Feature request thread

I'll take the liberty of dissecting this and splitting off the "new" requests and the "overlapping" requests.
Mind you, I'm working off of what I've seen, I might not have seen some of them pop up on the PC community side.
Anyone know if this FB group is iOS oriented, PC oriented or shared?

Requests made by the PC community that are shared from the FB-list:

• · Reallocation of shrines and other important items (especially the ones purchased with gems)
  The request to move or even manually place such structures has been around for a long time.
  
• · Give miners the ability to dig out temples/chests on command
  Heh, sounds familiar, how often did I pose this request now?
  
• · Power upgrades based on experience rather than stickers
  No love lost for stickers on facebook either it seems...
  
• · Multiplayer wars
  · If multiplayer wars are implemented in the future, they should be optional
  Interesting, so even though people want their multiplayer (hub #2 from hubworld last we've heard), they don't want it to be required - same as for PC players.
• · Any level of camera rotation
• · Add option to turn off missions
  · Add option to turn off in game notifications
  · Change the location of the voyage 'pop up' (it covers the 'close this screen' X button when you open an info screen).
  Option to control notifications, to turn off cards that you don't want, option to choose how to play rather than being told, same old requests here aswell it seems.
• · Shape templates that apply changes in the land when pressing long enough at the same spot
  · Add stair templates that followers can build up
  Seen this one pop up recently on the steam boards.
• · Visiting other player/friend’s homeworld
  In line with the old Jupiter promise, something that many players want, as they want to see what their friends are up to.
• · Being able to play offline
  You can play offline on PC? Its just the first time log-in that requires online connection... Though the request keeps coming back.
• · Include multiplayer cooperative mode
  · Add the option to trade with other players
  · Docks/ports with commercial ships for trading purposes
  Yea, where IS hubworld?
• · Add some bonus for not sculpting too much land
  Provide valid alternatives and choices with consequences to gameplay decisions...
• · Being able to zoom out further
  · Being able to see/share/export the whole map
  
• · Option to choose followers who would prefer to live in urban/forest areas
• · Being able to create new water springs
• · Farms with fenced areas with livestock
• · Fishing, animal farming, hunting wild animals on voyages
  Resources from voyages in general seem to be requested quite often, though people would also want to see these resources in homeworld.
• · Being able to add roads
  ROADS! Yes... No awkward pathfinding!
• · Research labs to progress through different ages
  Follower research instead of random stickers? Who knew that people liked that idea...
• · Weather control
  · Earthquake power
  · More god powers
  More god powers...
  
• · Easier to handle water mechanics (rivers)
• · More decoration items
  · Multiple kinds of trees and flowers for decoration
  · When you place trees in the beach, they could be palm trees instead of the pine looking ones.
  More cosmetic choice and variation.
• · Ability to dig up land, without need to go by the start of a layer
  (Re)introduce dig and raise land powers
• · Churches of some kind for prayer. Could add to overall happiness or give rewards in exchange of devoted followers
  Churches have been officially rejected by Peter in an interview, he fears that it might cause conflict with religious players.
• · New buried temples
  · More interactions with hidden temples
• · Give some use to Astariville after all Astari are converted
  · New tribes like the Astari, or enemies
  Expand on the Astari, make them usefull. Then expand on the AI tribe concept and add more tribes.
• · Add commandments
  
• · New ages to progress
• · Boost followers with belief instead of wheat
  Make the wheat belief booster an optional bonus, you can already boost without wheat when you don't have wheat to regen their endurance.
• · Reduce the cost increase rate for placing trees
  Bring back the old tree power, the new "holy forest" are some damned expensive bonsai's...
• · Random disasters
• · Volcanos. Near buildings have higher belief but it comes with the risk of losing them
• · In game chatroom (friends only)
• · Give followers their own festival, like the Astari people
• · Include an “Undo button”, for the times we accidentally sculpt
• · Make cards need less stickers
• · Improve game stability
  · Better AI
• · Preview for the shrines area of effect
• · Recover save option also for guest users
  Ah, there's the save management request...
• · More beacons of expansion
  
• · Remove thunderstorms
  

Requests unique to the FB-list:

• · New design for mines or turn them into buildings instead
  Not seen it posed like this in regard to mines specifically, though I have seen the request for more cosmetic variation.
  
• · Saving the game in the cloud
  Not much love lost for the cloud on PC, I believe most PC players instead would rather have seperate saves locally whereas it is 22cans intent to go with cloud later on.
  
• · Time delay on builders when evicted, so it’s easier to redirect them to a new desired location
  Not necessarily seen it in this form before, though I did see the request to get some control over evicted followers so they don't just rebuild right away.
• · Add restrictions to be able to build beacons (number of specific buildings, height)
  Wait what, they want it to be even more restrictive???
• · Big settlements unlock new abilities for followers living in them (climbing two layers at once, swimming, increased stamina, farming settlements could grow trees and flowergardens)
  Not seen it in this shape before, though people would like such abilities.
• · Sacrificial pit
  No point requesting what we already have right?
• · Being able to build up big amounts of land (as opposite to the meteor effect)
  Haven't seen this on steam before, Have I just missed it or what?
• · Card that unlocks the ability to sculpt 10 layers at a time
• · One 5-10 dollar purchase to make the cards need 50% less stickers
  Really?
• · Add some way to unleash blocked followers
  Just leash them again...
• · New god power in voyages, like stop or rewind time for 100 b/s or something.
  Interesting, not seen this one before...
• · Add some kind of minigames
  Really?! They'd rather have minigames than actual content?
  

I have a feeling that a number of the ones I dropped in the FB exclusive list aren't actually FB-exclusive but have been spotted on the Steam Boards.
Though just not by me.

Hah, yes, though I didn't hear about it until Monday. Could be another one of those cases of inevitable invention. Interestingly, it has meant that we've got a lot of changes to the save system, again, in a rather short period of time. So once this feature is done, we're probably going to have to do a longer opt-in period to make sure we're not borking people's saves all over the place.

To late my save already borked today.

On long term pricing idea. Pixel Peopl has a mine for free you can get 2 of their in game paid currency for a day. If you pay 2.99 or 4.99 you can get 10 a day. I brought that and still from time to time buy more of them because I like the fact that they give me free currancy and I will buy some to speed something up and to support them. But I do like your Idea of a one time fee.

Hm. That's interesting. Can you elaborate very much on how it's to function, or will we have to wait till the official official word?
By insane you must mean relatively reasonable by any average person's account, but mad to any accountants. =P As to the 10 layer sculpting, have you guys caught my highlight each layer then drag suggestion, to prevent slipping up on using the full extent of the upgrade(s)? Also...You have to be considering rebalancing it given that, because I don't think encouraging using meteors is intended in the design.

If there's one thing to say about Godus game play, it's anything but subtle.

Larger mines and wheat fields should count more toward the total number of active mines/fields. As it stands now, in order to progress along the card timeline you're better off building a bunch off m/f that are the smallest size possible, which is counter productive to reaping the larger harvests needed to build anything.

Well, it's not much like I was thinking. I was thinking of it as more of a hub, rather than a stepping stone. I've not actually had enough time to go and explore it myself yet, but using debug tools, I personally think the colours are a bit garish.

If wey world was a little less gamey, and a little more like a gateway, and maybe with two small worlds off of it (containing what we appear to have put in the wey world), then maybe it'd be closer to what I was thinking. That or if you couldn't go back, and it was all about the inexorable progress of life and burnt bridges. Either would be fine, but I don't like the fake feeling limit of resource transfer that we have apparently put in. Maybe it's different to play than it is to hear about.

What's your opinion, and where would you take this new stuff now we've got the tech for multiple concurrent worlds?

Glad to see someone in 22cans also finds the inability to transfer resources feels off. I'm not sure how you would split weyworld into three worlds, myself, (weyworld as similar to homeworld but gateway to hubworld, sideworld introducing you to the lands and another sideworld training you with comets?) but I do think to a degree that or cutting off access to Homeworld might be better (not my first choice, personally, though).

I think what I would aim at is:
-Belief should permeate worlds, no doubt about it in my mind. It may seem imbalanced, but when you consider how costly certain abilities are, it would constantly deplete anyway.
-Enabling salvage (for both beacons and the ark, unless the ark is intended to be repaired at some point) for awhile (e.g. set length of time or however long it takes to extract all resources), this way you have a steady flow of resources without having it feel like a full reset.
-Beacons as they're repaired consume resources and so on, but as they fall away after completion, a certain amount of those resources is recovered, this way it doesn't feel like a total loss of those resources and nothing but more "work" to do in return.
-As salvage offsets the reset feeling but begins to wind down a little, have it so the player reactivates the Lighthouse to guide trade vessels to enable an exchange of resources, not repaired (do NOT make it so it must be reactivated to switch between worlds).
-An info panel might be created for the Lighthouse and you can use this to adjust the figures for resource transfer in some way.
-Enabling retroactive presence of unlocks (e.g. powers/more advanced structures), this way the worlds feel more like a cohesive whole rather than gamey separate realities (one stuck in the past, the other in the future).

These are some of the main thoughts that spring immediately to mind, but I've some others I'll work out later.

Edit:
-Transfer of people would be great too, which wouldn't totally solve the overpopulation problem (as Danjal and I have proposed, there are numerous "easy" ways to do this), it would still reduce it slightly. Could be adjusted similar to other resource transfers at the lighthouse.
-Worlds dedicated to back and forth combat could be a thing now, similar in some respects to my voyage suggestion earlier, except perhaps even more active than I proposed (maybe no total conquest of these worlds or something? basically turn them into a follower meatgrinder for quick access to resources through looted enemy villages).

@Raspofabs - If you can get the design team to agree on these kinds of changes, then I think the game could very much improve indeed.
It would help in making settlements (and the followup expansions thereof) more realistic.

Though I would still warn you for clogging up the interface if you keep each settlement 'seperate' in design, since having dozens of different settlement types to scroll through won't make the game play any better. (I'm sure you can think of adequate ways of dealing with the, be it through 'clever' resource production settlements or through other means that reduce the clutter.) Wouldn't want the settlement interface to be the timeline all over with a scrollbar that takes 30 seconds to get through.


I agree that the current implementation of the high resource area's is the wrong kind of focus.
Its something that I suggested an alternative for in my "Farming" thread by offering a more versatile implementation of a similar mechanic.
Though ofcourse there are also alternate ways of dealing with it, this is merely one way I forsaw that dealt with taking the good bits and avoiding the bad bits of the current high resource 'efficiency jigsaw puzzles'.


So I do hope that Peter and the design team are willing to look into some of these options, be it as you posed them, as I've posed them or as others have suggested. The fact that so many people remark on it seems to indicate that there's room for improvement. =)


Overall I believe that Godus has been taking the 'stick' approach a bit too often, trying to force players to play in a singular effective way by making it the only valid way and punishing all others.
As opposed to using the 'carrot' approach and making specific ways more attractive through improved results.

The followers are a key element in improving this. Use their 'free will' and their 'desires' as a motivational tool for the player.
(Followers of a certain type want certain environments or like certain things - while they dislike others.) Shouldn't be too hard to simulate basic concepts like that.