Kingdom Events
Added 2021-03-08 14:28:56 +0000 UTCWith Act VII's ending finally in view (I'm writing and rendering the last 'timeline' event now), I thought I'd share something else I've been working on.
There were a couple of big new systems I needed for Act VII; the Map was probably the biggest one of them. The military industrial complex is another, and finally the Kingdom Events. I wanted to borrow an idea I liked from Pathfinder: Kingmaker; as you proceed through the game, new kingdom events unlock. Some of them are story based, some of them are based on side-quests or random encounters in Elsewhere.
It also introduces the idea of Realm Points (Resource Points? RPs, anyway). There obviously isn't a direct continuum that includes both paying for coffee and buying military equipment; there's too many orders of magnitude between Starbuck's overpriced coffee and even a relatively cheap fighter-jet. So I left MC his pocket change, and made Realm Points the currency for buying things at a national budget level.
Having built the Kingdom Event system I like it enough that I might actually redo the existing research system using it. A single system is cleaner, and it feels much more *personal* than the direction I was previously going. We'll see.
Hope you enjoyed the video, and that the full build will be out in public soon :)
