Recent content by badger2013

Thanks for the feedback. Are there any plans to make this an option? I didn't have any performance problems with the cave system, so if there was a way to turn that back on for RWG I would gladly do so.

Nice. XD

I agree, I'm hopeful that with some tweaking the current version can move from "good, but with problems" to excellent.

I agree, the cave systems added a lot to the game. Was there an explanation given for their removal?

I stopped playing in August 2017 and then returned for A17, and even after a break of well over a year I'm still bored. It's not that there isn't great content, it's that the flow of the game just isn't there. I'm hopeful that things will be improved, but I've been in "hopeful" mode for a long...

I agree, it's going to be hard to please everyone with random map generation at this level of complexity. There should be a few presets, but, similar to Civilization, let players customize what the world ultimately looks like using sliders.

+1 Great post. I share your concern over the direction of the game.

Possessing a lot of strength won't do you much good if you don't have the intelligence (which I see as a proxy for knowledge) to build something like a forge.

The performance is worse for me as well. I haven't quantified it, but it's easily half of what it was previously. I have a mid-level computer (i7 @ 2.8 GHz, GTX 960, 16 GB of RAM) so I'm not expecting a solid 60+ FPS all the time, but the dips into the 20s when there isn't a lot going on make...

So ignore the threads? I doubt TFP are losing much sleep over the feedback that isn't constructive. Speaking of ignoring threads, IMHO this is a pointless one that a mod should close.

This has been brought up before, but it would be nice if we could get even a simple weather system rather then what we have now, which feels like the game is randomly applying weather with no rhyme or reason. TFP have talked a lot about immersion, but having a rain storm cover 5 ft of one biome...

Not necessarily, it depends on what work needs to be done. Things like pathing and networking are CPU heavy, but the graphical content itself is going to largely rely on the GPU. So if the CPU isn't maxed out but the GPU is and there are big framerate drops, to me that says there's an...

Quite true, but it's also an Alpha that it's in its 5th year of being in that state (it was released on Steam on 12/13/2013). Alpha 17 itself also just took over a year to release. I started playing in 2014, and at this point I've concluded that this game may never be well balanced and...

I started with A10 and over time -- and even before A17 -- the trend has been toward making base building less and less rewarding in terms of time and resources spent. If your goal is to simply survive, you're probably better off playing the game as if you're a nomad rather than a base builder...

There are many things I like about A17, but ultimately the game is still unfinished with myriad balance issues. An unfinished, unbalanced game is not award worthy in my opinion.