Posts by Kesselia

Break out the sourdough and shrimp cocktail because this Victorian charmer is straight outta San Francisco. Survived both the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes! Exquisite detail in the handmade bonneted dormers. Grand foyer is great for pretending to receive guests. Lots of bay windows to enjoy the views of heavy fog. Two marble fireplaces to keep warm in the summer. Formal dining area to look at your digital food. Big kitchen with pottery corner where nothing grows and breakfast nook where no one eats. Spacious attic for your office, workshop or fictional kids bedroom. Built-in stairwell to your own custom wine cellar for hiding bodies. Picture frames installed and ready to display your Ansel Adams prints. Sparsely furnished for layout suggestion. New roof. No termites. Bonus: as a Rising World blueprint, the "Location! Location! Location!" is entirely up to you. Only 7.5 million! Make an offer today! (Built entirely in survival mode.)
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I absolutely agree with this idea. I'd be most interested in #4 and #5, need for sleep after a hard day's work and sleep for better healing.

Yes! A holodeck! With a Stargate! And lightsabers! And while we're at it, have Thor report to my ready room.

I agree it can be done in creative mode (or even not) but I've tried it in Minecraft and it's a ton of work just to get to the bare bones of what I'm trying to accomplish. My kids introduced me to Minecraft when it first came out, and I immediately saw it as a tool. I'm a novelist and have used Minecraft for years to sketch settings for my books. Not being an architect, or an sketch artist, it's easier to imagine and describe a small town or special building--especially for action scenes--if I can visually 'walk' through the set.

But now I need to design a fictional city and country based on a real life location, including an entire battle. But it's sci fi, so all the details have to be accurate for the audience. It would be so much faster if I could just upload what already exists from topo maps.

If Rising World figured out how to pull this off, it's no longer a game to me. It's an essential writing tool. And I'll bet the sci fi and fantasy creators will come running. (If they're not here already.)

~Kesselia

Agreed. And I also think it is in part that we predate the Immediate Entertainment Era.

Super cool.

I would adore the ability to use Rising World to recreate a landscape that exists IRL. I don't know how it could possibly done, but to upload a topographical map of, say Yosemite Valley? or Uluru? or the Grand Canyon . . . . I know. Dream big, right?

(But then, I was around when they were still saying, "I don't know how it could possibly be done, but wouldn't it be cool if we could put a man on the moon?")

Dream big.

~Kesselia

Thanks! Those updates sound great! Yet, to quote a previously read post (I forget who to attribute the quote) "Better late than bugged". I'm perfectly patient for, indeed, great art takes time.

Let me start by saying that I love this game. The detail is outstanding, but the desert biome is having an identity crisis. -- Saguaros don't grow in sand dunes.

They look great. Don't get me wrong. These are some of the best depictions of animated saguaros I've ever seen. (Though, they are quite short. Adult saguaros grow to over 12 metres in height.)

If you're trying to recreate the Sahara (re: pyramids) make the sand red/brown and lose the cacti.

If you're trying to recreate the Sonoran Desert, where saguaros grow (and they grow *only* in in the Sonoran Desert (e.g. Arizona and Northern Mexico) you need a **whole bunch** more plant life. Palo verde and creosote grow like weeds in the same landscape. Mesquite, ironwood, cholla, occotillo, barrel, prickly pear with edible apples (as long as you cook them first to get the thorns out.) And rattlesnakes and rabbits and javalina and lizards. And the ground would be decomposed granite, not sand. And desert-colored mountain lions, not tigers and jaguars. And saguaros don't produce usable wood, nor grow from cuttings or seed--at all--which is why they're so strictly protected in the U.S.

I could go on and on, clearly, but the easiest fix is to just take out the saguaros and reflect an African desert, not an American one.

Another easy fix, while the scarcity of ponds is quite accurate, if it were drinkable water they would be surrounded by thirsty plant life, creating an oasis. I skipped several ponds assuming they were salt water because there weren't any plants around.

Thanks for a great game. I've been playing a week and I'm already hooked.

~Kesselia