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[Mephansteras]

Nice of you guys to drop in!

As you can tell, we're a bit interested in your game.

And I'm sure MANY of us will be happy to help you beta-test it for you when you get to that point!

[Aklyon]

You don't nessesarily have to make a beta purchaseable, but you could make something like how planetside 2 is right now for testing out all different kinds of hardwares that you might be missing.

Like a laptop with an i3 and plenty of ram but intel hd graphics.

[Girlinhat]

You do make a good point.  You can tone down graphics, you can go so low as to make it roguelike graphics and save a lot of power that way.  But simulation strength is something that you cannot really tone down without giving up core gameplay.  On that note though, would it have the option to play DF style of low FPS?  That is, people with slower computers could play the exact same game, but on a lower speed, so that instead of 10 minutes to a day it might take 30 minutes.  I've played other games (Children of the Nile for instance) where if you go into "fast" speed mode, it actually changes the gameplay, and villagers move relatively slower.  This can cause certain jobs to become impossible because they're too far away on fast mode.  DF has done a magnificent job of scaling speed.  Fast speed and slow speed is the exact same game, it just depends on how the user views the passage of time.

Could Clockwork Empire have a similar option to just hobble the speed but keep the same simulation depth?  Could this be modded?

[Zangi]

I'm liking where this is going.

[Wayward Device]

Amazing. Just when I'd given up all hope of a sandbox steampunk DF style colony sim with Lovecraftian undertones, along comes one from a good indie studio. I wonder if it'll be possible to build a madness detector that attracts the dangerously insane and drops them in magma...

Today has been a good day.

[Mephansteras]

Well, any good Victorian society is going to have Asylums for the crazy people.

You can pump magma where you want it to go.

I think this is pretty doable. Although you may lose some doctors and nurses in the process.

[Girlinhat]

When "urchin" is more politically correct than "orphan" then the potential for cult-centric tentacle madness is at an all-time high.  Although I suspect it will be difficult, if not impossible to run an entirely cult-based civilization.  You'll have to have a foundation of sane fodder, producing food and luxury items to ship to the madmen and keep them alive and functional.  At that point it becomes a challenge of balancing the normal people vs the productive people, and trying to keep them on the edge of sanity so that they can be considered technically insane and productive, but yet sane enough that they stay alive and don't simply create a giant bomb.  A harrowing tight-rope walk of debauchery awaits!

[Aklyon]

pump magma

Nonono, magma is well known here to be successful and proven, this is a time for SCIENCE! We shall pump LIQUID ELECTRICITY!

[forsaken1111]

Now I want to write my old book idea for a victorian steampunk magical horror story.

[ScriptWolf]

Thank you for the reply and welcome to the forums it's so nice to be able to interact with developers ! enjoy your stay in the madness called bay12

I look forward to cultivating my mad scientists

Also I'm very very excited for this game, I know it's veryyyyyy early but when you did plan on doing beta testing how would you go about letting people into the beta would be sign up like normal ?.

And a bit of clarification on the interview it said that characters would lose limbs (?) so does this mean characters have working body's as per say like dwarf fortress where limbs will be lost and diseases can be obtained.

Which also leads onto how in depth will each character be ? Will they be a very thin just there to work character and just another unit, or are you going for dwarf fortress where each character has likes dislikes relationships with other characters and is its own individual ? ( sorry if it has been said on the interview just wondering for a bit more clarification )

Thank you for your time daniel

[Zangi]

Question...  You guys know about the Girl Genius Comic?

EDIT: Fixed da code

[Aklyon]

Your code is brokes.

[lordcooper]

Thanks for popping over Daniel, it's always great to see developers so willing to reach out to gamers.

That said, I'm probably about to make you regret doing so with a massive list of questions.  Sorry about that

Feel free to ignore any questions you can't or don't want to answer at this point.

1. How many colonists are we able/expected to have at any one time?
2. How difficult will it be to obtain new colonists?
3. The PC Gamer interview mentioned marriage, which implies all sorts of cool things.  Is there any chance of hearing the patter of tiny feet and/or screams of tiny mouths?
4. Are resources finite or infinite?
5. That procedural extruding feature sounds pretty awesome.  Will we able to save/load and/or export buildings?
6. Which single feature excites you personally the most?
7. How large are the playable areas?  Is it likely or very unlikely that it could be mostly developed/terraformed.
8. What non-combat options (if any) will there be for interacting with native sentients?
9. I can has now plz?
10. What won't be moddable?
11. Can we dig/mine/build hills?
12. Can buildings have multiple storeys/basements?
13. Say I was to divert a river for some reason.  Could this have a negative effect on local flora/fauna?
14. Will there be robots?
15. What sort of needs/desires will colonists have?
16. Can I pickle (or otherwise experiment on) living/dead creatures?
17. HP or limb based damage?
18. Do individual colonists have their own currency or is it a case of DF style Communism?
19. Are those pictures concept art or in engine?
20. What can you tell us about megaprojects?

I'm gonna stop typing for a bit before I scare you off

[ScriptWolf]

Ohh I am interested as well in the question on pickling dead body's, can we experiment in icing and dead biology ? Zombies anyone ? :p

[Mephansteras]

Oooh, the ability to export buildings to share with other people would be cool.