Pre-Tech Tech...?

Just now decided to read through all the posts... kinda forgot about this. Any-who, I think just a normal strategy control scheme would work fine. Someone suggested that you could kind of do "suggested" orders, and I think that would be more realistic. It's not that you necessarily are an entity giving orders, but kind of the population's common will, or whatever the word is I'm looking for. (Which gives me an idea, what would the literal player be role playing as in-game? an ascended being?)
I'm not totally sure how constructive this post was.

Okay, I think the problem here is that people are confusing our defined strategy mode with the literal definition of strategy.
I do think that some limited strategic behavior should be available to many different types of animals - for toolmaking (Crows and other birds do it, as well as primates, before anyone goes off on me.) as well as for hunting/defending a territory from encroaching packs.

One of the simple ways to do it would be to give the group an option to "hunt" or to "defend," and then not be able to select the actual strategy used yourself. But we have to remember that pack behavior is not actually random - creatures are making decisions based on the situation and the actions of their leader.
Toolmaking is different... and probably not a huge issue in this thread. Creatures will use a rock to smash a shellfish long before they ever think to make a proper tool.

Mysterious_Calligrapher wrote:

Okay, I think the problem here is that people are confusing our defined strategy mode with the literal definition of strategy.
I do think that some limited strategic behavior should be available to many different types of animals - for toolmaking (Crows and other birds do it, as well as primates, before anyone goes off on me.) as well as for hunting/defending a territory from encroaching packs.

One of the simple ways to do it would be to give the group an option to "hunt" or to "defend," and then not be able to select the actual strategy used yourself. But we have to remember that pack behavior is not actually random - creatures are making decisions based on the situation and the actions of their leader.
Toolmaking is different... and probably not a huge issue in this thread. Creatures will use a rock to smash a shellfish long before they ever think to make a proper tool.

Animals use a limited amount of comunication like wolf pack leaders direct the rest of the pack by using basic comands so we wouldn't be far off with a Pre-tech tree with a basic tool set like rock throwing or using rocks to open nuts or shell fish
and a evolution "web" or "tree" for social interaction via packs or nomatic herds...
does this help? or just repeat? if it does im sorry

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