Nemoricus' messages

Also, for the very same reason most tower upgrades that require engineers are worthless – you have to pay upkeep and lose your income, while the tower defenses are a breeze even on hard; so yes, the game is imba, I’m not arguing that – I’m only saying that after you get a full house of engineers (I had about 40 of them in my team by the day 200, sometimes getting 2 or 3 from one “explore” mission) you simply have to burn them as accountants/factory upgrades to have any profit of those guys instead of having them simply sitting in reserves.

The problem is that explore missions are boring, time consuming, and don’t contribute to your progress. They’re also random, and the combination means that I put them off as long as possible.

And while a fully upgraded factory is better than the engineers you invested in it, it also takes builders, and upgrading factories means I run out of those very quickly. Which means more tedious, boring, random exploration missions…

Frankly, yeah. The same can be said about tower defenses (awfully boring after the first couple of ones, totally repetitive [the same enemy composition and pattern every time] and giving < 1k$ for most of the time), the same can be said about XP grinding, the same can be said about playing the same game with the same enemies and weapons for the 3rd time. sigh So yes, you definitely have a valid point here. Having e.g. survivors come to you by themselves (depending on some upgrades maybe) or being able to recruit them for $ or being able to get them in any faster way and with less senseless clicking would be great.