Hello everyone!
We wanted to share some news about what we're working on and our goal with the next update!
Our main objective is to make the colony more alive instead of the current situation where Ecopunks are basically hard workers that only eat, work and sleep everyday. So to achieve this, we will add Mental Health, Relationship and Free time activities.
Relationship
Ecopunks will be able to build relationships between them. Each Ecopunk will have a personality with tendency for some type of dialogues (joking, small talking, serious talking) that will affect the relationship.
During free time, Ecopunks will engage dialogue and, depending the personality of both, will result a positive or negative outcome affecting the relationship between both, becoming friend or disliking each other gradually. The dialogue and the relationship will also affect the Mental Health (like positive if one talks to a friend, or negative if one talks to an "enemy" etc)
In addition of that, when the relationship is at its highest and with enough attraction, couple can be made!
Free Time Activities
A new settings for the schedule, free time, will be implemented for the Ecopunks. So they can take some time for themselves to do activities and build relationship (and also rest a bit to restore energy until the next working hour)
We will add some constructions for Free Time Activities that will allow the Ecopunks to do some stuff during their free times, like playing, training etc. It will allow them to gain experience and Mental Health bonus while taking a break.
Mental Health
Mental Health will be added to track the Ecopunks' sanity. With various events that can affect positively and negatively the Mental Health, the Ecopunks will gain bonus on high Mental Health and Mental Breakdown when at its lowest.
We see Mental Health like an extra flavor, so it will be not a difficult feature to manage. Settings will be added for it in the Difficulty Settings too.
As usual balancing, QoL and bugfix will be in the update too.
We're wishing you a great weekend!
See you soon!