I just started playing so i just went on a search to see if anyone is asking this question. Boom! here i am.
For me, i have 2 friends playing this. If we were to compare this to minecraft, the biggest highlight is that minecraft can be played solo. Even in an online server minecraft is much more efficient when it comes to the satisfying part of progressing in the game. This game, you can definitely play solo but it takes AGES to get anywhere good. There is a massive wall and here it is:
By the time you hit lvl 19 you realize that next level you won’t be able to quickly swap skills. At lvl 20 you feel like you are set in stone because now you have to just go ham on quests or grind lvls through other means to get the skills you need to progress your home. The grind is huge and honestly feels like you just went back to lvl 1 its so inconvenient. This is also around the time you want to get power(i don’t know everything about this game so right now the highest gem i have is diamond. Titanium being my most common tool now) Some of the things that are really useful require power and spending money to get around means i don’t want to spend it in a city. (i am lucky and got a Portal to a Portal Seeker hub up so it is definitely much easier to get around.)
The planets that have all the materials for progressing to the good stuff have atmospheres that require skills to protect yourself from it. Which means i need to sacrifice my skills that either; allow me to craft good items; or my skill that let me mine more efficiently. To me this SUUUUUCKS. this is where solo progression is terrible and just makes you want to drop it. Point is: progression to lvl 20 is great, anything after is a pain and you really do need friends or people in-game to help. Thus making it less attractive to people.
Here is what i think could improve the game:
- Skill pages: They work as a prestige past lvl 50(or lower level fi you swapped into it. not that usefull though), change this so its just a skill swap. Each page gets the same number of skills according to your level. Since crafting takes a long time to do at higher tiers i don’t think this will hurt the economy that much. Change the prestige to something else. This would litteraly solve all the issues i have with progression at the moment.
- Power: ■■■■■■■ make spark links for power. I hate having to wrap my machines in coils. Its okay if they only work for 1 machine, just let me put the power in a neat spot. (this one isn’t a big deal but imo i think a lot of people would like this)
- More advanced way of crafting items. Would be cool if there was a piping system or conveyor belt system. Let us setup crafting stations to only craft one or more specific things and pipe it to the next machine.
- Storage. The current storage system is pretty cool. but my idea of these characters is they are very intelligent. So why are they still using chests? Why not have a storage system that lets you store everything? Requires power/spark to keep running, and other machines to increase the amount of space it has.
- Tiny little thing: Add a button to quickly clear/reset your search and filter.