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The problem with this is, that the costs are quite significant so it's very much worth it to not ignore steps. Also, the last two quality tiers are unlocked later on planets so you'd have to skip it entirely at the first half of the game, and it's quite worth it to have just a handful of better machines on the space platform for example, or a few higher quality productivity modules in the most resource expensive recipes.

I get how the whole "RNG" feels strange at first, but in practice you're mostly not producing single units of anything, rather mass quantities. So in the end it's really just a statistic rather than hoping for something to drop individually.

It pretty much remains there, don't worry.

Well, the nuke won't do it automatically by robots for example :)

Yes, that's what I meant by not touching logistic system :)

Hi, indeed the structure in the middle is just a 2D drawn placeholder, and the real finished version is being created based on it.

Don't worry it won't be nearly like what SE does, and since the rocket silo will be researchable earlier, all of the base game's unlocks will still be accessible quite early.

We are not touching logistic system's availability, and cliff explosives, well, there's still going to be nukes which can destroy cliffs.

Yeah that's only about 20 times more detailed than our actual 3D model for this. (:

I'm not exactly convinced the word "need" was the design goal here XD

Yeah you wouldn’t want to witness seeing the blender file for these…

This guy gets it!

History lesson alert:

We didn't really keep it "secret". The reality was, that we simply didn't know how to make use of the vehicle. Sure it was very cool, but this example you see was literally just a vehicle. Naturally it would be unlocked quite late in the game, at which point you already have power armor mk2 with which you can move super fast. The problem was, that the spider vehicle couldn't really match that speed, as the legs would just start looking too silly. And there you go, suddenly you'd unlock something that'd be slower, which almost inherently means it'd be worse.

As a result, we didn't keep it secret, we simply weren't trying to engage in discussions about it to try to avoid people being excited about it because we didn't see the path forward with it.

Only very late into 0.18, about 2-3 months before the release of 1.0, we've been thinking if this is it for the release, or if there is any way to add something. The only real idea was the spide...

Congratulations! :)

What the post means is that we took "vacation from families", not that we were taking "days off" in order to work.

Simply put it qualified as a working week including normally being paid etc, and on top of that everybody even got wube-paid food, drinks and for people who normally work remote, even hotel accomodation.

And even more importantly, it was simply a big exciting party for us.

Our office turned into a nerdcave where most of us slept for a week, we ordered food every day, and did pretty much nothing else than play the game and sleep a little bit.

And of course, all of this was 100% voluntary and we even had the game hosted online so people who don't live in Prague could join as well.

I hope that makes it a bit more clear <3 No, we are not a gulag.

I wanted to reply to this with a simple "No", but meanwhile I was doing something else and the more I thought about it the more I found how much "No" is not only not true, it's also impossible and/or undesirable.

In short, no, so far we have not removed anything big, or anything we would have invested a lot of time into. Pretty much all of the time it's number changes/balancing, reworks to make mechanics work more uniquely (and that way feeling less repetitive), or adding features or QoL improvements that help solve the problem in a more convenient way(that way feeling less tedious).

While there is certainly some limit beyond which more game length is rather detrimental, having it not feel long, in other words "be fun" is extremely important.

It's also interesting to define what does "cut content" mean. Particularly, in which stage is it "cut". If it's in a state where the feature works fully, it has multiple supporting systems to make it work even better, h...

I tried that when making the splitter icons originally. It sucks.

Basically, in general the bottom-right section of the icon is almost always obscured by a number, and the colourful arrows are the part by which you tell it's a splitter.

TL;DR: No, sorry!

...And what if I told you some other icon(s) have similar "issues"?

To put this a little more into perspective, there's been pretty much 1 person working on the switch, while the rest of the team is working on the expansion. Don't take them as mutually exclusive. :)

I was like "eh another of those photos where someone finds it similar to the game"

But then I've seen the picture zoomed in to realize it IS the game XD

Nice! The lamps and their patterns caught me offguard.

It's basically meant to be the "fuel" for the vehicle moving - it's the only vehicle that doesn't need any fuel.

Especially the iron/copper plate icons got a LOT of attention, this is very much on purpose. :)