12-12-2018, 05:33 PM
Some quick suggestions -
First of all, you're going to need to help facilitate helping new players. The teleport system is great, but there's also nothing setting apart genuinely helpful people from Bastards, and new players aren't going to enjoy asking for help and then getting curb stomped because they can't tell the difference. Everyone who joins is going to be very, very, confused, and if they aren't helped, they're going to leave quickly. I'd say you need to deputize as many people as you can to both moderate galactic chat (keep out spammers, racial slurs, ect, the usual for any online game), and to help new players learn the basics so that THEY can go on to help others. Give people like Dean a little badge or something, to show that they're around to help and that they can be trusted. You should also probably let these moderators delete blueprints for you, too, in case any are... severely evil.
Secondly... look, I love Hazeron, and it has come so far in the past six years or however long I've been following it, but... you probably need to put this in Early Access. It doesn't matter how many features it has, people are going to see the graphics and think they're finalized unless you put it in Early Access. And, as I'm sure you know, the graphics are the biggest sticking point about the game. The Steam Community might be more willing to excuse an Early Access game for having them, but a full game... probably not. If I were a 3d artist, I'd offer my help, but I can't exactly say I could do any better.
Otherwise, congrats! I'm rootin' for ya, bud! And I also support a galaxy reset, by the way. I think it's only appropriate.
First of all, you're going to need to help facilitate helping new players. The teleport system is great, but there's also nothing setting apart genuinely helpful people from Bastards, and new players aren't going to enjoy asking for help and then getting curb stomped because they can't tell the difference. Everyone who joins is going to be very, very, confused, and if they aren't helped, they're going to leave quickly. I'd say you need to deputize as many people as you can to both moderate galactic chat (keep out spammers, racial slurs, ect, the usual for any online game), and to help new players learn the basics so that THEY can go on to help others. Give people like Dean a little badge or something, to show that they're around to help and that they can be trusted. You should also probably let these moderators delete blueprints for you, too, in case any are... severely evil.
Secondly... look, I love Hazeron, and it has come so far in the past six years or however long I've been following it, but... you probably need to put this in Early Access. It doesn't matter how many features it has, people are going to see the graphics and think they're finalized unless you put it in Early Access. And, as I'm sure you know, the graphics are the biggest sticking point about the game. The Steam Community might be more willing to excuse an Early Access game for having them, but a full game... probably not. If I were a 3d artist, I'd offer my help, but I can't exactly say I could do any better.
Otherwise, congrats! I'm rootin' for ya, bud! And I also support a galaxy reset, by the way. I think it's only appropriate.