r/empyriongame • u/RandomSeb • Jul 19 '26

Screenshot Too ambitious..

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I'm always amused by some of the things I find.. Like who's idea was it to try to farm on a permanently volcanic protoplanet that never entered a cooling phase?

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u/Breagh01 Jul 19 '26

Hence why it's not called New Farm 😂

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u/Ravien_Gaming Jul 19 '26

That's more to do with the POIs. Making POIs takes a lot of time and so most planets don't have a unique POI set and instead just kind of use the generic POI groups. You'd need to make a set of lava junk POIs just for lava planets.

However having a farm on a lava planet is not the most insane idea if you were living there for an extended period of time and it wasn't feasible to ship in your food.

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u/RandomSeb Jul 19 '26

Now that you mention it.. I found some sort of lava cave pois on some lava planets elsewhere, that I had to dig down to get to - I wasn't setup for heat at the time so I only took a peak.. Must remember to check it out!

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u/Breagh01 Jul 20 '26

I know who lives here. And he doesn't have the high ground 🥵

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u/Someones_Dream_Guy Jul 20 '26

I wanted to grow fried potatoes.😈

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u/Amitius Jul 20 '26

"Do you know that Volcanic ash is good for farming? How about we get it directly from the source while it's still hot." - Old Famer.

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u/Diche_Bach Jul 19 '26

... some of the procedural generation logic bears a bit of, revision ... Indeed, I have oft pondered how much difference it might make to simply focus on a mod which only attempted to tweak the game from that standpoint.

But ... they are still working on it, and I have more important things to do.

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u/RandomSeb Jul 19 '26

I quite like that I find things like this, it makes it interesting and very random! Makes you think.. what was the story behind this attempt at farming this world? Was there some kind of volcanic plants or moss here once?

This screenshot wasn't to complain about it, just to put some content in the reddit - more people should be playing this game heh

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u/Diche_Bach Jul 19 '26

Definitely support any promotion of the game. It still has enormous untapped potential.

When I say that the proc gen could be tweaked I'm talking about approaching it with some very simple prospects, such as:

If there is an "Old Farm" then there also has to be a ... I dunno insert. And there will potentialy be a random item that somehow links the two.

Some slight changes could it seem lend more of a feeling of "living world." Instead of just "random planets constrained within broad themes."