General Suggestions

[thorbjorn42gbf]

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Let's talk military!

The biggest topic of disagreement in my previous suggestion thread… … was on the subject of controlling your military units, and how best to go about that without making it too similar to an RTS. As such, I thought I’d make a new topic to discuss this in detail. I should point out that, unlike the above topic, I have no firm ideas on how best to go about this. 1. Unlimited Map Size Unlike Dwarf Fortress or Gnomoria, Stonehearth is planned to have maps that are effectively infinite in size. …

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Combat waypoints

I have noticed once getting further into the game your village will get larger meaning you are spread over a larger span of the map. But when goblins attack certain parts of my village either the warriors are too far way from goblin threat to care about them stealing my wood(HA) or it is just the bug where warriors will not attack goblins even if they at standing next to each other. The citizens also do not attack the goblins if they are too far away from the problem or they go 1 at a time and …

Expanding the Future of Combat: Enter the Tactician!

Hello, everyone! This is my first post on the Discourse so far. I hope you find the discussion interesting and entertaining. With the recent posts and livestreams by the Stonehearth team, one thing has been particularly curious to me: how will combat work, and what direction will it be taken farther along in the developmental process? A key point that Tom and the others have made in their discussions is that they are attempting to avoid direct control of units, as they believe it would create t…

Military Control

How will we take control of the military units? Will there be something similar to Dwarf Fortress and Gnomoria where we can assign military units to a squad with their own specific commands, perks, and equipment etc? Maybe something larger or the ability to have squads of varying size depending on their purpose? Or will each unit be individually controlled? Or none of the above!