Discussion about the Roguelike Dungeon

eh, I just call all codes 'cheatcodes'. I think it's an old school gamer term. Kinda like 'boss', I mean when you think about it, many game bosses aren't actually anyone's boss. They're just particularly tough (nomally, sometimes they aren't even that!) enemies that are often unique. A more accurate name would be special enemies or milestone enemies or something but nah, 'boss' is just what people are used to.

Yeah I know, and I'm trying to say sometimes something's original name doesn't always make the most sense. I'm pretty sure people just called all codes cheat codes whether they were in fact cheats or not back in the day and old habits die hard.

I disagree. I think accessability is really important. There should be a difficulty option for everyone, including easy.

So one of the things I am most hyped about and something I think could add a lot to the replay value of the game is the roguelike dungeon feature that was achieved on kickstarter. I have a couple of discussion topics on this

1) How much effort do you think will be put into this gamemode vs how much effort you wish they would put into it.

2) Are you even interested in this gamemode and if not then why.

3) How many floors do you think it should have?

4) Do you think there will be specific bosses designed for this , or maybe just some standard enemies from the main game reskined and with a few new moves, or do you think they will use the main game bosses.

5) Should it always be a level 1 start from ground up run or should there be permanent items and such you can get and use each run in the dungeon

6) What are some features from roguelikes that you enjoy that would be a nice addition to the BROTN dungeon. Are you even interested in this gamemode and if not then why.

I'm interested in seeing what they will do with this. It would be interesting if they tied what appears in the roguelike dungeon to what you've discovered/unlocked in the main game.v

freddythemonkey The most recent dedicated thread I can see on this subforum is from nearly 5 months ago and with only 27 replies. I don't really think merging every common topic that happens over the history of the game's development is necessary. Seems like that would be a tactic best used when we have multiple concurrent threads opened on the same topic.

I'm no moderator nor have direct experience in managing forums and threads so you're probably right, I'm just a person that likes the least amount of redundancy and the more order as possible, and encourage the use of the search bar.

freddythemonkey I've participated in forums that did that, and they had threads that were over a decade old with hundreds or more pages each. I think that the nature and size of a forum plays into how good an idea that is. Megathreads can be useful in busy communities where people post similar topics on a daily basis. It lightens the moderators' work load and gives popular topics of discussion direction rather than having the same thing repeated in perpetuity. But they can also be daunting and in our case, where the situation is evolving and any information can become out of date at a moment's notice, counterproductive.

Some topics are more suited to them than others. We probably don't need more than one thread asking people what platform they intend to play the game on, for example. But by and large, I feel that megathreads should exist in reaction to a need, or else they actually increase the burden on the mods. They would have to monitor the forum for threads that needed to be merged to correct a situation that wasn't a problem in the first place. It's needless micromanagement.

I find the idea of having the seed available so that you can challenge others to play the same generated dungeon appealing. I don't do much co-op, so how that works doesn't interest me personally as much, but having it built in to the roguelike dungeon seems like it would be a good fit.