Hi Everyone!
I have 2 buildings and a resource for you all today. The Tailor turns cloth into Clothing which is a basic good (people can buy it in markets), and the Dice House, which is a 1x1 Entertainment building with a short range. Eventually the Dice House will have money exchange hands, but that functionality has not been put in place yet.
Patch Notes:
- New Building: Dice House, The Dice House provides entertainment for a small area. However the house does seem to win more often than not...
- New Building: Tailor Shop, The Tailor Shop creates Clothing from Cloth.
- New Resource: Clothing, Clothing is a basic good that costs 22/44 (local/Trade).
- Your name on the score screen should no longer say "Batholith Entertainment", it should say your screen name.
- Some typos have been fixed.
- Sheep takes slightly longer to produce.
- Cloth takes slightly less time to produce.
- A few resources have had their trade values slightly increased.
Whats next:
With the number of buildings now soaring to 38 (up from about 20 when EA started), and more systems in place I am going to start putting more focus on depth of each system, rather than the current main focus of getting MORE EVERYTHING in.
This does not mean that more buildings/resources/systems arnt coming, but the pace of new buildings/resources/systems is going to slow down a bit in order to make time for expanding on what is already there.
Some examples are:
- More gods
- More god powers
- Shops like the Pottery Hut having more than 1 resource to make.
- Some of the negative effects that you will need to keep at bay, like people stealing from tax collectors, and lighting buildings on fire when they are unhappy, etc...
- Level 3 houses.
- Religious and Entertainment buildings taking in specific resources that will boost their range. (an example would be the Theater having access to clay masks will boost its range 1 further).
Whats the next system?
I recently commissioned the art for the water and health system. This system will go in in stages but it should bring more depth with each stage.
When is level 4 coming?
I would say I am about 70% done with level 4, and I HOPE to have it in on Tuesday's patch. So if you want to have access to level 4 when it launches make sure to beat 1-3 before then.
Lastly,
If you are enjoying the game, or just like where it is headed please take a few minutes and write a review for it. Every little bit helps, and as promised all money that comes in during Early Access will go directly back into the game! As always I will continue to pump as much time as I can into the game to make sure it keeps growing :)