Admittedly, the 4 stars are tinted by my own personal preference. These kinds of games really resonate with me, and we got so very few of them that I feel compelled to nurse them as much as I can.
The game got some rough spots, as mentioned, the U.I. is one of them (terrible U.I. was one thing not to bring from Lab Rats 2 ), it's very grindy with default values and unbalanced. But it's an amazing framework to keep growing and turning into an great and complete experience for many kinds of players. Management, dating, romance, harem...
I can't imagine the difficulties of developing on the fly something for the masses. Everyone got their opinion on what the game should have, what kind of game it should be, and you end up being pulled on too many directions and spread too thin. If you focus your work on U.I. people will complain that new update has no new content or features. If you make new features, new people finding the game may drop it due to the U.I. If you aggressively include new features, very likely they are unbalanced.
I think the current state of the game is exactly that, but I don't think it's a bad state at all. The game is on a good spot to exponentially grown in content and quality, and the stars reflect that potential. Even more so with the inclusions of mods.
I hope I'm not wrong on that,but either way, I'm here for the ride.
The game got some rough spots, as mentioned, the U.I. is one of them (terrible U.I. was one thing not to bring from Lab Rats 2 ), it's very grindy with default values and unbalanced. But it's an amazing framework to keep growing and turning into an great and complete experience for many kinds of players. Management, dating, romance, harem...
I can't imagine the difficulties of developing on the fly something for the masses. Everyone got their opinion on what the game should have, what kind of game it should be, and you end up being pulled on too many directions and spread too thin. If you focus your work on U.I. people will complain that new update has no new content or features. If you make new features, new people finding the game may drop it due to the U.I. If you aggressively include new features, very likely they are unbalanced.
I think the current state of the game is exactly that, but I don't think it's a bad state at all. The game is on a good spot to exponentially grown in content and quality, and the stars reflect that potential. Even more so with the inclusions of mods.
I hope I'm not wrong on that,but either way, I'm here for the ride.