Second common problem is that all of these games heavily encourage 'single point of base defense' - usually that means that Dungeon defense strategy is single corridor leading to single room that has 'everything DK can throw at them' stacked together and ready to focus fire. No one would want to either sleep or work next to one of those if they could help itДifferent minions won't like bunking together (Warlocks being happy to sleep next to smelly orcs and goblins), and many wouldn't even like constantly crossing paths with each other (goblins having to share corridors with monsters that in the wild would eat said goblins, while each of them is looking for something to eat)ДЄnd so on - these considerations could greatly complicate the 'design' aspect of the dungeon.

Pens with living food sources like pigs/chickens, smell like shit and are frequently noisy. Sleep quarters and work rooms located at outer edges of the dungeons would feel unsafe No one would want to sleep next to a loud workshop or smelly alchemy lab I wish designers would start considering things like: This means that in all of these games, the most efficient Dungeon layout is organized like a partitioned office - grid of squares around the Heart. There are never any penalties for placing different rooms as close together as possible.

(tried so far Dungeon Keeper 1 and 2, War For the Overworld and recently Dungeons 3),ДЎ We have the basic mechanics of fulfilling minion needs where one of the design consideration is travel time between points of fulfillment and points of minion's utility. Want to like these games, but keep running into same 2 issues with each one that really spoil the genre.

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