The "number explained" system revealed in the new devblog is a god-sent

I know people's been like "something something joke when" but this is the first "toolkit" blog that got me very excited.

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Those of you who are familiar with sandbox games know the importance of in-game documentations. Why can't I do this? Why is the option grey? A lot of the in-game mechanics in warband aren't explained in the game. If anything, we only get to know the fricking ctrl+space or the horse-in-your-inventory thingy from the community. Not to mention something like getting -2 relationship with a lady upon confession which could easily lead players into making the wrong conclusion (personality or charisma to be blamed).

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There are good and bad examples of in-game documentation; there's CK2 for instance and there's X3 in which you literally have an option to enable logging which writes an external TXT log that shows you what your automated ships are doing. With the new "number explained" system I can't wait for modders to turn this game into an story/character based RPG.

Submitted March 22, 2019 at 05:20AM by fireanddream https://ift.tt/2HNkjOS