Who's playing the Weyworld update?

My biggest concern about weyworld is that it will be even more controlled than homeworld.

That's kind of sad isn't it. I wish peter has created incentives for us to build interesting and diverse worlds, instead he made it painful/difficult for us to modify the worlds he creates. Are the new sculpting cards better or are they not implemented yet?

Nope.

I played the last update (the one before the weyward) a lot just to give the game another chance but almost nothing has changed. Now I've abandoned Godus completely, that's also the reason I don't post here very much and I think this game can't be repaired. It's fully made of dysfuntional gameplay, long waiting timers and very bad design decisions. I stated some of the weyward design mistakes as soon as the newsletter came in (in the steam forums) and wonderes how people that work in the industry can produce such all through unelaborated piece of software. Actually the quality of the newsletter itself shows how much respect is there for the pc gamers. It's full of spelling errors and "It all will be great, you'll see". If one of my students would send me such an e-mail I would ask them politely to at least use automatic spelling checking software ... but this comes from a company.

tl;dr

Played before weyward and got disappointed AGAIN -> abandoned godus

Long time! Good to see you again. Don't be a stranger now.

Was that an unlock? Or did it happen because of a patch (glitch/accident in coding)?

And from a practical perspective. Do you think that the game would be "more fun" if the resource pacing were like that?
Or do you think that the rapid collection would become just as tedious as the waiting?

(Thinking ahead for when we get the BFE update)

Yea, I was thinking along those lines before.

Getting scarce farmland in a desertworld makes sense from a challenge perspective. But it has to be implemented from a challenge perspective and not from an iOS roadblock or "You guys play too fast." perspective.
So it'd need to be integrated into a larger biome system that brings in unique terrain modifiers.

Now the way I was thinking would be that desert could be 'cultivated' in a variety of ways.
You could use rain of purity or beautify as a temporary 'terraforming' tool, to generate arable land.
But this would decay quickly as the natural terrain reclaims it. Beautify and swamp powers (and all that are similar) would need to all work like this.
It would convey a natural balance.

Subsequently there would be "permanent" terrain modifiers that you could place as a god (or have your followers create) that would generate a sustained modifiers.
The springs would be the initial example for this, springs would irrigate soil and generate fertile lands around them.
Because these fertile lands are exceptionally suitable, there'd be a small increase in productivity to offset the decreased productivity (or outright negated productivity) on the rest of the map.

Key thing here is to keep in mind that just because its a desert terrain, that doesn't mean that ALL the land is useless... There will be patches of land that provide small degrees of arable terrain, that work at reduced efficiency.


Now the key to your suggestion of "occasional events" for starters would be the floodplains. Unique pieces of terrain that occasionally/regularly get hit by a modifying element. In case of the floodplains we would see a massively increased rate of effect after each flood. Followed by a reduction as the terrain loses its boost, followed by a new flood temporarily making the terrain disabled (but not actually "destroying" fields designated on it).


They would then have three designated methods to alter the terrain.
A temporary effect directly controlled by the god, but one that costs belief to keep active and will decay if not tended to.
An indirect effect that the god can manipulate (or perhaps even place a limited number of times per map), one that would be more expensive to set up initially but then takes no more upkeep after that.
And finally natural features that can be taken advantage of in a variety of ways.


All if this would come together to make the game more enjoyable and bring in tactical elements. As opposed to the route that currently seems to be taken - which is to slow the player down because the player isn't playing at the snails-pace that the developer envisions.

Playing on an iPad, these are my same thoughts.  You get there and are forced into tiny areas for wheat/ore, and quickly run out of both if you want to expand and build.  Looking around, there is no point again anyways - just unlock a beacon that, of course, costs even more resources, and repeat the process.  To top off the frustration, the fields are closest to Astari village so upon logging back in after waiting 6 hours for a new farmer, 3 farmers left due to happiness issues, even though I kept up with it.  So pointless really.  The fun part for me was sculpting, and I did enough of that so I won't bother with this game any longer.

I cannot fathom how much ineptitude has gone into the game design.  Just really really bad.  For the iPad, I really don't see who in their right mind would ever spend a penny for wheat or whatever.  The engine is pretty cool, though there is really not much there at all when you think about it.  Takes an hour to build a house with multiple workers.  Takes 10 seconds to build a huge ore mine with one worker and you need 22 wheat or something like that.  What the hell kind of logic is that.  The new cards are mostly cosmetic, little boosts, or making the meteor bigger, whoa, nice! Not.

I also have a huge ark!  Sadly, I can't transport wheat and ore from the homeworld.  Why not?  And why is my belief in 2 separate boxes now?  Am I 2 gods?  Are these not the same people I transported in the ark?  They have no faith in me at all, even though I built up 250k or belief?  Ridiculous.  I am not one to criticize many games, but this one is the most horrible game design I have seen in a long time.  Lots of cash and talent, decent engine, but very bland and not fun once you see what is really there in the "game".

Oh, and on the iPad, each time I load up the game, even though I left it running, it asks to me tap the facebook thing so I have to get rid of that, and that is after having to tap login because there is always 2 errors and then it authorizes.  About 1/3rd of the time it just says some other error and you have to close and restart which takes 30 seconds.  This was happening months ago and still they haven't figured out how to address those issues.  I feel bad for anyone who spent money on the kickstarter, luckily, I did not.