How many floors

As the title says, how many floors will the buildings have? Because so far I haven´t seen even one building having more than one. I haven´t seen stairs ore anything like that. Not even seen any different high-levels in the terrain. Or did I miss something?

 

I did some digging with a sled team of diggles through the blogs and found where I remember multiple story buildings from:





http://www.gaslampgames.com/2012/09/19/evolution-of-a-3d-engine/

It seems that they at least have designed things for a two story structures. That is probably the limit since, from looking at the screenshots and scale of things, anything larger would block out and hide other things.

 

Yeah, forgot about that, since it was quite old. But you´re rightt.

 

My guess is everything is just one Z-level. For example, I don't think you can actually see into mines, etc.

 

Well a second floor for a building wouldn't be as hard to implement and wouldn't be as intensive on game resources as say, 30 map wide z levels of underground with dungeons, resources, gems, and artifacts being placed, AI pathfinding etc. That's why I'm going out on a limb and guessing a simple second story to a building is more likely than underground.

Though on the underground z levels, the devs in other comments have expressed desires to have pull up maps for mines that give you a 2D map like overlay (one of the devs said a possible crudely drawn map on parchment) of the interiors, findings, and floors of the mines as the miners dig it out and explore.

So there might be multiple Z levels, they just won't be given the level of detail and attention the surface world is given.

 

You're forcing the sunlight upon my colonists!

Just kidding, of course. All that makes a lot of sense

 

I went back and looked again and I read the comment entirely wrong, apparently the person that replied to my comment in the dev blogs wasn't a dev and I thought they were (because I'm not entirely sure who the gaslamp games crew is outside of the founding three.) My bad on that part.

Also I understand the whole "no multiple z-level" reasons, but I'm still a little disappointed houses won't have a second floor. It might make things seem a bit, flat. Also how will the upper class look down on people?

 

by not dying of starvation

 

...Good point *writes down this for colony ideas*

Though I hope it would be relatively easy for as modder to add a second floor.

 

Meh, I was prepared for the no underground-statement, but actualy having it confirmed that there won´t even be a second floor REALLY disapoints. I can understand your points but come on. No large villas for the upper class? And wasn´t there some talk about megaprojects? How will those even look like if they can´t be higher than the average building? Also it would have been fun to build Fortress or watchtowerlike buildings for my military.

O well, guess I´ll wait tll we can see soem actual gameplay before hoping for anything more.

Note to myself: Stop having such damm high expectations about projects that are interesting...

 

Maybe the upperclass villas will be single-story, but 50 feet tall anyway. After all, it's the lowerclass that has to hang the chandeliers for them...

 

Yeah, my understanding of this game is the part they are really trying to emulate from DF is the story aspect..and I guess the colonization aspect but that is where it ends in most regards.

This doesn't seem like a game where you can build whatever like DF or minecraft etc so it won't fit that nitch; but what it will do is provide a very pretty interface that allows you to construct a colony and experience emergent gameplay through events and character self determinsm. I think this will be a great game; it is incorrect to look at it as a different version of DF. I love DF; but DF is many ways not even really a game in the traditional sense.

clockworkempires offers many improvements over DF, Rim World, and Planet Explorers; but those game also have things to offer which aren't here (well..actually I'm not so sure RIm world wins anywhere..at least not yet)

 

So there might be a second floor, but it won't be a Sims style second floor? Or there won't be a second floor but there will be things that resemble a second floor? Orrrr there won't be a second floor but there will be large buildings? This is getting confusing. Meh, I'm thinking too hard on this.

Anyways welcome to the Clockwork Empires Official Forums, where you can find discussions on whether or not a house can have a second floor!

 

Actually..because of the difficulty in transmitting mechanical power to a second floor; the current leading figures in the church of the Holy Cog look down upon second floors and therefore, as a newly installed governor (who recently passed "the mechanical") you could never even imagine a second floor and therefore the question is moot.

 

Are you mocking the great Cog? Two giant Cogs on a wall could very easly transport hte power a noble oculd ever hope for in his second floor. And don´t get me started on vertically steampipes...

And sorry Daniel if I misuderstood, but you DID say:
"1. Ever play The Sims and attempt to use multiple floors in a house? It was a pain to use and subtracted from enjoyment of the game, especially when trying to watch multiple people do stuff. We don't want that problem."

Which I (and some others I pressume) would interpret as: There will be no second floor. And all I wanted to say is that I think that would take away from the atmosphere. I understand that the building aspect isn´t the most important thing in your game, but the characters. But those characters need adequate houses. A noble needs a big house, or the story get´s ridicoulus. But as I said, I´ll better wait and look how this will continue to look like in future builds.

O and by all means: I mean no offense and am sorry if it seemed like I did. The game still looks great and is a 99% buy for me (so long as it doesn´t become a bug-riddled riot). Just giving my thoughts.

 

Gold plated steam pipes, obviously

 

I assume this means servants that sleep in servants quarters, not connected to the actual home of course who wants those dirty commoners having access to your noble abode.