General Godus discussion

I'm still wondering - with the intent to make Godus a game that people will play for years.
How does anyone imagine that to work.

Right now, the game seems to be heavily focused on groundskeeper type chores. There's nothing really deep happening, you're just doing maintenance tasks.
And unless you don't mind mindless repetition of the same tasks, just slowly spreading your people around at a tedious pace.
I have a hard time seeing anyone play this for longer than a week, let alone a month. (mobile players might stretch it a bit longer since they'll play less intensively)

13thGeneral, why are you paving land over schools of fish you sadistic prick?

A better question might have been "Why don't the fish move out of the way when they see a landslide coming?".

On a slight sidenote - I've completed the timeline. Granted, I did so with the assistance of the Pit of Doom...
But with that in mind, I doubt I'd have bothered without it. The timers are insane and there just isn't anything to do.
I'm not even bothering with the new voyages because the gems are a much more practical way to get the cards.

Guess its back to uninstalling Godus and waiting for the next update. Listening to the promises that 'soon' we'll see them get to the meat and bones.

Question for the cans - can we be expecting anything OTHER than resource collection for the sake of resource collection?

I mean, I know we've been going on about how we want meaningful resources such as wood and stone to fuel the creation of our empire.
But as it stands we have belief which only serves to produce more belief, ore and wheat which serve the purpose of expansion so you can get more belief, or and wheat... And no overarching goal why we would want to do all of this.

And that all is heavily laced with timers as band-aid solutions, because a more in-depth system would potentially scare off people and make the game too complicated? (Fun fact - blizzard claims the same on their game "hearthstone", the decklimit is 9 because they claim people would get 'confused' which deck is which...)

Suggestion: Don't look down on your players. Respect them a little. Most of them (yes even those that are playing on mobile devices) are smarter than you give them credit for.
They don't need handholding and protection... Respect their intelligence - hell, make them FEEL SMART as if they figure things out themselves.
And you'll find the audience much more receptive, compared to standing over them with a club telling them they're not listening and they're doing it wrong.

More carrot, less stick.

Tbh stickers are easy to get now in GODUS PC with re spawning chests and pit of doom. There have been moments when I've thought man I need more stickers but I just sacrificed more followers. Belief is a much bigger problem. Do stickers bother me when I there is no artificial scarcity? Not so much.

I still see abandoning stickers for a proper research system as a priority - see suggestions re priest/research class - but I don't have the same burning hate for them. Don't get me wrong they are a stupid frustration mechanic that offends my intelligence but I'm more angry about belief in this version than stickers.

The entire mechanic of stickers is flawed and out of place. It always has been.
I can only hope that 22cans will see sense (as George and even Fabs have pointed out, with the new shift to PC there might be entire overhauls to certain systems) - but we have no assurances to this.

I suspect that if we're going to see a more proper resource system in place. Even if its entirely out of our control. We'd be able to see certain changes take place.
Notably (even if they remain as stickers), if they become the sole province of our followers in terms of acquisition and/or production.
Right now, we're looking at balance issues aswell as mechanical issues. And both are heavily intertwined.

Fixing the balance issues will result in a broken balance if and when the mechanical issues are altered. Alternatively, fixing the mechanical issues first will result in ignoring the balance issues which arguably are more easily fixed. (And I suspect that the upcoming balance file mechanic could very well tie into this, by having us fiddle with the balance of things, they can focus on overhauling some of the mechanics.)
Which of these should be done first has good and bad points in either direction however.

What I'd like to see is any movement on the PC front at all. But as others have pointed out, it is likely that 22cans will focus on mobile for atleast a little bit longer as that release is settling in and will likely be in dire need of tweaking first.
Long story short, the PC players will have to wait still as the mobile version will most likely get a higher priority.

I love that Neogaf users are quickly saying precisely what's been said by people following this project more closely.

Lol that's over $50 worth of gems. What costs that much?