INTRO: Love the game. I am at my fourth playthrough on new realms tring out new weapons and combat mechanics while experiencing the progress through the story line and I’m lving it. However, it’s been consistantly a pain in the arse to farm ressources for Tier II town upgrades. Around 200 spurce planks 100 iron bars is required and it’s a bit too much considering the effort and time required to acquire ores and wood and then transform them into bars and planks.
PROBLEM 1: The effort in acquiring wood and ore is a bit too fatiguing in general considering the amont needed. There’s too many clicks in the process. I think the mini-game requiring to get it ‘PERFECT ‘ is fine but having to click to loot the ore and wood individially off the ground is uncecessary. Make it like fishing where once the mini game is done, the wood/ores go directly to your inventory or make it ONE lootable item on the ground when we get TWO peices of wood/ore if we do get the mini game PERFECT or give us more lootable ores/wood if we use higher tier tools. Whatever it is, right now it’s too many clicks.
PROBLEM 2: Transforming the ores and wood into bars and plank is also a pain in the arse because we can only do 8 items at a time. I don’t know why is this. There’s no benefit for the player experience or RP of the game. It only make things longer and incentivise the player to build multiple Furnaces and Sawmills in their homes to make the process shorter. Let us put as many ores/wood as we want or increase the number of transformable goods to at least 20 per item type.
Thank you for attention. Awesome game, I think the current amount of time and effort invested in farming takes away from the general feel and excellence of the game. Make non-combat farming easier and take less time by at least 30%, at least for upgrading towns.