Questions, ideas and advices in general

Hey, I just want to contribute with the beta in a general way. Maybe some of the thing I listed are already taking care, discussed or reported, but I don’t have the time to read all the threads in the forum; if that is the case someone please tell me.

Bugs
1.- when you get nocked back for some attack, you can get stuck in walls or funny corners
2.- when some NPC's wander to far, if you talk to them a bubble with a chopped dialog pops up, if he/she returns to his designated "zone" the dialogs came back to normal
3.- the "neat welder's helmet" and the "handy space helmet" cannot be made because the game does not recognize the matter block, are those not implemented jet?
4.- sometimes when I quick save and reload my char, the game crashes. Win 8 bug I think

Questions
1.- Does toy houses will have any purpose other than give you pixels?, maybe they belong to tiny people and have stroyline ?!
2.- cooking specific dishes will have particular effects, like the apple pay, or rewards for encouraging to go and find all kind of blueprints and recepies?
3.- Does the lab (the ones like portal) will have any storyline or other purpose aside the high tech in the end? (btw, my it is my favorite place so far "lvl 1 go ape"... maybe the banana is a lie ?!)
4.- OMG! why the Avians are allowed to eat chickens ?!
5.- does exist a quick method of switch between tech, hotkeys of some sort?
6.- the shields have some sort of scaling stats? or tiers?, or will have a sustancial mechanic in the combat system?

Ideas for improving
1.- the Npc's who lives in the wilderness, like merchants or caravans maybe can be in packs (like some floran I encountered) and have som method of taking care of the wild animals, or have gards?. I feel bad when some wild bird kill the merchs
2.- the UI of the game is based in info windows and when you try to check some description, if the item is to low the description box should auto-arrange to the boundaries of the game and not appear chopped
3.- maybe its just me, buy above the gamma sector I cannot find irons so far, maybe you can divide the current titanium blocks half iron and half titanium so, in order to get iron you don’t have to backtrack to other sectors and also for the purpose of getting titanium more rare

Advices
1.- please, dont make diamonds spawn in the surface. I have encountered a couple cases, and its agains all logic!, because you need lots of tons above for the formation of diamonds I think. Maybe this is just me being picky
2.- Idk if is a good combat-design decision don't have a insensibility short period after taking damage

Finally just wanna say its been a real pleasure get the game and experience in this stage, you overpassed all my expectations so far. Keep the good work!

 

Tiy has stated that the devs are working on a priority system which will allow players to use four techs at the same time and the game will control what order they activate in. Until that is implemented, Tiy said that he would throw in a hotkey to switch between techs quickly in the near future.

 

Actually diamond s not unheard of in alluvial deposits, as owing to its harness it resists erosion better than surrounding matrix in which it it bedded, pieces are then transported by action of the water course that eroded them free in the first place. This is similar to finding gold in streams.

That's riding past possibilities of uplift of regions suited to diamond formation followed by erosion, by water, wind or ice, of overlying material, or its exposure as a result of faulting.

If anything surface diamond deposits are one of the more plausible aspects of geology in the game.

 

thanks, didnt knew that. Hope its like a bar or some sort were you can asignate your tech and quickly toggle them

 

Yes, that's the reason why in some parts in Africa you can find almost near the surface.. but my point is that I think for the purposes of the game finding diamonds should be more like a spelunk trip to the depths, not a casual walk in the surface, what do u think?

 

By that logic, Iron should only be found in the cores of worlds and gold should have some tiny sliver of a percent in occurrence rates. Based on their electronegative properties and prevailancies against the Chondritic main.

I don't deny that more nonmetalic minerals and more uses for them would be welcome, but as I said Diamond's surface rates of occurrence is a rare window into geological accuracy in a game that wants me to accept that a Gold Pickaxes is anything but the 'all comers Moria Mining' trophy. '