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It's more about creating better builds than puzzles. Although I plan to have some puzzles in the levels - when you solve them, you will get stuff that you can either use immediately or parts for persistence. And that's the bit I have too many ideas how to approach. Unlocking stuff. I'd like to avoid the situation when the game turns into a slow grind. It may get a bit slower after a while but you should still be able to get new stuff quite often. Do you get that randomly or should you choose which one do you want to get. If you were to choose, then I want to have some of the stuff available to try out during a run - you can just find EXM module or a weapon part, check it out and decide if you want to go in that dir. Or maybe I should have things that are unlocked for a few runs for free.. I also like branching technology trees. And right now I had an idea about making it a maze. With things that are free for a while you see their location in the "technology chart" but to get there to unlock them permanently, you have to unlock other things on the way and there should be more paths to get there than just one. It wouldn't be a branching tree then. And also it is a kind of a puzzle. Wrote that down. Definitely I am going to try it for EXMs. For weapons I am thinking more about a persistent inventory. You have a lot of space but it is still limited. You will have to drop some of the stuff to get new one. But while there will be a well defined list of EXMs, weapon parts will be randomly generated. Even if you unlock all EXMs and other stuff, you still may be looking for the best weapon parts.

Thank you. I do believe that I could get to that idea eventually but it was much easier with the words that you wrote. Words, phrases, sentences trigger certain parts of the brain and new ideas are flowing then. Thank you :)