Ratopia

I keep trying to like this game, because there are fun aspects and also it has rats. But, it's time to give up and uninstall. Again. The basic bits of building a ratopia could be fun but there are so many systems that are both poorly thought out and honestly don't even make sense. The first thing that frustrated me - why would a colony of 20 rats have its own monetary system? On top of that, why would I make my workers BUY THEIR SUPPLIES? The first time a rat couldn't *afford* to do their job was frustrating. I don't want to micromanage supply prices. I don't want rats to starve to death at all, but certainly not because they bought wood to make me wood planks. And yet... The next thing that frustrated me was trying to figure out how to not burn through my rats by making them work until they ran out of money, then starved to death. This is more absurd than it should be. You have a tax office that collects taxes from your 20 rats (you might even need two!) Then establish a tax code. I think I can set a policy to give welfare to my rats too, but that never worked. They kept dying even if I gave them money. All to build me wood planks. Then all my rats started getting sick and dying. I rushed to research a ton of technologies to make medicine. How do I use the medicine? I built a hospital but my sick rats still just hung out by the treasure chest. Then died. Now I need someone else to make my wood planks. The tutorial never had me build these things, it DID have me build a tax collector and create a registration system for the rats. I guess this bit tracks real life. Oh the bed system I still am not sure I'm doing right. The default option is to manually assign rats to beds, but there is an automatic thing that I *think* lets any rat use the same bed but I'm also not sure if it's letting rats claim a bed. It's impossible to know because a lot of rats like to sleep - you guessed it - by the treasure chest. I skipped an annoying thing, all my rats dying of hunger. Even with 2 hunting huts (good luck building the wheat farm before the rats eat your wheat) I'd constantly run out of food. Even once a bunch of rats died and I was down to like 15, the hunters couldn't keep them fed. The path finding system is flawed, rats get stuck a LOT by making poor choices or just by wanting to go weird places. OH THEN ALL MY RATS STARTED DOING CRIMES. I don't blame them since they were starving and disease ridden. I don't need this much capitalism man, it's TWENTY RATS