Testing 191: Balance, Fixes and Polish!

[slyduda]

Awesome, thank you devs for all that you do!

[nevir]

Wow, ton of awesome fixes and tweaks in this one!

[PendragonTheNinja]

I could be eloquent with my praise, or I could just do this.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! <3

Thank you, developers.

[PendragonTheNinja]

It’s been a long time since I tried Testing. How does one access the testing servers again?

[boundmore]

@james

Increased the drop rate of seeds from grass, and made Luck have an effect of the chance of dropping.
Increased the max stack size to 100 from 99.

nice and… nice; little details do make ones experience sometime:sunglasses:

[onebitknightly]

I think this is the way

@SadSoup

P.S. A lot of people are currently playing on the testing version of the game, you can switch to testing by right clicking boundless in your Library>Properties>Betas>Testing

[PendragonTheNinja]

Thank you!

Testing doesn’t affect anything at all in the main game, correct?

[Clexarews]

You get to play updates, such as this one, sooner. But you’re also more prone to crashes and other bugs. That’s about it.

[PendragonTheNinja]

It’s a separate server though, right? Anything you do in Testing is just for testing purposes and doesn’t affect your main game and things you gain in it, no?

[Heureka]

Its a separate server. Nothing change on live server.

[Heureka]

Thanks for the colored arrow

[Oggieogham]

Is the forge available to try out on the testing server?

[Slane]

I still have so much to read and I am super happy already!!!

[Chonps]

@james

Fixed an issue in the world builder when manipulating a prefab that is connected to the root of the graph that would cause the client to teleport into the middle and get stuck unable to move.

Oh yeah! No more stucking

[boundmore]

no forge - no new big features - this is just balancing and polishing of existing content

[Cookviper]

This is an awesome update. Thanks devs

[Jiivita]

@boundmore

no forge - no new big features

?!!!

@james

Made the iron furnace take half the time and half the fuel of the stone furnace, and the titanium furnace take half the time and half the fuel of the iron furnace.

What are you talking about? This is amazing!
Not to mention…

@james

Smart stacks of augments can now be dragged onto a slingbow/totem. The first augment in the stack will be loaded as if you had dragged it directly.
Augments held in your hand can be loaded into the slingbow/totem in your other hand by using them.

[boundmore]

@Jiivita

?!!!

just answering @Oggieogham question about forge being available in this update;
this one is only balance etc. but still quite big and looks interesting of course:sunglasses:

[Xaldafax]

@PendragonTheNinja

It’s a separate server though, right? Anything you do in Testing is just for testing purposes and doesn’t affect your main game and things you gain in it, no?

Sometimes the test servers are wiped and updated from the current Solum state. So if you don’t have a base there you might have to restart your characters especially if they were on another planet at the time of the copy.

[Xaldafax]

@james

Beacon footfall is now affected by and additional two factors:

You will receive less footfall the longer you are away from your beacon. We allow 7 days in which your reward will not be reduced. After this time the footfall reward will reduce daily linearly. Your beacon will be classed as visited if you have entered the beacon or the settlement it is in.

I think there are some great changes and game polish in the update. But, I think this is not really a great decision. Or at least I don’t see how it is helping the game to improve game play. Do we really have that many millionaires that have made that cash solely on traffic in a few months that we have to severely nerf those that barely get traffic income because they don’t own plots in the big city traffic areas.

Now people are being expected to touch each beacon plot area every 7 days or they start losing cash potential. It is already hard enough to get cash and this adds to the burden. Not every can log in once a week and this really just will help make people not try to build anything in an effort to create cash. It is like we are creating competing priorities… try to make people build but create things that limit the reward and force people to fight even more for the quality traffic areas.