P_V_D's messages

My main issues with the game was simple lack of friendly UI… I made an axe.. what for? I made a hammer.. what for? I made a furnace… what for? Where do I use the furnace? Where do I use the other tools? The only tool that had a use, so far as I could tell was the pickaxe. Scientists don’t seem to have a use, are they meant to research for you? The way the workers is assigned is confusing and redundant. Overall its all down to badly designed UI and things seemingly being put into the game for no reason that is easily figured out. How you fix all this? I wish I knew, a redesign of the UI from the ground up would be a good start. Remember the KISS principle – “Keep it simple, stupid” as a design principle noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960. The KISS principle states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complicated; therefore simplicity should be a key goal in design and unnecessary complexity should be avoided.

Ok first of all kudos!, finally a game with some depth to it where scaling and planning counts! :), very much like another fav of mine “Factorio”, Now I understand why you are getting low ratings, the game is in my opinion not polished enough to be on the “new hot” list, you have a great leap of learning in the beginning, just basic function such as click and hold mechanics are not explained so many struggle with basic mechanix. coupled with a general low attention span of people your game takes a dive and people wont understand the beauty of it :)

1. well there needs to be something pointing out that you need to start by researching and that that (and many other things) can be done manually by clicking on the icon/header. There also needs to be something taking you away from the language screen :P, its a bit confusing
2. help people understand that they want to automate the income by selling and crafting, and more on mechanics such as auto sell and that it cares about crafting (a wish here would be that you could specify a buffer of resources higher than the one needed for crafting, helps having to pause automation to craft things)
3. perhaps hints on that higher end stuff gives more income/sec
4. a better understanding of what is produced and consumed “might” help, try to not simplify to much tho :P, its supposed to be challenging. Further statistics could be nice, just something to keep check on your progress and that could help if you figure a bit :)

5. tips, if you havent playd factorio DO SO NAO!, get inspired :)
6. it would be nice to have some kind of upgrades for workers instead of “just” tools, just a thought tho

otherwise a great initiative :D, I am amused

“You can stop production in order to relocate workers (Press red triangle up left). You can set/remove more than one worker, just hold (+) or (-) and delta will be multiplied by 10, then just click, and workers will be added / removed by your new delta.”

And I totally get that. What I’m saying is that when you reach a new tier of technology and it removes the lower tech items from the production list, any workers and tools that were on those lower are not returned, and continue to produce the lower tier item, and cost their salary.