0004290: Maze layout tweaks. - Arcen Idea Tracker (Bugs and Features)

ID	Project	Category		Date Submitted	Last Update

0004290	Valley 1	Suggestion		Sep 29, 2011 10:00 am	Oct 24, 2011 10:33 pm

Reporter	jerith	Assigned To	Chris_McElligottPark
Status	closed	Resolution	no change required
Product Version	0.505
Fixed in Version	0.530

Summary	0004290: Maze layout tweaks.
Description	I think maze rooms would be a lot less painful to explore if there were more loops in them. Currently, they tend to have something of a star topology, which means tedious backtracking to get back to a branch point to explore the next part. If there were more connections between disparate parts of the maze, I could spend more of my time covering new ground instead of retracing my steps.
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Internal Weight	Feature Suggestion

zebramatt Sep 29, 2011 10:52 am reporter ~0014642	I think they'd be fine as-is if you just had more incentive to go to the points, as I'm sure will come over the lifetime of beta.

jerith Sep 29, 2011 10:55 am reporter ~0014645	That would provide more incentive to explore the whole room, but doesn't reduce the amount of backtracking required to actually do it.

Chris_McElligottPark Oct 24, 2011 10:33 pm administrator ~0017093	I think this is now a non-issue because of: 1. Greater Teleport. 2. Storm Dash/Rush 3. The MUCH lowered frequency of the really large maze rooms. 4. The following: * Added in new "Experience Points Containers." These are the first major source of EXP beyond just killing bosses, and they essentially reward those who want to explore rather than fight. At the moment, at same-level chunk to the civ level, it takes just about 100 of these containers to get from one civ level to the next. At +10 levels it takes about 75 of them, and in between is a gradient between 100 and 75. ** At -10 levels it takes more than 10,000 of them to level up, so there's really no sense in farming low-level regions. Playing one region down will only make it take 125, and two regions down makes it take about 167 containers. And it goes up exponentially from there. * Inside buildings is the only place to find Experience Point Containers at the moment. These seed far away from doors, switches, and other experience point containers. They are denser in maze-type rooms, and in fact a single large maze can contain dozens of them. Most interior rooms contain none at all, but when a hallway or similar has a dead end or other long passage that would otherwise be pointless, you'll find these there. Note that vents and the normal interior goodie drops don't impact where these containers can show up. ** Anyway, at long last this gives a suitable reward for the maze rooms; it's something we've been planning since before beta, but we'd just never gotten around to it yet.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
Sep 29, 2011 10:00 am	jerith	New Issue
Sep 29, 2011 10:27 am	tigersfan	Internal Weight	=> Feature Suggestion
Sep 29, 2011 10:27 am	tigersfan	Status	new => strongly considering
Sep 29, 2011 10:52 am	zebramatt	Note Added: 0014642
Sep 29, 2011 10:55 am	jerith	Note Added: 0014645
Sep 30, 2011 4:45 am	jerith	Relationship added	related to 0003954
Oct 21, 2011 8:50 am	TechSY730	Relationship added	related to 0004949
Oct 24, 2011 10:33 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Note Added: 0017093
Oct 24, 2011 10:33 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Status	strongly considering => closed
Oct 24, 2011 10:33 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Assigned To	=> Chris_McElligottPark
Oct 24, 2011 10:33 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Resolution	open => no change required
Oct 24, 2011 10:33 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Fixed in Version	=> 0.530
Apr 14, 2014 9:28 am	Chris_McElligottPark	Category	Suggestion - General Idea => Suggestion - General
Apr 14, 2014 9:30 am	Chris_McElligottPark	Category	Suggestion - General => Suggestion