SpaceCraft

Not a good offline game. Only one base allowed.

So for right now, until things approve, I cannot feel personally comfortable recommending this game. While this game does have the potential to become a lot better than it is, there is just too much right now that shadows that possibility. - Automation is bare bones. Base automation buildings are a LOT SLOWER than the player. Meaning, you craft faster by hand than your base can do by a drastic margin. (I'm not counting that tiny micro furnace, while it is fast, it's not automated and it's inventory size is exceptionally tiny) Smelters, Assemblers, Factories. They are just too damn slow. When you think Automation, you think a process that is going to streamline things both in an efficient manner AND faster than you can do yourself. That is not currently the case in this game. Your time invested will not be respected. - Base Building (we are ignoring the scrapyard part because unless your Tech 4, you won't have access to one anyway) When you dismantle a base. you get a random part and scrap. You effectively have to sink more time and resources to make a new base. Why is this a problem? you know tech points you need to progress in the tech tree right? Well guess what ... it's NOT linear. Your base will get you around 200 or so tech points in the first day of leaving it automate. But afterwards you get a drastic cut in tech points earned which forces you to destroy that base and make a new one to reset that counter. So if you do the math ... you can see why that's a massive issue. If we dismantle a base we built, which we have to do to circumvent this problem, we should get a 100% return on what we put into it. We don't. - Progress So you currently have 'skills' to invest time in. Science, Exploration, Tech, If you get to rank 5 Science, it does not tally in any additional science points you go to the laboratory to earn. It just stays 0/1800. So if you were a lil over to GET to rank 5, any excess is lost to the void. Exploration, a hard req for progressing, is slow and tedious. Planets get 20. Small Grav gets 5, Big Grav gets 15. (for right now its just the same process over an over. Very boring) - Player Progress Server Transfers and previous patches. Those who lost progress transferring servers, never got that progress reimbursed when they 'fixxed it' On top of that, the currency players invested into their tech trees, didn't get a reimbursement when the devs lowered the cost. - Marketing Outside of the Shipyard where you can sell to the game (which you have to wait a few days for them to get the money back which stalls you) You have to be in a corp to use the player market terminal. Not only is it poorly implemented. It has no headroom. Players will undercut like a mofo which not only hinders sales but often makes the time posting the resources (with a fee) but at times makes that entirely negligible. Desperately needs a supply vs demand feature. Look for Elite Dangerous as a prime example when it comes to monetary logistics. - Requests Corp requests are just bad. Not only do they require an exuberant amount of resources for the basic contracts, the rewards are not that much to be wow'd by. - Corps Corps just don't get much of a front row seat in visibility as one would prefer. Recruiting for corps is a massive time sink and a pain. Right now the only way to do so is post in the discord and wait for validation, or on the steam discussions page (Which we all know how rewarding that can be, right?) What would HELP the process, is allow a corp page in-game that displayed every corp, alongside their member count AND a chosen advertisement post. So when people hit that P button they can actually 'shop around' so to speak. Right now the only external corp presence you have his the leaderboards and even that only shows a limited amount. Give people some much needed QoL On top of that, while this can be a two-edged sword deal, I feel players should have a minor punishment for leaving a corp. Make them have a timeframe they need to wait before they can enlist in another corp, or even a fee to pay. Otherwise you can have people just come and go with little to no consequence which when you're working on a corp and sinking time into it, having them freely just bounce around hurts everyone. Why this bothers me? this isn't the first game like this. It has had plenty of previous ones to learn from. Yet has implemented the bare bones. Sure it's early access, but that's not an excuse for not respecting a players time. If you expect people to sink every hour of their time every day to make any respectable headway, that's a game killer. Their are TONS of other issues players currently have expressed with this game but I'm personally not going into the effort to write all of it down here. I do like the game, but I hate just as much. If things start progressing in a positive manner then I may change or amend this review, but for now players are better playing something else and leaving this one in the oven for a bit. If your game feels like Amazon simulator in space with no pay, no breaks, and no PTO. You should just hand it over to someone else who can take the development seriously.