Stalactite levels, different environments

[Icefalcon]

It couldnt snow underground anyway, It would never get cold enough. It gets warmer the deeper you go, the theory that it would be colder the deeper you go doesnt make sense at all.

[Dalec]

IceFalcon the world doesn\'t really make sense at all. It doesn\'t matter if it makes sense as long as you don\'t really notice. Maybe some underground area could be farther from heat (closer to surface) and really cold so that water that drips in through the ceiling could freeze into snow on its way down. You can easily make a setting for snow in a Fantasy game, Especially since it is fantasy!

[Icefalcon]

Phaw of course your right, its a fantasy game so anything is possible, it could rain fireballs too, but that wouldnt be very realistic...

[dfryer]

What about a deadly hail of small stones from the ceiling, high above?  Might even make for a devastating spell, causing several small rocks to fall from an incredible height.

I think a lot of cool things can be done with a \"cave\" environment - there may be trees and grass around in the first couple levels, but it would get darker as you went down.  Perhaps you\'d have larger, more sparse vegetation- giant tangles of roots, with some trunks reaching up towards the light of the crystal.  Glowing fungus that lives off magical energy, or bits of crystal, might also provide some auxiliary light.

Given that Yliakum (or Hydlaa, can\'t keep \'em straight nowadays) is a giant stalactite, it\'s unlikely that there\'d be much seismic activity, but in the Labarinths there could be fiery crevices and caves choked with ash.

[Ald'Amun Dungeonrunner]

Icefalcon, it may be unrealistic in terms of our world for it to rain fireballs. In their world, however, it may be thought of in the same way about it raining water....you have to take this into consideration...

[The Gumster]

but here it rains \'cause of the water all drying up and being light and becoming clouds and getting thicker and eventually dropping down, how would that work for fire?

[Icefalcon]

Realistic... when we say this game is going to be very realistic, we are saying that many things will be the same as on our world. We are saying that this game is believable because it is so alike to our world. Raining fireballs is purely fantasy, it may be realistic to fantasy characters, but we are not fantasy characters... therefore it is not realistic...

[Kixie]

hehe i might just be defeating closure when i say that the only reason it gets hotter the deeper you go in our own world is because the center of our world has a liquid hot core. in ylakium many have described it to be completly hollow although i do like one vision (cant remember the author) that has the stalagtite and cave surrounding it only about 1/20 of the inside of the planet. Was less dramatic as I and others had made it. In the case of his, yes i would get hotter as you went down because there was so much solid space that it would probally form a liquid hot core, but in the case of axsyrus\', mine and other\'s intepretations, the world\'s center was completely empty, so it would get colder the further you went down because light would decrease, water and moisture would increase and there wouldnt be any hot core, or magma to heat the place up. Kind of unrealistic so i really like the other person\'s interpretation of a world where the cave is big, but not the whole planet.

[The Gumster]

if the world is hollow then there would be no hot liquid magma core to heat things up the farther down they go, so it would be colder the farther down you go because cold air seeks down.

[Tash]

but then the water thingy dropping down from the stalactite, would freeze in the middle.

[ShadowFish]

different levels shouldnt each have their own environment..... maybe different areas of the levels their will be more environments but one for each level? there isnt any reason for it.... it cant rain fire balls....yeah fireballs could fall from the sky if a player used magic but there is no way it will rain fire in a cave...

[Tash]

but if the magic in the enviroment would be so much that it would have to discharge thus raining fire!

*manical laughter*

[ShadowFish]

no

[Tash]

ShadowFish, stop spamming so much, you make absoulutely pointless posts and are doing it all over the place!
i mean look at this forum it says ShadowFish all over the place!
you are going to get a warning mark my words.
and \"no\" isnt an answer to the answer i answered to your answer.

[ShadowFish]

no is a perfectly legitamate answer to your answer to my reply

sure it isnt explained but magic in an area is not going to build up and make fireballs just because... any way who says it will be fireballs? what if they dont even use red magic...

plus im not sure how relevant your post is to the subject either....

oh and ice cant form at the bottom of a lake.... ice is less dence than water and floats....plus the water under a lake is always 4 degrees and never changes....thats why fish are still alive

So ice in the cave would have to be created by magic

plus i dont know much about the core but the crystal provides heat and if there is one in the stalactite there could be others in the cave other wise the cave would only cover less than the entire world......but like other people said this is a fantasy game and even though we want most of the game to be realistic as possible id still like to live in the big cave...