wait, so game breaking soft lock is a feature not a bug? With no option to restart besides nuking the save file?
Not to be mean about it, but tell me you don't want people to keep playing by trying new things to keep it interesting, without telling me you don't want people to keep playing by trying new things to keep it interesting.
It is simply state that happens when illogical/wrong decisions are made.
But I see your point, I didn't consider if someone makes these illogical/wrong decision on purpose just to see what would happen and have lots of bytes collected. So nuking save file would be too harsh of punishment for such action, especially when made on purpose.
I was thinking about it from perspective to be like 1 state that player should always avoid and if get there by accident then would make sure to remember and understand why it happened and never repeat it again suggesting player to use strategy and caution and less random button pressing.
Restart seemed too easy, so player doesn't have anything to be afraid of and can just repeat same mistake and simply restart.
Will give more thought to this, if you have any suggestions let me know.
For now it seems 1 time warning (like congratulations you broke the logic/game, don't do it again or will lose all progress) and offer restart and if such state occurs again then full reset.
How about a restart at the cost of a byte, and you're moved down the progress ladder to the beginning of the byte lost? ie, so if you have 3 and are 40% of the way to 4, and you pay 1 to restart, the progress meter is now at 0% at the beginning of the 3rd byte. This way, it is impactful but not punitive.
Yep this and 1 time warning with just restart and next time take 1 byte and progress reset and if no bytes then reset/restart is same. Warning will be 1 time free restart this i think would work best because later if rushing this state can be achieved accidentally by simply forgetting to increase storage or focusing only on network when using upgrades at beginning on new game. Thank you for your feedback.
