Metal industry and game progression

[AriZona]

This post in no critique. I find the new update in metal industry very healthy, rational, and big thanks to devs here.

On the idea side, I find reasonable to see 'aka' the bone/stone (no metal), soft metal, and hard metal 'ages' a bit more pronounced and stretched even more in time. I believe that this could be accomplished in few way: increasing LP cost buying skills AND introducing a reasonable RNG event to enable the access to another skill (to make the game less deterministic). The ability to transit into or learn other skills could be dependent on INT x LORE x the ability type (like masonry for metal, farming for farming and gardening, etc.).

Thanks.

[Jackwolf]

+1 on the compliments.

I do think the "soft metal" age should be expanded a bit. 80% of what you can do with soft metal is locked behind Hammer & Anvil, so it feels exciting! to just be a little bit disappointing. If the recipes were hidden behind seeing an Anvil that would be pretty neat.

[Southpaw]

one of the worst things you could probably do to industry is add more goofy uncontrollable RNG-gates on something pivotal to "competition," and also add even more LP costs to what already costs 150k for the final tier.

those first few days fucking suck.

[meus]

Yes, early world sucks, but also gating game content behind even higher LP wall would keep the status quo. Even now, a week into the new world that will probably last a year or so, we have people with Bronze which is hard metal already. Any gating mechanics will anyway be skipped, and instead of living in the "bone and stone era" people will just rush hard metal and later steel, as they do now.

[Undefined]

It's definitely slowed down progression slightly, this is certainly the first world I've ever gone mining with a cart full of logs because I'm still using crappy wooden supports due to what seems like a reduced chance of finding excess hard metal I can justify spending on supports on the first couple of layers, combined with the massive amounts of lead everywhere.