Dev's Diary: Science System 5/9/2013

[darkeskye]

i wish they would fix the broken quests first i.e. adventures and free homezone

[Carpothieas]

These are some superb expansions to the game, I love it!!! I would state though that adding Granite and Exotic Wood buildings. And impleminting the ability to clear land so that players could build in desired locations would greatly benefit gameplay

[Maria26]

Finally...something new that will last longer than 1 day of excitement!

[vwxy]

Really excited

[xrossfader]

You should also include 10 building licenses with this patch. =)

[Evil_J]

took me 5 min to make this table about the production of the new buildings (doesnt count transport time)



anyone else spot the problem?

[Wimpy]

19200 E Logs in 24 hours sounds a little excessive to me.

[supermind]

That's all well and good, only problem I see, if the costs and time remain as pictured above(Bookbinder is level 5 already) for creating Manuscripts, Tomes, and Codex. It will take 15 days to make 1 Tome(10 Manuscripts @ 1½ day per), and 150 days to make 1 Codex(100 Manuscripts turns into 10 Tomes, which turns into 1 Codex).....

And before for ya'll start jumpin' in with "Oh blah blah blah trade this, blah blah trade that" Read above again...Manuscripts, Tomes, and Codex are Non-Tradable....you have to MAKE every single one....I don't even want to know how long it'll take to produce a single Manuscript/Tome/Codex with a Level 1 Bookbinder

"It is possible to improve each Geologist with up to 31 skill points (in total). You should plan the way you want to develop your specialist, because you have to choose between different skills. But each specialist can be skilled individually."
Umm...I have 13 Geologists...with the way I see this new Science System, it will take at least a year to manually cap out a single Geologist...(or you can cheat and buy gems *did ya see the lil gem icon next to scripts/tomes/codexs in the picture above?*
Not to mention Geologists will not be the only thing we will be spending these new items on...Explorers, Military, and Economy...

Before ya'll get all outta control like I know you can - just remember if you want all 13 of your geologist's to have 31 skill points each...i'll see ya in 13 years...unless of course you spend $1000-$2000 on gems and buy the items(you know who you are), then i'll see ya in-game in june!

p.s. don't drink alcohol...

love the comment above
yeah, whats up with "It will not be possible to trade the 3 following resources: Manuscript, Tome, Codex."? At least please give us book that will allow our explorer find granite, then it may be worth my time.

[Evil_J]

19200 E Logs in 24 hours sounds a little excessive to me.

not only the exotic logs, but this production chains are completely off reasonable values, BB should look into this and change the production time for longer cycles, and reduce the raw materials input

[map42]

I wouldn't bet that those cycle times for intermediate and advanced paper are the correct ones for the live servers.
They're likely shortened for the short testing time available before this goes live in June.
Expect the time it takes to make enough books for all your specialists to take years.