I haven't played since 0.7.0 or something like that and I purged all my algorithms of anything VotV related. Haven't seen anything about it in ages and I wanted to go into 0.9.0 blind. This turned out to be a mistake.
First, I need to say ADD A COLORBLIND MODE! These color-coded minigames made me completely give up on the daily tasks until I could forcibly disable the minigames/maintenance in the settings. Don't just add some basic color filter either, let us change the colors completely to suit our vision needs, like the workstation options. That, or maybe even change the minigames to use a combination of colors and shapes. Would be very helpful.
Moving on, many things that were previously tedious but not bad have now been elevated to very tedious and annoying. I'll keep it short and point out the biggest offender; The coordinate towers. Why was this not explained in the tutorial? I had to leave the game and have a friend explain it to me, as well as several other things the tutorial did not cover. They're very expensive to maintain for something so fragile. On day 4, CR3 went down. The next day, CR2 went down! How am I supposed to do my job?!
It's not all bad, though. The new drone is infinitely better than the previous ones. Now it waits for you to send it away and it has an infinite storage bag. Makes cleaning and selling stuff so much smoother. The new base model is excellent, it feels more official with all the branding it has and the new model is far better than the old one. Actually, all of the new models and textures are way higher quality than they used to be. Big props in that department. The new controls are interesting, but I learned to like them. They make some frequent actions faster and more convenient.
I had to turn the difficulty all the way down to easy++ and even still I felt like I had no time to do anything outside of busywork every day. My excitement to revisit this game has turned into caution as I continue playing in the hopes it gets better later.