Creatures Caves

Thanks for all the replies!

Ghosthande: Pattern overlays would have been sweet. I guess we'll get that sort of stuff with the new games, but it would have been awesome to have it in the old ones, in conjunction with the parts being split up more and more thoroughly interchangeable, and maybe other things like horns and hair and eyes being interchangeable too.

Totally agree on the world. Wide spaces are easily the most convenient places to raise norns, with a lot of the smaller places the norns just get stuck in endless cycles of up and down the lifts, trapped when they go by with whatever norn is pushing the button.

I think that 'norn home' ettin home' and grendel home' should be replaced by more generic home labels, like 'jungle home', 'built home', etc, so grendels and jungle themed norns would both home towards the same place, and scorpio norns and c3 ettins would both home towards 'hot dry home' or whatever.

Water and cliff edges, definitely. c2 norns were nothing more than suicidal lemmings and my c3 norns think ponds are great for naps. Can they even see water?

I've taken lots of the stuff you suggested to heart with the world I'm designing!

Dreamnorn: Creatures that laid eggs where they hatched would be interesting! Over time norns that laid in good places for hatchlings to live would be selected for, it'd be neat to see what emerged.

Seasons and lighting would also be great to see, I know they existed in c2 but seeing them would have been great, especially if norns got noticeably hot and cold across the year and had obvious sleeping habits, be they nocturnal or corpuscular or whatever else.

Agree with the eggs, especially if there was a way to stop them clogging up the world. Perhaps a second egg-laying machine where you could store eggs for when you needed them.

What's wrong with the exodus genome?

Ham5ter: I'm afraid I wouldn't know anything about that, is CAOS really so terrible?

CRex: Totally, that's be great. C3 norns in particular spit out ridiculous quantities of eggs. They should only be able to lay a few in a lifetime, or if they get bred too often there should be some pretty severe physical side effects. Maybe even only the possibility to have 3 or 4 offspring in a lifetime, so raising your population of norns was actually a rewarding challenge like it was in the early games rather than just a matter of putting too norns together and coming back a few hours later to a screen filled with eggs.

Norn_master: Yeah, a lot of the additional stuff in c3 I end up never touching (like the machines you can connect together, they take up a lot of space for such limited use and usually end up out of one of the airlocks). I don't mind saving norns from drowning, but they should at least learn to be afraid of water so you only have to save them from drowning once!

The frog norns were an awesome addition. I liked some of the later animals (at least in concept, like the rainbow sharklings, which were pretty flawed in execution and ended up pretty boring). More variety like the frogs would have been cool, like, as you said, big caterpillars that pupated into norns, or other things that affected norns like a medusa critter that could temporarily turn creatures into statues.

I like the picking up but I fell like it, among other things, took a lot of the challenge from c3. Maybe if it was something you had to unlock like with the implements of c2? I think that maybe the picking up and hand holding should be an ability exclusive to baby and child norns, and that the adults should be too big or too independent (unless they really love you)!