This would be such a huge QOL improvement and make me not wistfully wish I had brought fang of vog just to self-immolate and skip the core dialogue.
DON’T MAKE THE ENERGY MARKET SKYROCKET PLEASE
DON’T LET US GO BACK TO THE DAYS OF MULTIPLE VANA RUNS FOR 100E
Skip to ⛏️⛏️ to read the suggestion itself.
As someone who playtested throughout the past year, the system was tolerable. It was not high on the list of concerns. Testers knew how to efficiently time upgrades (no standing back and telling anyone “come back here we need to upgrade”, waiting until we grouped up naturally, calling Ellis onto the bio booster station, etc). But now it’s open season. Some people have different ideas about when to upgrade, where to upgrade, etc. and those ideas are a pain if they lead to conflict, or if it gets to the point where someone feels they need to spend time typing in the chat to tell the rest of the team when they should be upgrading. It’s getting on a lot of people’s nerves, I think. Most importantly, game flow gets disrupted.
⛏️⛏️ I think the game flow could be smoothed out if the range in which you all have to be in order to upgrade was just..whatever cave Ellis is in. Like a sonar ping for the current cave, that’s the range. If in a tunnel, then be in the tunnel.
⛏️⛏️⛏️⛏️⛏️You know what, this can be made even simpler. Upgrade area is between the previous compacted dirt and the next compacted dirt, based on the R.E.P.D.s loca**tion.
Add some sort of visible short countdown so people aren’t blindsided by a sudden upgrade screen if they’re in the middle of a fight (and accidentally click a random upgrade while trying to fire their weapon.)
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I love the negotiation aspect of upgrades. Most of the time when people complain about it, they weren’t taking into account what class they’re playing, or what would be best suited for another class, etc. It’s a very interesting way of strategizing and emphasizing teamwork.
Has anyone else experienced trouble with slimes escaping their spots in decorations? Some items seem to have more trouble than others.
Slimes will escape from ferris wheels, but not carousels.
They will wander off beach blankets within 15 seconds.
I just want them to sit and be chill but they keep escaping, which is a shame, because I don’t want to have to build a bunch of hydro turrets for my own ranch.