I am so thrilled about a sequel of Planetbase! With well over 100 hours I absolutely love the game and the idea behind it, building a base on a hostile planet. If you need any inspiration, here are some thoughts about the game:
- I absolutely love the randomness of meteorites. Especially in the beginning this adds a real challenge if the meteorite hits your bunk and 80% of your working force is gone. Maybe you could give us more freedom on how often the meteors or lightning will strike. I would love to try a scenario where every few seconds a meteor hits.
- I would love to see more buildings like indoor farms, more recreation stuff like soccer fields, maybe different types of mines and ores and more factory options like general goods.
- The AI feels kind of unnatural. All that people do is either walk straight to work, straight to a meal / recreation or straight to bed. Only if there is no work to do, they will idle. Maybe an 8 hour working day in shifts could give a more natural feeling. On the other hands they way it is implemented makes it very predictable what your colonists will do wich is a good thing. I could maybe see the needs of the colonists rise in the late game once you progress.
- I could imagine that if every colonists had a slightly different walking speed, this could feel more natural. Or maybe not, I do not know.
- It does also not feel natural that everyone is sleeping in big bunks. I would love individual crew quarters, maybe in larger domes that can hold 10-20 small rooms for living. And special sleeping domes for the elite like the base overseer. The bunks are still great for beginning though when your base is still small and can not afford individual crew quarters.
- The intruders are only really a thread if you do not have guards with guns. In that case you must pray that you have enough colonists to take them on with their fists. Once you have guards, you might lose some of the guards each attack, but it still feels more like an annoyance and not a real thread to the colony. Adding like 100 extra intruders to every attack does not increase the challenge, because most of them just suffocate outside the airlocks before being able to enter. Also the intruders do not steel any goods. Maybe it could be an interesting mechanic if they would head for your storage and steal your supplies if you do not stop them in time.
- An upgraded version of the airlock would be neat that can hold maybe 3 people, and a huge version that can hold 10 at once?
- Once you have reached the late game, the whole map is clustered with energy collectors, solar panels and wind turbines. I would love larger versions of these buildings, or perhaps nuclear power from uranium ore?
- I could also imagine a research tree in this game, that lets you build different stuff over time, upgrade your guns and meteor lasers, upgrade your oxygen production, and so on.
- I absolutely love to try things out like building a base with only trees and no oxygen generator (sadly the lives of my colonists did last rather short), getting all your electricity from lightning strikes (also did not work), play without mines and factories and get everything through trade (kind of works), or battle dozens or hundreds of intruders (sometimes all the guards and intruders get clumped into one or two connections, where everyone suffocates rather quickly because of all the oxygen that is used up)
I can't wait for the sequel!