Re: `Cosmic Rage, an all new, all awesome Space MOO from Nathan Tech!
Hi Dardar.
New activities etc sound great. I'm running through trying each of the activities in turn, so it'll be good to get to those, that will also let me write a more complete description of the game (It's had to be a little on hold with the forum not working).
Here are a couple of thoughts.
First, Love the new ore extraction, that's actually quite fun to do, especially fighting off monsters, I also love the fact that fishing now gets you lots of points, since again it's a nice break, plus now I've got myself a home to store gear like a ishing rod in. I also enjoyed volcano harvesting and trash collecting, indeed you might consider adding similar miniquests with volcano harvesting to the trash ones since they're really fun to do.
I'm afraid I have run into a few problems with activities related to boats.
First, the help on boats doesn't mention that the command to put a boat onto a boat trolley is &q
uot;move "boat name" onto trolley, not load.
That one confused me initially.
Likewise, the command to unload the trolley is simply unload trolley (useful if you've labled your trolley), not "unload boat from trolley"
Having these fixed though, I was able to dredge successfully once I found the boat research center.
Speaking of centers, that I'm afraid was a problem, since for several activities, the relevant research center isn't apparent and I had to ask on chat, and not many people knew. I would therefore suggest you perhaps consider adding a "research centers" category to the informational computer, (you might also consider adding a few more boat research centers since having to transport a trolley load of dredged material to saharriana each time got a bit of a drag).
I would also suggest you consider either having a "push trolley" command, so that the character is pushing the trolley and you c an use normal movement commands until you let go, or having the automove upgrade for trolleys also let you automatically move a trolley to the landing pad, that way even if there is only one boat research center it'd be far less typing heavy to get stuff to and from it.
Water analyzation worked fine, though the skill time wait for water analyzation skill does seem very long.
The activity I really ran into trouble with was rock analyzation.
Firstly, the swimming timer on death seems rather random, indeed I don't think the timer resets correctly when you surface, this means I died several times. Each time I died, this also left my boat floating out in the middle of no where with no way to get it. There really needs to be a boat recovery system, since while peoplke did give me lifts, with the frequency of death due to drowning with the timer not resetting (despite a swimming skill of 5), I would've been a right pest to others.
Also, once I did get
my rocks, finding the rock research center was a pain, especially since it's not called! the rock research center and isn't even on the same planet as the boat research center, again, a "research centers" category on the informational computer would be really helpful.
The one other really weerd thing about rock analyzation, is that frequently the rocks were generating at a depth too deep for me to swim to, often as much as minus 19 or minus 20 when I can only swim to minus 10.
I eventually had to get a boat with a submarine upgrade, take the boat there, dive out underwater and grab a rock. This worked fine right up until the point that I got killed by the drowning timer not resetting, (when I died I had barely been underwater for five seconds).
The last activity I tried was gem collection, which I'm afraid hasn't worked out well at all, since every water pod I've had has ruptured before I've barely collected two gems. Eithe r the pods are very very weak, or I'm doing something wrong, though i do plan to buy a pod and try the extra damage upgrade on it to see if that can actually get it to last long enough to do some good. Still, since there doesn't seem to be a way to repair the waterpods you might consider either making the pods a little tougher, or having some sort of in pod repair kit, after all most real life submarines usually have some way to patch up.
Again sinse I've not collected many gems from the water I'm not sure where the research center for those is, though i suspect from the help file that you can transfer gems on the docks.
So that's what I've tried thus far.
Today it's probably time for pollution collection which I'm looking forward to, and maybe another go at gem gathering with a reinforced waterpod or possibly the underwater city exploration as I do enjoy fighting off those monsters, though soon enough I do hope to get my f
irst ship and start on space activities.
Definitely enjoying the game thus far.
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