Science system: Architect

[Brickcaster]

The upkeep in this game is getting to be a bit much. It's too much hassle spamming farms and wells and the corresponding gem shop items don't provide nearly enough relief.

Wheat fields and wells and mines all need to provide more resources before they deplete. I'm already up to needing to spam 40 wheat fields, 18 wells, 6 mines per day just to keep up with how rapidly my island eats through these and I only have about half of the total licenses I could own. Now there's no such thing as a free lunch, so this should be upgrades paid for with manuscripts/tomes/Codexes at a new building, the architect. Each manuscript can provide +10% to wheat fields or wells. Manuscripts already are limited and have increasing costs. Manuscripts provide +5% to mines (except gold) or 10% to stone deposits, multiplicative with geologist bonuses. Codexes provide +20% to gold mines. This change is sorely needed to make the game playable without needing 40+ silos and 20+ watermills.

[RonEmpire]

Supposedly new science stuff is coming for island skills

[Moonlime]

Will need better than +5, +10, +20 for those with silos and watermills to spend time on.

Bigger mine deposits - we can get by training geos

Interesting and useful would be mines/deposits for expert resources: titanium, granite, exotic wood, star coins, magic beans..

[Draconus2004]

I see nothing wrong with 30 watermills to replace the 100+ wells a lot of people need. a lot more space efficient. my biggest complaint about silos is the space they require. But obtaining the things is something to work towards, and very nice once you have them all.

Yes, architecture science would be nice - unless each separate building has its own science chain.

[Brickcaster]

These changes can't come soon enough. The current time spent placing fields/wells is enormous. I was suggesting +10% (ish) per science item spent, so someone that really wants to improve their wheat fields can drop 20 of them for 600 wheat fields. Or drop even more. The manuscripts already have increasing costs so further wheat field upgrades will be more expensive and this should self regulate.

Geologists skills are nice, but the gains don't feel like nearly enough. +15% means an iron mine lasts 4 more hours at level 2. It's not so much so much the time needed to send the geologists out (this is what we buy more geologists for) as much as the time spent replacing the buildings all of the time.

Unbuffed, a gold chain produces 37.5 coins per gold mine. Gold mines really need to hold more to make this worthwhile for anything except someone with a good amount of startup wealth. A small buff + science upgrades could help mitigate this.

[Askimi]

I'd like to play on the test server but I've had conflicting information given to me. I was told to play with a different log in than what I use on the regular server, someone else told me to create a new identity to play on the test server with and when I go to the test server log in page, it states there "Play for Free with your existing account".

Color me very confused in Maine.

Thanks for any help you're willing to give.