Hi!
This gets asked a lot indeed =) The answer below still applies:
Will the game have Z-Levels? Due to how the game has been designed, and the possible can of worms regarding technical problems, overall game play and user awareness; we opted to stick with a single plane to build on.
First of all, thank you for this wonderful game! It’s already a blast to play and it got so much potential for being greater! Keep up the good work!
I saw a comment about robots. I think it would be awesome to build something like a “logistic robot” who just moves stuff around.
I would also love to see a sketch for object. Or a pause. This way you can plan better.
You're welcome and yeah we will see how robots pan out ;)
Understanding things will change: I was hoping the research tree would be for newer stuff, not existing stuff.
I can see how this will require lots of bandwidth on the devs part.
Just think of all the knock-on effects!?
If you don't research a shield generator, you honestly can't ninja mine systems with meteors.
If you do research it, you've burned through more fuel rods(time) and food (water) and do you even have water reclamation tech researched to stop your ship from running out of water for all the food you have to produce for the days (turns) spent idling just researching shields!?I'm sure it won't be as bad as I think. But this game already has hurry up and wait mechanics like salvaging that take lots of time and are not very interesting or engaging after doing them a few times as a new player. I don't want research to be the same here.
There's many sides to all of it, right now there's a ton of facilities open right from the start, which makes it a bit overwhelming for a new player starting to play. The game already has a ton of facilities in the industry category for example, it doesn't really need much more, it's on the brink of being unnecessarily complex.
It will help new players when some of the now existing stuff is locked from the start.
We don't want to forget players who have played the game for some time already. Our thoughts is to make a research tree, which is a mix of existing stuff locked and new stuff as we have time to create them. Hopefully we get some new exciting stuff for this next update too.
As always, it's a delicate balance of so many things. Wanting to ease new players in to the game better, not forgetting old players yearning for new exciting stuff and then our small team with limited resources =)
Knock-on effects are a valid concern. Those can be worked a...
Read moreI loved the game, and I have been playing it for many hours! thank you for the game and update
Any chance of animals being implemented? I would love to be a space farmer
Robots are easier, due to the animation part with the graphic style we have. Animals would require quite a bit of work animation wise, unless you want them stiff like stuffed animals. =)
Thank you for the update.
You are very welcome! =)
i just wanna say, dear 'secret user'.... i love your game. i love it so much. i have so much fun with it. There are so many things i would love to see happen in it/with it... but the fact is, if you never released another update i would still be happy. i think i have only once had something happen that could be described as a 'crash'... yes there are quirks in it... but i am coming up on 100 hours (second start from scratch now in second galaxy)... and i think about all the magnificent things that have happened in those hundred hours... the blistering highs and the crushing lows... You have made something magnificent. I really hope you are proud of what you did.
Thank you so much for the lovely feedback! =) It has indeed been a lot of hard work up to this point, and we're eager to continue working on the game. Comments like yours surely help us a lot, great to see someone enjoy the game!
Hi there!
We're back from our summer vacation and we started working on Alpha 10 this week. We'll be posting an update here in the near future of some of the stuff we have coming. It's still early days so cannot say much about a timeline. Looking at the history new Alpha version iterations have been around 6-8 weeks of development time. =)
Thank you, so glad you like the game and thanks for the great feedback! =)
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