- Apr 12, 2018
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This VERY MUCH sounds like a basic Nutaku mobile phone game design, keep prolonging people playing the game by reduceing playability and calling it "game mechanics".Things like how long it takes to produce something, or how fast reputation goes lower, can be changed to improve the balance and gameplay. I got very little feedback for the test version, that's why I asked for more feedback in the update post, to tweak details like that.
Part of the idea is that you don't wait for a productions, but that you go around and do different things while it's being produced. And for the very long productions, you can leave the map and return later, since you have an item to enter the overview map from anywhere, and the timers continue while you're not on the map.
The idea behind the storage limit is that you don't waste time to needlessly produce everything, but that you base your decisions on what is required for constructions or requests at the moment. Especially if you don't like the system, it shouldn't be the goal to spend time with the production of resources you don't even need right now.
You can throw away resources in the storage screen, but if you produced past the storage limit without even needing the resource, then why produce it anyway? It's not the goal to fill the storage with a huge pile of stuff, but that you plan and think about what you need. That would also save you a lot of wasted time. At least it's my intention for the system to be used in such a way. Maybe it'll turn out that the players don't play like that.
Have you done the research in the lab to unlock the arena construction? I forgot to mention this requirement in the text message of the arena.
I get the ground idea but your implementation is a complete overkill/failure from my perspective.
Atleast make the game deilver the produces automatically to the storage (new productions need to be started manually) and reduce the counter for the resource decrease while NOT being in the overview map.
If I have to go to the overview map every 5 minutes in order to start a number of productions only to maintain a certain Level of Stats it starts to become a chore instead of fun.