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Originally posted by cbparsons

I really wish they'd not just focus on the big servers. A lot of the changes are great if there are a ton of players. But once seasons die down, the workload grows to lategame and picking up abandoned jobs is harder. For sure frustrating

Originally posted by FaasToothrot

I don't really mind the interconnectivity between professions to be honest. I like cooperating, sailing/driving around the globe for things I need and thus using the market as it is.

But I feel like main issue for casual players is the extreme fast pace of the game and all the pressures that come with that pace. The amount of people playing 8 hours per day on average on servers are the core group the devs seem to be looking at the most. And I think thats OK, as long as there are good long term alternatives (with exhaustion, I like that feature) with more differentiated and longer endgame goals.

If a server has more differentiated and longer goals, people can also wait a bit longer and/or play more casual, because it doesn't have to finished all within 30 days.

And yes, I know a server admin can change the meteor to any other amount of days, but the game doesn't seem to balanced at all for that at when it comes to profession progression and the singular focu...

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Originally posted by Deeevud

I'm pretty sure it was U10. Currently, if you remove any plant from a plot (as in a claimable plot, all plants use those to determine nutrients/overcrowding), those plants will never grow back. It doesn't matter what sort of plant it is, and unaware players will often gather raw crops completely from a location and they never return. Trees don't use this system though, and there are exceptions such as the types of moss.

Previously, plants would grow back even if you completely wiped out all plants from a biome, and I assume this change was made so that players would soon have to rely upon farmers instead of charring crops in their hundreds during the early tiers.

Being able to control what grow where naturally though has it's advantages, like this: https://imgur.com/a/eStA6Wu

Originally posted by playbabeTheBookshelf

I believed the idea is the right direction, ie. the intention gameplay is cooperation. but the execute is sub-par. I want to point out how Rush did the maintenance right, you just have one station and dump resources in as upkeep. can we do that instead? just have one maintenance station for everything you own (house, furniture, vehicle, machine) -> link it to stock you want it to pull resources from. so we don't have to run around inspecting every individual part.

the pollution mechanic also almost doing nothing to force players to spread out, one big city is most optimal result from current game design. the community has to go out of their way to made up many rules to actually get the game they want.

and the community need to stop wanting the game to become cookie clicker with chat.

Originally posted by Naxili

I think it's a good idea in general but it doesn't make sense for food. For food you have to manage ingredients, spoilage, and demand in a fine grain way. Or you should be doing those things, rather. That said, if implemented, there's no reason to disable this feature for food. I just think it's doesn't do your suggestion any justice!

For furniture / blocks on the other hand? Oh this would be amazing. I always want to be using up all my logs as a logger. I always want 400 hewn on stock. I always want 2 of each furniture on stock. etc etc etc.

It seems complex to implement in line with the games UX principles, though. They want interactivity, and craft until X feels fundamentally at odds with that. So how do you get both? Maybe craft until X only queues up the job, but not the labor. Perhaps also limit that amount of craft until X jobs you can setup to 5, similar to the limitation on the amount of manual jobs. Then you'd have to build multiple tables to keep stock cr...

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Originally posted by permaculturebun

Spoiled food can create compost and fertilizer. Managing how much food is farmed to match demand and also how much you cook for what is needed and what you need to progress is a part of the intended difficulty of the food production skills. If you farm 3,000 huckleberries too soon in the cycle, you have to find a way to use them (agriculture research papers, blackberry extract into fertilizer papers) or it spoils. Similarly if a cook is crafting 100 of a dish when they won’t sell that before it spoils, it will in fact spoil.

A real world oriented solution is managing how much you harvest and how much you buy and cook. I see this as an important feature as the game progresses in development rather than an issue.

Originally posted by PlayerOneThousand

This has been suggested for a while on the their suggestion website (linked by the other commenter) but it seems that shop/production things are low priority, which is incredibly odd considering it’s a game that largely focuses on economy.

Originally posted by Sad_Mango_1248

Thanks Dennis. I am no developer. Looked like configurations to me even tho it is a code.

Originally posted by Distinct-Performer86

It is nothing personal but you are only partially right. In fact there is an option in server setting to set it on. There are so many setting that I was confused whe I was preparing my server a month ago, or maybe, just maybe, there was some change about which I do not know.