AfterWorld Survival Forum

1) For some time, make crafting and refining free of charge. It would make more ppl stay in game, cos now, you can actually gather stones and kill some slugs. Pretty dull, but if one can refine and craft some "starter" equipment for free (iron stuff) it would be more attractive.
2) Make slug corpses valid replacment for  medical plants, it would, let say, give newcomers some  refreshment from digging and digging.
Game have great potential, give new palyers chance to fell in love with it and for sure, they will deposit cash.
3) Or at least, give trade terminal for selling stuff directly getting few awc per 100kg of stuff., instead of player market.
(its could be swapped with idea 1)
I belive that Using point 1 and 2 or 2 and 3 would attract new people in great wave. Morover, as long as you dont have withdraw money option, this would work.  As soon as withdraw money would be implemented, cash "levels" should be moved to 0, apart from players who deposited.  Thats all  

No Medical Plants
=> No HK
==> No Players
==> No Resources
==> No Crafting
==> No game


RCE will not resolve this.
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Medical Plants can be supplied without programmers

The cuttable trees aren't back in-game either.
The're was fundamental problems with the engine not being able to remember the state of each tree, they slipped "out-of state" so u could keep chopping a single tree forever... In other words there was engine-level problems with a large number of dynamic objects (medplants, cuttable trees, mobs, pickable rocks).
A while later there was an announcement the problem was solved, but... the trees and plants didn't come back, instead the mob spawns dried up too.
At some point someone increased the number of mobs tenfold, which made the whole spawns system unstable.
Finally the mob spawns were slightly decreased and became stable.


Could be there was a limit for the total number of dynamic objects the engine could manage? Could it be the current total number of mobs uses up the whole engine capacity? Only a wild guess... but it would explain the situation.


It would explain the big picture as well - the medplants are indeed one of the basic, most important elements in game economy. No medplants, no game. To make the engine capable of handling them smoothly is a programmer's task. Makes the programmer the single most important person in da house (at least, at the moment).


Nothing terribly new there ofc, nothing we didn't know already... 

In case it isn't obvious to some people, the game is in crisis.
This is because there is not enough money to support programmers. To support programmers, and to encourage them to stay, Vik or whoever ends up as the big Kahoonah needs a substantial amount of money, money that would typically come from an investor.
 
So, as I see it there is one priority, with two potential pathways.
The most likely is someone/s injects substantial money, this being an investment. This is the most probable pathway for a viable future.
The alternate pathway is with programmer/s that volunteer, and they would need to be skilled and capable. This pathway is  far less likely to occur and is not probable.
 
If anyone isn't thinking a programmer is vital to the project then think again.
 
So, we get med plants back in the game, what do people think that will do???
Maybe a few will give a few dollars to Vik???
And that will enable Vik to suddenly become a programmer???
 
Think it through, the business model has limited pathways, with limited opportunities, and I can tell you right now if Vik's main priority was about getting med plants in the game he may as well pull the plug now.
(It's also of great concern that Vik was requesting $10k to fix the artwork. This was either very poor thinking or there was an ulterior agenda there.)
 
Of course, when the important work is done, like getting substantial funds and staff, then making the game more functional is a priority.Then med plants and other functions can be dealt with.
 
This isn't about different people taking different stances than others, we are staring at obvious, basic, business principles.
This is business 101.
 
Zen

where i can refine med plants?

Yep, the foundry.