Message in a bottle

[Spank_Me_Daddy]

Like the title says. It would be cool to find random messages from other people. Explaining more detailed what happened or about their life like a diary. Maybe a map with coordinates for a certain island. (Better use for the receiver? )
It could be in barrels or maybe a new items like bottles where you could use the glass as well?

It would also be nice to add like an optional third person view to the game. I would love to play this with my friend but she gets motion sickness from the first person view.

Thanks for that awesome game.

[EvilSmoo]

Huh, third person sounds reasonable, might be issues if you make a room, though. Not that a room is actually necessary.

Messages from other people, however, is not. Subnautica did it- but people are terrible. They correctly realized they had to manually curate the messages, otherwise it would be 99% insults and inappropriate comments. It's a lot of work, unless they just write the messages themselves.

There's what, 800k players? If 1% of them throw a message in a bottle, that's 8000 to sort through. If some of them start spamming, thats a LOT more.

[Spank_Me_Daddy]

Originally posted by EvilSmoo:

Messages from other people, however, is not. Subnautica did it- but people are terrible. They correctly realized they had to manually curate the messages, otherwise it would be 99% insults and inappropriate comments. It's a lot of work, unless they just write the messages themselves.

Well DUH I didn't mean that other PLAYERS should write it. But it would be nice to find hints to what actually happened in this world. Certainly there were more people since there are abandoned rafts!

[Mortendo]

yes to get mor storie. I do not know why i am on a raft.

[RyderDie]

Heyo! We're working on implementing anti motion sickness mode right now, so your friend can play without having to worry! I love the idea of messages in bottles and are hyping it! :D

[EvilSmoo]

Originally posted by Quire:

Heyo! We're working on implementing anti motion sickness mode right now, so your friend can play without having to worry! I love the idea of messages in bottles and are hyping it! :D

Huh. Aside from the Subnautica capsule voting apparently stopping 8 months ago, the players went and surprised me, the messages shook out to be firmly in the "99% nice" category.

https://subnautica.unknownworlds.com/time-capsules