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38 38 p11143: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/11143.diff
39 39
40 40 ### shadows
41 41 i was delighted to see dynamic shadows land in minetest, and i hope the implementation will eventually mature. however, as it stands, there are severe issues with shadows that make them essentially incompatible with complex meshes like the Starlit player character meshes. for the sake of those who don't mind these glitches, Starlit does enable shadows, but i unfortunately have to recommend that you disable them until the minetest devs get their act together on this feature.
42 42
43 43 ## gameplay
44 -starlit is somewhat unusual in how it uses the minetest engine. it's a voxel game but not of the minecraft variety.
44 +starlit is somewhat unusual in how it uses the minetest engine. it's a voxel game but not of the minecraft variety. you do have some control over your environment, but it's limited and exerting it is much more expensive than you might be used to -- the focus of the game is figuring out how to work with nature, not against it. Farthest Shadow has little patience for those who do not show her the respect a living world is due, and she is unconcerned with human virtues like "mercy" or "fairness" or "proportionate retribution".
45 45
46 -the most important thing to understand about starlit is that is is [*mean], by design.
46 +this is to say, starlit is [*mean], by design.
47 47
48 48 * chance plays an important role. your escape pod might land in the midst of a lush, temperate forest with plenty of nearby shipwrecks to scavenge. or it might land in the exact geographic center of a vast, harsh desert that your suit's cooling systems can't protect you from, ten klicks from anything of value. "unfair", you say? tough. Farthest Shadow doesn't care about your feelings.
49 49 * death is much worse than a slap on the wrist. when you die, you drop your possessions and your suit, and respawn naked at your spawn point. this is a serious danger, as you might be kilometers away from your spawn point -- and there's no guarantee someone else won't take your suit before you can find your way back to it. good luck crossing long distances without climate control! if you haven't carefully prepared for this eventuality by keeping a spare suit by your spawn point, death can be devastating, to the point of making the game unsurvivable without another player's help.
50 50
51 51 ### scenarios
52 -your starting character configuration depends on the scenario you select. (right now this is configured in minetest settings, which is intensely awkward, but i don't have a better solution). the scenario controls your species, sex, and starting inventory. [*neither species nor sex is cosmetic]; e.g. human females are physically weaker but psionically stronged than males. the current playable scenarios are:
52 +your starting character configuration depends on the scenario you select. (right now this is configured in minetest settings, which is intensely awkward, but i don't have a better solution). the scenario controls your species, sex, and starting inventory. [*neither species nor sex is cosmetic]; e.g. human females are physically weaker but psionically stronger than males. the current playable scenarios are:
53 53
54 54 #### Imperial Expat
55 55 [*phenotype]: human female
56 56 [*starting gear]: Commune survival kit
57 57 > Hoping to escape a miserable life deep in the grinding gears of the capitalist machine for the bracing freedom of the frontier, you sought entry as a colonist to the new Commune world of Thousand Petal. Fate -- which is to say, terrorists -- intervened, and you wound up stranded on Farthest Shadow with little more than the nanosuit on your back, ship blown to tatters and your soul thoroughly mauled by the explosion of a twisted alien artifact -- which SOMEONE neglected to inform you your ride would be carrying.
58 58 > At least you got some handy psionic powers out of this whole clusterfuck. Hopefully they're safe to use.
59 59
60 60 #### Gentleman Adventurer [!(unimplemented)]
61 61 [*phenotype]: human male
62 62 [*starting gear]: Imperial survival kit
63 -> Tired of the same-old-same-old, sick of your idiot contemporaries, exasperated with the shallow soul-rotting luxury of life as landless lordling, and earnestly eager to enrage your father, you resolved to see the Reach in all her splendor. Deftly evading the usual tourist traps, you finagled your way into the confidence of the Commune ambassador with a few modest infusions of Father's money -- now [!that] should pop his monocle -- and secured yourself a seat on a ride to their brand-new colony at Thousand Petal. How exciting -- a genuine frontier outing!
63 +> Tired of the same-old-same-old, sick of your idiot contemporaries, exasperated with the shallow soul-rotting luxury of life as landless lordling, and earnestly eager to enrage your father, you resolved to see the Reach in all her splendor. Deftly evading the usual tourist traps, you finagled your way into the confidence of the Commune ambassador with a few modest infusions of Father's money -- now [!that] should pop his monocle! -- and secured yourself a seat on a ride to their brand-new colony at Thousand Petal.
64 +> How exciting -- a genuine frontier outing!
64 65
65 66 #### Terrorist Tagalong
66 67 [*phenotype]: human female
67 68 [*starting gear]: star merc combat kit
68 69 > It turns out there's a *reason* Crown jobs pay so well.
69 70
70 71 #### Tradebird Bodyguard [!(unimplemented)]