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[Retropunch]

Anyone still playing this...? I recently started a new run entirely from scratch, and should hit Concrete Huts today if I'm lucky.

Just started playing a few days ago. I really, really enjoyed up until about the concrete huts stage, but it's become a bit of a drag now as everything takes so long and takes a lot of micromanagement for little gain. Will probably continue but not in as much earnest.

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Anyone still playing this...? I recently started a new run entirely from scratch, and should hit Concrete Huts today if I'm lucky.

Just started playing a few days ago. I really, really enjoyed up until about the concrete huts stage, but it's become a bit of a drag now as everything takes so long and takes a lot of micromanagement for little gain. Will probably continue but not in as much earnest.

Sounds like an excellent time to prestige. Just get as much housing space and kittens before you do.

[Rolan7]

Yeah, I think that's when you're "supposed" to prestige for the first time.
I didn't know that, and by the time I found out I think I was already in space.  Or close enough that I went the last bit into space travel since I was "already so close".  Which was technically suboptimal but mneh.

Also I'd curse you for reminding me about the game, but my save is on a toasted laptop and I don't feel like recovering it.  (or cheating the prestige in).

... I might check out the reddit to see what features have been added, though...  And the early game is kinda fun anyway...

[a1s]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: this game would be a lot better if it had a time frame more in line with A Dark Room, than World of Warcraft.

[Retropunch]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: this game would be a lot better if it had a time frame more in line with A Dark Room, than World of Warcraft.

Definitely - my issue with it was that the beginning game was great fun - discovering new stuff and how everything worked together so well was great, but then the pacing slows to an absolute crawl and it's hard to keep excited about it when I'm having to come back to it every 10 minutes to make some beams and scaffolding before my resource limits are hit.

I've always thought that incremental games could do so much more if automated out the tedious stuff mid way through and added in some 'normal' game elements like battles/strategic stuff/decisions to make.

[Toaster]

They did add engineers that can slowly auto-make some crafted items for you, but you need to have reached factories to use them.

[Rolan7]

There was always "kitten scientists" and those other scripts that automated the game.  Not really balanced with the intent of the game, but they did make it an idler rather than a grinder.

[FearfulJesuit]

Yeah, once you hit Concrete Huts you'll want to reset...I'm on my second run, now, with 41 paragon (=41% production boost, 4.1% storage boost) and life is a lot quicker.

[Retropunch]

There was always "kitten scientists" and those other scripts that automated the game.  Not really balanced with the intent of the game, but they did make it an idler rather than a grinder.

Yeah I tried those and they did help. My issue is mainly that the sort of...fun of it slows down even with those scripts. Early on you're getting hit with loads of new stuff and mechanics all the way through, whereas it just becomes a grind of building the odd extra storage building every hour or so now.

[DeKaFu]

I feel like I owe a lot to this game.

Spoiler: Personal tale of woe ahead (click to show/hide)

A couple years ago I got a hand injury which made it impossible for me to use a computer at all without intense, lingering pain. I was going slightly crazy from being unable to play games, browse the internet, etc... basically any form of entertainment or time-passing that involved my own input was impossible for me.

Then I found this game, and I ended up playing it through voice control. Yes, it's absolutely as awkward as it sounds. It gave me something to mentally work on, though, even when I wasn't playing... which is what I was desperately missing from my life at that time. And because of the (eventually) very slow pace, I was able to switch to playing it by mouse for an hour a day after several months. Made it well into space before resetting for the first time.

As a game it doesn't stand out much now, but for a while it was basically the most important part of my day. I'm still very glad I found it when I did.

Ironically(?), I've been trying to play it again lately and I'm finding it's now much harder on my hands than many other, "real" games. Go figure.

[Retropunch]

I feel like I owe a lot to this game.

Spoiler: Personal tale of woe ahead (click to show/hide)

A couple years ago I got a hand injury which made it impossible for me to use a computer at all without intense, lingering pain. I was going slightly crazy from being unable to play games, browse the internet, etc... basically any form of entertainment or time-passing that involved my own input was impossible for me.

Then I found this game, and I ended up playing it through voice control. Yes, it's absolutely as awkward as it sounds. It gave me something to mentally work on, though, even when I wasn't playing... which is what I was desperately missing from my life at that time. And because of the (eventually) very slow pace, I was able to switch to playing it by mouse for an hour a day after several months. Made it well into space before resetting for the first time.

As a game it doesn't stand out much now, but for a while it was basically the most important part of my day. I'm still very glad I found it when I did.

Ironically(?), I've been trying to play it again lately and I'm finding it's now much harder on my hands than many other, "real" games. Go figure.

I love those sorts of stories! I'm really glad you found something that helped you through that.

In my own story of woe, I was once really, really ill and honestly feel I pulled through it by playing Unreal Tournament for about 18 hours a day. The intense combat basically stopped me from thinking about anything other than winning, to the point of working as a painkiller. I can still run through most of the maps blindfolded.

[bloodrizer]

>Then I found this game, and I ended up playing it through voice control. Yes, it's absolutely as awkward as it sounds.

I remember at some point there was a request from a person who was blind to make some tweaks in the game to make it better readable by text-2-voice engine.\
Things like this are making my day.