Hey Stonehearth team! I don’t know if you have thought about this or not but I think you guys should at least consider the the trapper as it is now and how you want it to be upon release. From what I’ve gathered since the beginning of this project, it seems that you guys want to focus on the buildin…

What Age of Empires did was to have you click on your villager, and then your animal, and then, after the meat is taken， the villager would look for more animals。 If there were more animals in sight， then the villager would proceed to hunt more animals until all the animals in sight were killed。 I t…

Just as a side notice… as far as I have understood the trapper was a test for Radiant. They wanted to implement a unit which you can directly influence and command to keep you a bit more busy in the early game. There was an alternative planned, so you could chose if you want to have direct control o…

The only concern I have for the Age of Empires system was that it was based off limited animals on the map, and “hunting” essentially exhausted the land; new ones never came during the game. Empire Earth actually added to this system by occasionally repopulating a herd of animals if one of them was …

I can’t find the thread right now, but you’ll be pleased to hear the trapper will be changed, the team have acknowledged right now that it’s just not fun to be clicking constantly :slight_smile:

[image] Atralane: If the Trapper is planned to be more automatic, I feel that the player will need a bit of parameter controls to avoid these issues. Having the ability to draw a hunting “zone” like the farming and building manager we’ve seen so far would let them wander freely (and fairly safel…

What about something more DF ish. So the trapping/hunting would be automatically done by the class using an on/off button for him, but as overseer he needs supplies. Hunters need ammo and trappers need traps. Maybe a workshop for them where they take each catch and then process it, this would slow d…

Also from the most recent livestream: [image] [Dev Blog] Livestream 5/27 - Ask questions here! Are you removing manual trapper? Tom: Yes we are

This is a pretty big annoyance for me. Having to non-directly control the other Settlers yet having to directly control the Trapper is weird and doesn’t feel right. It should be more like “Click on the Trapper and then an Animal. He brings the Animal home where you then get a choice to whether sla…

Why not just have the trapper build traps to lure animals to them?

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SteveAdamo June 21, 2014, 3:28pm 8

yeah, all I could dig up were the comments from @Tom regarding the initial design choices behind the class:

Topic		Replies	Views
Alpha2 breaking own design principles? Suggestions	40	4591	March 7, 2014
How to deal with the trapper Gameplay	6	2340	May 2, 2014
A Concern with game-play design methodology Suggestions	12	1578	March 15, 2014
Waypoint and "Find" System for the Trapper Suggestions	8	1655	February 27, 2014
[Dear Tom] Live Stream 4PM PST - Feb 14th 2014 Development	48	4588	December 3, 2015

Improving the trapper

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