Comments on: Home Tycoon Potential, Part Two: Vehicular Commotion

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[…] entries to the series to see what has been covered thus far please click HERE for the intro, HERE for the vehicular based ideas, and HERE for some thoughts on what the interactive capabilities of […]

By: Gideon

Gideon — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:17:18 +0000

for people like you Burbie I hope Home Tycoon features a Cruise option where gamers can just get in the car and drive to their heart’s content.

By: Gideon

Gideon — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:16:03 +0000

I totally agree Krazy. I guess I should have clarified what I meant when I said “visually or otherwise”. The “otherwise” would be an alternate method of showing damage to the vehicle that doesn’t involve altering the model. A damage bar would do nicely with perhaps increasing plumes of smoke emitting from the vehicle as it get thrashed. While I would love for there to be polygonal deformation I would much prefer the horsepower of Home (and the time and energy of Hellfire Games) to go to making Home Tycoon even more engrossing with additional, game extending features.

I like the idea of an endless race! This would totally be a cool feature for Home Tycoon racing. Maybe the player would simply stop for a couple of seconds to abandon the marathon with the leaderboard full of the longest runners. That could actually span all Home Tycoon cities. Great idea!

By: Gideon

Gideon — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:07:32 +0000

Ha! That would be awesome and so doable!

By: Burbie52

Burbie52 — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:00:15 +0000

All of these sound different and interesting, though I am not a race fan or car person nor do I play these types of games at all, I might try my hand at something in Home just for the fun of it. Good read Gid.

By: KrazyFace

KrazyFace — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 07:45:38 +0000

Wow, just lost my comment thanks to competing WiFi waves!!! I shall try again:

Card-darts, destruction derbies, stealing rare cars from neighboring cities, it’s fun to speculate! I’d join in but I think you’ve covered pretty much all basis Gid. I’ll be a party-pooper here though and say the destruction thing might be a little out of reach for Home, running a buildable city AND having enoughemory left for the polygonal carnage that a destruction derby equites would be a tall order, but you never know, right?

I’m a big fan of open road racing, there’s not too many games that offer an endless steam of tar-mac to race on, the closest thing I can think of is Test Drive Unlimited 2, which is all kinds of wicked for people who like racing on streams of unfamiliar road. Really tests the driver’s pure control and car-zen (as me later).

I wait for your next bout of random Tycoon musings with anticipation Gid!

By: PirateBounty

PirateBounty — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 02:25:24 +0000

I think because its from hellfire they might do what they do with novus and have perchisable items that will boost aspects of ur city or cars. As for car types I myself am a Steampunk fan so iI would like to see Steampunkesk cars or heck at least a Duesenburg Walker Coupe.

By: NorseGamer

NorseGamer — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 01:10:07 +0000

Tell ya what would be *insanely* awesome: car darts.

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i-op1aceUg

That’d be an absolutely mental mini-game for Home Tycoon.