Nightmares

[kevingranade]

Very rarely when sleeping, save the game, spawn a bunch of monsters, wake the player up, and then upon their death or a timer running out, restore the previous save and wake them up with a vague message about waking up from a nightmare.

Complications: Player attempting to save or exit during the dream sequence.

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[alexanderh86]

Awesome idea!

[Skidborg]

It's an interesting idea, but what's the player's motive to try and survive if they've determined that it's probably a nightmare? Unless there's a reward (Loot? XP?) people are going to be eager to get back to their usual game.

[KA101]

Yeah, I'd probably file this in the Eternal Darkness Days Ahead mod. Extended sanity-effect and all.

[kevingranade]

What's their incentive for surviving at all, considering it's a game?
Also, if they think it's 'probably' a dream, sounds like a good bet to play
along and play safe.
If they do determine it's a dream with certainty, it gives a space that
temorarally has no permanent concequences.

[sparr]

maybe mental stats could improve in a dream?

implementation idea: use all the existing save code, but direct it to a memory structure instead of a file. If you real-save during a dream, that structure goes with you, embedded as a [huge] block within the save. dream within a dream left as an exercise for the compiler :)

[Dalenacio]

How about lowering stats and morale if they "fail" the dream? That would be proper incentive, I'd say.

Also, maybe make the dream differ based on how the player acts in "real life"? Like, say, the killed a bunch of zombie kids, now those kids come back to haunt them. So too with the NPCs they've killed and so on. Plus make things not quite "right". Zombies move faster if you're moving away from them (No running away in a dream!), they hit harder if there's emotion attached to them, like guilt to the children, or fear to enemies that have dealt a lot of damage to player, etcetera. And player damage should be based on morale, either when they are dreaming, either when they head to sleep (note: maybe this could also affect the probability of a nightmare happening), to make sleeping off massive morale debuffs a bit more risky.

[illi-kun]

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