God mode vs God tools

Alaska wants us to call it god tools, not mode, but I was thinking. At a certain point, wouldn't you be able to turn you creature into a shapeless, formless being, akin to how observer mode would be, but with all the god tools? Would this observer-mode-with-God-tools be the same thing as "God Mode"?

DragonEye4 wrote:

Alaska wants us to call it god tools, not mode, but I was thinking. At a certain point, wouldn't you be able to turn you creature into a shapeless, formless being, akin to how observer mode would be, but with all the god tools? Would this observer-mode-with-God-tools be the same thing as "God Mode"?

You're talking about Ascension, the final research in the game. At that point your people would start giving up their physical bodies, becoming a stream of consciousness, all that jazz. But yes, with the Godly Researches you'll eventually be able to move the camera anywhere you want in Observer Mode and use the God Tools at your will. But there will be no God "Mode". This is what i am trying to say. It was agreed that God Tools would be a better way to handle the godly abilities. Because then Observer Mode can become what God Mode originally was, and you can access the God Tools from any other mode as well.

Righteo!

Maybe we should unlock god tools one at a time, instead of all at once.

It could add more playability to the game.

Maybe not.

roadkillguy wrote:

Maybe we should unlock god tools one at a time, instead of all at once.

It's already in the current plan .

Alright, that sounds good.

So I'm thinking a little side-menu that pops up containing all of your hard earned god tools?

roadkillguy wrote:

Alright, that sounds good.

So I'm thinking a little side-menu that pops up containing all of your hard earned god tools?

Yeah, I'm thinking that aswell. But should we have a string of researched that unlock different god tools?

YourBreakfast wrote:

roadkillguy wrote:

Alright, that sounds good.

So I'm thinking a little side-menu that pops up containing all of your hard earned god tools?

Yeah, I'm thinking that aswell. But should we have a string of researched that unlock different god tools?

Yes, it will be incorporated into our game.

Ascension will most likely come in the form of a technological singularity.

Maybe a difficult achievement should unlock a related god tool?

So unlocking Ascension pretty much fuses Observer Mode and the God Tools... Isn't Observer Mode designed for machinima-type gameplay and-.. Oh wait, God Tools would be helpful in that kind of mode.

roadkillguy wrote:

Maybe a difficult achievement should unlock a related god tool?

Basically the system is that your technology progresses to the point where it becomes god-like, and the technologies give you the god powers.

If we no longer have a god mode will we be removing the God mode section? And if we do what about the topics in it?

I guess we can just rename it to God tools section.

Commander Keen wrote:

I guess we can just rename it to God tools section.

Ask and thou shalt receive.*

*If agreed upon by general community consensus.

Now on the index it looks like God Tools mode.

Anyways, I always thought that ascension and Godmode were one and the same. Wasn't godmode only unlocked after ascension?

cause and effect

eumesmo wrote:

cause and effect

the ascension research causes you to get those god-like powers

eumesmo wrote:

the ascension research causes you to get those god-like powers

Nope. You get each of these tools as soon as you finish the correct research. Ascension only allows to use God tools in saves different to that they were researched in.

Commander Keen wrote:

eumesmo wrote:

the ascension research causes you to get those god-like powers

Nope. You get each of these tools as soon as you finish the correct research. Ascension only allows to use God tools in saves different to that they were researched in.

So isn't that what godmode is? The state after ascension?

DragonEye4 wrote:

Commander Keen wrote:

eumesmo wrote:

the ascension research causes you to get those god-like powers

Nope. You get each of these tools as soon as you finish the correct research. Ascension only allows to use God tools in saves different to that they were researched in.

So isn't that what godmode is? The state after ascension?

Ascension= you win the game. Basically you go into any mode you want, do anything you want, except your faction no longer exists because they have ascended. You can now start a new game with your god powers intact.

~sciocont wrote:

DragonEye4 wrote:

Commander Keen wrote:

eumesmo wrote:

the ascension research causes you to get those god-like powers

Nope. You get each of these tools as soon as you finish the correct research. Ascension only allows to use God tools in saves different to that they were researched in.

So isn't that what godmode is? The state after ascension?

Ascension= you win the game. Basically you go into any mode you want, do anything you want, except your faction no longer exists because they have ascended. You can now start a new game with your god powers intact.

So you have unlocked Godmode, basically.

DragonEye4 wrote:

~sciocont wrote:

DragonEye4 wrote:

Commander Keen wrote:

eumesmo wrote:

the ascension research causes you to get those god-like powers

Nope. You get each of these tools as soon as you finish the correct research. Ascension only allows to use God tools in saves different to that they were researched in.

So isn't that what godmode is? The state after ascension?

Ascension= you win the game. Basically you go into any mode you want, do anything you want, except your faction no longer exists because they have ascended. You can now start a new game with your god powers intact.

So you have unlocked Godmode, basically.

Excep it isn't an an actual mode.

Well, ascension lets you use the tools and things like that anywhere without having to manage your species and empire.

And what happens if another species/race/empire creates a gate before you, and you discover it and use it without the tech? Full observer mode, but no tools/not all tools? Or could you be granted them by the other ascended species? Maybe only if they are friendly, and made alliances in their physical existence, but not if they just conquered everywhere...

Ooh, what if you were a dog thing and found an ancient ascension gate? Would you be able to use the powers if you're not sentient?

Or you might be a cell and go through one! Ooh! A deadly desease that goes through? It could manipulate the ascended consciousnesses into infecting the universe with their god tools!

ascending doesnt mean your game has to end... that'd be really boring... "congrats for winning, you just had your savefile deleted...."

btw, is it just me or this is sounding a bit like stargate.... ascencion and gates ...

I'm pretty sure an ascension gate would only capture intelligence... a single celled organism is basically like the if statement of intelligence.

And I do not think this should end the game. That would be quite the lame ending to be stuck in observer mode the entire time.

Rather, I think observer mode should be one of the god tools.