Suggestion: Disable ghost advice

[Monkey]

Right now, my past self is INCREDIBLY annoying. Constantly demanding that I follow to e.g. helpfully inform me that a wise ruler stacks their coffers... despite my keep being absolutely crammed with coins. Is there a way to disable them? If not, can we have one, please?

[fee-ona]

Look, if I died, I'd haunt the heck out of my descendants. ;)

but in all seriousness, I'll pass along the request to the team, thanks!

[Sapador]

Finds a beautiful statue of a king

... Proceeds to pay

...

With this offer you have appeased my spirit. I can see that your kingdom is established, and no longer need my surpassed wisdom. The anguish of my defeat has been overridden by the hope you raised, that we will defeat them forever! ... Farewell, Monarch!

This was the last time the Ghost was seen.

[CherryKiss]

yes pleeeeeeeeease give a ghost disable option!

[Malidictus]

Agreed, it would be nice. The ghosts are neat for new players and to explain some of the game's more obscure mechanics, but they do get irritating after a while. The "stack your coffers" ghost is particularly annoying.

[french_ace2002]

Ghost advice is usefull for new players, but it will be really hard to disable it. All buttons are there for a reason, they wouldn't add a key just to disable a ghost. But I am no developer so maybe they can add it. And the new lands ghost was 10 times better to be honest

[Malidictus]

Originally posted by french_ace2002:

Ghost advice is usefull for new players, but it will be really hard to disable it. All buttons are there for a reason, they wouldn't add a key just to disable a ghost. But I am no developer so maybe they can add it. And the new lands ghost was 10 times better to be honest

No need for new buttons. Simply an Options toggle would suffice.

[french_ace2002]

Hmm... Maybe that would work.

[french_ace2002]

I changed my mind disable ghosy advice immedietly

[teleshoes]

as someone who has written code for games (but is not associated in any way with kingdom devs), i assure you, it would not be HARD in any way to disable the ghost with a config option in the menu.

there are other considerations than ease-of-programming and ui, though. afaict, the primary design goal for the user experience of kingdom is one of absolute minimalism. configs, and even the ghosts themselves, add a layer of complexity between the game and the player.

look how many years of whining it took for them to just add difficulties :D

anyway, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE add an option to turn off the ghost!
and the dog barking (noisy/quiet/animation-only)!
and add input configs!
and make fullscreen disabled by default, or at least persist it so that the game remembers disabling it!

i promise it wont make the game feel less mysterious or ruin any joy of discovery. it will just take needles out of the eyes of people who have already experienced the sacred mysteries.

[french_ace2002]

You alerady said it yourself Teleshoes, it took them years to add gamemodes, so if thats the case making the 3 things you want will take them a lot of time. So we will have to live with the ghost,and I said in my comment that I am no developer and the game your working as maybe not be so coplex as Kingdom, but yeah more options would be rather great and not just 5 things on the option menu.And in fact the Kingdom: New lands DLC has the ghost telling you 3 things and leaving, not staying with you and blocking you from certain things that it wants to ''teach you''. So if you are a veteran in this game the ghost is just a pain in the back for following you through the 5 or 6 islands. By the way on what game are you developer on Mr/Mrs Teleshoes?

[teleshoes]

thats true, but game difficulties requires a large investment in re-balancing, significantly more QA forever, plus numerous UI changes.

turning the ghost off is comparatively a very simple fix. adding the UI elements to the option screen, persisting it in the global save file, and then actually applying it, which might literally be a one-liner.

sorry, what i originally said in my comment ("as a game dev") was a bit misleading. i am not a professional game dev, im a professional programmer who has worked on a few amateur games and open source games, and done some porting and modding. (edited the original comment to say "someone who has written code for games")

[georgir]

it could even be tied to difficulty - picking above normal means we need no tutorial
btw at the start of the game there is that 'hold down to skip tutorial' doesn't that disable all ghosts? or just the early most handholding ones?
and on that note, instead of "hold down" mine said "triple tap a" as if i had a controller. bug? it threw me off so i actually did not skip it :(

[Sapador]

Originally posted by georgir:

it could even be tied to difficulty - picking above normal means we need no tutorial

Excellent idea! Reasonable for beginners and experienced players. No extra menu options 💯👍🏼

Originally posted by georgir:

btw at the start of the game there is that 'hold down to skip tutorial' doesn't that disable all ghosts? or just the early most handholding ones?

Unfortunately that disables only the initial tutorial. Another option would that: skipping the initial AND the extended tutorial all together. There are so many good ways to do that, and absolutely no reason for devs not giving us this option.

Originally posted by georgir:

and on that note, instead of "hold down" mine said "triple tap a" as if i had a controller. bug?

Triple tap is the action for mobile devices. Are you playing on Windows 8.1?

[georgir]

Originally posted by Sapador Castelo:

Are you playing on Windows 8.1?

win 11, touchscreen laptop, but iirc the message did not refer to tapping the screen, rather a round "a" controller button (with pixelated 3d graphic of one and all).

[Sapador]

Yeah, never seen that. It's always hold down or A button, OR triple tap screen. "Triple tap A" is confusing indeed.