FlowerChild wrote:Calcifire3691 wrote:oh, I know, but it's nice to confirm that even though this is going to be a HUGE patch, and therefore the one where people would be most likely to forgive you for breaking worlds, you're still not planning to break peoples worlds. to me, that pretty much rules out any new parts of tech progression not in the new age :P (although, I tend to overthink things, so I'm probably looking too far into it :P)
Nah, that's not something I ever plan on doing.
To use the oft-repeated example of steam power, if I were to do something like that, and wanted to include finite energy as a concept (which would make sense given what I was saying before about introducing concepts and gameplay systems incrementally), what I would likely do is make it a completely different system where the high-speeds and power involved with steam power just wouldn't be compatible with the wood-based mechanical systems already in the mod. In other words, it would be a completely separate system and form of energy than that involved with Wind Mills and Water Wheels that would power a whole new set of devices.
Who ever really heard of a steam-powered millstone anyways? A steam engine powering wooden devices would look just plain weird and not make a whole lot of sense. I think one big mistake that people have often made when discussing that kind of thing is assuming that I had to stick to one big general purpose system for mechanical power and that I couldn't break things up into different levels of technology that weren't compatible with each other.
I assumed if you implemented steam, it'd be seperate, however, I could see the bellows having some use, maybe in making stoked fire to create steam? :P
(if that's the case, I'd guess that it would have to be pretty low pressure steam, maybe it would be like the handcrank was to the AoW? (ie. only enough presure to operate 1 thing at a time))
by the way, if it turns out this superproject isn't steam, you've done a VERY good job of hiding your intentions, I would have let something slip at some point now :P
edit: also: it's not just wooden machines being only mechanically incompatible, I live on the coast of NW england, and so it's nearly always wet/damp/rainy/submerged depending on exactly where you're currently standing, and believe me, water + wood = ALL of the rot :P
