As many of you already know, Village Sim is coming to desktop. We thought we would take this opportunity to take suggestions from our community for new island events that could be put into the game!

In case you are not familiar with Village Sim, island event are random things that occur to your villagers, such as a barrel full of food (or RATS!) washing up on the beach.

Feel free to post your ideas here, and who knows--maybe you'll see your ideas happening in your own village when the game is released!!

may be the ocean drys up at the end and they leave!!

I had always thought (coming from Texas)that an event could be: "it's been 110 on the island for 30 days straight and your crops have died."
or the flowers in the field have died and you have to rewater to get them again.

Ooh, too many ideas to write down
Swarm of locusts sounds pretty fun... or maybe a hurricane? a tsunami? a volcano? The event actually being animated in the game would be cool, too, but not sure if that's in the cards.
Maybe another boat could wreck on the island and bring more people from other places. That may spice up my couples a little (almost all the villagers are inbred...)

Hmmm... what about shark attacks for the farmers that are fishing, pirates that take food and/or people (or give food), a freak snow storm that kills off the berries or crops, a villager finds a rare medical plant which increases their healing.... I'll post more when I think of more

What about lightning hitting on something currently being constructed (not something already completed), and then they have to start the contruction of the item over again.

Also what about have the villagers getting broken bones and that puts them out of work for a bit (just like when the women have babies, they can't do anything).

What about a wonderful thing happening like you will never run out of food again?

I think good things are way better than catastrophic things. I have enough trouble getting through it as it is. Maybe a choice to have bad or good things in the options?

I hope that there will be SNOW, RAIN, NIGTH. These events will add more interesting events to the island (like villagers frozen and more healing tech is required before winter, a cough or something)

Ooh! Ooh! Suggestions! I loooove giving suggestions!

One Island Event - or rather several - I'd like to see are holidays! A pop-up window would appear giving the name of the holiday, and the villagers would engage in group activities.

The most obvious example of a group activity is the golden child's dance party. You know, when he/she goes to the center of the village and everyone dances? well, make it a pop-up worthy event and call it the Golden Child Festival, or something.

Here are some others:

Group siesta - everyone takes a break from working, sitting at the village center or in the garden - or both - and their action dialog says "siesta" - The pop-up would possibly call it a day of rest.

Religious Holidays - at regular intervals the villagers could gather at a designated spot like the idol, the boulder or the lagoon and dance - their action dialog would say something like "Celebrating Boulder Moving Day" - well, insert your own holiday, there.

Religious services - Everyone honors the idol

Memorial - Everyone honors the dead

Summer Time! - Everyone goes swimming (and maybe eats at the food bin)

how about giving them time to sleep..to wash clothes or even change clothes... i think going with them indoors would be fun....while they cook,bath,clean....

Great ideas, I like the idea of snow and all. That sounds like fun!

I think holiday would be neat too, especially if there were some kind of decorations the villagers would wear that day or some visual cue (decorations on the idol?). The problem is that the years go by so quickly that annual events would happen every time you turned on the Palm! Maybe the holiday would be avery 10 years??

Wow! So many good ideas already! Hmmmm...I always hate the bad events like debris washed up the shores, food washed away completely by the storm and food became moldy! I prefer those events where I have a say in deciding what to do, eg. to drink or discard the content of the red, blue or yellow bottle.

Can we have some animals or pets being washed up the beach, so we get little animals running around. The villagers can decide to turn them away or keep them. Bearing in mind that pets will need to eat as well. So it's a choice kinda thing.

I too like the idea of huts or built structures being struck down or destroyed by lightning, so that the villagers can get busy restoring them. But don't make it happen too often. It should have a long gap between these incidents. Well, my current game just undone all my huts and any other projects done by the builders with no apparent reasons, so my builders are busy working on them now. Sigh.

I also like the festival celebrating idea. Currently the GC just decide to host a party for no reason and everyone joins in. If there are some special occasions, say New Year or whatever, then it's more fun to see them celebrating.

On second thought, why not celebrate when a new babe is born and when a kid comes of age as well? And I'd really love to see them get new clothes.

An idea for extra skills (not for random events): weaving of clothing or something similar, so that the villagers will have new clothes to wear during festivals and so on. You need some people to do this specifically.

I like magical events like the fish of fertility that bring their Fertility level up one level and so forth. How about something washed up to the shore and the positive outcome is the field of crops became ripe for harvesting. The negative outcome may be bringing locusts that destroys the crop or some other kind of bad things that happen to the food source. I won't suggest the sea getting poison because that's real tough!

I like to have events with a choice, too! That way you have only yourself to blame if things turn out badly! It would also be nice to have Island Events that would have a more permanent effect, although they would definitely be more involved to include in the game. Some examples of that can be seen in the alternatives below.

Here are a couple that could work in a manner similar to existing ones that offer both a choice and (possibly) a random outcome:

One of your scientists is working on fertilizer for the crops. One of the other researchers working at the crowded table accidentally knocks over a bowl and it spills into the fertilizer mixture. Use it anyway? No: the usual better safe than sorry, perhaps even losing research points because of the lost experiment. Yes: 1) a bumper crop that adds food to the bin 2) the new fertilizer permanently increases the amount of food that your farmers obtain from the crops (maybe 1 unit per trip?) 3) it's toxic to the crops and it reduces the crop (or all the crops die until the next cycle - if you're feeling really mean).

A farmer discovers some seeds while foraging. Plant them? No: The usual better safe than sorry Yes: 1) Weeds - inedible (possibly damaging the crops during weeding and reducing food supply) 2) Fruit trees grow and become another food source (obviously requires more programming and graphics) 3) A lovely crop of <whatever> grows and adds to the food supply (and the villagers rejoice).

ooh! holidays! (ok, never played but I'm thinking from Harvest Moon) that sounds awsome! and pets, major bonus, i love animals! i love raising things, be it plants to animals! I hope there's alot of neat, new things in the game, I'm on the mailing list and I can't wait til it comes out!

work faster!........... plz ;.; *puppy dog eyes*

Here's an idea for a choice event: a pretty flower in the magic garden bears a strangely colored berry.

Leave the berry alone: increases the chances of this event happening in the future (cumulative with each occurence)After all - berries lead to seeds, right?

Eat the berry: the villager gets very ill, requiring a doctor to heal them. Possibly more than once. Once the villager is healed however, he/she has spontaneously changed genders!

For a twist, an identical event could have different outcomes, for example:

Leave it alone: the berry falls off, sprouting roots and growing into a clone of the villager (perhaps in the opposite gender)

Eat it: Villager gets very ill.

How about pets? The village seems incomplete without animals running around. I love pets too!

When the Idol is completed, how about some kinds of worship ritual and depending on some circumstances...something good (good crops) or bad (bad weather) would happen?

No island survival genre game is complete without cannibals. They could snatch kids and force the islanders to have to protect them in some way. Perhaps a school situation.

More good ideas! Cool! So when will they be implemented? lol

Adding onto the idea of some kind of worship rituals around the idol (other than honouring the idol), why not have some rituals or activities around the restored temple as well? It can be started by the GC! Once it is restored, the villagers don't do anything there anymore, which is kind of wasting the graphics if you ask me!

Same for the cave - why not let some doctors study it and builders excavate it somemore? After some time, let them bring out some artefacts that may bring good or bad fortune to the villagers! And the doctors with more answers about the history of the ex-habitants of the island.

Adding onto the idea of a school - why not have it when a particular Master wish to conduct teaching, all kids and/or trainees will gather around him/her in the centre of the village or somewhere? And if he is a Master, the students will all have added skills after the teaching - may be a few % will do.

Btw, do the women still only breed with one male while men breed with many women in v1.1? I think this may not be as true in tribal cultures.

I wish there is more to do once we solved all 12 puzzles and obtained max village population and gathered more than a few hundred years of food. Something to keep the villagers busy - say art and pottery?

I agree about adding more puzzles! Even on the Palm version, more than 12 would be fun - but especially in a Windows game you'd want more. I think it'd be cool if you could unlock certain puzzles and get to go to a different part of the island - like into the cave - where there would be more puzzles. I love the main beach area, but it would be fun to either have a new area to go to, or eventually you move to the jungle or something like that.

As far as specific events go - it might be cool to have more "special" people who can show up (again, after completing a puzzle!) that can do healing or grow crops quickly or things along that line. I also agree that the events you get to choose something in are more exciting - what will happen if I click yes!! And I like the idea of having 2-3 possible things happen if you do select yes so you never know what might happen.

I do love turning the Palm game on to have random events happen too. It'd be cute to turn it on and find out it's someone's birthday (and then maybe for that day that villager gets extra skill or something) or have random objects show up that can increase skill (so you don't get blocked from increasing building skills for instance).

I think that's it for now

Ooo I know... "So-n-So was abducted by aliens and implanted with an alien baby." When she has the baby it's a little alien (blue skin, huge black eyes, etc). It grows up and (if it has reseach and construction knowledge) builds a spaceship and flies away!!!

Who? Angelina Jolie? That'll get the male villagers all heat up and fighting, hahaha!

Hey, that gave me an idea! How about putting some aggression into it? Men fighting over for the women who are ripe for breeding? So some male villagers will become wounded and need treatment. Some may even die from severe wounds. It won't be a pretty sight but it sure will heat up the game a bit.

Just an idea but definitely not my fave.

How about clickable butterflies? You know: the flock of butterflies that hangs out around the vicinity of the magic garden? Click on them, and they scatter, or move to a different place!

Kind of pointless, I know, but fun in its pointlessness. Kind of like tapping the glass in FT for Windows.

This gave me a better idea. You're the 'major' on the village. Rigth? Why not let the user to solve the village's problems? Even the most civilized city argues sometimes (that instead of a figth). Huh?

TIGHT LITTLE ISLAND
A cargo of spiritous drink washes up on shore, and one of the curious villagers opens it... they all have a party, get drunk, and noone can do a lick of work for x hours. (Well, maybe one teetotaler abstains, or perhaps the nursing mothers do!) The healers of course are unable to help, folks just have to sleep it off...

No problem, JustAGirl! Like I said it's not my fave idea, it just came up in my mind. May be Archmage's idea is better, as in let them have dispute over breeding or whatever and let us be the one to be the judge or problem-solver?! I like this idea better because then we're involved. "Thumbs up" for Archmage!

Sally, good one! Any reason to party and get drunk! Hahaha! Lets just hope the storm doesn't wash away the food during this period when everyone is too drunk to work, hohoho!

And i liked the birthday idea. It will be very cute!

And so, What about some mistery? A ghost in the graveyard at nigth... what happens if... hohoho!

How about this:

<Insert Farmer Name> Is fishing and sees a shadow near the bottom. Should he <she>...

A: Swim away. That looks like one hungry shadow!

B: Get a closer look.

Ending 1 - The villager sinks beneath the waves and is never seen again.

Ending 2 - The villager discovers a whole bed of giant crabs! 3000 is added to the villagers' food!

...Sort of a take on the face in the bushes, eh?

I like the ghost in the graveyard idea. It could go something like:

<Villager near the graveyard> sees an strange old pile of bones near the edge of the graveyard. Should he:

A. Leave them alone. They could belong to some animal.

B. Bury them. They were obviously one of the island's former occupants, and should be treated with respect.

Ending One - The villager vanishes, and is never heard from again. But a new grave has appeared with his or her name on it.

Ending Two - (A pile of remains now becomes visible in the top left corner of the graveyard. The villager performs the act of burying the remains, just as if someone had died.) The villagers all experience a feeling of well-being as the ancient is laid to rest. Your tribe gains a level in spirituality! (as an additional or an alternate benefit, all villagers whose health isn't full could experience a boost in their health, and/or the sick could be healed. A tombstone appears with the name "Ancient" on it, with no age given.)

A good alternate spot for this event could be around the boulder!

Yeah, spirituality could give village sim more interesting gameplay and events.Villagers that have building skills (or scientists) are digging into the cave that was blocked by the boulder. There, the cave has passed over a single painted wall to a cave filled with things the ancient ones left.

How about Mysterious Fungus that can grow on your crops and either cause good things or sickness?

Just to share a thought that came to me while checking my game status. A storm swept away all the stored food. Farmers all busy gathering food and I think even before they have gathered enough to stop worrying abt food shortage, GC came and start a party.

I think they should only party when the food shortage issue is really solved, don't you think so too?

Also I dunno how random are the events but it's kind of boring to get the storm sweeping away all the stored food 2-3 rows in a go for this week!

And the villagers tend to find the red vials more than the blue or yellow ones. The yellow vials seems to be even rarer than the blue ones! This is pretty weird to me.

Maybe this has been posted above (too tired to read all of the posts), but it would be cool to get a whole new set of Island Events that only kick in a a super high mega-level of achievement (food and research points). Something for those who play the game endlessly, even after all puzzles have been solved.

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Maybe this has been posted above (too tired to read all of the posts), but it would be cool to get a whole new set of Island Events that only kick in a a super high mega-level of achievement (food and research points). Something for those who play the game endlessly, even after all puzzles have been solved.

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Last year there was a lot of talk about what could happen after all the puzzles were solved. THREAD LINK HERE Like a couple takes off and goes to another part the island with different puzzles to solve. This game could be endless, and I’m sure peeps would not mind spending five or six bucs for a different game for VS. I don’t know if any of you play War, Inc. but it goes on for ever, and even has the ability to create new battles with an editor. Pretty cool. I would love for VS to do this, at least new adventures.

Twins! Some of the births could be twins, or triplets.

All that buried stuff that gets dug up should mean something. Perhaps what they're digging up is a lever and pully device so they have better tools.

When the population maxes out, players might see an event that says that some of the builders have started a boat, complete with a little "scaffold" graphic on the beach (like whenever they build something) They work and work, and when the boat is finished, five random adult villagers leave.

Not exactly an island event but how about linking up fish tycoon and village. Example for those who play fish tycoon and village sim on the same computer: if you find a magic fish, you can research points in village sim. And if you gain research level 2 and 3 in village sim, the time it takes to research environment, advertising etc. on fish tycoon speeds up.

BTW, will plant tycoon move onto PC? If so, can I request for two things:
1) The ability to click on a plant and show its parents (grandparents would be even better!)
2) More boxes to contain seeds and more flower pots ....

Regards,
SBB

How about a religion change, a freak tornado makes the villagers change their religion so that they now wont do any technical research,or fishing, maybe even breeding untill a missionary maybe washed up on the beach or maybe trained convinces them to revert to worshipping the one true stone idol God and things can get back to normal

Have the villager kids invent games that you can play within VS?

Nees to be run only after fishing is discovered;

A villager spots a large fish swimming slowly off the shore. Does he a) get out of the water or b) try to catch it?

Possible outcomes can be either-Doh! It was a shark. He's been eaten, or Yay! It was a large Tuna fish +400 food units!

I also like the idea of having certain achievement unachieved. Fixing the ruins could be undone by an earthquake, unblocking the stream could be blocked by a landslide.

Another idea which I suggested of the Palm versions but which might be workable with the upcoming Windows version, might be to have a mini plant tycoon game-within-the-game as soon as the magic field is available.

It need not be anything like as complex as plant tycoon, but your efforts to create magic plants could help towards discoveries on the research bench - in fact, maybe the top level of one of the research strands could only be opened up if you discover the magic plant.

I'd like to see a mini fish tycoon in the lake too, also helping research, but that might be a min-game too far.

Another thing that could be done is to play noughts and crosses in the sand with one of the kids in the game - this could increase their general brain power as they grow up and before they start to gain experience through doing tasks. Sorry, not events is it?

Yes, if it's Isola, why the magic plants/fish don't appear as so?

I can't remember if I have mentioned this or someone else did. I just thought of it lately. The villagers will conduct teaching sometimes. So why don't we make it like when a Master villager teachs, the recipient actually gain some extra skills. An Adept villager teaching, then sometimes s/he cannot pass her/his skills successfully. Something like that.

That's an excellent idea, because then it would give us a reason to "allow" teaching. As it is, most of us start out struggling for points or some other village benifit, so we probably end up treating teaching the same as arguing, laundry or telling a joke, etc... if it's not making points, we drag them back to the reasearch table. lol.

Thanks Brenda for supporting the idea. Yeah I get frustrated when they go about teaching and nobody actually gain from it. What a waste of time and resources! lol

I know that this may be a little late but what if a trunk of costumes washed up on shore and they decided to have a mascarade ball? or the women have a beauty contest?
have something wash ou pn shore that they could use to either entertain themselves or something to better their living conditions

Villagers changing clothes. Something interesting and -needed- like the laundry on the step for PalmOS V1.1

what about this pit they find and ghost come out and kill people evey 100 days
and this week where the dead come back and help the villagers and meet there kids and wifes or husbuns moms dads lol

or a shooting star that comes out druing a night and grants
you a wish like for a gold child perhaps

or a body thats be cut up and sent all over the island
and if they rebuild the body you get a portal to a new world were if they have babies there like creatures like a speed guy or a srong guy with four arms lol
is name could be fourarms

and let the villagers become insane so they build insane aslmye and they suck the life out of insane people makeing
tecpoints food etc

but let them heal and not kill them the insane people
and let them escape and do crazy stuff like jump off a
cliff

and bad guys come and try to shoot your people with guns that only kock them out no killing good

and your hit them and they run away crying

I would like to say that as a prospective buyer of this game for Windows, I would not like to see violent events. Distress events are okay - otherwise, where's the challenge? There are several very very good ideas in the thread - I particularly liked the weather event ideas and the teaching skills ideas.

There's really no need to resort to violence-based events.

Rainbowfish

There won't be violent events.

I love most of these ideas, however! You guys are brilliant.

I got one - alien abduction! They could then be released a few days later either with a horridly contagious space disease (Quatermass-style) or with random enhanced abilities.

We don't need 4400 of them though.

More good things. Bad things suck. Maybe make one of them have twins. Or one of them the head person, like the president or cheif of the clan and they can fight him for leadership if they feel they are stronger and can win in different catagories or something like that.

Hi everyone, this is my first post.

I love ‘Village Sim’ and cannot wait for it to be released for the desktop.

Having played it on my handheld I have some suggestions. Fellow members may have already mentioned elsewhere.

EVENTS
1) NIGHTS: it would be nice to have periods of darkness, may be moon lit, when everyone goes to rest. With roosters crowing at dawn? Maybe asking too much?
2) RAIN/STORMS: Judging by the picture, it will be a tropical island. Rain would be a natural occurrence. There are a lot of rain dancing, but never any proper rain, which is a shame.
3) DROUGHT: periods of hardships for which the villagers may need to be prepared.
4) FEASTS: village feasts to celebrate good harvests or a big catch from the sea.
5) DOMESTICABLE ANIMALS/BIRDS: discovered on the island or arrives in barrels.

SKILLS

FARMING/DOMESTIC:
a) Would like to see them learn to build fire, for cooking. This could be at a higher level, especially when they learn to fish.
b) Learning to climbing trees (coconut palm) to collect coconuts for food and drink.
c) Learning to go out in boats for deep sea fishing (see below) and bring in exotic catches.
d) Learn to build some form of irrigation from the creek to their crop patches.

BUILDING/CONSTRUCTION:
a) Other than huts, I would like to see them build a healing house, workshop and a granary, as part of their higher skills.
b) I would like the children to be apprentice in the workshop from age 12ish –16, instead of just running around that they do at present.
c) Granaries to store their harvest, in preparation for drought etc.; with a way of keeping a % score of grains stored.
d) To be able to build paths/bridges to be able to explore/cultivate/fish and live all over the island.
e) Boats: Oh they need to be able to build boats. They are islanders, for god’s sake. With boats they can
i) go fishing
ii) visit/discover neighbouring islands
iii) just sail away into the sunset

HEALING:
a) The healers with increasing knowledge could collect herbs and ‘do research’ to make and store medicines.
b) Run the healing house for the sick villagers till they are better and strong.

SPIRITUALITY
c) Would like to see spirituality as a separate skill category; after all we are already buying Tech levels.
d) There could be Trainee Priest and Master Priests
e) The Priests could have responsibility of holdings feasts and festivals, conduct ?weddings and burials.
f) Do ‘effective’ rain dances.
g) Use the temple for festivals. It would be nice to see him calling his “flock” from the temple.
h) Grow flower gardens and collect flowers
i) Honor the dead, the idol and the temple.

GOLDEN CHILD: I am not certain I would like to have this character whose purpose I still do not understand. I prefer a village build on practicality and reality.
a) I would not mind if the birth of the miracle child is related to very specific criteria, (like the present Puzzle 12) that not all may be able to predict or work towards.
b) That he then grows up with some special mystic powers and performs some deeds which no one else can. (at present I could only make him walk on water)

FINALLY DISPOSAL of villagers
For this they need to be able to build boats.
It is horrible to think that death is the only way out for the villagers. Why don’t we have the option of
a) Colonising neighbouring islands; they could initially go out in boats to neighbouring islands for foraging and farming, eventually constructing residential huts and staying building satellite colonies, which can then be played in a similar way; adding instant variety.
b) These colonies though separate would still return to the island if their food ran out, if their ill could not be ‘healed’ and brought to the healing house. For festivals. Or to find partners if they ran out of men/women as time goes on.
c) Sailing away to faraway lands- a humane way of reducing the population, but still keeping the game going for ever and ever and ever- which to me is vitally important.

And please, I hope it does not become too politically correct.

I did not mean my post to be so long. But every time I switch on Village Sim, I just keep thinking, “wish this or that was possible or would happen”. I reckon this is my only chance to ask for a fantastic game.

I know what I will write to Santa for this Christmas. Can’t wait.

awmyth, what a great list! You have covered a lot of good ideas that I have not thought of. Great job!

I got an idea!

You know how we have a screensaver for the Windos version of Fish Tycoon? How about having a screensaver from Village Sim, but is shows the village at night? So there would be a camp fire, a few villagers dancing, light in the windows of the huts, some jungle-drum music and water lapping on the shore.

No need for there to be a day/night cycle in the game itself then.

As hard as it might be i love most of the ideas, but the one about having endless expansion is the best i think. People could submit their own islands with little puzzles pick from a large list of events and submit their own parts of the island on the forum for others to download and try. As far as charging for each new piece i dunno about that maybe official large releases that offer a lot more than user submitted ones sure, but once the game is purchased at least make them cheaper. 3$ expansions for official and free user submitted ones we could rate at how good they are. Perhaps release an editor where we could place the buildings where we want them to be built or pick the buildings, how much a crop will produce, how many berries a tree has, etc, and i think this would make the game about endless. As well as making the game more appealing to people who beat it, the ability to play others maps, and make it so it never gets boring or never is a lack of something to do.

My 10 cents. Love the idea of animals running around, maybe a bear attack wounds a villager, or Lassie saves a kid from a snake or something. Neat things like that make the game more enjoyable (not that its not now by any means, i still laugh at some of the behaviors i never saw before)