it will be in the experimental build only until I finish fixing all the bugs.

Here are the additions so far:

0.75.0

Town populations slowly regenerate when residents die. Killing off a lot of NPCs that are affiliated with a nearby town will weaken that town slightly, it’s possible to wipe out all the cannibal patrols roaming near a cannibal village for example. Currently “homeless” factions like the bandits are not affected by this.
Crime system
You can now steal from shops
Crimes are recognised by the AI
Police can put a bounty on your head and arrest you
Civilians can raise the alarm and call police attention to a crime
Pickpocketing: NPC is alerted if he notices you stealing from his inventory while he sleeps
Selling stolen items has a chance of getting you in trouble, especially if you try to sell things back to the victim
Updated traders inventory:
- To trade with a shop you need to talk to the trader character.
- Interacting with the containers, counters, chest, etc. will be considering stealing. (Work In Progress)
- The traders inventory is infinite, so you can sell stuff more easily
- The trader stores his shop inventory in the actual containers around the shop. This means you can steal stuff from them.
- Some item containers now have locks. Traders keep the more valuable items in the more secure containers
Added a node system to building placement. It ensures that any machines and storage you place is always accessible by characters and fixes a lot of bugs like when characters tried to access a storage box through a wall
Emissive lighting added
Added AI ability for super long-range pathfinding, even when zones in between start and destination are unloaded