This challenges keep getting more and more difficult. Now I must figure out something that Exode does not already do and that can potentially make it better (than it already is)?
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Eureka!
So wildlife are already capturable. But what if after capturing and keeping them in the respective installation, you could tame them!
Taming them could prove difficult, requiring some skill/quests/research or all of the above. Upon taming the animal maybe an NFT can be minted or even after it's been tamed but reached a certain Happiness/Comfort threshold.
Then it is a permanent addition to your collection! Able to be deployed during evacuation either as a "guard dog" or small beast of burden (helping to load cargo/fuel). And of course having related useful skills during colonization gameplay. The "type" of animal or which skills it has will depend on how you train it and/or treat it once it is tamed.
Well? What do you think?

The front end needs more presentation to the user. Specifically deck creation. Sorry to harp on this point but, building decks will be very key to your game outcome. Making it so equipping your crew is easier and you can pick exactly which card is selected.

Something like, you select a crew and it opens up a tree view of all the slots that can be equipped. Then enable the player to drag and drop their cards onto the tree slots. This would greatly assist new players, as there is more visualization of crew and equipment.

Selection of cards could be done via list box kind of selection list. Once a card is selected, if there more than one, a list of the cards shows, enabling the player to select a specific card. It would be nice if the upgrade levels of upgraded items could show as well, as some items are not at the same upgrade level.

Other than that, I was going to suggest Pets!! Extra fun level :)

Thanks for the updates and giveaways. And for my entry this week...

I am going to touch on the idea of making things more clear to the player as well. I will go back to the evacuation, here. I could have easily missed something, but for me the experience was constantly jumping from screen to screen (locations) and checking how much time was left before I could issue new orders. I would like to see the things consolidated, or simplified.

A single command queue display with all current actions listed in time to completion order would do the trick. Even the ability to scroll back through the information log would help greatly, then I could see the "team member completed X" messages that were often lost too quickly to read. Maybe one or both of these already exists, but if so it wasn't clear to me that they did or how I could activate them. So that would need to be clearer.

But generally speaking, the game has grand plans for having a very broad scope. So, managing the complexity is always going to be key, and the more intuitive the user experience is, the easier it will be to manage the complexity.

I agree with one or two of the other comments. I would wish for a more user-friendly updated overall userinterface. not just the ingame part :)
I mean it is not like it is not working, nor is it totally bad. But only not very intuitive.

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Strategy, Survival, and Base Management are really my favorite genres when it comes to games. And I love that Exode has all of them in one. Especially with the coming updates, I can start seeing the aspects I like. And so, I want to contribute to the game.

I'm not sure how much micromanaging will be involved in this game.

And two things I want to share that I think are essential for Colony Management is the proper utilization of time, tasks, and the people in the colony. Of course, a good colony manager will maximize each of these aspects and would not want idle colonists doing anything unproductive with their time.

Now I've been playing this game called, Oxygen Not Included, and had immersed a vast amount of time here. It's also a space and colony management simulator that is extremely detailed. One important feature they have is what they called, PRIORITIES.

COLONISTS PRIORITIES

This has been created to:

• automate colonists to do their job or tasks on their own
• minimize idle colonists by allowing continuous chores or tasks in an order of priority
• giving colonists more than one role to fill the gaps of other roles, which is very essential for starting colonies that have a limited population

Check this image below.

For example:

1) A Colonist I named as CHEF/FARMER:

• this colonist's highest priority is to cook food whenever there are supplies available
• if there is no more food to cook, his next priority is to tend the farm or ranch
• if suddenly food supplies arrived, once he finished his current cycle of farming, he would go back immediately to cooking
• and if there's nothing to cook, farm or ranch I gave him a much lower priority to do the cleaning

2) A Colonist I name as BUILDER/CRAFTER/RESEARCHER:

• this colonist's main priority is to construct anything that I manually placed on the colony
• he would continue constructing until there are no more construction supplies available to finish the construction
• if that happens, I already set him the next priority to do crafting
• he will continuously craft items until such time that construction supplies arrive and he can switch back to finish the pending construction
• if he is unable to construct or craft, I also gave him the next priority to do research

I hope you understand what I'm trying to show here =)

COLONISTS SCHEDULE

Now you might say, how about the other stuff in the colony like Leisure. So here comes another feature, Schedule, the 24-hour cycle divided into hours. This aspect of the game is yet another means to automate characters to do things continuously on their own.

Check this image below.

From here we can modify and divide the 24-hour cycle into 3 main parts:

• work time
• leisure time
• rest time

We can adjust how many hours a colonist should work, should do their leisure, and how much sleep they should get.

Shifting schedules might be too much to think of, so I think we can just stick to this basic scheduling for now.

Work Time

This is where all tasks in the priorities are done.

Leisure Time

I'm not sure what our dev plans to control leisure, but these things below fall under this category:

• Healing (when you are in the infirmary)
• Eating
• Leisure activity - Solo
• Leisure activity - Social
• Leisure activity - Romantic
• Dispute

Rest Time

I have it separated since I thought this is the essential sleep cycle for everyone. Even Robots have to recharge once in a while.

What about FIELD WORK?

I'm also not sure how our dev will handle this, but I think this part here requires manually being started or controlled by the player.

So to start any of this Field Work, the player should select the colonists to deploy for either Hunting, Scouting, Escorting, or Collecting.

Then they will just come back to the base after a set amount of time accordingly.

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There are still a lot of ideas I can share to Exode, but these things are good for BETA for now.

English is not my native language, thank you for your understanding =)

my game account is
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While it seems only reasonable that a new colony must start with hunting and gathering avaliable resources, the progression to Farming and Crafting seems very important to a concious crew. I see capturing and taming animals I assume to maximize their numbers for food and also as helpers. I See cooking and discovery of indegiounes plant species as well as discovery of new spieces, I wonder if Beta could introduce some basic farming that could evolve with the colony? A farming colony could produce extra food and sell it as a source of income.

I am very excited for the new phase of Alpha, I supose I need to learn to build makeshift structures quickly before morale gets too out of hand.

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