Stuff like this always makes me think, why not get the community involved? While not everyone has the ability to design in programs like blender, there are other things that can be outsourced.
One idea I had was to make a request for writing; create an absolute ton of text for Vykeen, Korvax, Gek (and now Autophage) in their general style, someone at HG proof-reads and selects what they feel fits the canon, assign them to personality blocks (eg angry, sad, pensive, sarcastic, scared, happy). When interacting with a particular creature for first time it’s assigned a block number, then each interaction with that entity would call a random paragraph from that ‘block’ of text.
Similarly, opening up the engine and allowing users with the ability to 3d model to supply building, creature models etc would massively increase the variety
Good suggestion, I’ve dropped them a report. Hopefully this leads to something or I get some further info from them on how to go about creating it as a mod.
You probably won’t hear from them. They get WAY too many suggestions for that. But I’m pretty sure they read it. To get started with modding, you find lots of help already. There’s the NMS modding Discord and a number of great tutorials online.
Stuff like this always makes me think, why not get the community involved? While not everyone has the ability to design in programs like blender, there are other things that can be outsourced.
One idea I had was to make a request for writing; create an absolute ton of text for Vykeen, Korvax, Gek (and now Autophage) in their general style, someone at HG proof-reads and selects what they feel fits the canon, assign them to personality blocks (eg angry, sad, pensive, sarcastic, scared, happy). When interacting with a particular creature for first time it’s assigned a block number, then each interaction with that entity would call a random paragraph from that ‘block’ of text.
Similarly, opening up the engine and allowing users with the ability to 3d model to supply building, creature models etc would massively increase the variety
Awesome idea.
Why not take this post and submit it here: Hello Games Reports
There’s already mods out there for planet generation and flora variety. Problem is just that no one apart from the mod user sees these changes.
Good suggestion, I’ve dropped them a report. Hopefully this leads to something or I get some further info from them on how to go about creating it as a mod.
You probably won’t hear from them. They get WAY too many suggestions for that. But I’m pretty sure they read it. To get started with modding, you find lots of help already. There’s the NMS modding Discord and a number of great tutorials online.