Game Development: Theatrum Chemicum

[Wournos]

^ I wish I could agree, but this purity stuff is really starting to get on my nerves. So much effort for so little gain. But I guess I should be happy that I at least now keep getting my desired element in my compost bins - as impure as it is.

[Ravi]

purity smurity. I'll be spending most of my game life lvling enough land to build in. I look at all that crop purity stuff, then look at the giant hill I bilt on and go back to digging. xD
but then I'm easily entertained so to each their own yes? But I can't help feel like the focus of the game should be exploring the darkness, not farming for fancy numbers.

[dageir]

The game attarcts very dfferent people it seems. Some like to fiddle around on the farm, while others have to compete with the best to enjoy themselves.

[lachlaan]

Hopefully competing with the best won't reach a level where Jorb and Loftar will feel compelled to store all alchemical values of an item in a single 2 byte variable, for fear that as long as there's room in the variable to go up to 2147483648, people will try to get the values that high and complain that they can't

[BubbaMKII]

Hopefully competing with the best won't reach a level where Jorb and Loftar will feel compelled to store all alchemical values of an item in a single 2 byte variable, for fear that as long as there's room in the variable to go up to 2147483648, people will try to get the values that high and complain that they can't

Looks like they thrive on player misery.
90% lead worms in a, fair enough, 0% bin, fed 81% lead seeds produce 0% lead humus.
What a joke!
Foraging like a maniac and getting nowhere, berry bushes are 0% everywhere.
But hey, creating stuff for getting 0.01% increase in an element by spending loads of silver and hours watching a vial, if it doesn't blow up in 5 mins, is way more important!
Don't get me wrong, i have a lot of fun doing anything else than farming and baking, which completely sucks now.
I also wonder how high profs need to be to get a plant over 3% and find a mineral over 2% or how high they even go, i'm betting like 5% because higher is way too much and god forbid you might get 15% purity food.
"These proficiencies cap such and such things"
Right!
The amount of useful info is staggering, if you like vagueness.
Chip ore, chip lime, harvest coal, fill smelter, build another brazier because anyone can now break your wall with a bit of effort, call it a day.
Such fun...
We will let everything depend on everything else, but we won't tell you how or why, muahahaha...

[iamah]

Its a sandbox, its what you make of it. You dont have to join the purity grind race.

You don't have to setup a base, nor access the majority of the game contents and mechanics, you don't have to be a target. Just repeat "Sandbox! Sandbox! Sandbox" and all your troubles will disappear

[FutureForJames]

Its a sandbox, its what you make of it. You dont have to join the purity grind race.

You don't have to setup a base, nor access the majority of the game contents and mechanics, you don't have to be a target. Just repeat "Sandbox! Sandbox! Sandbox" and all your troubles will disappear

That's the point of a sandbox: freedom to do whatever you please with the tools in the sandbox. If you choose to stay at a barrel in Boston, then that is okay given the nature of the game.

[Mereni]

Last night, I put 3 baseline saplings in a test tube, and after 3.5 hours, when i finally had to go to bed, there still hadn't been a single tick. Anyone figured out yet how long it takes a test tube to do anything?

[Potjeh]

I think alchymy is fine in concept, but purity isn't sufficiently volatile (in both directions).

[reeper_aut]

purity has two defects for me now
first, processed food is meant to be better than raw vegetables, but as it is now, for processing you would have to mix pure food with unpure, which makes processed food worse than raw food!! we would need easier access to pure water, meat and such.

second, with the new system i don't even know where to start grinding that purity!
even if i had pure water, dirt (or clay), lime and granite, i woud still need pure humus, but that i can't produce with my bins ......
~95% of the purity dermined by the bin and less than 5% by the worms, sorry that's somewhat strange world!