Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)
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Lenas
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Ten devs would literally be a 500% increase. Hiring a manager also isn't going to solve anything. Going through the process of all that shit would create so much overhead for the original two devs (current sole employees) that updates would be pushed even further back. You know how hard it is to onboard a single employee at the office? How about interviewing, hiring, onboarding an entire studio because you had a windfall of cash and now you need to explain your passion project to ten or more people you might not trust as far as you can throw?
Or you avoid all that headache, push back your self-imposed deadlines, and laugh with all your millions while some nerds make angry posts online about how slow you are.
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If I had $100M dropped on my company you'd better fucking believe I'd be retiring the next day. We're lucky they're even pretending to keep working.
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Nola
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I installed tmoloader and my characters weren’t compatible with the latest version of Terraria. I’m guessing Tmoloader hasn’t been updated yet. I really don’t to start all over.
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Kirun
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This. Like I said, I'd probably milk a few "Onions!" updates to squeeze out a few more sales on hopium, while I worked on my retirement portfolio.
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Adebisi
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Dandai
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I get too emotionally invested in projects like this, so I’d probably give it a good go and reinvest a percentage of the revenue back into hiring. But if someone offered to buy me out and continue the work, THEN I’d Notch the fuck out.
Varia Vespasa
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Note- there was a small patch yesterday, part of which enables the building of Maypoles for a short while, so if you want one (or several) you can now build them. Picking up a thistle seems to be the trigger for the recipe, whether from the ground or storage. Having one in your inventory already and either sleeping or equipping your hammer apparently does it too. Under furniture- 10 wood, 4 dandelions, 4 thistles, and your workbench.
Kirun
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Sunken cost fallacy. Get your fucking money and bail to the mountains at THOT mansion.
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meStevo
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There are some fundamental gameplay loops that diverge from the survival formula that makes all the difference in the world. The biggest one to me - you can't starve. Food is additive, it benefits you to eat but if you have already gathered your resources you don't need to eat while you're chilling in your base building, etc and your health/energy just drops to a base level.
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Erronius
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What couldn't you stand about Conan?
This game has a lot of potential. And a lot of character. That said...most people here could (would...many did) burn through it super quickly.
There's a lot of things I'd like to see them do. Like...add a really big loot table of non-craftable, unique (think EQ clicky) items that only drop off of one of the boss mobs, so you might actually have a reason to kill them more than once or twice.
Or if they added side-bosses that don't 'gate' content like the current ones do, to add more variety. Like fun rare spawns to hunt down.
I mean, I dunno. The game is still a good game, especially for Early Access. And I definitely got my money's worth. I like to cycle back to it occasionally to build/harvest a little bit, before heading off to play other things.
It really depends on you. A lot of people found it shallow, many thought it was too easy, etc.
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Varia Vespasa
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Erronius
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I randomly started making a round tower last week. Had to put iron beams in the stone after the stone became unstable.
I might end up tearing the entire thing down. I didn't put the beams up AS I was building it, and I rushed putting up the stone (and I was also making the stone wall double thick as well...because reasons?). So I had to spend some time actually going back to put the beams 'in' the stone
So I logged on a little bit tonight to throw some beams up and to figure out how I was going to make a roof. Then I realize that I didn't build this fucking thing plumb at all. I ran outside, looked at the wall...and yup, it bulges out.
I also tried alternating stones, like actual stonework, but the entire thing went (literally) pear-shaped LOL. I was hoping that they'd meet at a point, but...shit.
I might end up tearing the entire thing down. I didn't put the beams up AS I was building it, and I rushed putting up the stone (and I was also making the stone wall double thick as well...because reasons?). So I had to spend some time actually going back to put the beams 'in' the stone
So I logged on a little bit tonight to throw some beams up and to figure out how I was going to make a roof. Then I realize that I didn't build this fucking thing plumb at all. I ran outside, looked at the wall...and yup, it bulges out.
I also tried alternating stones, like actual stonework, but the entire thing went (literally) pear-shaped LOL. I was hoping that they'd meet at a point, but...shit.
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Varia Vespasa
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Heh, been there, done that, as you may have seen from my harbor towers. It can help if you build a wooden framework first then use that as a guide to laying your stone since that will help keep things aligned.
Experiment shows that embedding iron gates into your walls as reinforcements provides the most strength for vertical stuff by a small but measurable margin. I have them in the walls of my harbor towers.
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