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Outline design of research systems #168

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In Emergence, there are three distinct forms of research: assimilation (capturing new species), genetics (refining and branching existing species) and hive mind upgrades (increasing information and direct player upgrades).

These are my initial thoughts on how research systems should work in Emergence. Please do bikeshed me on names!

@alice-i-cecile alice-i-cecile added the game design Imagining and refining the possibilities label Dec 28, 2022
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Very interesting stuff!
I think the assimilation will be the most difficult part from the game design perspective. Especially keeping it fun instead of annoying in subsequent playthroughs when you already know all species.

I left a couple smaller comments for typos and the glossary.

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This needs a Glossary entry, I need to guess the meaning here.
Is this how strictly the zones apply?

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Yeah I need to write up the zoning doc and link to this.

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Please add a definition for the entries added in this PR.
It's tedious, but otherwise we'll never be able to close out #151 :)

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Agreed on the importance of populating glossary entries, but I'm going to split that into another PR :)

@alice-i-cecile alice-i-cecile merged commit 35c20fd into main Dec 28, 2022
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