Creatures Caves

Malkin wrote:
The act of eating something usually requires a lot of muscle control to find the item and put it in one's mouth, and in the Creatures series, doing that action has been simplified for the norn. I don't see why 'watering the plant' in Creatures Online is any different. For them, it's the same thing as pushing a toy or whatever - they decide to 'look after plant', and then they do it, with the assistance of the animation scripts. They still appear to have free will.

I really wanna see what happens in the new 3D world when pose/animation genes mutate. NY Walker in three dimensions!

On the stream and what I saw in the game, though, I'm happy with how it looks and that there's some simplifications to the interface (it looks like there was a right-click menu for some objects that had "say" commands to make it easier to direct norns without having to type messages over and over), but I'm still concerned. As I said near the end, I've set my expectations really low for this game, so that hopefully when it comes out I'll be pleasantly surprised instead of completely accurate. Part of this is because it's difficult to wait for a game that you're excited for (and I still am), but a lot of it is because I've been pretty badly burned by franchise revivals in the past. I'm very much worried that the new publisher that Fishing Cactus picked up will try to push to make a short-term profit at the expense of Fishing Cactus' original goals and the Creatures community's good will, rather than providing a decent and fun game that will continue to do well and turn profits for a longer period of time.

I was going to write an enormous wall of text on the currency systems (being experience, coins, and golden eggs), but that's not really important. It's more important that I say that I have really high hopes for the game, and want to see it do well, but have to aim low so that when I'm inevitably disappointed by something, it won't be nearly as bad. So, here are my hopes and expectations for Creatures Online's currencies:

Hopes:

-No paywall on major devices
-Everything obtainable ingame (TF2-style random drop system?) possibly save for breed packs
-Experience system gives boosts to long-time players rather than an excuse to paywall everything
-Coins used something like C3's bioenergy
-Golden eggs used for neat-looking things (e.g. special decorations, norn hats), breed packs, and minor boosts (cheap, slight increase in experience gain)
-Future use of user-developed content (Steam Workshop style?)
-A pony

Expectations:
-Paywall on science kits in particular, or severe time walling on everything
-Few items for free players
-Experience system very slow, is key to unlocking science kits, etc.
-Coins exorbitantly time-consuming to get as an excuse to pressure people to pay
-Golden eggs give a disproportionate advantage to paid players
-No updates ever
-A really ugly sweater

In closing, I'll still hopefully smile and say thank you about both of these outcomes, but I'd really much rather have the pony.