So I did some new runs on the 0.7.4.
I still have fun. :) and I saw that some of my concerns were already adressed ! That's nice.
Here some other thoughts :
- It feels kind of weird that electors adress you the same way the first time you see them, whether they hate you or not. Typically, having someone saying "ok we'll speak later, xoxo" and then learning this person is hostile and won't speak to you is weird.
- I sometimes really don't understand why some electors don't want to talk to me. For instance, in some runs Yakau agrees to speak with me, in others he won't, and I really don't have the slightest clue to know why.
- That's a bit a shame that we don't have more interactions with Lukomir. It feels like that's a supervillain but we don't know much about him x) it would be nice to feel more involved to know why we don't want him to grab power, for instance.
- I often ask directly some people to be my logothete, without checking their background or social network. But then 1/ then Ican't search that anymore 2/ I don't have the info. It would be logical to automatically unlock all these data once someone is your logothete, or at least their social network, don't you think ?
- Maybe it's intended, but I feel like some skills are only used once or twice in the game and not in a very useful way... For instance, "Chain".
- I still feel like a run is too short. Maybe that's because there are less planned interactions / turn than in Long Live the Queen, or because there is not any description of what you are learning each time you cross a skill step, you don't have much interactions with each character... Or simply, more planets and more turns will do the trick. We can't really develop our skills very much, and so we can't reasonably have more than one skill at "Grandmaster" per run, for instance. (but well, having a "Grandmaster" stat seems quite useless, except maybe for Empathy)
- I think that's really difficult to win a run without a serious Science boost early in the game, typically by having Stoyan as logothete ^^ maybe it's intended.
Annnnd... That was my thoughts for now ! Thanks again for your work !