Yeah, me too. This could be huge. A little bare-boned and aimless at the moment, but with updates (world sharing on the inbound, as well as leaderboards and challenges!), this has the propensity to rock. On iPad, it's gorgeous.
Some of my wishes are...
- Foliage/flora deployment
- Seasons and thus, migration
- Herbivores not so defenseless in packs, or at least carnivores back off once having eaten a quota
- Weather
- More beasts, especially seaborne creatures
Here's a screenshot of the iPad version, just a little bit of toying around with the land mass tools.
here's my wishlist. Love this game's potential.
animals: while i would love humans, i would be thrilled if they boosted the mating, reproducing, and agricultural sim aspect. my ideal playthrough involves me working weeks to create a sustainable habitat. day/night cycle. breeding. creating barriers within my environment. weather creates ponds for animals to feed and drink, thus creating potential for congregation between species...and, yes, hunting and gathering.
Also, why not take the best parts of spore and farmville? with agriculture and mating, allow us to trade species and raw materials. consider this:
if you add humans, they're powerful, but slow to multiply. they have the ability to build, ie, crafting. they can build caves, forts, and use primitive weapons. tools that we get from farming.
however, there is incentive to play other species as well. birds cover a large area quickly, for example, and find rare materials to build their nests. some of those items on the other side of your continent (migratory patterns) are essential for food for other animals, or even tools for humans whereby they would need crude rafts to reach them and survive more aggressive animals hunting them along the way.
buying IAP eggs for new species, seeds for new harvests, and the ability to 'trade' with other players the items you have created, would be amazing! for example, lets say i mated two compatible species (one from IAP), and created a new preset species that serves a specific "tower-like" function (this species needs water and is protective of nearby water ways making it a pain for other species like man to invade resources). there's a cap on how many of the new species the engine will allow me to make, and theres also a cap on what i campn trade.
random internet Topia friend wants to trade, say, wood with me for a preset number of my new species. lets say that he didnt buy the iap needed to create the new species. solution? Any species traded into a new world where you didnt buy the iap to create it, has a timed or shortened lifespan, and you cannot reproduce/mate them. the trade becomes enticing. we both get the benefits, and somebody (or both) needs to buy iap!
i'm totally spitballing, but the joy of creating and terraforming worlds doesnt change. you can still screw around and manipulate the landscape to gently nudge the fates of your habitat. the coolest thing about spore, however, was the ability to advanced to visit and affect other worlds. What would your toys would do there?
in topia, i can imagine creating an echo system that creates a species of gold crapping predator wolves. might take months to nurture and breed them, but i eventually buy some iap color change skin to make my 'gold wolves' unique, then send my little terrors online. you download my nasty little away team into your world, as they wreck HAVOCK on your species. However, they can die and be hunted if you attack them with your most aggressive species in large enough numbers. why would Anyone want to download these nasty things? because if you can tolerate them, they crap Gold...which is essential and can be traded.
and, of course, the only way to get to the point where you can create gold-crapping direwolves? hard work creating and maintaining your environment, buying new seeds and eggs from the appstore, then taking an rpg-like approach in deciding how you want to strenghten an customize your pets to trade?
how cool is THAT? i want to play that game, and TOPIA s the only thing that can make that happen! Topia's potential is Minecraft awesome!!!!
