Submitted by alderneyvamp on Mon, 2009-10-26 16:56.
I want to put a limit on the races for three main reasons.
1) I don't want it to resemble Jade/Ironclaw.
2) Like in Pokemon/Jadeclaw, if the animals are all your friends or all evolved like you, who do you eat? So I want things like cows and chickens to be available to be domesticated.
3) It's less work on my side!
However I do think I might move it up to 5 or 6, for variation in the game as well as to give a more varied society (there will be some mixed groups and some racially pure tribes in the world.) I was thinking perhaps of adding Crows (they are pretty damn smart anyway) whose main advantage of course would be flight and I would like designing an insectish race, but I have trouble envisioning making them large enough for interaction, perhaps that can be their flaw, as the other races have grown to the size of between small children (rats/cats/small dogs) to full grown adults (large dogs) perhaps cockroaches only ever get to the size of rats.
As for the setting itself I might start to develop/destroy london (once I figure out what caused mankinds downfall) as if I need inspiration, I can just look out the window. I think there will be very little left (which perhaps is why so much technology is hard to find.) Just had an idea, will probably hate it in the morning. Some humans survived, but without society, education and law they went through a sort of devolution. Sometimes player will stumble upon hairy man apes crowded around a single depowered computer in an office downtown, clinging to a cultural heritage they know nothing about. It would at least be spooky.
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Don't steal... The Government hates competition.
Must moderate myself.
I want to put a limit on the races for three main reasons.
1) I don't want it to resemble Jade/Ironclaw.
2) Like in Pokemon/Jadeclaw, if the animals are all your friends or all evolved like you, who do you eat? So I want things like cows and chickens to be available to be domesticated.
3) It's less work on my side!
However I do think I might move it up to 5 or 6, for variation in the game as well as to give a more varied society (there will be some mixed groups and some racially pure tribes in the world.) I was thinking perhaps of adding Crows (they are pretty damn smart anyway) whose main advantage of course would be flight and I would like designing an insectish race, but I have trouble envisioning making them large enough for interaction, perhaps that can be their flaw, as the other races have grown to the size of between small children (rats/cats/small dogs) to full grown adults (large dogs) perhaps cockroaches only ever get to the size of rats.
As for the setting itself I might start to develop/destroy london (once I figure out what caused mankinds downfall) as if I need inspiration, I can just look out the window. I think there will be very little left (which perhaps is why so much technology is hard to find.) Just had an idea, will probably hate it in the morning. Some humans survived, but without society, education and law they went through a sort of devolution. Sometimes player will stumble upon hairy man apes crowded around a single depowered computer in an office downtown, clinging to a cultural heritage they know nothing about. It would at least be spooky.
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Don't steal... The Government hates competition.