Season cycles

Seasons should stay longer than a week.

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No, they shouldn't unless they are primarily cosmetic, which they aren't.
Well maybe they should depending on what positive changes this would bring to the related game systems/mechanics

The matter of fact is though, that we don't even know remotely enough about that to have this discussion right now

DesyncGaming

All the more reason.

DesyncGaming

I would like to see it like this
Different plants/monsters spawn in different seasons ( not all just some ) so there are some things u simply can't obtain in winter, summer etc. and someone who has planned for this can now sell for 3x the price for example keeping the market fluctuating and your decisions hold more weight. Players are forced to interact with others to find said items and not be single player hermits. The only down side i can truly think of is the Scenery becomes boring which i don't think is really an arguement as most MMORPG's remain stagnant permanently and its never really been an issue.

1 week rotation to me are too fast and don't really hold much weight other than cosmetic.

Noaani

1 week per season is fine.

If Intrepid want to have the type of gameplay you are talking about, they can accomplish that by having some harvestable plants only available in one season out of the year.

Vhaeyne

It means you get to see all the seasons in a month of play.

This is good because all of the flakes who quit after a month when they realize PvP is a major part of the game will at least get to see snow.

daveywavey

Ugh, I hate snow.

HappyLies

I believe not all zones will be effected by climate/seasons right ? Some will be constant?

Vhaeyne

daveywavey wrote: »

Ugh, I hate snow.

You can not sleep the other three weeks of the month, and sleep all winter week.

Noaani

Vhaeyne wrote: »

daveywavey wrote: »

Ugh, I hate snow.

You can not sleep the other three weeks of the month, and sleep all winter week.

Seems valid.

Marcet

I would like it to be 2 weeks, it creates more urgency to not let a season go without farming your stuff

DesyncGaming

Marcet wrote: »

I would like it to be 2 weeks, it creates more urgency to not let a season go without farming your stuff

I'd be happy with 2 weeks instead of 1.

Warth

Vhaeyne wrote: »

It means you get to see all the seasons in a month of play.

This is good because all of the flakes who quit after a month when they realize PvP is a major part of the game will at least get to see snow.

is that really a good argument though? Why design something around those that will/have quit anyway at the expense of improved game systems/mechanics for those continously playing the game.

Seems rather idiotic to me

Vhaeyne

Warth wrote: »

is that really a good argument though? Why design something around those that will/have quit anyway at the expense of improved game systems/mechanics for those continously playing the game.

Seems rather idiotic to me

Is it even a argument? Am I on the Factorio forums again?

Biccus

Warth wrote: »

is that really a good argument though? Why design something around those that will/have quit anyway at the expense of improved game systems/mechanics for those continously playing the game.

Seems rather idiotic to me

I think it’s clearly a joke.
My take on it would be in favour of the 1 week per season. Reason being I believe if you have seasonal specific materials that are locked out for 6 weeks at a time, you’re going to develop a gathering rush for the resources every time they’re available. I’m not sure I like that play style, personally.

daveywavey

Vhaeyne wrote: »

daveywavey wrote: »

Ugh, I hate snow.

You can not sleep the other three weeks of the month, and sleep all winter week.

I'd be up for some major Rested XP come Springtime!

Anyway, hopefully if I'm in the equator region in a nice tropical node, I won't have to bother with snow. Silly soft stuff...

Blip

1 Week is good, if you can get a resource ins summer then you have 3 weeks.
Sell it the next week for the most profit too someone how don`t have it you can do the same every week and make coin.

It a good game play mechanic and makes things social and interesting.
Also you pay for 1 month at a time in essence, only fair you get all the season in one sub period.

Frostshot1

1 week seems to short for me. I like when it is snowing during the Xmas festivals.

Enigmatic Sage

Vhaeyne wrote: »

daveywavey wrote: »

Ugh, I hate snow.

You can not sleep the other three weeks of the month, and sleep all winter week.

humans are a tropical species as to why we do not hibernate.
As for the Tulnar... well that may be a different story! Lol

I would agreed and say a week per season is more than fair considering how one biome could be getting 3 weeks of growing based on items like crop types.

Other biomes may have different growing conditions with specific crop types and related factors.

Where one biome lacks in organic production, they'll probably have an advantage with inorganic items.

This creates different reasons for players and guilds to develop nodes in different biomes with strategic positioning for development and trading.

Noaani

Biccus wrote: »

Warth wrote: »

is that really a good argument though? Why design something around those that will/have quit anyway at the expense of improved game systems/mechanics for those continously playing the game.

Seems rather idiotic to me

I think it’s clearly a joke.
My take on it would be in favour of the 1 week per season. Reason being I believe if you have seasonal specific materials that are locked out for 6 weeks at a time, you’re going to develop a gathering rush for the resources every time they’re available. I’m not sure I like that play style, personally.

Indeed.

If the seasons were two weeks, that would compel Intrepid to have produce that is not available for one season, rather than produce that is only available for one season.

At absolute best, if seasons were two weeks long, they would have the rarer produce only available for two seasons, giving the game a four on, four off for that specific item.

With one week seasons, a one on, three off is viable.

Two on, six off simply is lt going to happen.

Warth

@Noaani
i'd like to see 2on/6off resources with singular biomes that always offer said resource. Like the center of the snowy biome/glacier always offering the winter resources.

That would incentivize travelling, the transport of goods and ind increase the uniqueness of certain biomes/nodes within it

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