My opinion is that grinding is fine as long as its requirement is relatively low. I imagine as the difficulty of the encounters increase, the skill required of any given military unit must also increase in order for that unit to continue overcoming the battles. The reasonable skill level of each unit can be charted as a curve. The line represents what a unit's skill level should be at any point in the progression of the game in order to achieve a stalemate. If a unit's skill is below the curve, they will probably lose more battles than they're winning. If above the curve, that unit can be expected to win more battles then he loses.
If the player does no grinding at all (spends only the time absolutely required in combat to move on to the next battle, ignoring all optional combat encounters), they should start falling under the curve. This will require the player to do some grinding in order to level up their troops enough to be above the curve. I don't think it should take very much grinding to put their troops above the curve, though. If they must voluntarily spend 50% more time in optional encounters in order to have enough extra experience to fall above the curve, they'll probably get sick of grinding pretty fast. Even requiring as little as 10% extra time grinding seems small enought that they will value the extra work and challenge, but not feel it gets monotonous.
I like this idea. Has a lot of potential provided it doesn't get too pushy. I checked out the greenlight page, played the demo, liked it, voted yes. :)
There are some other small pixel art mushrooms, but I don't know what your specifics are. do you want mushrooms for a player character to stand on in a 2d sidescroller? a mushroom item?
I am lower on the totem pole of admins, so I don't have much sway on the coding and back-end, but my own weakness is understanding drupal and apache solr. If you know about those or can help me track down resources for understanding those, it could put both of us in a better position to resolve the search issue.
undesired: "I don't have a "Flag for copyright violation" button. All I can do is either that or report spam."
Click "Report spam". I actually do review those. It is the preferred way to draw attention to assets with copyright issues. It helps if you comment with details of the infringement, too, but just a comment alone often goes unnoticed. When I say a comment is helpful, I mean something more than just "this is suspiciously similar to a copyrighted work". Give details, evidence, screenshots, links, comparisons, something. I don't know everything about every IP, so it helps having all you-guys's expertise added in. :)
There is a lot of older stuff that I don't know about that I'm sure people have drawn attention to, but I'm a relatively new moderator, so I wouldn't have seen those complaints at the time. For others, the potential infringement is unclear or borderline, not obvious. For example http://opengameart.org/content/elbaun has some substantial difference and little indication of adaptation from the Ness character beyond the clothing coloring, so I decided to leave it alone until someone could provide more information.
powertomato: "Even on OGA various non-free material was released without anyone noticing for months."
That's true. Sometimes stuff gets missed. Don't be afraid to draw attention to it. Mark it as spam so the moderators notice it. It doesn't guarantee it will get removed, though. Sometimes a moderator decides it isn't a violation. Other times they just continue to miss it. If you think something isn't getting the attention it needs even after marking it, PM me about it.
kagerato: "As for any OGA violations you find, you'll have to keep trying to get the attention of a moderator or admin who actually has the power to flag it."
@JonSnowShove: Because LGPL's compatibility with CC-BY is debatable. The author has given everyone the choice of which license they would like to use. This allows people working on GPL projects to keep their assets GPL compatible, and yet others can still use this asset even if their project uses only CC assets.
Licensing is indeed confusing, but having more licenses available to choose from is a good thing, not a bad one. If you don't like LGPL, just use this asset as CC-BY. :)
My opinion is that grinding is fine as long as its requirement is relatively low. I imagine as the difficulty of the encounters increase, the skill required of any given military unit must also increase in order for that unit to continue overcoming the battles. The reasonable skill level of each unit can be charted as a curve. The line represents what a unit's skill level should be at any point in the progression of the game in order to achieve a stalemate. If a unit's skill is below the curve, they will probably lose more battles than they're winning. If above the curve, that unit can be expected to win more battles then he loses.
If the player does no grinding at all (spends only the time absolutely required in combat to move on to the next battle, ignoring all optional combat encounters), they should start falling under the curve. This will require the player to do some grinding in order to level up their troops enough to be above the curve. I don't think it should take very much grinding to put their troops above the curve, though. If they must voluntarily spend 50% more time in optional encounters in order to have enough extra experience to fall above the curve, they'll probably get sick of grinding pretty fast. Even requiring as little as 10% extra time grinding seems small enought that they will value the extra work and challenge, but not feel it gets monotonous.
I'd give this game a try. :)
I believe I can help.
What music are your compositions based on?
Teh_Bucket, how did you find it? I must learn your magic.
wow... your magic is made of perseverance.
I like this idea. Has a lot of potential provided it doesn't get too pushy. I checked out the greenlight page, played the demo, liked it, voted yes. :)
Looks intriguing!
Are any of these usable for your purposes?
There are some other small pixel art mushrooms, but I don't know what your specifics are. do you want mushrooms for a player character to stand on in a 2d sidescroller? a mushroom item?
I am lower on the totem pole of admins, so I don't have much sway on the coding and back-end, but my own weakness is understanding drupal and apache solr. If you know about those or can help me track down resources for understanding those, it could put both of us in a better position to resolve the search issue.
Click "Report spam". I actually do review those. It is the preferred way to draw attention to assets with copyright issues. It helps if you comment with details of the infringement, too, but just a comment alone often goes unnoticed. When I say a comment is helpful, I mean something more than just "this is suspiciously similar to a copyrighted work". Give details, evidence, screenshots, links, comparisons, something. I don't know everything about every IP, so it helps having all you-guys's expertise added in. :)
There is a lot of older stuff that I don't know about that I'm sure people have drawn attention to, but I'm a relatively new moderator, so I wouldn't have seen those complaints at the time. For others, the potential infringement is unclear or borderline, not obvious. For example http://opengameart.org/content/elbaun has some substantial difference and little indication of adaptation from the Ness character beyond the clothing coloring, so I decided to leave it alone until someone could provide more information.
That's true. Sometimes stuff gets missed. Don't be afraid to draw attention to it. Mark it as spam so the moderators notice it. It doesn't guarantee it will get removed, though. Sometimes a moderator decides it isn't a violation. Other times they just continue to miss it. If you think something isn't getting the attention it needs even after marking it, PM me about it.
Yup. Report spam. :)
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Kenney's stuff comes to mind: http://opengameart.org/users/Kenney specifically...
and, more recently, Tio Amar's stuff: http://opengameart.org/users/tio-aimar
@JonSnowShove: Because LGPL's compatibility with CC-BY is debatable. The author has given everyone the choice of which license they would like to use. This allows people working on GPL projects to keep their assets GPL compatible, and yet others can still use this asset even if their project uses only CC assets.
Licensing is indeed confusing, but having more licenses available to choose from is a good thing, not a bad one. If you don't like LGPL, just use this asset as CC-BY. :)
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