How to bring crew with you when exploring? (2024)

Vichrae said:

OH! I was under the impression that your crew was a party like in CoC.

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You mean CoC 2. CoC 1 you lone dog it too.

sumgai said:

You mean CoC 2. CoC 1 you lone dog it too.

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Yub.

Ecchi Bunny said:

I don't know how complicated it would be to add that option.

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Super complicated, like "fugedaboudit" complicated. Every combat encounter in the game would need rebalancing, and it'd be hell to write the crew into non-combat scenes. It works for CoC2 because it's smaller in scale, puts much more responsibility on companion writers to continously write their characters into new scenes from the beginning, and balances combat on the assumption that you will have a party of three. For tit*, it'd probably force the development to focus exclusively on revisiting and rebalancing encounters for well over a year.

coldmonkey said:

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Yeah was thinking it would be a enormous undertaking. Would new places require the same amount of rewrites? Or just the same responsibility of companion writers? Just asking out of curiosity.

Ecchi Bunny said:

Yeah was thinking it would be a enormous undertaking. Would new places require the same amount of rewrites? Or just the same responsibility of companion writers? Just asking out of curiosity.

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It'd still face the difficulty of pushing authors to commit to writing new scenes for the characters, and it'd make combat balance for new encounters much more difficult. I doubt Fen is ever going to seriously consider implementing it for general exploration.

coldmonkey said:

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Thanks for sating my curiosity.

Ecchi Bunny said:

I would love for this to happen as an expansion like how we just got Ships, since CoC2 is doing it, I don't know how complicated it would be to add that option. Or if its too much of a problem to change old planets to handle such a thing maybe new places we visit would have the option.

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Fen hates party-based adventuring, so no.

Savin said:

Fen hates party-based adventuring, so no.

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Because of the technical difficulties of accommodating it, or was he bitten by a rabid D&D rulebook?

coldmonkey said:

Because of the technical difficulties of accommodating it, or was he bitten by a rabid D&D rulebook?

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The latter. Entirely his preferences.

Savin said:

The latter. Entirely his preferences.

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Plus, my guess is, even if he changed his mind, he'd have to rebalance literally every combat encounter around a party. He couldn't reasonably change it even if he wanted to.

_Swish said:

Plus, my guess is, even if he changed his mind, he'd have to rebalance literally every combat encounter around a party. He couldn't reasonably change it even if he wanted to.

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More likely it would be a new game from the ground up, because that's far too much work for what people would want.

Savin said:

Fen hates party-based adventuring, so no.

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Fair enough, his games his rules. I'm happy with what we have.