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[Shooer]

All of my want!

[christonian]

I have been watching this for months cant wait to get my hands on this and play

[Baijiu]

Where do I pay? I... must... have!

[Moogie]

I'm thrilled to read that combat will be entirely optional. Sometimes I just want to play a game like this without worrying about conflict and fighting. It's as if most developers can't even conceive of a game where the main goal isn't to kill things. This looks wonderful and relaxing. My purse is open for this guy. My moneys... take them. Now.

[dennislp3]

ptw...so nice to see someone use some good graphics!

[Ivefan]

Considering the name one would assume that villagers are a bunch of exiles and when its proclaimed to be survival,atleast I would have assumed that they would start with barely nothing, buliding crapshacks and struggling to make a living and after some time develop into what is shown in the videos.
But I shouldnt be unreasonable, its a indie production and doing a cultural development curve would demand a lot of resources but right now its just medieval age village simulator.

[Mephansteras]

Now that I've had a chance to view the videos I'm really liking how this is looking.

[Xinvoker]

A Q&A was posted.  http://www.shiningrocksoftware.com/?p=752


I didn't find it very informative, tbh.

[Robosaur]

combat only as a minor focus?
nah.

[burningpet]

This looks great and i have absolutely no problem with it throwing combat out the window if he can make the farming / economy sustaining challenging enough.

The second this goes on kickstarter or alpha funding i'm throwing money on this.

[Neyvn]

Oh dear...
Must resist Urge to demand game...

[Sirian]

Yeah I would also like combat and enemies, craftable armor, weapons and the like, otherwise it could be boring fast.

The dev has made these comments in his blog.

As for combat, yes I have a plan. I originally conceived this game without it, but over development I’ve thought of some great ways to incorporate it. It might be an expansion after release, but I definitely want to add it.

I know exactly what you mean feeling that combat is added as an after thought to some games.

But don’t worry, combat would be within the context of the game mechanics – being attacked would be more of a disaster to control like fire, famine, or disease. It might change city building strategy, but it won’t change the way you play the game.

I occasionally enjoy playing games like the one I’m building without combat. When and if it gets added it will always be an option that can be disabled or enabled as the user wishes.

http://www.shiningrocksoftware.com/?p=722

I totally understand having this kind of game without combat, in fact as I was saying in another thread, I think that combat can prevent other aspects of a game from being as deep. As far as I'm concerned, combat is always the part I'm trying to avoid in those games, to focus instead on research, exploration, building, management and production/crafting. I always play DF without invasions, for instance.

[Ivefan]

Agreed. In the case of DF, I play without invasions because that means i can build grander stuff without having to build something ugly.

[Aseaheru]

hope it wont cost much...
hopefully it will be free...

[Zangi]

Posting to watch.