u/SurvivalHermit

So I have been ruminating about Infinite Axis Utility Systems for a while and during that time I realized that just because decisions cannot be made by inanimate objects or abstract concepts in the real world does not mean that is true in a video game.

IAUS is a system of drives and weights that help NPC's in video games more realistically makes decisions and flow through states based on reactions to internal and external stimuli. This works really well and is sort of like a micro neural network driving basic NPC decision making.

It has occurred to me that this system can be applied to anything and in a tiered system. where decisions from tiers above can impact the drives of entities at lower tiers (think horde > group > individual).

A horde and a group are not real entities they are concepts but in a video game they can absolutely make a decision. This brings me to the dungeon. Why can't a dungeon change and react to the players inside it just like an NPC might based on its own drives and weights? We could even give the dungeon fun skills like spawning miasma or closing off paths or opening shortcuts based on that decision system.

I dont know what do yall think?

tower defense crafting

Creeps represent affixes. you have to let through the ones you want and kill the ones you dont.

Towers are leveled using resources you gathered so part of the game is optimizing upgrades to limit resource use.

Towers can exclude or specifically target entire sets of affixes (str, dex, int,) or individual affixes (attack speed, move speed)

Bosses are chimera that have many affixes on them so you dont just let the boss through you have to snipe off the affixes you dont want.

difficulty is controlled by how many lanes there are and how mixed up the creeps are. normal items have one lane and only 1 affix at a time. legendary has many lanes and many creep types all mixed together making splash damage risky.

Once the item gets full of creeps it crafts.

As we know reddit is a fairly small subsection of the internet and many of you likely have loved ones who have never even heard of this dilemma. I am curious of the red button pressers out there how many of you are absolutely certain that 100% of the people you care about most in the world will press red also. So if you are a die hard red button presser i encourage you to poll your family give them the original dilemma with no additional remarks and see if you are right. Blue is the only button that provides the ability to protect another person. It is the only vote that can be worth more than a single life and if your closest circle extends to even 5 people there is a very high chance 1 of those people presses blue.

Everyone lines up and votes one at a time. You are the exact middle of the line. each person can see only what the person directly before them voted. What do you pick if the person in front of you picked red? what if they picked blue?