What turns you off playing Boundless?

majorvex · 2019-09-01T04:38:24.191Z

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Tezcatlipoca · 2019-09-01T07:38:32.766Z

What annoys me are these far too expensive recipes. When you look at how many sweet beans you need for the teaching pie, you wonder what the developers thought.

Part of the game feels like a simmulation of communism. Bad equipment, low resources, no money to buy on the market, no demanded goods to sell. There has been so much effort here to force the players to cooperate that the majority of the players have left the country. What’s left are a few elite party bigwigs and the rest of farmers who are somehow trying to survive after Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

Finally, revise the recipes, remove useless products (no one needs and buys food or potions that are expensive to make and will do almost nothing). Revised the skill tree, so players on T6 + worlds without expensive buffs do not feel like they’re unskilled.

Grind is not a game content! Players can not be forced to play with other players, but you can promote it by making a game in the group more fun. But that does not work if 80% have already left in annoyance.

superman101 · 2019-09-01T08:41:27.720Z

What are you talking about…scratching my head.
What crooked sellers…I don’t get it. U put a price on what u want to sell…if they like what they see. They buy…how can it be crooked.i am interested what u mean…not to change it mind

Mittekemuis · 2019-09-01T11:31:47.330Z

I meant the whole economy in this game isn’t working as it should. Sometimes my use of the English languages isn’t accurate.

anon42939288 · 2019-09-01T16:03:37.171Z

superman101:

how can it be crooked

cuz its a self-fulfilling prophecy of doom the game relies so heavily on the economy but then puts all the work on the playerbase to make the economy work so you end up with a crooked system that the vast majority don’t want to participate in making it even worse for the people that do.

VirtualEclipse · 2019-09-01T16:05:30.299Z

I rely 0 % on the economy and have played since PS release tho~
You can get all mats you want if you put in the effort, without any help from others.

anon42939288 · 2019-09-01T16:24:38.028Z

VirtualEclipse:

I rely 0 % on the economy and have played since PS release tho

yea i never said the player relies on the economy.

the game in my opinion and what prevents me from coming back is being built in a way to keep trying to push newer players to use the shop system by arbitrarily makeing things needless complicated or expensive…look at the last update and the current one in testing. farming to get water and lava you don’t collect it with a bucket no that would make sense. you need to forge a boon on a tool to magicly pick up the water (even more odd if you do it to a hammer or chisel)

and the lattice frames update again rather then just make a new type of chisel so that mid game players can access the content its another end-game forge thing so if someone wanted to access that content they would need to wait and hope they can understand the forge(and have the time to farm the the mats to try and fail donzens of times cuz rng is everything in boundless) or just buy it with coin they dont have.

VirtualEclipse · 2019-09-01T16:34:11.682Z

If you or any other player need help with some stuff there is a lot of very helpful and friendly endgamers around to help out if you want to access content early.
At the end of the day the game is a block builder, if you could simply acess everything right of the bat it would be pretty boring imo. And if you want to jump its a simple matter of asking nicely ^^

but, we do need a shop list of some kind its impossible to find anything good priced without a tool to acess all shops and locations they are at.

Evergreen · 2019-09-01T16:37:15.689Z

I think his overall point is the way the game is currently set up , it’s only ever going to have a small player base. If that’s the case we will never see the thousands of planets in the sky that the developers told us we’d see .

VirtualEclipse · 2019-09-01T16:44:00.763Z

Ah I understand, yes the game is currently set up to be on a slow burn. But I think this has to do with the “game plan” so it is intentional, I ll just wait and see how it goes from here.

Tarenz · 2019-09-01T16:59:53.926Z

Only a couple of things on my wish list for this game, otherwise I absolutely adore it. 1630 hours and still can hardly wait to log on everyday.

It turns me off when I repeatedly try for resin and find ZERO.
Wish there were a couple more community events in addition to group hunts. Maybe a fall community event with exchanging pumpkins or special fall leaves…maybe changing of the seasons celebration. Really enjoyed the Valentine Special Event, snowball meteor event, Spooky Seeds…great fun and brought the community together.
Wish we had the option for Auto Run.

Thank you to the devs, you are doing an amazing job…keep on rockin!

Ratchel · 2019-09-01T17:05:36.125Z

Tarenz:

Wish we had the option for Auto Run.

Double tap walk key twice and hold

Tarenz · 2019-09-01T17:13:35.971Z

Wish there was a way to double tap not hold…my sister has a severe shoulder injury and it hurts like ___ for her to hold the key down and run, so she can’t play as often…maybe just a few hours on the weekend.

Evergreen · 2019-09-01T17:14:40.337Z

yea, to many of us though a slow burn means a gradual increase in numbers over time. I don’t think we’ve averaged over 300 online users for a month in a very long time. I think that’s what might turn some of us off from time to time. The devs havent communicated what slow burn means so many of us interpret it based off games we have played in years past.

Which ties back in to the economy. This game needs a certain base population for the economy to thrive well, where it’s going in and coming out in a well oiled machine. To know what that is they’d need an economist on their team. It’s important to design it right if the player economy is going to be a huge feature point in the game. For people the economy works well for (ive got millions myself and more in just raw assets if I ever chose to sale them), it’s hard to understand there being a complaint here at all but it’s brought up often enough by new people in reviews that its a clear problem (being able to find things).

Which ties back in to @Kirinvar 's earlier post, there needs to be some sort of regional/planetary way to see what items are for sale and in what quantitiy. It doesnt have to list the price so as not to create price wars. Just the ability to know what and how much of an item is sold on a planet would be a great start point.

Ratchel · 2019-09-01T17:15:58.249Z

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VirtualEclipse · 2019-09-01T17:24:58.695Z

Evergreen:

Which ties back in to @Kirinvar 's earlier post, there needs to be some sort of regional/planetary way to see what items are for sale and in what quantitiy. It doesnt have to list the price so as not to create price wars. Just the ability to know what and how much of an item is sold on a planet would be a great start point.

Definetly.

Evergreen:

yea, to many of us though a slow burn means a gradual increase in numbers over time. I don’t think we’ve averaged over 300 online users for a month in a very long time. I think that’s what might turn some of us off from time to time. The devs havent communicated what slow burn means so many of us interpret it based off games we have played in years past.

I understand your frustration but investing into infrastructure at this point would not be good. You have to think that if you pull a playerbase in you need to pay for running costs, upgrade the servers or buy a more expansive package from your provider. If your game is not there yet, then this can be suicide.

As I said I do not know what the plan is or if there is a plan but I enjoy the game a lot and I will keep enjoying it until the servers shut down

Evergreen · 2019-09-01T17:31:49.652Z

Yea no I have said repeatedly they’re not ready to do a new player experience to pull in more players until they get more things added, fleshed out, fixed, etc

How often do we see complaints about servers dying or lag complaints? And that’s for a small amount of players. Imagine if we added 10000 people to this game right now?

It’s a cycle the games in. Got to keep people so fix those complaints. So the bad reviews stop. A lot of us have been here for a year or more. We clearly enjoy the game but we have to also be able to see the problems others see so we can help correct them if they are valid and continue helping this game to grow.

That right there turns me off sometimes but I’ll chill for a week and get back to playing again.

Tarenz · 2019-09-01T17:42:18.792Z

Thanks so much @Ratchel…I will pass this along to her and see if it will help!

AeneaGames · 2019-09-01T18:01:44.561Z

Tarenz:

Wish there was a way to double tap not hold…my sister has a severe shoulder injury and it hurts like ___ for her to hold the key down and run, so she can’t play as often…maybe just a few hours on the weekend.

Get her a controller, the game works well with it and holding the left stick forward is much easier than holding a key on the keyboard…

superman101 · 2019-09-01T20:25:44.809Z

Just don’t have a shop…don’t participate in it…I see it as a building game…not a shopping game…But I do see what your saying…But if I didn’t want too buy or sell anything I could do easy…just go get everything…But I can understand your frustration…