Is the Map in the Museum/Library ment to be the GameMap in the End? It says Planned Content there. To be clear, this is supposed to be a comfy farming Sim, right? Because that Map is giant. It'll be pretty Time consuming and difficult to fill all of that out with interesting and unique Content. Especially not with 17 NPCs as it is right now. you have ~100 Cells planed there, even if ignoring the empty Ocean ones, that gived you multiple Cells of the Current World size for every single NPC. Even with huge Combat fields or Travels for rare Ressources or whatever, which doesn't really fit the build up your Farm style of most farming Sims, it'd be a Ton of Space to fill out.
I can't swear on it, but I'm pretty sure I've seen random NPCs in random Houses using random Stuff a lot of the Time. Do they not have fixed Schedules or anything like that? Do they just sleep, eat, cook, whatever in whatever House/Crafting Station is just free at the Moment? Found the Squirrelgirl just standing in the middle of an empty Room somewhere nibbling on her Cookie.
You have Butterflies flying around inside of Buildings commonly, thanks to no Doors or anything. They also fly through Walls.
Found 16/17 Citizens. You have no List of Citizines to check which you found or not, they have no alternate Dialogue, so that doesn't help, and while you have Cafes, Libaries, a big Dining hall and so on, you have no useful Schedules where you can just wait in some Place like this in the Hopes of them appearing one Day. Also as I've said, it might be broken due to the one NPC above not incrementing the Counter. So I'm going to skip to the next Step and assume I found them all. Sorry.
At least doing no work at all and only running around only took out half of my Saturation, so only 1-1.5kg of Food required per Day to not Starve. As long as I don't work ofcourse. I'll eat up, then work a full Day tomorrow to see how that goes.
You can walk up Stairs on the outside of the Railing.
7.30 in the morning, full Stamina, full Satiation, Time to work. I lack enough Materials for the Housebuilding for the Tutorial, just because I build 3 Walls more or something. You really shouldn't keep the Ressources for it so tight. And building is still a huge Pain to do. Why do I even have to build a House in the first Place? The Town is empty, everyone is living where they want, there's Tons of unoccupied Areas, why can't I just move in there somewhere?
Manual cooking wasn't described in the Tutorial, so I had to play around to learn it again. Got 42 Levels of Frying from it, and made a 0 Star Fried Blueberry. Even tho most of it was Meet and Turnip Leaves. Has 41 Savory, 5 Salty, 34 Sweet, 23 Bitter, 30 Sour, 9 Spicy, 5 Minty, 15 Alpha, 49 Beta, 17 Gamma, 69 Delta, 61 Epsilon, 44 Zeta, 62 Omega, 80 Flavor, 0 Fragrance, 20 Pungency, 83 Water and 8 Fat. Also Tags at Blueberry in gold, Fried, Cooiked, Plant, Fruit and Berry normally.Made 4.74Kg of it. Again, do you care about all of these? Do I? No. Just tell me my fried Blueberries are bad and I'm a terrible Cook. I also don't fully understand how the cooking works, but the Idea that depending on when you do Things, you can add various Bonus Effects when you cook manually is really neat. Which it wasn't waiting until it pops up then clicking on it, and not so confusing Effects like swapping Zeta and Delta which I don't care about tho, but instead something interesting, and something where I'd have to do something instead of just wait. It's also a 49/100 which is not Bad. Whats your scoring System on this? Anything below 45% is usually a failing Grade, so barely above that wouldn't be not bad, but terrible.
Putting the cutting Gras tutorial on hold for a bit, to buy some Wood to complete a tiny 3x3 Hut. Seeing as I want to use Softwood for it all, and can only farm Hardwood at the Moment.
Buying 2Kg. I can't buy 2g of Soft wood Planks, minimum seems to be 20g. Weird, I wanted to specifically buy 2g. Spent all my Money only to barely make it. It's a 3x3 Hut from the Tutorial, why do I need to spent all the Money I have on Softwood Planks. But at least I found the Fairy Queen by accident, so I technically have all Npcs now after all. And Mint apparently turned me Teal for a while aswell, don't know why or how it happened. Sorry.
What Point is there in the Watering Can if I immediately can build Sprinklers, have to build a Ton of them ( but at least I have a Ton of Ressources for Sprinklers for some Reason). This really feels more and more like a Capitalism Farming Simulator instead of a comfy FarmingSim from how it plays. But from how the World and everything is set up, it feels like its trying to be a comfy Farming Sim, not a Capitalism Farming Simulator.
21.00 and I'm out of Stamina. That works, altho I did spent a few Hours standing around to type on this. Used up next to no Satiation tho, while I was running out of quite a bit when just talking to NPCs. And sleeping still consumes immense Amounts. Also by this Point, I have over 5KG of Food inside of me. I still think something with your Values is really off there.
Sycthing Daisies is beautiful, overall you make nice use of the Wind, shame the Map can't reflect that very well apart form the Gras/Daisies. and some Pooffles and Windlines.
Seems my Stamina regenerations slowly over Time while I'm satiated? Is that how its supposed to work?
Why does it say I have 0g, when I have something like 0.00285g or something? Its leftover from when I bought my 2327g of wooden Planks, why is this cut of but Planks get measured in g?
Also, why is Advanced Agriculture part of the Tutorial? Why not let the Player figure out some Things on themselves, or put it in Books in the Library or something? And why do I need exactly 8 Traits? With me getting random Seeds, that'll take a giant Amount of Time potentially, of just me sything away at Stuff, hoping to get lucky.
Again, need to sleep 14-16 Hours to get my Stamina fully back. I'm nearly fully satiated, or at least was, maxed on all Nutrients, why am I still forced to sleep 2/3 of the Day?
2 Hours, maybe 3 into Sything and I'm out of Stamina. I'm 50% Satiated, and I still can work only for 2-3 Hours a Day? I get that I probably need a break after a while, but Stamina regenerates really slowly. So I'm just supposed to sit around and wait for a few Hours doing nothing? Or am I supposed to sleep for a few Hours in the Afternoon/Midday, which just plummets my Satiation again?
Went to sleep, measured it in the Evening. I can pretty much Scythe/Work for 1h then I have to sleep for 8h to regain my Stamina fully. Which depletes ~20-30% of my Satiation. All of this starting at full Satiation and maxed Nutrients and everything. Are there Stamina Potions I'm supposed to chuck constantly or do you really expect me to sleep for 8/9th of the Playtime?
At this Point, my daily Routine consists of 1-2 Hours of Scything, 8-12 Hours of Sleep, since I seem to be getting less and less Stamina restore (but I'm also running low on Alpha at the Moment, seeing as I'm running out of Food, and have no Money to buy new one), planting what I gathered in the Hopes of getting a 8 trait Seed, scything my remaining Stamina away, or gathering Food to cook into abhorently bad Meals, then sleeping 8-12 Hours again and repeating.
Don't have Materials for even more Sprinklers, and don't have the Energy to Water them myself, so I can't plant more then I have. That measn I'll now be selling Seeds and whatnot in the Hopes of being able to afford something to raise my Alpha Levels, or maybe some Nails for more Sprinklers. Can't test it today tho, as Mondays all Shops seem to have closed. But even if I did, I'd have to starve myself for multiple Days to get Satiation low enough to be able to eat enough to get the Alpha back up. I don't even want to imagine how much more Fun I could have, how much more Scything I could do, hunting Poofles, looking at your Wind do its Stuff, etc. if I would just have to worry only about satiation, instead of 10 different Bars or something. Or just consume Food to regain Stamina. Or even just have sensible Values, so I can eat once big or twice normal sized per Day, and have enough Stamina to then properly work 8 Hours, and spent 8 Hours chatting with NPCs, buying Stuff, walking, exploring, doing some light gathering or something. Instead of working for 2-4 Hours, then sleeping for 20-22. Not like the NPCs have much to say or interact with at the Moment anyway. They can give you random Quests without any background or anything, which I yet have to complete a single one of them, since hunting down the few NPCs in that big empty world is already a Chore, and then they have super specific Requests. Or they can spit out one of at most 2 or 3 generic Dialogue Lines.
I'm now also low on Gamma, so I'm forced to sleep 24h+ at a Time in order to fill one Stamina Bar for ~2h of Work at most.
Decided to spent the few Minutes I have per Day trying to fish up something, maybe Fish can give me that precious Alpha. Do you really not increase the speed, eradic-ness(?) or anything with complex Fish, but just have a last stand popup which essentiall just forced me to catch them multiple Times?
At least I could sell all the Stone and Clay and Stuff to get enough Money for some Sprinkler Parts and a bit of Food for one or two Days. I better not be forced to use those later on in the Tutorial.
Foraged some Eggs to fry up, 98 Alpha 98 Gamma, that should help. Is there any place in the World where it is explained what Nutrient you get from what? Am I just supposed to know this from real World or something? Accidentally pressed Escape, which closes out the cooking Window even if you haven't clicked on finished cooking. Does not give you the result, but luckily I could go back into the Station to get the Result again. Sadly the 330g of Fried Egg despite having 98 Alpha and Gamma barely restored any of those. Guess I should've spent a Week or so getting lucky and gathering up 1-2kg of Egg to fry up. If I don't eat 2Kg of Eggs per Week, my Diet isn't complete after all.
Also Daisies have no Plant Model, I don't know if I mentioned that at any Point before.
Since I have nothing to do but wait anyway, I'm going to gather up as much variety of Fish/Meat/Eggs/Plants as I can, and see how much it takes to fill up all Nutrients and how much that lasts me. To get a feeling for how many g of Meat/Fish/Egg/Diary/Veggies/Fruit/Berries/Whatever I need per Week/Day for a healthy Diet. Since all my Money if I ever have any goes into Sprinklers to increase the chance for 8 Traits on a Plant to finally finish this Tutorial Step, I can't buy SoupStock or anything, so all I'm making is stirfries.
That there is no Shortkey for Character, or I didn't find it, really bugs me aswell. Not going to look into your Options tho, I'm too lazy for that. Slept for 4-5 Days, so its Tuesday morning, Shops have open and every single Nutrient is at 0.0. I'm also blue again.
Didn't know I'm forced to have min/max Percentages for things, your Interface is just too overloaded with Information. Startting with some Seared Wasabi Turnip Pork. Turned out terrible Quality, not cointing the Nutrients and Stuff for all the Foods, too lazy. Next making some Beef, Turnip, Carrot, Beet, Onion, Cowrib Wasabi Fryup. Again a terrible Result. Now its Beet, Carrot, Turnip Greens and Wasabi fried up. Terrible Result, as usual. Some varying Wedgies and Wasabi, too lazy to type it out.
Cooking Sugarcane was a huge Mistake, it really doesn't work. I now have ~30kg of Food however, that should be enough for a Week. If it Spoils, I have 20kg of Assorted Fruits again, and can hunt for a bit more during it hopefully. Let's see how the Nutrients go.
Started at 0 everything, eating all of my 702g of Seared Pork Beef fills up basically nothing, but Beta, which is now at half. Another 1kg of the Fried Cow Beef, to almost fill Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Zeta. And 1.2kg of Fried Blueberries to max out all but Gamma, which is almost full. I'll call this functional. So far I've eaten ~3kg of Food, with around 2/3 of it being Meat, the rest assorted Veggies and Blueberries, to fill out Satiation fully once, and max out all Nutrients.
Including Stamina regen, this allowed me to hunt for roughly 5-6 Hours at best. Without Stamina regen it would've been ~2h. My Alpha and Gamma Values are also down 1/4, while the Rest is unaffected. 8 Hours of sleep and I'm a quarter starved again, Alpha and Gamma are half empty, rest is quarter Empty. But Stamina is full. I'm also only able to work 2h again before fully empty on Stamina, so Time to sleep again. 16 Hours to fill my Stamina back up. All Nutrients are now at ~20, but I got a 8 Trait Seed, nice. 2 More hours of gathering Wood since I missclicked and I'm dead again. Time to sleep for 36 Hours, then my Satiaion should be empty and I can fill back up for the Results.
Frying up 2kg of Beef, 2kg of Potatoes and 1kg of Onions. And 1.3kg of Ribs, 2kg of Potatoes and 1kg of Onions. Ate all 2kg of the Beef, and 1kg of the Ribs to be full on Nutrients and Saturation again.
Doing the Math, I spent ~8-10h working and 60h Sleeping, for a total of say 72h, or 3 Days. During these 3 Days, I ate 3kg of Meat, 1kg of Veggies and 2kg of Potatoes. Thats 1kg of Meat, and 300g of Veggies and 600g of Potatoes per Day where I sleep 20h and work 4h, just to stay on a healthy Diet. You don't see any Issue with that Foodplan?
Either Way, its Saturday, so time to sleep through 3 Days so the Shops open and I can hopefully find enough Stuff to sell in order to buy 100g of Stasis Elixir for the Tutorial. At least Food apparently is worth a lot, so I'm swimming in 5k g. Or is it 5000g of Gold? MIght have also accidentally sold my 8 Trait seed. Not like theres any sorting or anything, so its impossible for me to know which one it is, and my Inventory is filled with hundreds of CarrotSeeds. And I just noticed the Nutrients on the Ground, are these more Stats to keep in mind all the Time?
Harvesting sometimes replants seemingly randomly? There seem to be some Bugs with stuff like that, also some Soiltiles are different Colors. If you don't have perfect 20g of Seeds or something, which you don't get from harvesting, you end up with Tons of 0g/4g/etc. Stacks of Seeds which you can do anything with, but which clutter your Inventory. And since theres no Indicator what Seed has the 8 Traits, I have to plant hundreds of Seeds and sift through an Inventory full of hundreds of 0 Stack Seed Items all with the same Icon to find what I'm looking for. Theres also some issue with Seed selection through quickslots it seems, sometimes I apparently am just not able to select some of them.
Planting all of it will take a while, but it seems the Advanced Agriculture Part 2 Tutorial Step doesn't update itself anyway. I bought 500g of Stasis Elixir, but it didn't clear that. Also, why do Sprinklers have collision? It makes it incredibly annoying to walk over the Field.
If you run out of Stamina while planting, your plant Animation just continues endless and consumes your Seeds without anything happening, until you get the Small crops require 4 stacks etc. text to stop it all. So you waste the entire Stack of Seeds. Not that it matters, I still have thousands of Seeds to plant. Not going to bother with harvesting or Watering aswell, I've run out of Funds and Sprinklers a long Time ago, I'm just trying to get through the Seeds for the Tutorial to continue. If I'm through all Carrots and it doesn't, I'm assuming its bugged or I accidentally sold the Seed and will skip this Step.
Your selection Cursor likes to skip over Tiles, its very fiddly with its tileborders. Also the deselect issue seems to happen exclusively when trying to swap from the same type of Seed to the same Type.
The more I till, the more everything breaks, with new Emojiis for Plant State popping up everywhere. I'm assuming your Systems aren't designed to have Fields that large. But why have a World that large then? With around 100x more size planned?
I'm also keeping my Satiation and all my Nutrients as high as posisble, but I still end up with a 2h work 12h sleep Schedule.
Sometime during the planting, it switched from not having the Plant, to applying the Stasis elixir to it. But I obviously don't know which Plant, I've lost any Sense for Stuff like that. I also still get lost in the City. Had to go through almost all Plants to find it again, applied the Elixir, harvested it, didn't get a perfect Seed, so couldn'T continu the Tutorial Part.
At least the Tutorial is over after I had to skip the second advanced Part. Most of my Plants have died due to not Watering or just running out of Time at this Point. Its Mon2, I'm assuming second or third Month, I lost count, I'm out of everything but empty stacks of CarrotSeeds, and the whole Town is filled with tilled Land, I'm tired and burnt out from playing this. I would write a proper closing Something at the End, but I just can't. You have enough Systems, you don't need to add more for now, make the NPCs actually interesting, give them Dialogue, some Choices to make. Proper Quests, not randomly generated fetching Stuff. Fill out your World, make it interesting and fun to walk through it. Work on your UI, and please fix your Nutrient Mess, I don't want to sleep 20h a Day just to eat 3kg of Steak anymore.
Do you know what kind of Game you want to make? A comfy Farming Sim like Harvest Moon or something? A capitalism Simulator like Landwirtschaftssimulator? Do you just want to torture Players with your Tutorial? a Dating Sim? Sorry, I'm too tired from sitting through this.
Also, did you ever play through your Tutorial yourself? Assuming 100 is max Stats, I spent at least 1 ingame Month on this, have a tiny 3x3 Hut, filled the whole Town with Farming Land, have a ruined Inventory, thousands of CarrotPlants died, and I've lost most interest to do anything at this Point. Sorry, I don't want to sound rude, but you only need maybe 2 Steps of the Tutorial or maybe 3, the rest can just be ignored. And most of your Stats for Food, Soilquality etc. can be combined and/or hidden in submenues as to not overload the Player with Data nobody cares about. And fix your Nutrients and fill out your World, make it interesting. Give the NPCs actual Things to say and Stuff to do for/with them. Sorry again, I'll stop now.
Played until 13.33, so 6 hours for the Tutorial.
