Current gameplay "feedback"

[luke-turbulenz]

@Spoygg

So, from what you say objectives are more like tutorial? After you finish them it’s over?

Yes that was the intention:

Progression & Experience Gaining Changes - Version 2

Hi everyone! We updated the testing version a few weeks ago to give players a quick look at what we had planned for the progression system and we’ve have a great deal of feedback on it, which is great! The feedback has given us a lot more guidance on what players want and how players want to progress in Boundless. A big thanks to @boundmore @Nibuls @Xanotos @Smooth-Slick @nevir @Kawwak @KaKistoZ for their input! Based on the feedback we’ve had in the testing version on Steam and from the deve…

[Pseudonym84]

@Spoygg

skills that could take a few months to acquire like putting down a row of blocks, copying/pasting parts of build, mining 3x3x3 cube etc.

I’ve had time to dwell on this since we came up with a bunch of cool ideas, and the mining one would seem to be a little game breaking. You’d basically be putting the rock market in the hands of the people who play the most. A new player hoping to become a trader wouldn’t stand a chance against a mining giant like that. I still like the idea of super high level skills, though they’d have to be more ‘quality of life’, and less OP.

@AzureHelios

Getting to a level where you are “very comfortable” at doing what you’ve skilled your character to do should only take a week or two.

I completely agree with this. Make the game easy to learn, and easy to get into, but hard to master and reach that ever illusive end-point. It’s a matter of making a leveling curve that’s shallow to begin with, then ramps up considerably after a certain point. It’s sort of what we have now, but it needs to be in a place where players can get their hands on all their basic skills in a short amount of time.

@luke-turbulenz

For all players, it is all about the journey. Travelling to new worlds to find new creatures, drops, resources, communities and ways to interact with the game which wasn’t available at the start. As long as the journey is fun, challenging and full of surprises the reason to level is to find those new stories, however long it may be.

A quick side point on this. Some players simply enjoy chasing levels. They set themselves a goal and head for it - and will in some cases even do things that aren’t fun on their own to achieve said goals. I guess it’s a case of stubborn players battling through arduous tasks in order to reach something nobody else has. I like that concept.

For example, it isn’t fun to grind mobs for days on end in MMO’s, which is why it’s called a grind - but players still do it. In fact there’s a huge market for the grind, especially in many Eastern MMO’s. I’m not suggesting you go that route with Boundless, I’m merely suggesting you keep those players in mind - the crazy people who want to go to extremes.

[Spoygg]

Yeah, you’re right, anyway, getting something special is the point, doesn’t have to break the game