nodecore-cd2025/docs/nonideas.txt

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NONIDEAS: Ideas already considered and rejected
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- Anything Already Added
	- If something already exists in the game then it will not
	  be added.  Please play though the game enough to understand
	  what is already in the game before making suggestions.
	- Things that are ALMOST like things already in the game will
	  not be added.  Players are expected to adapt their ideas to
	  the materials available, not the other way around.

- Mobs/Animals
	- Things that are "off-grid" are discouraged.  Node-based
	  "staybs" could at least fit the mechanics, but entity-based
	  creatures that move freely do not.  Use of /clearobjects
	  should not remove key gameplay elements as long as the game
	  is allowed to "quiesce" first.
	- Monsters that are easy to understand and deal with would not
	  fit the games theme or play style.  Threats need to be subtle,
	  insidious, and indirect.  Threats that offer no direct
	  cathartic response (i.e. bashing it to death) also fit the
	  theme better, as well as threats that can be turned around and
	  exploited as resources once mastered (but remain a threat if
	  handled carelessly).
	- NodeCore pacing requires that dangers to a player should be
	  consequences of the player's own decisions, and not something
	  that can be blamed on environment or chance.  Having monsters
	  spawn spontaneously and stalk the player would be problematic.
	- NodeCore "conservation" mechanics discourage having things
	  spawn spontaneously at all, and they would need to be part of
	  mapgen.

- Food/Hunger
	- Players are like ethereal beings who visit the world only
	  temporarily and are not subject to injury or survival
	  mechanics within the world.
	- Things that focus a mechanic on/through the player do not
	  fit the world-centric/node-centric theme of the game.
	- Using food items to provide things like temporary buffs is
	  likely to be a lot of effort and likely to be skipped by most
	  players.

- Beds
	- There is no night to skip, and players have no need for sleep.
	- Bed-like structures can be made out of existing nodes. Purely
	  decorative elements that are not fungible do not fit the
	  game's design.

- Music
	- Minetest engine only technically supports music, but it
	  doesn't work smoothly.
	- Music would increase the download size of the game, and
	  correspondingly the media transfer time on joining servers,
	  but a decimal order of magnitude and is not worth it, even
	  at the lowest quality settings.
	- Players often prefer playing their own music, and can just
	  play other music with another media player in background.
	- Music is generally problematic for streamers and even music
	  that is supposedly freely-licensed sometimes ends up in
	  content fingerprint databases for automatic copyright strikes.
	  In theory this is not exclusive to music, but its prevalence
	  in music already is a big problem.

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