JonathanLemke
commented
1 year ago I'm looking for the posts to put this suggestion I made on steam, I'm going to put it here as a complement, because I believe this topic afflicts the same pain.
I just have one point for you, it's more personal and I think it will interest more people. I know that the idea of your game was to be something engaging with more people playing. But I find it very difficult to play with other people or even people around me or in my social circle. Wouldn't it be possible to create a little function that would be easier to set up or that would make the experience of advancing alone more rewarding? I've had the game for a long time and 70 hours in, I always give up playing (and always want to go back). But I never manage to play for long, the slow progression for solo play gets discouraging very quickly, because I have to wait many hours to be able to learn something on my own, even by increasing the multipliers. As long as I don't go up, I get stuck doing repetitive things that I've already achieved.
It doesn't have to be something very dedicated, it could just be a little button there that changes these parameters for those who want to play alone. I bet a lot of people love the idea of the game, but find it unfeasible to play. Because it's too time-consuming to play alone (for those who like to play with other people, it's perfect). But alone is a bit hard).
Sleep is very important now for solo games with the skill changes in 8.0.0 and the need to be able to get sps back without leaving the game running for hours and hours. The higher level you get a a solo player the more you really need to get more sps this way or you never get a chance to complete the game so there really seems to need to be a way that the higher level you are the more you get from sleep.
This brings us to beds. Right now there is the straw bed and the fabric bed and one seems to have no advantage over the other but if the fabric bed is harder to get materials for and it could require need more skill to make then maybe it could give a slightly higher rate of sps while you sleep. Then there could be fancier beds at even higher levels of skill that required more expensive/harder to get materials and not even be build-able until a much higher skill level but then when you sleep on it it could give a commiserate amount of sps by taking into account of what its made of and what skill it took to build.
Maybe a really high level bed at the top end with gold inlayed headboards and turkey feather quilts :) and a couple others between that and the fabric bed.