Thanks man! I thought you did forget about me. Looking forward to it.
Tell Syv that the games' complexity isn't the problem, it's the incredibly uncomfortable learning curve. Emphasis on uncomfortable instead of high because I actually don't know how high the learning curve is in this game especially since you say the game is easy once you know what you're doing.
What I mean by uncomfortable is this.
1. Your MC's skill points are tied to breeding and not leveling. It is so uncomfortable.
I need like a thousand skill points in a single tree, to get those thousand skill points you gotta get a full scale breeding farm going. To do that you pretty much need to know all of the game's inner mechanics.
And even if I know how to do that, I think I'm gonna go ascended and skip it 100% of the time just because.
It feels like, this game wants to be RPG + Pokemon, but if I want to get ANYTHING at all in the skill trees, I gotta setup a full scale ditto breeding factory complete perfect knowledge of IV breeding and Egg moves.
So it's either learn everything and do everything right from the get go or play without skill points.
Even with all your help I still don't know how to get a thousand Tanid skill points to get Hebi as a summon. All the tips you gave gives me like 2 Tanid skill points, max level on everyone is like 5, recruited or bred high max level guys must be leveled to max level before being corrupted. And all of this takes goddamn forever.
So I don't know. I still don't know wtf I'm doing and I'm waiting for your tutorial.
2. tutorial/guide is awful. None of these not even the guide on the wiki is remotely good enough.
Maybe it's me. I was a god in Civ5 but I am complete trash at Civ6 even after 100 hrs in that game. Something about that game just doesn't click with me and maybe this game's breeding stuff is the same thing as me.
ALl I really wanted was a step by step build order I could follow to get the aforementioned full scale breeding farm setup so I can finally get those skill points and it's take YOU with a VIDEO WALKTHROUGH for me to finally get anywhere.
Anyways, that's my feedback.
Again, I don't know if the learning curve is high or not, but it certainly is uncomfortable as hell, at least for me.
Dude, i feel you, the game's learning curve is basically straight up, and then a plateau that curves gently as you learn about hidden weird systems.
This doesn't bother me, but i know it bothers a fair few people, like i prefer it this way and any simplifications in the systems are in the wrong direction for me, the main issue i see is actually that there are too many shallow systems in PoP, and if Syv constrained their vision they could make the best parts of the game better, like the Dating system is cool but it feels like it could be fleshed out a lot.
Alt-Characters outside the main 4 lack unique interactions, and at this point there are so many it would be unrealistic to expect content for them from a single Dev
The in-portal building system is shallow as fuck, it's essentially building roads and teleporters to lumber spots and stone pickups.
The crafting system is probably the most complete system outside of combat and we still don't have a material shop or list of what from where in the game.
The leveling system i think is mostly fine personally, but it shouldn't require the ritual skill, like just let me get skill points by fucking, that's fine, it's a porn game, the combination of fucking and growth go well naturally here.
The town system is great, love the town system, there are dead areas that could use attention, aka anywhere that lacks a town NPC, except the market, the markets doing it's job just fine.
We still do not have quality of life multi-purchase, so some things you need an auto-clicker for to save yourself from early arthritis.
The Tut(Oriel) is fine for basics but leaves a LOT out and i feel it's pretty unnecessary, the game badly needs an internal glossary.
Magic outclasses strength too hard, it's broken and the skills need to be re-examined to bring balance if that's intended which i think it is. That being said if the intention is for skills at the upper echelons to completely break down, then it's working to intention, in D&D terms the game goes off the rails past level 12 by design, it's fun to find exploits.
Fishing is a waste of time and stamina, it needs better rewards or to be dropped.
The personality system should be expanded in it's influence and variety so that games don't feel as samey with the literal hundreds of other characters that are not the main 4, there really should be more variety for them but asking Syv to expand the game to 95 unique storylines and growing is frankly absurd, a quick and dirty solution would suit it better, not that i wouldn't love it of course, but it would be absurd, the art alone would be mind boggling.
Also no worries Anon, i haven't forgotten, i'm just swamped with work around the farm, i've given myself heat exhaustion a bunch this and last week because the balcony going around my house had rot and both termites and carpenter ants fighting for territory inside it, and while the termites have not invaded the walls the carpenter ants have not at all been so kind.
So my brothers, my uncle, and I have been tearing the structure down and hauling wood out.
We still need to dig out the area for expansion(putting in a root cellar) and remove the infestation, it can't be that bad as there's exposed wood on the inside facing the infestation areas that do not have activity, but the outside has to come off and we need to inspect for damage before the fall comes in and we have rain again until next summer, so it's a lot of work that needs doing and needs doing yesterday.
That's like job one of a 14 job list that been dropped in my lap suddenly, and while i have most of the recording, i still need to storyboard for clarity, record voice lines, edit, and then do it all again for the breeding video all in what little free time i have at the moment.
All that to say i have not forgotten, i am merely much much busier than i thought i would be when i gave you my earlier timeline lol.
