robbery mission dev thread

[Bluenose]

Who'd be rich in the area? Nobles, government officials and their offices, some merchants, bankers, temples and their priests, some mages I imagine, possibly successful artists, other criminal types (an ex-pirate might have interesting guards).

[jack1974]

Yes though I want to keep the people the sisters rob "evil" or at least greedy they must not seem common thieves but stealing only from rich people "who deserve it". Well my explanation is horrible (after a day of work my brain is muddled) but I hope you got what I mean

[Thee Forsaken One]

Joanne would never allow the sisters to steal from the clergy. Thalia would be all for it but she'd be outvoted by Kira and Joanne.

[Anima_]

Yes though I want to keep the people the sisters rob "evil" or at least greedy they must not seem common thieves but stealing only from rich people "who deserve it". Well my explanation is horrible (after a day of work my brain is muddled) but I hope you got what I mean

I'm pretty sure all my suggestions fit that description. At least as much as noble and merchant of course.

[Rebly82]

another big step finished! The list on the left populates based on new discovered target (pseudo-randomized). Now I'm going to add sorting by the column values (even if there won't be a lot of targets, I'll add a limit).
By default all info is hidden, and you can use the "Gather Info" button to discover more, spending time or a little money
So far seems to work rather well, this part of the game seem fun already!

At the top right, there seems to be a clock tracker. Is this mission timed? Can you play without the pressure of a timer?

[jack1974]

The timer is only a sort of "turns". Each action uses an amount of time, and I have some timer-related mechanics in the robbery itself, but have yet to code it. But is not a real-time timer, I just thought to use that instead of "Turn Left: 9"

[Rebly82]

The timer is only a sort of "turns". Each action uses an amount of time, and I have some timer-related mechanics in the robbery itself, but have yet to code it. But is not a real-time timer, I just thought to use that instead of "Turn Left: 9"

Whew okay! That's no problem then!

I thought it was a real time mechanic. While I suppose it would add greater challenge, I suck more at those sort of things.

[jack1974]

Haha no, real-time mechanic wouldn't work well with my games. I think won't make any with it

[jack1974]

final version of the robbery screen. I like how you see all the info you need about the target building at once. This was a test, there aren't any building actually so small in the game

[jack1974]

I finished all the merchant district templates, 5 in total. For now I'm going to do 5 each district, so 5 x 3 = 15 different ones. Also several rooms inside are randomized so you won't always find the same content on the same rooms.
I can of course add more later, with this system is easy to add more content. Though I don't want to overdo it, especially considering that there's also the 9 levels of the catacombs, and that this game wasn't supposed to be a RPG. So I think I've already added enough content