11-11-2019, 01:35 AM
(11-09-2019, 01:18 AM)Haxus Wrote: Does anyone have any strong opposition to restarting?
What things do you think must be fixed at the next restart? I don't mean every bug you know about. I mean what must be fixed before a restart.
Are there any exploits that will allow someone to max out their empire in the first week, like last time?
With this heads up, it would be a good idea for everyone to store their building and spacecraft designs in local .SoH files. You should already be doing this.
I am a fan of a restart personally, good to purge all of the old items/code that are sticking around.
I would love to see the design library get a few badly needed quality of life features. The ability to publish/unpublish/delete multiple designs is important, especially once the universe restarts to save 5 hours of publishing a bunch of designs. When I had to update buildings, it would take me many many hours of frustration for just ~60 buildings because of how many steps I had to go through, and how often it would not fully finish. I think it should be doable because publish/unpublish/delete shouldn't be a large data transfer to the server, it's not like when you are uploading designs into the online designer.
Some things I think would be nice to have before a restart would be a better technology system simply for the sake of not having to worry how to balance how it may impact existing empires. It might make it simpler and cause less "outrage" as no one stands to lose any progress. It would also tackle the "exploits to max out their empire in the first week" as right now all it takes is finding high quality materials, which really doesn't take long. A determined player like Mr. Mortius can very easily colonize and locate high quality materials in a week or so, and start cranking out the max volume super death ships as there is no real progression mechanics currently.
Overall I think the game needs some more depth mechanics wise, as it stands there isn't a ton to do in game, but I don't think fleshing gameplay out needs to happen prior to a restart. Maybe just prior to steam release.