More helps for the noobs

Started by giannikampa, February 07, 2015, 04:49:53 PM

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giannikampa

So i watch many random let's play on youtube and there are a lot of mistakes that get repeated by almost anybody.
I can understand that as people keeps playing they will learn more and more, but i also think that many players will simply dislike and abandon the game because it is not enought user friendly.

So my suggestion is to widen the tips on the right of the screen, that you can click and it will center to the problem:

- a room is too cold/hot for growing in there.
- there is unforbidden food that will rot in X days/hours.
- a table/crematorium has no bills.
- there are things that will not be hauled because there is no empty place configured to store them.
- a generator will explode soon cause of the temp in the room.


Of course many other can be made, feel free to add tip that could be useful for players not as experienced as you are or the ones you needed at your first games.
I think that most could have the "dont show me again" possibility but still should be active by default at the start of a new game.
And as always.. sorry for my bad english

200Down


There has been a hunting accident. A colonist has lost an arm.
There has been a hunting accident. A colonist has lost a leg.
There has been a hunting accident. A colonist has lost an ear.
There has been a hunting accident. A colonist has lost gallons of blood.
There has been a hunting accident. A colonist has lost their mind.
There has been a hunting accident. A colonist has died.
There has been a hunting accident. A colonist committed suicide.
Your last remaining colonist has given up and is leaving the colony.

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giannikampa

well 200Down those are more part of the log of a standard game than proper tips :D
And as always.. sorry for my bad english

200Down

#3
Haha true true.

Well I'm not sure where the line would be between "hand holding" and more "tips".

I mean.., do you really want to be told something like "there is unforbidden food that will rot in X days/hours"? It's kinda obvious already that something like food will rot in the heat.  And man think about the list off spam there would be...., that stuff could get really really out of hand. Your entire log would be filled up constantly.

Edit: Now that I think about it more. There's been plenty of times I actualy wished I could shut off notifications entirely because the constant.. bleep.. bleep.. bleep... bleeping can get a little irritating.