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[GreatWyrmGold]

Deinvented.

Re-un-vent the whool!

Either way, what do you guys think about randomly generated worlds to play in? Because randomly generated is always a plus.

Works.

Don't make a contemporary city-builder; modern cities are boring grids with little overarching connectivity.
Rather, consider a science-fiction space colony. Firstly, it is isolated; they must make everything they use themselves (thus, more interesting production chains). Second, a colonial governor may be unquestioned master of his domain. You want to spend six years worth of taxes on a monorail connecting two houses to a windmill? You got it Boss. Third, if needed, a small science fib can cover a large gameplay annoyance (The same mines can make copper, iron, uranium, or tin, because nanites).
Then there's subtle things like the concept of growth being more fitting to a science-fiction setting than the modern-day western world.
And, of course, it's always more fun to play with science fiction tech than modern tech.

+1

I'd be happy to say goodbye to premade art and let all buildings be defined by a procedural combination of cubes and slopes. How hard could it be to define all of human architecture in a crude scripting language? Not very, I say.

Um...I doubt it, especially now that you've said that.

ideas about building generation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d2-PtK4F6Y

Looking at it as soon as it loads.

[Aseaheru]

Do you know what might be cool?
a thing where you do almost nothing, and the city EVOLVES.
like you start in the middle ages and it goes on to now.
and events happen.
all you do is try to fit between events, approve projects (like DF Railroads wanting to build a station) and shelling out cash as nessasary.

[Siquo]

Do you know what might be cool?
a thing where you do almost nothing, and the city EVOLVES.

Well, if you build this as a game and it's moddable enough, we could make our own AI-players that play the game and you'd get the same result. We could even have a "who has the best city-building-AI-competition"

[miauw62]

Do you know what might be cool?
a thing where you do almost nothing, and the city EVOLVES.
like you start in the middle ages and it goes on to now.
and events happen.
all you do is try to fit between events, approve projects (like DF Railroads wanting to build a station) and shelling out cash as nessasary.

That would get kinda boring, but at the same time it's one of those things that I would love to look at.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Do you know what might be cool?
a thing where you do almost nothing, and the city EVOLVES.
like you start in the middle ages and it goes on to now.
and events happen.
all you do is try to fit between events, approve projects (like DF Railroads wanting to build a station) and shelling out cash as nessasary.

That would get kinda boring, but at the same time it's one of those things that I would love to look at.

Something like that could be neat.

[Jopax]

So how long do we plan to pile up ideas before setting up some sort of poll or something to finalize and trim it down to something manageable?

The biggest issue to decide upon would be wether to go 3D or Isometric. And personally, I love both and both have great pros and some cons, a really tought call :C

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Do you know what might be cool?
a thing where you do almost nothing, and the city EVOLVES.
like you start in the middle ages and it goes on to now.
and events happen.
all you do is try to fit between events, approve projects (like DF Railroads wanting to build a station) and shelling out cash as nessasary.

That would get kinda boring, but at the same time it's one of those things that I would love to look at.

Something like that could be neat.

Though rather than forcing a middle ages start, how about there is a slider from bronze age to far future?

[Rose]

So how long do we plan to pile up ideas before setting up some sort of poll or something to finalize and trim it down to something manageable?

The biggest issue to decide upon would be wether to go 3D or Isometric. And personally, I love both and both have great pros and some cons, a really tought call :C

No, that's hardly an issue at all. The underlying simulation should not be effected at all by how it's viewed, and ideally we'd be able to swap out renderers as needed. I plan on using 2d top-down for testing stuff.

[miauw62]

I'm for isometric, that would be simpler to do with our resources.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

I'm for isometric, that would be simpler to do with our resources.

I prefer isometric as well, though a some may prefer full-2d or full-3d, so we could have a way to adjust the angle of viewing the area.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Do you know what might be cool?
a thing where you do almost nothing, and the city EVOLVES.
like you start in the middle ages and it goes on to now.
and events happen.
all you do is try to fit between events, approve projects (like DF Railroads wanting to build a station) and shelling out cash as nessasary.

That would get kinda boring, but at the same time it's one of those things that I would love to look at.

Something like that could be neat.

Though rather than forcing a middle ages start, how about there is a slider from bronze age to far future?

That strikes me as simple and a great improvement.

[Aseaheru]

Do you know what might be cool?
a thing where you do almost nothing, and the city EVOLVES.
like you start in the middle ages and it goes on to now.
and events happen.
all you do is try to fit between events, approve projects (like DF Railroads wanting to build a station) and shelling out cash as nessasary.

That would get kinda boring, but at the same time it's one of those things that I would love to look at.

Something like that could be neat.

Though rather than forcing a middle ages start, how about there is a slider from bronze age to far future?

That strikes me as simple and a great improvement.

did not think of that. and if you could start on a location like a different planet in the farfuture...

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Though rather than forcing a middle ages start, how about there is a slider from bronze age to far future?

That strikes me as simple and a great improvement.

did not think of that. and if you could start on a location like a different planet in the farfuture...

I would be thinking that the 'future' classifications could be
Near: Any planet in our Solar System
Middle:  Any planet in nearby Systems (10 lightyear maximum)
Far:  Randomly generated planet that could be any where in this galaxy.
Extreme (Just thought of this): Random planet in a random galaxy.

[PTTG??]

OK, now that's getting a bit silly...

[coolio678]

Maybe I'm not qualified to throw my opinion in on this yet, but I think isometric would be pretty damn cool, if done right. I loved still love rollercoaster tycoon and it's style, but the full 3d in rct3 didn't have that same charm for me.