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keybounce-trs8033 days ago (1 edit) (-2)

The relationship between "active units", "seconds", and "inventory units" needs to be clarified. It is not clear.

The UI: It isn't clear how to say "fill up all the water I can".

Equally, the whole "You ran out of critical supply A" bit -- I have to get food, water, and air, and some of them are resupplyable once I get power going -- but, I have to get enough to work before I can even get power on -- and if I don't have enough, I can't stop the power fix to get more water/food in the middle. So how much do I need to stockpile before I fix power? Why can't I do some power work, eat/drink, do more?

I ran out of water while trying to hack the admin door. Because for some reason, I was too stupid to stop and get more water.

Shadowsand33 days ago(+1)

You can stop to get more food/water. Your character won't do it automatically, but you can cancel an action any time you want, or you can click the 'start action immediately' button when you're half way through something else. In either case, progress on the action will be saved, and you can resume it where you left of later.

That being said, I do agree that the UI needs work, and clearly it may be benficial to add a tutorial which explains things like this.

PJOZeus33 days ago

Especially with the idea of improving and learning on the next run, I actually think babying people throughout the intro would be a downgrade and something which takes away from the experience to a quite notable degree

Resuming progress shows itself if you try, X and queue is pretty evident too
It's just a case of not wanting to look at it and learn, shouldn't take it to heart much

Shadowsand33 days ago

I do tend to agree. For now, I'll aim to improve the UI, but will leave an explicit tutorial for if/when a larger number of people have issues learning the game.

keybounce-trs8030 days ago

Sorry. There is no obvious queue, no obvious stop action, etc.

Consider what a new player sees. They press a button, wait a few seconds, and get the result. They keep doing this -- press a button, see what happens.

Your description of a queue, and improving on the next run -- that sounds like either Idle Loops, or Cavernous -- and both of those make it absolutely clear from time zero that there is a queue and a need to restart/redo over and over.

Nothing like that is apparent when playing this.

Shadowsand29 days ago

Given that the queue literally has a title oh "Queue", I'm going to assume it's off screen for you for some reason. Are you playing on a phone, or a PC with low resolution? Either way, I suspect it'll be resolved in v0.2, as it scales to resolution way better than the current version.

keybounce-trs8026 days ago

It might be off screen. 720p monitor, and consider system bar, title bar, address bar, tab bar, vertical height is potentially not there.

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