[rant warning: beware!]
it's been awhile since i last played don't starve together coz i was turned-off in joining old worlds coz of the imbalance in resource scarcity during winter.
twigs and grass gets rare coz people keep hoarding it (and then losing it via fires accidentally or not.. mostly from those flame hounds in summer or players trolling)
so usually around day 20 and upwards, new players joining old worlds can't find sticks and get forced to log off/on so they don't get eaten by the night grue before they can scavenge some sticks from random tumbleweed drops as they spend several days logging on/off searching for desert biomes for tumbleweeds.
but usually new players joining old worlds in winter, freezes or starves to death long before new players find their first twig.
this is a problem since it forces/encourages players to migrate between different worlds to avoid winters.. not to mention that bases in don't starve are more like a collection of storage boxes and crafting tables, rather than a "real base" compared to similar games like minecraft or terraria. so there's barely no safe haven.
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anyways, don't starve together was an impossible idea made possible when someone managed to create a multiplayer mod for the game. proving that a multiplayer game was plausible and that there was a huge demand for it. (klei eventually managed to cash in on don't starve together despite their initial stance that it was not possible to add multiplayer)
but the problem i see right now is for some strange reason, the multiplayer aspect of the game remains horribly imbalanced. especially for casually joining on a host server.
ie : the timing of when you join is so important in determining whether you die on your first day or survive long enough to collect enough materials to get you a fighting chance. the number of online players is also important coz a new player joining an old world can't survive winter without any help from other players, since the materials you need to craft thermal stones, tools, etc.. will often take you several days to gather and you can't survive a single day in winter without finding/crafting the right tools. not to mention you'd probably starve at around 2-3 days if you can't find a stable source for food.
so basically, i think the devs are still fixed on the single-player balance of the game instead of the multiplayer balance. i feel like they have their mindsets trapped inside a box. or something.
don't starve multiplayer is one of those gems that seems like it's about to go to waste due to some lack in "vision" for it's development. maybe that's why i felt like ranting about it. haha.
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anyways, i've also started joining the don't starve together forums, but posting needs to pass through moderator approval.. which takes so long.. yadayada.
i'm glad rimworld had an easily accessible forum.
I play don't starve alot(mostly for free) but I'm going to buy the full pack in the near future. I guess I could play with you in a month or so.
I've played Don't Starve Together twice now but only survived for around 25 days ( though it was just 2 of us ).
I've lasted more than 70 days on a single player world, but that was the complete vanilla game ( no reign of giants like is inherent in multiplayer )
Quote from: NewJack on May 03, 2016, 07:32:23 AM
I play don't starve alot(mostly for free) but I'm going to buy the full pack in the near future. I guess I could play with you in a month or so.
cool. i mostly try to randomly join worlds since i think as multiplayer game, it should allow you to join and actually have a chance for surviving regardless of the season and date of joining.
but i'm starting to think that DST is more tailormade for group effort starting from day 1. i'm a bit disappointed. :-\
id be down to play some dont starve together at some point!! im always looking for more people to play and if we have roughly the same timezone (im in +10:00), we could make it a semi regular thing.