Invasions

[Face Wound]

I have read around that to get invasions from community creations (and thus, a wider mix of tech dropping) opposed to the two sets of stock invaders you have to link up to twitter. Is there any other way to do it? Not only do I intensely dislike twitter, I really dont want to have to set up an account to be able to use a feature of the game that seems unrelient on a service such as twitter. Am I perhaps missing something and the creations are some how shared via twitter or is it just an artificial gate to get people involved with the devs on twitter?

I apologise if this seems like a silly question!

[XelNigma]

I too dislike twitter, and if not for TerraTech I would have gone my whole life never getting a twitter account. But for now its a nessessary evil.

[Face Wound]

Originally posted by Xellios Nigmatic:

I too dislike twitter, and if not for TerraTech I would have gone my whole life never getting a twitter account. But for now its a nessessary evil.

And here I thought I was the only one! Is it nessessary because they say so, or for any meaningful reason? (I assume it is just because they say so opposed to any functional reason)

[stecph]

I also dislike both Twitter and the fact that, if you wanna have a more interesting game, you MUST have an account.
It really sucks in my opinion, I will not do a Twitter account no matter what, but unless this will change, my opinion about this game will change for sure....any word from the Devs regarding the subject?

[Zappy]

Originally posted by Face Wound:

Is it nessessary because they say so, or for any meaningful reason?

Both. And the reason they say so in the first place is because of a meaningful reason. Saved Techs are embedded in PNG image files, and Twitter probably allows an easy way to upload those as well as tag them with #terratech or something like that for the game to see. But why one would need an account, I don't know.

However, it might be worth saying the developers have said they wanted to add Steam Workshop support for Tech-sharing some time. I think. I'm not sure, but I think they did.

(Also, I don't use Twitter, but I have had at least 7 different Techs invade me, not just 2.)

[stecph]

Twitter in in deep troubles, they cannot make profits, they are trying the 140+ carachters thing but seems like it won't work.
If I have to do a Twitter account to play a game, even if I will never use it, Twitter will have +1 "customer"...nice eh? This is seriously irritating me....

[Jamie]

Twitter offers us a platform to do something as cool and interesting as community made invasions, saving and sharing Techs, scraping all community made Techs and adding them to the game's population.

We wouldn't be able to do this without Twitter. Eventually - we'll be able to do it through Steam workshop. It's on the to-do list.

[Tynaiden]

It might do to have a small bit of info on how mobs spawning works so people who feel things are stale, don't want to integrate twitter, or trying to hunt for certain parts, can try to improve their gameplay enjoyment.

I haven't played much in the past six months or so but generally I see every couple of updates add a few dozen or hundred techs to the population tree so the only way I can see the variety of critters not being more varied is that player's operated tech does not vary.

Invaders and critters seem to spawn based on an algorythm of what types of and how many blocks are on the tech you are controlling. Biome is also a spawn factor. Try using more of a different corps blocks, less weapons, more armor, roam around different areas, anything short of just one or two block changes and the same 10 second drive around.

Some times I'll 'game the system' by making a small tech of varied corp pieces, pilot it while I put an AI module on my main tech and have it follow me around. When something new and interesting spawns, I switch back to my main and surgically dissasemble the new mob.

I have twitter but don't integrate because I want to see approved techs while I'm trying my own shennanigans to break or test the game but I can still get varied enemies and pieces.

[lotw_1]

The main problem with not linking Twitter (like I have done, dont want to link it) is that depending on the seed you can take hours to find some parts you dont have already and still have a bunch locked away. That problem will go away once they start letting us make all parts and other faction stuff instead of GSO only.