Game Development: Under Pressure

[Darwoth]

probably takes at least one full day to eat something if it is working.

[Darkside]

Are we really supposed to place worms in a container and feed them before placing them in a compost bin to get better hummus? This sounds really stupid to me.

Me as well.

I enjoyed farming in this game. Now I could care less, it is un-fun and grindy.

I went from tending to 350 fields to 0.

Yeah I certainly take no joy in farming anymore, I only have 30 fields and it feels so futile to work them.

Pre-patch system was very logical (think natural selection in real life) and gave the player a feeling of progress and positive feedback. This new system is so convoluted and illogical.

I'm trying my hardest to struggle with it mostly from 0, I only have few high purity stuff from pre-patch, and it is just brutal. Feels like I am not making any progress and have to manage so many variables.

[dageir]

Anyone seen the worms do anything at all?

[tweenprinc3ss]

It does feel very daunting to have to shelf all of my 100% seeds and start glutting once again on 0% food stuffs. I can only hope that the system feels so daunting now only because there are many more aspects they will be adding in the next couple patches to level things out.

[Scilly_guy]

We'll have to wait and see what happens with wells and grindable water quality.

[darnokpl]

Anyone seen the worms do anything at all?

No.

[ysbryd]

Okay.
Today I have blown up one of my pressure cookers and frowned at worms for several hours.
You know? Sod it.
I'm going for a wander, without my buckets, ignoring granite lime and clay deposits, refusing to look at alchemical values, and pretend that I just dont care.
Look out bears, I'm pissed.

[Spazzmaticus]

Before:
After:

So at "clearly unstable" it's 0.01% more pure. I'm pretty sure there's something amiss here...

[lachlaan]

I've only ever seen the secondary alchemical values go up 1 whole point at a time, never 0.2. So not sure what's going on there. Perhaps they snuck in ninja nerf when one or two of the lesser alchemical values are below 1, or 0.5.

[Wournos]

Are we really supposed to place worms in a container and feed them before placing them in a compost bin to get better hummus? This sounds really stupid to me.

Me as well.

I enjoyed farming in this game. Now I could care less, it is un-fun and grindy.

I went from tending to 350 fields to 0.

Yeah I certainly take no joy in farming anymore, I only have 30 fields and it feels so futile to work them.

Pre-patch system was very logical (think natural selection in real life) and gave the player a feeling of progress and positive feedback. This new system is so convoluted and illogical.

I'm trying my hardest to struggle with it mostly from 0, I only have few high purity stuff from pre-patch, and it is just brutal. Feels like I am not making any progress and have to manage so many variables.

"Only" 30 fields...
I have 10!
I had ***** to play with before the two updates and I still have **** to play with now. My lack of progress is frustrating me. But I have now placed worms in compost bins as well as two in a container each with a few similar alchemical element plants. I'll leave it until tomorrow because I'm so not in the mood to do anything right now. I'll see if I can muster trying the pressure cooker tomorrow, but with all the bugs revolving it I might not.