Thanks for the feedback!
We are looking into possible solutions to make the user experience better & better whilst also keeping mobile cross-compatibility.
The zoom function unlocks after buying the an item for the first time, this was to prevent people getting overwhelmed at the start, there are 2 towns within a 1 second pan window of the lighthouse to buy from. A suggestion we will be adding to update #1 post jam is scroll-wheel click & WASD to look and pan the camera, and scroll to zoom. this should make PC exp better, also want a way to select boats without needing to click them.
> My ships would occasionally merge with one of the town
This is a bug we really want to fix in patch #1 yea,. we added extra padding to the boat's hit-box so you can at least click the sea in the corners next to the boat to regain control, but thats not a true fix.
I'm really happy where the team & I managed to get in the very short time span :D