Devblog #18 - Customising Your Playthroughs
Dear Community!
We bring you some of the settings that will influence the way your cities grow and develop throughout your playthroughs. These will shape your playthroughs in more than one way.
While new players may need some help from us, experienced players may see this as being held by the hand. And sometimes returning players need help remembering what to do and need only a bit of guidance. You can have a choice of how much help you need.
Full Guidance
We will walk you through all game’s mechanics and show you how to build your city from the ground up. It’s useful during your first playthroughs, where even the most basic mechanics may seem a bit new.
Less Guidance
We will introduce some of the mechanics, especially those that are not commonly found in other city-builders. The basics seem too obvious for us to explain at this point. We recommend this setting if you are a returning player, who has played many city builders before but hasn’t touched Celestial Empire in a while.
No Guidance
You probably know the game inside out and can play with your eyes closed. There will be no tutorials, no hints, and no expertise from us. You are the expert now. The training wheels are off.
These tutorial changes do not include tooltips, which explain certain functionalities and mechanics behind tools and buildings.
As players, you will be faced with a choice that will influence most of your playthroughs. Each difficulty will have its own set of challenges and different starting points. Certain obstacles are more likely to happen and even some handy tools may be disabled for the sake of the challenge.
Easy Difficulty will let you create and redecorate your dream city. Your fields will always yield high harvests and your citizens will be easier to please, so you can relax and enjoy the simple life as the Governor with almost unlimited power. Disasters will rarely threaten your citizens, so you can have some fun with barely any consequences to your choices. You start as a rich man and will hopefully help your city get even richer.
Medium Difficulty will bring some challenges but they will not be overwhelming. You can still reshape the city at any point, but it will cost you. Everything around you will be mediocre, harvests will be okay, and there will be enough materials to help you satisfy your citizens’ needs. Disasters will come and go, but with smart planning ahead and skilled building placing, you will be fine.
Hard Difficulty is challenging. Forces of nature and odds are stacked against you. There’s a permanence to your choices, so you better plan ahead, because there is no moving of the buildings. There is only demolition. Disasters will stick to you like flies to a glue trap and disastrous consequences will be more devastating than ever. Even the soil does not like you and will make harvests a miserable experience. So good luck feeding your people and finding materials. It’s you and your skills against the scary world of Hard Difficulty.
So these are the tutorial, difficulty settings. They will be the cornerstone of your playthroughs. We’re very excited to introduce some challenges and give you the option to just relax and not worry about too many things. How do you think, which difficulty setting will be your favourite? Let us know!
See you next time!
The Devs
We bring you some of the settings that will influence the way your cities grow and develop throughout your playthroughs. These will shape your playthroughs in more than one way.
Tutorials
While new players may need some help from us, experienced players may see this as being held by the hand. And sometimes returning players need help remembering what to do and need only a bit of guidance. You can have a choice of how much help you need.
Full Guidance
We will walk you through all game’s mechanics and show you how to build your city from the ground up. It’s useful during your first playthroughs, where even the most basic mechanics may seem a bit new.
Less Guidance
We will introduce some of the mechanics, especially those that are not commonly found in other city-builders. The basics seem too obvious for us to explain at this point. We recommend this setting if you are a returning player, who has played many city builders before but hasn’t touched Celestial Empire in a while.
No Guidance
You probably know the game inside out and can play with your eyes closed. There will be no tutorials, no hints, and no expertise from us. You are the expert now. The training wheels are off.
These tutorial changes do not include tooltips, which explain certain functionalities and mechanics behind tools and buildings.
Difficulties
As players, you will be faced with a choice that will influence most of your playthroughs. Each difficulty will have its own set of challenges and different starting points. Certain obstacles are more likely to happen and even some handy tools may be disabled for the sake of the challenge.
Easy Difficulty will let you create and redecorate your dream city. Your fields will always yield high harvests and your citizens will be easier to please, so you can relax and enjoy the simple life as the Governor with almost unlimited power. Disasters will rarely threaten your citizens, so you can have some fun with barely any consequences to your choices. You start as a rich man and will hopefully help your city get even richer.
Medium Difficulty will bring some challenges but they will not be overwhelming. You can still reshape the city at any point, but it will cost you. Everything around you will be mediocre, harvests will be okay, and there will be enough materials to help you satisfy your citizens’ needs. Disasters will come and go, but with smart planning ahead and skilled building placing, you will be fine.
Hard Difficulty is challenging. Forces of nature and odds are stacked against you. There’s a permanence to your choices, so you better plan ahead, because there is no moving of the buildings. There is only demolition. Disasters will stick to you like flies to a glue trap and disastrous consequences will be more devastating than ever. Even the soil does not like you and will make harvests a miserable experience. So good luck feeding your people and finding materials. It’s you and your skills against the scary world of Hard Difficulty.
So these are the tutorial, difficulty settings. They will be the cornerstone of your playthroughs. We’re very excited to introduce some challenges and give you the option to just relax and not worry about too many things. How do you think, which difficulty setting will be your favourite? Let us know!
See you next time!
The Devs