I’m going to take the time to read all of these replies at some point because I am really interested to see what people are saying here…
James, I recently decided to start a big underground project somewhere on Solum, but I haven’t been able to get myself to log in much and work on the excavation (A LARGE area) due to how difficult it is to deal with lava. When I hit a patch of lava in my digging (common) it slows me down to about a fifth of my productivity, and it’s really quite frustrating. It’s difficult to get to every source block of lava with a block, ESPECIALLY when a lot of the blocks holding lava are naturally chiseled and hard to see that they are there when placing blocks. I’d love (sooner rather than later) a way to deal with lava for people wanting to build large underground areas, whether it be going the water bucket route like Minecraft, or coming up with something unique. (Maybe craftable technology that removes lava in a certain radius?) I’m finding it hard to push myself to take the time and log in to deal with all of the lava I currently have run into.
I had lots of fun with the game and don’t regret buying it but it gets stale a bit too fast.
Mostly I find myself underground just mining. Mining is very grindy, slow and boring. You just hold one button and wait for the block to break. There are no threats (except height and lava), and no excitment. Sadly mining seems to be too important to skip. In minecraft there were chances to find some special places underground and you always had to watch out for monsters, which made mining a bit more varied.
What also turns me off is the lack of feeling of achieving something. Besides grinding resources and building there is not much to do. There are no hard bosses and no rare places to go. The things you build look nice but have no functionality. You don’t get to say “Wow, I designed this and it’s working”. The things you build just look nice.
The game lacks special moments and milestones that let your brain spill out hormones that make you feel good. I got this feeling sometimes in the first ~20 hours, but then it was kind of gone. Grinding and building nice stuff is not enough for many people.
I hope that is not too harsh. I don’t want to make you feel bad. You guys are doing a good job and as I said, I don’t regret buying the game.
It’s really not about the game, I just (dang why am I saying this everywhere) suck at creativity, basically can’t imagine buildings or patterns. Perhaps I loved the part when I had to mine and do some terraforming (which is now gone), so now I’m stuck with a market place and my house to finish (and you guessed it, I can’t do it)
Pretty sure I’d enjoy working for others as a “digger” or some sort
In the next update we’re have improved the compression of chunks by ~40% and started using a CDN which should both help the download performance. We’re also tweaking the bad connection flow to try and make it less offensive. But the original idea was to be clear that their connection was compromised and stop them attempting to enter more movement inputs. It’s a tough problem! I’m rebranding the modal as “Input Protection” so it’s clearer what it’s attempting to do. But we’ll still allow players to disable it if they prefer rubber banding rather than the interruption.
Thanks. The Skill points will be continue to be iterated as more skills are added.
Wifi will make your connection performance more variable. Also make sure you set you Chunk Download Rate appropriately for your connection. Reducing it should help with the rubber banding.
I really want the negative comments and constructive criticism. Without them I can’t improve the game. We need some tough .
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Maybe the problem is the Tutorial. It’s not explaining enough about the game?
Maybe the problem is the presentation of the game on the website + trailers?
We should really create a gameplay trailer so players can see the game in action and really know what they’re buying into.
Thanks!
We have a good plan for allowing players to report players and locations for griefing, but it’s not been implemented yet. Sometimes it’s hard to determine what is and isn’t griefing. We should likely create a player charter(?) that captures what griefing is and isn’t in the game.
We’re planning to rework the portals + warps a little. We’ve got something wrong if players return to the Sanctum instead of creating Warps in the game. The size requirements just aren’t really working. But I like the idea of seeing a large portal and thinking “wow that must go a long way!”.
Yeah - I know. I know it’s unfair - hence I’ve tried to stop. Instead I want to allow all players to craft and control fluids. We have a good plan for it that I think can work.
Have you tried upping your stealth skills. You should be able to walk happily with the animals.
Titans are extremely experimental - and I’d love to get them completed.
After the recent comments about farming we’re looking at what might be possible.
More functional props? Things that do stuff?
This was the original thinking behind machines and storage - use the space players create.
We put the biggest settlements on the compass - to encourage players to find these locations. But it doesn’t seem to work.
Thanks!!
We had a design in the past for adding a type to a beacon (shop, farm, etc) and a welcome message that would be displayed when you entered the beacon. Maybe these could be repurposed into showing a type on the compass (maps in the future) and the welcome message could be shown when you target the location on the compass? This would allow you to advertise what is happening.
I’m hoping the signs would cover settlement navigation guidance.
I think adding an in-game explanation of what the compass symbols are would be helpful. I use them a lot whn I want to explore other builds or find new shops but that’s because I know what the symbols mean.
You could add a quest to encourage players to ‘visit 5 settlements’ or ‘find the capital city’.
Some more information on settlements before I visit them would be interesting too. Most people shamelessly advertise on the forums (myself included ) as they want people to recognise their hard work and make a more social setting. Being able to do this in-game would make the process easier. Perhaps add something when you hover over settlements in sanctum?
But that should not hold you or any other DEVS back to deal with the obvious trolls/griefers RIGHT NOW.
No need to wait for a system !
So you expect us to be annoyed by trolls/griefers for at least another 4 or 5 month or so ?!
Reported trolls/griefers ingame RIGHT NOW should be dealt with, and they are simply not.
It is not that hard to spot what is trolling and what is not.
The player NATURE (red gleam troll) still locked down all red gleam, and no action was taken all this time, and that is just unacceptable. Keep defending him and just don’t take any action against him and more active good players will be annoyed and stop playing sooner than you might think.
Well, the red gleam issue is a bad example. I thought the verdict was that its not griefing. As has been mentioned before, this is a quote from playboundless.com:
“Claim a source for loot or rare resources and citizens will flock from across the universe to trade with you.” Nowhere is it mentioned that you cannot claim resources. I get that its annoying, but it isn’t griefing.
Story lines would be cool! I really wanna see more in terms of the lore of the game. I’ve always been a fan of games with ancient civilisations that mysteriously disappeared…
Sorry to be the person quoting Creativerse again (they should pay me for advertising) but it’s a good example of adding a bit of story. Throughout the game, you get mobs that drop ‘notes’ or ‘data chips’. If you read them, they tell fragments of a story: scientist gets magically transported to the creativerse world, makes a robot companion, and slowly discovers what happens to the previous inhabitants of the world. Trying to piece together the story was really interesting! They didn’t take it much further, but it was a good little feature.
Similarly if you play Skyrim and explore the dwarven ruins, you get subtle hints about what happened to the people who lived there and the unfortunate adventurers that followed.
Something along these lines would be amazing! The titans and protectors will add a lot to the lore so we’re all really excited for them, but I wanna know what happened to the Oort!!
Subtle hints throughout the game could add a whole new level.
old technology scattered throughout the world
skeletons? something to add onto the graveyard theme
more pre-fabs! shrines are great!
treasure troves in hidden places
Oortian props that can be found but not crafted
maybe walls or monuments with writing on that people can translate?
boss mobs protecting certain areas with cool loot
specific dungeons and old cities to run through
A lot of this stuff wouldn’t be added until 1.0 release and after, or the mystery would be ruined! You want players who join the game later on to be able to discover things for themselves.
In terms of dungeon runs, this could be difficult to work around with world regen and different players trying to join. Perhaps have the ‘dungeons’ as a separate world, accessed through hidden portals on the main planets. Add harder mobs, puzzles to solve, treasure etc. No placing or removing blocks, just interacting with what’s already there. I guess you’d have to create a different instance of the dungeon for each player/group that goes through, otherwise they would enter only to find everything already dead and looted. I know nothing about game development, but I imagine this isn’t the most simple thing to create
Just my thoughts on the matter
I think the game is pretty great as it is. But i agree with Prowee that the skillpoints should continue to be awarded after level 50. The skilltree is large and when i see what isn’t implemented yet and i am almost at the SP cap i think this is not a good thing. I also don’t see the benefits of having multiple characters for specific tasks. I don’t mind a little grind, but it would be nice to do everything with just one character.
Actually, that’s not entirely truth. If I understood it right, the Boundless skill tree system was created to allow everyone to play the game in any way they want!
So, in my case, for example, I’m leveling up my character for it to be a hunter, but I’m also investing some points into crafting, because I like to be able to craft my own tools ( some of them at least) and some healing brews.
That is why the game keep giving to us ( hunters) “useless drops”. Because some people may want to use them. And also to boost the market ( 1C at a time -.-). However, I don’t see the point of leafs for hunters. Give us berries instead, so we won’t have to cut down trees.
So, yes, I like @Smidge’s idea about a craftable lure, but it probably won’t resolve the problem to everyone. Maybe raids and more constant mobs respawning in the non-beaconed areas of difficult planets could help hunters having more to…hunt
I do want the developers to be careful to also allow the other roles to function on the various planets. I understand if you are a hunter, you want to be able to find the mobs to hunt and to be rewarded appropriately for your effort. If a planet is so dangerous that a crafter or a miner cannot gather resources in relative safety without a super high hunting skill then I think that hurts the game. I do think a miner or a crafter need to have some ways to protect themselves, it should definitely not be as easy as it is on the starter planets.
I do not want to be a hunter, but I have added some skills to weapons (I carry a gem slingbow) and I do have to fight mobs on the level 2 and 3 worlds to gather resources. From a non-hunter perspective, I am good with the level of the spawns. Maybe a hunting skill to further improve drops (more than luck does) or have the mobs drop things that are not typically dropped would address the hunters concerns.
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Has anyone used the Antagonise skill? does this increase the mobs? Maybe this skill can be tweaked to be more useful to hunters.
I have absolutely the opposite opinion. There should be planets and places that are basically impossible unless you’re prepared, as well as resources that are only obtainable with special tools. That would definitely encourage specialization and create a natural scarcity of certain items, making them valuable (since only prepared hunters or specialized miners would be safely able to get them)
Yes, there is nearly no “learning curve” or something really new to discover. The only real thing you can do at the moment is building. This game seriously lacks any real combat mechanic or team mechanic. Also, real enemies (Titans) are missing.
Yes, because of a reported beacon bug I lost everything I build and I won’t start again unless the worlds are reset and the game is finally released.
Yes, always the same … digging holes in the mountains. Grinding down the quests for no real reason.
Yes, Things missing what you state the game will have:
These three (Conquer, Protectors, and Titans) are completely missing. The current enemies are just “random” mobs running around with no loot worth figthing for.
When do we get the art book? How do you solve 100% more beacon claim? When can I reserve my guild name? When do we get the character options? When will get the signed artwork?
currently by far too easy and too boring. a lot of really important team aspects, RPG content and longtime motivation is missing.
Could you explain what your “target” game is? You always tell us there will be features added but what are your planned features and how do try to realize them (I would love to see some concepts). I already asked multiple times about the “final feature set”. I don’t want to be rude … but do you have any concepts for the final game?
When do you think this game will be finished? 2016 passed away because of the c++ rebuild and as far as I see the state of development I can’t imagine of a launcher in 2017 with that many features missing.
You should start to respond/react to our suggestions (i hope this is a [new] beginning) and not just denigrate them with “the game is still in development” or ignore them.
Unfortunately, i can’t recommend this game to anyone currently. Whenever I get asked from friends if this game is worth the price, I need to say “no, expect you like grinding and building only”.
Dude, the game is in beta… It isn’t finished. These things are coming. Be patient
But it is still in development. It’s not finished. Also, suggestions are being considered. They took our suggestions on how hard creatures were to fight, and I’m sure many others before that.
And this is the problem why so many people stop playing … If they ask for honest opinions I’ll give them my honest opinion. I’ve been here from the beginning when boundless was oort online and after that long delays and completely missing (or at least not communicated) concepts, i can’t see the way this will go.
If you always protect anything they do, you will never get a final game. STOP being a cringer.
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) as they want people to recognise their hard work and make a more social setting. Being able to do this in-game would make the process easier. Perhaps add something when you hover over settlements in sanctum? 
