🍉 [MELN] Weekly EXODE Wrap-Up #53

birdbeaksd in #hive-102223 • 2 years ago

Hello, Pilots!

I'd like to welcome @jhepong / @aajayspl01 to EXODE! I hope you enjoy your time with us.

The September 9 update ETA is rapidly approaching, so hopefully next week I will have something exciting to share with you!

📰News:

Colonial Activities

@elindos:

Let's give another overview of colonial activities !
Citizens will get experience in different fields, except Leisure which does not get experience.
Release on September 9th focuses on team and research, as introduced weeks ago.
But individual characters also receive progression on these activities when included in teams which perform such duty, or when doing that individually!

The categories are as follows:

LEISURE AND SOCIAL
Resting
Healing (when you are in the infirmary)
Eating
Leisure activity - Solo
Leisure activity - Social
Leisure activity - Romantic
Dispute

FIELD
Hunting
Scouting
Escorting
Collecting
...

LAB
Researching
Designing
Inventing (ie. making a new chemical solution)
Analyzing (ie. analyzing something you gained from an Away Team)

PRODUCTION
Deploying Prefab
Cooking
Constructing
Producing (ie making components)
Fixing

COLONY SERVICE
Administrating
Reporting (making a colony report)
Investigating (ie. investigating a specific character)
Animating (ie. proposing and organizing colony leisure activities)
Tutoring (ie. being a teacher to a child or an instructor for citizens)
Guard Duty
Doctor Duty
Nurse Duty
Clerk Duty

🎁Giveaway:

This week, 3 different people have a chance of winning:

1x Camouflaged Sniper

This card will be an absolute beast on your planet. I bet he will be an amazing guard both for your Away Teams and your colony itself, especially if you have walls. He has the "Locked Actions" keyword, which means that he can only do specific things, but you knew that by his name. He's got the standard combat keywords of Warfare, Shooting, and Cover. He is the first card to have specific actions listed, those being Hide and Snipe. We don't know what those do yet, but I assume he can blend in or go invisible or something and shoot from far away. He also has Bound Items of an X-77 Rifle and Camouflage. We do not have stats on either of these yet, but I assume the X-77 will be extremely powerful and long-range, and Camouflage will make him much harder to detect.

🎉Previous Winners:

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My favorite comment came from @blitzzzz:

I noticed that the player market just shows the lowest price. Which is completely fine because obviously everyone wants to buy the cheapest.
However, I think some tools can be added that'll make it better for players in general.
For example, how about a historical graph for said card that a player is interested in?
Historical price, average price, price of the card sold in the past week/month/year? Quantity of a particular card sold in a certain timeframe?
All these information would be very helpful especially to new players who aren't familiar with the value of cards. A player who got a really bad deal because of his/her "newbieness" could very well end up a player lost forever. I know I would be pretty disgusted if I were to be "tricked" in such a way. One would say it's a free market and caveat emptor, but a game trying to grow would be better served with a less predatory system.

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@elindos the most common suggestion was for features that @tyrnis' bot provides.

➡️How To Enter:

Upvote this post
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Comment a feature that you believe would significantly improve EXODE that could be implemented during Beta.

The winners will be chosen by random on Monday, September 12.

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I will also be giving a 'SurPRIZE' to my favorite comment(s).

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2 years ago in #hive-102223 by birdbeaksd

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cartel-exode 2 years ago

This challenges keep getting more and more difficult. Now I must figure out something that Exode does not already do and that can potentially make it better (than it already is)?
Hmm...processing...
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Eureka!
So wildlife are already capturable. But what if after capturing and keeping them in the respective installation, you could tame them!
Taming them could prove difficult, requiring some skill/quests/research or all of the above. Upon taming the animal maybe an NFT can be minted or even after it's been tamed but reached a certain Happiness/Comfort threshold.
Then it is a permanent addition to your collection! Able to be deployed during evacuation either as a "guard dog" or small beast of burden (helping to load cargo/fuel). And of course having related useful skills during colonization gameplay. The "type" of animal or which skills it has will depend on how you train it and/or treat it once it is tamed.
Well? What do you think?

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birdbeaksd 2 years ago

Wow, I love this idea! Especially being able to trade tamed wildlife!

@elindos please consider this suggestion.

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elindos 2 years ago

Hello @cartel-exode !

In the good news, taming animals is exactly what we had in our EXODE vision for colonization. The colony screen deployed a few months shows our early access for it.

The 'Galactic Ranch' access displayed in the previous month will show how many wildlife you have captured.

It may be some time until we get to the entire range of features on it, but most of what you said is in our plans :) thank you for contributing your interest in this!

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birdbeaksd 2 years ago

Glad to hear that!

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jdike 2 years ago

I agree with one or two of the other comments. I would wish for a more user-friendly updated overall userinterface. not just the ingame part :)
I mean it is not like it is not working, nor is it totally bad. But only not very intuitive.

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birdbeaksd 2 years ago

Fair.

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sckoarn 2 years ago

The front end needs more presentation to the user. Specifically deck creation. Sorry to harp on this point but, building decks will be very key to your game outcome. Making it so equipping your crew is easier and you can pick exactly which card is selected.

Something like, you select a crew and it opens up a tree view of all the slots that can be equipped. Then enable the player to drag and drop their cards onto the tree slots. This would greatly assist new players, as there is more visualization of crew and equipment.

Selection of cards could be done via list box kind of selection list. Once a card is selected, if there more than one, a list of the cards shows, enabling the player to select a specific card. It would be nice if the upgrade levels of upgraded items could show as well, as some items are not at the same upgrade level.

Other than that, I was going to suggest Pets!! Extra fun level :)

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birdbeaksd 2 years ago

I agree with the deck creation QoL improvement.

Pets could be cool! Probably a part of tamed wildlife. Maybe pets could provide buffs in some way.

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sckoarn 2 years ago

I see pets serving two purposes. One mental health, they give you something to take care of and care for. This helps with your mental state.

Two, as guards and hunters / attack creatures. Having a nice pack of dogs following you as you explore will be an advantage, they hear and smell better than humans. Of course I use a Dog as an example.

Pets that are smart and willing to be with you would also be good. A creature that knows the world you are on, might alert you to dangers you do not know about.

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bfc4exode 2 years ago

While it seems only reasonable that a new colony must start with hunting and gathering avaliable resources, the progression to Farming and Crafting seems very important to a concious crew. I see capturing and taming animals I assume to maximize their numbers for food and also as helpers. I See cooking and discovery of indegiounes plant species as well as discovery of new spieces, I wonder if Beta could introduce some basic farming that could evolve with the colony? A farming colony could produce extra food and sell it as a source of income.

I am very excited for the new phase of Alpha, I supose I need to learn to build makeshift structures quickly before morale gets too out of hand.

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birdbeaksd 2 years ago

I would love to see farming included! Such a simple thing that I had not even thought of! There are so many ways farming could mesh with the other stuff EXODE has to offer. Very good suggestion.

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tinyputerboy 2 years ago

Thanks for the updates and giveaways. And for my entry this week...

I am going to touch on the idea of making things more clear to the player as well. I will go back to the evacuation, here. I could have easily missed something, but for me the experience was constantly jumping from screen to screen (locations) and checking how much time was left before I could issue new orders. I would like to see the things consolidated, or simplified.

A single command queue display with all current actions listed in time to completion order would do the trick. Even the ability to scroll back through the information log would help greatly, then I could see the "team member completed X" messages that were often lost too quickly to read. Maybe one or both of these already exists, but if so it wasn't clear to me that they did or how I could activate them. So that would need to be clearer.

But generally speaking, the game has grand plans for having a very broad scope. So, managing the complexity is always going to be key, and the more intuitive the user experience is, the easier it will be to manage the complexity.

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birdbeaksd 2 years ago

Streamlined complexity is often the best design. I have not played evacuation in a while, but I remember having issues with the same stuff you did. I would leave people doing nothing because I had not noticed that they were done with their task.

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tinyputerboy 2 years ago

I hear you, but what's old is new again if we get multi-gaming and have to do a new evac. Or when we are all dead, whichever.

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