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Friday Blog 156 - Spinning Jennies and Exponential Growth

The Arch Temple by Saphrax, again When we recently tested Colony Survival we were shocked to discover two things: [olist]

Its possible to get pretty much to the endgame with only 100-150 colonists, while we want to encourage players to build colonies with at least 800-1000 colonists

Different parts of the tech tree have wildly different ingredients and prerequisites: there isnt really a big major production chain that can be improved and expanded from the start of the game to the end[/olist] As talked about before, we want to change this dramatically. Its a major overhaul so were still thinking and debating about the details. One thing we keep mentioning again and again in our discussions is exponential. Youve probably noticed that your expansion accelerates as you keep playing the game. Going from 0 to 50 colonists takes longer than going from 300 to 350 colonists. This is one source of exponential progress. But we also want to introduce industrial tech that speeds up your production, and we want to add the Repeating Scientist who can boost the efficiency of certain jobs over and over again. This means that youll be able to dramatically expand your production. That leads to a pretty difficult problem. We need to find a useful, consistent goal for these enormous capabilities. Something that is relevant both before and after the industrial revolution. Here are a couple of the things were thinking about: Textiles Textiles were a key industry during the industrial revolution. They were obviously important before that period though, and still highly useful today. Currently, making a piece of cloth in Colony Survival goes very quickly, and it has only limited usefulness. We want to make the initial cost of a piece of cloth a lot higher (but with the ability to improve your production) while requiring more of it in your production chains. Steel precision parts Humans have used metals in general and iron in specific for a very long time. Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon that in real life is hard to produce on a large scale - it also took until the industrial revolution until that was possible, although it was invented a lot earlier. We want to make the process of developing steel in Colony Survival more difficult and expensive as well. Large amounts of it will be necessary to develop industrial machines. Another part of the metalworking problem is making precision parts. Think of the complex machinery in clocks and guns. This is something else that we can make more expensive in the beginning, but with the possibility to scale it up dramatically with tools like the lathe. Data The production and sharing of data is something that has been growing on an exponential scale for a very long time now. Just look at this graph of the production of printed books a couple of centuries ago:

Source But thats not a trend that is over, were still in the middle of rapid exponential progress. Heres a graph of the current growth in digital data:

Source We hope were able to combine these trends into a satisfying long term gameplay loop in Colony Survival. Instead of jumping from one disjointed part of the tech tree to another with completely different requirements, and completing all useful science with only 120 colonists, we want to make it so that theres a satisfying path of continuously expanding production - producing lots of textiles for lots of colonists who use many hundreds of complex, expensive machines that assist in the production of more of these machines and in the production of lots of data, which can be used to improve the colony as a whole. We hope this sounds as good to you as it does to us! At the moment, these are still plans, not things we're currently working on. We're still busy improving the interface. Here are two work-in-progress screenshots of changed menus:

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[ 2020-06-12 11:02:33 CET ] [ Original post ]

Colony Survival

Pipliz Developer

Pipliz Publisher

2017-06-16 Release

Indie Strategy Adventure Singleplayer Multiplayer Coop EA Tags

Game News Posts: 259

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Very Positive (7274 reviews)

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The Game includes VR Support

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Build your own village, castle or city and populate it with colonists! Let guards, farmers, miners, foresters, bakers, smelters and artisans work for you. After the sun has set, most colonists will go to bed, but the enemy awakens. A horde of monsters will assault your colony and try to slaughter you and your villagers. Defend your colony with walls, moats and guards!

Multiplayer support: play with friends and strangers!
Advanced pathfinding: colonists and zombies will find their way in the world you've build. They will dynamically navigate stairs, bridges and tunnels.
Explore a world with realistically placed biomes. A giant jungle in the center of the world, surrounded by savannas, deserts and temperate biomes. Two polar regions in the far north and south.
Support for textures and language packs created by players
Dynamic lighting and eye adaptation
Voice your suggestions and be part of the development of Colony Survival!

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 12.04+. SteamOS+; 64-bit
Processor: Intel Pentium G620 (2.5 Ghz dual core) or equivalentMemory: 2 GB RAM
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 5000. 1280x720 display
Storage: 300 MB available spaceAdditional Notes: Work in progress: new features may raise the bar. optimizations may lower the bar
RECOMMENDED SETUPOS: Ubuntu 12.04+. SteamOS+; 64-bit
Processor: Intel i5-2300 (2.8 GHz quad core) or equivalentMemory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GTX 750 or equivalent. 1920x1080 display. supporting openGL 4.2+Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 1 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Work in progress: new features may raise the bar. optimizations may lower the bar

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