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[werty892]

As for the cash shop, that was apparently removed at the end of alpha after a fit of rage from the testers on the forum. Gems can still be earned in game, but won't be purchasable with real currency.

Just going to bold, size it up and make it louder cause clearly people still miss this information a few pages ago...

[Leyic]

We're not complaining about the (no longer extant) cash shop, but rather the influence it's had on gameplay, which is unnecessarily grindy. i.e. you have to build 70-something houses just to unlock settlements, so literally the only thing you can do for the first two hours or so is flatten land. 22cans might adjust things later on, like they've done with removing faith generation from early houses, or adding more chests which are easier to get to, but they've more or less withdrawn from their official forums, making it difficult to determine what they think about the feedback they're getting.

[Meta]

Woooo, thread necromancy!

Update 2.0 is out and it looks like it's a great update.

There's an official video explaining some of the new things, but you can also check this spoilered list:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Wonderful new interfacing with the world (LESS CLICKING!) - Every interaction with the world has been rethought to be more fluid and less frustrating. You can now hold and drag easily to interact with trees, rocks and belief.

Improved Sculpting - Moving the land is much more accurate and more responsive. You’ll be able to move further and with more control. And rest assured, sculpting will continue to improve even more! No more repeated clicking - you just hold and drag in any direction, at any speed.

Introducing the Leash - We’ve waved goodbye to the clumsy totem power. Now you can hold on any number of Followers or occupants, then drag towards a destination in the world and release on it to send them there. It’s a big advance and feels lovely!

Complete redesign of the cards system - Now players discover cards across a timeline and unlock them by applying stickers that are found in the world. You choose which cards to unlock and thus your people’s advances will be unique to you. As time goes on each player’s civilisation will become vastly different from the others.

Brand new GUI implementation - Much sweat and many tears have gone in to a more intuitive and beautiful interface with which to play the game.

Voyages of Discovery - A brand new game mode where you must guide your Followers across uncharted lands against the clock. There are special rewards for successful voyages!

Explore a new Homeworld - Start your Followers on a new journey, with a completely re-authored landscape to explore.

New God Powers - Put out fires and increase the beauty of trees with the Rain of Purity, or customise your world by planting trees with the God Seed power.

Reengineered Follower Behaviour - We’ve implemented a much more intelligent Follower system that gives unique attributes to each follower’s brain and makes them react to the world.

[nenjin]

Basically, PM admitted they were off the mark with the game at first. Unfortunately, he still doesn't get what people didn't like. He's replaced manually collecting belief through clicking with....manually collecting belief through click-dragging! People complained that it feels like a Facebook game for no reason, and the only true interaction is mindnumbingly repetitive. And that appears to still be the case.

It's also full of Molyneux-isms. "The game you've always wanted..." blah blah blah, unreachable promises.

So, someone let us know if it's actually changed or if it's just more PM blowing smoke up people's asses again.

[dennislp3]

been waiting for an update...gonna have to poke around it when I get home

[BigD145]

This hasn't died yet?

[miljan]

I hoped when they said they are going back to drawing board that they will change the core of the game,but unfortunately they didn't. The only thing they changed is that you do not click 100 time or more but hold the button. The gameplay is 100% same as before, and is a pure facebook/mobile game.

If people liked the first version, but the only problem they had is how many times you need to click, they will love this update. For all others, nothing did changed, as the reason the game is bad is not because of the clicking itself, but because of the core game play.

I had some hopes for the game, but not anymore.

[Neyvn]

WOW, one of the MOST annoying effect they haven't removed...
Being out of Belief and the pulsing BOOWOOPP BOOOWOOOPPP...

[Meta]

Woooo, more thread necromancy.

The Astari stole 135 of my followers and in retaliation I destroyed their village with 3 meteors.

(there's a new update which adds an opposing "tribe", the Astari, with a contest of overall happiness. The game is starting to really feel good, but some of the gameplay still feel so slow due to some mechanics inherited from mobile games)