Let's play Godus!

I'm sure you will. Qetesh just got started. She is setting up her twitch stream now.

By the way, I am streaming on and 13thGeneral is streaming on . Qetesh will be streaming soon on .

[Qetesh logic]
Qetesh: "I'm feeling nauseous."
Lord Ba'al: "That's because of all the drinking last night."
Qetesh: "No, it's because of all the throwing up."
[/Qetesh logic]

While it may look like nothing much happened, the turnout was actually quite good. Instead of posting most of the communication was taking place in the chat. I think this event can be counted as a success. I want to thank everyone who showed up for participating.

See, these are the times when I wished I lived in the US...

Sooo... anyone else still awake in this thread or do I get all the nibbles?

Much like watching MST3K, experiencing crappy things with company is always more enjoyable. If those developer chat things weren't so excruciatingly long, I'd love to restart and comment the commentary since there's a lot of comedy gold to be had from there.

Takeaway issues from this little experience:

1. That golden shower power is hard to control and I kept losing my cloud when I activated it.
2. Crashes. I had tons of crashes at start. Every time I quit Voyages, Godus crashed (after missions and at the end as well).
3. It is possible to unlock the auto-collect shrine before getting your first god power. (Which means that it's unavailable until that triggers)
4. Auto-collect appears to be set on a global timer that triggers after a set (long) period. I had bubbles populate right after collection kicked off and they waited for 30+ seconds before collection triggered again.

Thanks to the streamers, even though I couldn't play it was nice to watch, one thing I like to raise with 22cans is the very obvious "tipping point" suddenly in home world you go from struggling to abundance. I've seen it on all devices/os's it happens for everyone. What I'd suggest would be timeline ages resources caps that increase the amount you can hold as you progress. No millions of belief or thousands of wheat or ore in home world, got to have a better way to balance that? What does everyone else think? I also remember they tried to do wheat and ore another way that got panned, but may have actually been better but I don't recall the exact method, does anyone else remember that?

I would agree with Aynen on that point. I approached this playthrough almost as a new player, because I haven't sat down and played Godus properly in close to a year (I tried it out after the Astari got introduced but stop as soon as a 45 minute timer was introduced, about 15 minutes into the game). There are now several more mechanics in place that I wasn't familiar with.

I think I played for about 3 hours, and attempted to unlock everything that presented itself to me as soon as it appeared - the game encourages you to do this, so in so far as there is a 'right' way to play then this is surely it. Given how excruciatingly hand-holding the tutorials and prompts are (a million "this is a blah!" prompts popping up constantly, which don't disappear until you either follow the instruction or manually click x) the actually strategy of how to play the game is very unclear. I got myself in a situation where I had 3 farming settlements with 5 fields between them. I was disappointed to learn you had to manually harvest wheat (WHY?). I couldn't build any more nearby abodes to increase the size of these settlements because (without any warning) the abodes now also cost wheat to build, and the fields procuded at a painfully slow pace. I tried the Rain of Purity to speed up production but it was still extremely slow, and now that most of my abodes had been mashed into farming settlements in a desperate attempt to get more fields I didn't have as much belief to spend on god powers. Basically, the wheat requirement for building brought my game to an abrupt standstill.

rubgish's stream was very educational. He was the only player I watched who seemed to achieve what you'd consider good progress and a decent-looking homeworld, and he did it by gaming the system. Rubgish can correct me if I've misunderstood this, but I gather the strategy was something like:
- Early on in the game while the happiness rating is unimportant, sacrifice loads of followers to get gems
- Spend gems to max out upgrades on everything and buy any stickers you need
- Once everything has been upgraded you're pretty much invinsible and the game runs at a much more tolerable pace - the radius of belief auto-collection is immense, trees + rain of purity bring fields to harvest in a matter of seconds and a single meteor destroys the entire Astari civilisation so they are eliminated.

I don't see that as a bad thing. I want to have options. From the get go Godus forces you into a certain direction which on me has the effect to want to go out of my way to do anything but follow that direction.

Well this is odd. Somehow taking screenshots crashes this game as well (it's happened to some other games I played). I should have tested this first... Maybe I can wreck your eyes with a shoddy camcorder recording of my phone, flickering screen and all.

Well, one fun thing that has come out of my attempts today is that I now managed to lure out one of my two converted Astari by making them a miner. Now let's just hope I don't accidentally Finger of God the poor chap.