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[Angle]

The avoiding contact thing is for if we're tunneling and we run into open space, it'll stop until the next turn, where we get too decide to continue or not.

[Descan]

Oh. Hm. o-o Didn't figure that. I'd vote for that!

[Angle]

Is it just me, or do medium crystals require no additional energy?

[cerapa]

Is it just me, or do medium crystals require no additional energy?

Indeed. They dont, but you need construction material and a crystal cluster for em.


Anyway, as for the reason for this post. I have discovered that making images of the entire area has become unviable, so I am gonna go over to a more abstract system. The world will now be composed of 100x100 sectors(100000 matter each). As of the next update, you will cover 3 or 4 sectors(still WIP). Only important sectors will be displayed in an image(besides the new image, which will display sectors).

I have been expecting this to be required from the very start(and further abstractions will most likely be required later), and I am actually quite glad that the game has reached this. This was also the reason why there was no update yesterday, and why there might not be one today either, as I will be getting things sorted.

As the whole thing is still very WIP, I will be taking suggestions on the look of the sector map, and what you want displayed on it. Currently thinking of a simple grid, with a greener sector denoting more assimilation, but that gives very little information on the composition of the sector.

[Descan]

All I can think of is a simple abstraction of what a sector looks like, like a sector with high-integrity on one end, and a tunnel through it, would have some HI pixels on one end, and empty-space pixels running through it. Just enough to give us an idea of what is there.

Or a simple description of each sector, like "1A has blah blah", eh?

[cerapa]

All I can think of is a simple abstraction of what a sector looks like, like a sector with high-integrity on one end, and a tunnel through it, would have some HI pixels on one end, and empty-space pixels running through it. Just enough to give us an idea of what is there.

Or a simple description of each sector, like "1A has blah blah", eh?

The descriptions are definately going in, but they will be simple dumps of whatever data I keep myself.

The abstract sector idea sounds good. Will have to think about how big I make the sector displays. Will need to be small enough to be easily producible, and big enough to actually give information.

EDIT: Gonna need something to count them pixels. For conversion of the current area.

[Skyrunner]

Ooh, I'll be watching how you pull that off :3 I'm kinda in that situation too, but with a tactical map >.>

[cerapa]

Just a small test. The left hand bar shows assimilation level, while the upper bar shows the composition. Im afraid the map might look very busy like this though. The bars are trivially fillable and give enough information in my opinion.

On second thought, I could actually combine the two bars into one bar. With different colours denoting assimilated matter and non-assimilated matter. Yeah, totally could do that. Just need a good colour scheme.

[Toaster]

If the nodes are going to be arranged in a grid pattern to allow view of larger map area, the side bars will make it near unreadable.  Perhaps some sort of other key?

[cerapa]

If the nodes are going to be arranged in a grid pattern to allow view of larger map area, the side bars will make it near unreadable.  Perhaps some sort of other key?

Removing the second bar significantly improves matters, but I dont really know. Cant come up with another key at the moment.

[Angle]

That looks alright. Maybe if you make it larger?

[kaian-a-coel]

Like in stretching it?

[Angle]

yeah.

[cerapa]

Sorry about this taking so long, but I have finally managed to convert the current area to the new system thanks to paint.net's ability to count pixels.

Spoiler: Converted areas (click to show/hide)

1A

LowD 1777
MedD 1808
Empty 973
ExHI 1558
Unknown 3884

Assimilated:
LowD 184
MedD 153
LowQ 42
MedQ 0


2A

LowD 3849
MedD 1795
EMedD 20
Empty 4334
ExHI 2

Assimilated:
LowD 235
MedD 356
LowQ 73
MedQ 25

Will finish the update tomorrow.

[cerapa]

Gen 2 Cycle 16


1-2A displayed.

Spoiler: New Map (click to show/hide)

As you can see, I decided to go with the upper info bar. Its quite simple actually. Each pixel on the bar corresponds to 1000 units of anything.
White means empty space.
Light blue - LowD matter.
Dark blue - MedD matter
Red - ExHI matter
Black - Unknown
You currently havent assimilated enough in one area to actually show assimilation on the bar.

And looking at the data for the different sectors, I cant help but be amused by the fact that the single non-converted sector can be very easily spotted.

Spoiler: Map Info Dump (click to show/hide)

1A

LowD 1777
MedD 1808
Empty 973
ExHI 1558
Unknown 3884

Assimilated:
LowD 184
MedD 153
LowQ 42
MedQ 0

1B

LowD 1100
MedD 1100
Empty 0
ExHI 400
Unknown 7400

Assimilated:
LowD 119
MedD 0
LowQ 0
MedQ 0

2A

LowD 3849
MedD 1795
EMedD 20
Empty 4334
ExHI 2

Assimilated:
LowD 235
MedD 356
LowQ 73
MedQ 25

2500 Energy expended on miscellaneous
+35 LowQ
+204 LowD
+21 MedD
1 LowQ => 1 MedQ

You shocked the Low Density matter directly underneath your Crystal pillar. It heated up, but nothing in particular happened.

Your growth has allowed you to determine the contents of an area through the use of low-strength vibrations, which are picked up by your assimilated matter, and act similarly to a sonar. Sadly some Extremely-High Integrity matter throws it off and you are unable to determine the contents of the partially hollow Extremely-High Integrity cluster.

Energy:
Energy Generation: 61475/cycle
Energy Storage: 85/111040
Metamorphosis Requirement: [2/2] Improvement possibilities
                                       Ready for Metamorphosis

Crystals:
Low-Quality Crystals: 116 [14500/cycle 58000 storage]
Medium-Quality Crystals: 25 [7500/cycle 37500 storage]
Assimilated Low-Density matter: 538 [287][10][37][204] [19155/cycle 5380 storage]
Assimilated Medium-Density matter: 508 [500][8] [20320/cycle 10160 storage]

Crystal Forms:

Spoiler: Low-Quality Crystals (click to show/hide)

Energy Generation: 125/cycle
Energy Storage: 500
Fabrication Costs: 600 Energy, empty space

Spoiler: Medium-Quality Crystals (click to show/hide)

Energy Generation:300/cycle
Energy Storage: 1500
Fabrication Costs: Low-Quality Crystal, 2 Construction Material
Special: Needs to be surrounded by any form of crystals(not assimilated matter).

Spoiler: Assimilated Low-Density matter (click to show/hide)

Energy Generation: 50/40/30/25/cycle
Energy Storage: 10
Fabrication Costs: 1 Low-Density matter, 100 Energy
Special: Energy generation fades by 10/cycle/cycle until it reaches 25/cycle

Spoiler: Assimilated Medium-Density matter (click to show/hide)

Energy Generation: 40/cycle
Energy Storage: 20
Fabrication Costs: 1 Medium-Density matter, 150 Energy
Special: Provides 0.1 of non-regenerating Construction Material.

Notes:

Spoiler: Map (click to show/hide)

Really need criticism on this thing. Is it very hard to decipher?