Aliens

[Chairman_Tiel]

We are absolutely not evolving a neural net. We'll never be able to make a proper supervisor and it will wind up dumb.

Our AI will be intelligently designed, like God intended.

PURITY FIRST!!11!

[fr0stbyte124]

[Chairman_Tiel]

Now I can sympathize with Tunnel and Iv.

This makes no sense to me

[fr0stbyte124]

Woohoo! I think I've finally alienated everybody!

Spoiler:

It's funny because people hear neural networks and associate it with how humans think, but then video games attempting to market "learning AI" by using this model always end up with AI which are dumb as a post.

Spoiler:

It's also funny because South Park meme.

[Tunnelthunder]

Fr0st messing around on the internet constantly.

[Dr. Mackeroth]

Any game needs an ultimate badass villain. It is much easier to get him with aliens with our gaming habits. If you plan to make players those villains you will end up promoting PvP all over which is not good - it means you won't dare leaving the dock.

Actually, this is an important point. Might Futurecraft be more successfully if most players fought against one (or several/many) non-player villains? They wouldn't necessarily have to be NPCs, it could be a specially created faction for that purpose.


Besides that (or having an ancient, mysterious alien race), I firmly believe no aliens. To many people will pester us for a particular alien they want, and in the end, we'll be needing to add dozens into the game to keep everyone happy.


P.S. Sorry for my late reply, I've been avoiding some topics....

[Iv121]

You can't keep all happy and if you aim for that you can quit making futurecraft already ... Also you don't add aliens they want, you design and add an alien unique to your universe.

[Dr. Mackeroth]

You can't keep all happy and if you aim for that you can quit making futurecraft already ... Also you don't add aliens they want, you design and add an alien unique to your universe.

The point is I don't want aliens. I was just making a feasible excuse as to why not. The Minecraft player-base is already full of so many bizarre and amazing creatures, why would we possibly need to add more?

[fr0stbyte124]

We can try a boss character, but I'm not going to hold out too much hope for it just yet.

[Prototype]

Anyone remember my G.O.P.A.C.T. Thread from the old forums?
No?

Well maybe we can designate certain criminal roles (e.g. Say Iv121 and error, or the likes) and they were given a certain code, but enough resources to be a threat, and they could, according to their code, attack players, and end up being notorious among the community. Also we would warn people about them.

If we do something like this, I volunteer.

[cats]

II'm not sure how this would work, but I guess we shall see.

[Keon]

I voulenteer to kill you all and take over the galaxy.

[Iv121]

Anyone remember my G.O.P.A.C.T. Thread from the old forums?
No?

Well maybe we can designate certain criminal roles (e.g. Say Iv121 and error, or the likes) and they were given a certain code, but enough resources to be a threat, and they could, according to their code, attack players, and end up being notorious among the community. Also we would warn people about them.

If we do something like this, I volunteer.

No, overpowered stuff should NEVER EVER be given to human players. Even if the humans won't abuse it (they inevitably will) it will make people rage that certain players have this power, even though an AI will do the same. To fight an OP comp is a challenge you see, to fight an OP human is a pain in the butt and a recipe to be blamed in power abuse, even if it is not the case (and also when it is).

[cats]

It probably won't work any way it's done, human or AI.

[fr0stbyte124]

Anyone remember my G.O.P.A.C.T. Thread from the old forums?
No?

Well maybe we can designate certain criminal roles (e.g. Say Iv121 and error, or the likes) and they were given a certain code, but enough resources to be a threat, and they could, according to their code, attack players, and end up being notorious among the community. Also we would warn people about them.

If we do something like this, I volunteer.

I think we're going to have enough dicks in the game to deal with without going and giving them titles.