Wintertime blues

[MagicManICT]

Feels like the player count after winter has dropped again? I see a lot of abandoned villages near my place.
Questioning if winter and spring shouldn't be made more appealing to people and give them a reason to keep on playing during those seasons as well?

[Gorakil]

The problem with winter - it lacks content. There are literally nothing to do in winter. CAn be fixed by winter exclusive dungeons\crops\ animals\ etc, but we need to w8 until yorb would care about this exact topic.

[CSPAN]

Winter really is a window for folks to quit. At this point in the game, those that are left from world start are basically raising the quality of bone kilns and using imagination for content. If winter is your first impression of Haven you'll likely never play again. So there is this window where tired players can quit and, within that same window, where new players get an awful first impression. What if the map was "hemisphere'd" and new players only spawned within the part of the world where it was spring or summer?

[pawnchito]

Winter really is a window for folks to quit. At this point in the game, those that are left from world start are basically raising the quality of bone kilns and using imagination for content. If winter is your first impression of Haven you'll likely never play again. So there is this window where tired players can quit and, within that same window, where new players get an awful first impression. What if the map was "hemisphere'd" and new players only spawned within the part of the world where it was spring or summer?

if snow was "hemisphered" everyone would be "forced" to have 2 bases to keep spiraling crops.

[CSPAN]

There should be remarkably little incentive to be that desperate with crop quality. Crops should probably take longer to grow in any case.

[MagicManICT]

This was split from viewtopic.php?f=49&t=41293. I know it started with a discussion on a drop in player count, but with the direction of the replies, it should probably be here. (Thanks for letting us know it was out of place.)

If anyone has a better title, feel free to let me know.

[shubla]

Thats what happens when you literally stop updating the game for a month.

[synntax33]

Thats what happens when you literally stop updating the game for a month.

Omfg no game should require constant updates. Sure, winter sucks, and needs a bit of reworking, but at least it's there.

[AHONEN]

new players only spawned within the part of the world where it was spring or summer?

spring is also an awful season to spawn..

[MagicManICT]

Thats what happens when you literally stop updating the game for a month.

Omfg no game should require constant updates. Sure, winter sucks, and needs a bit of reworking, but at least it's there.

People here have gotten used to small weekly updates rather than what you see in other large games of a moderate to large sized update once a month or even every 3 or 6. Personally, I'd be fine with a weekly status update and just to let us know what bugs have been fixed, and additions coming once a month or so several at a time so there's a few things to explore in a go.

As far as winter, yeah, sure, it's there. It removes over half the game with little to replace it. As a "full time miner" it doesn't bother me too much... right up until the food runs out.