I’m inclined to agree with you and I absolutely love this game. I’ve had the game for a few years now and never really gotten past the point of building stone buildings:
1) because I don’t have enough friends that play and don’t really like the idea of playing with strangers,
2) even if I did play with strangers I can’t dedicate that much time to a persistent server so I’d probably miss half the game,
3) when playing on low collab 1-3 players it’s a massive grind and the friends who do play tend to give up after 16 hours of mining and wood chopping.
I think if they just added in more options for customizing a game at the start it would be more enjoyable for the average, casual player. I’ve tried to change the settings but it usually ends up either being way too easy or back to the normal grind that turns off my friends.
The only other issue is that on low collab/with few people, the bonuses from leveling up don’t slow the grind. It’s not ab...