Thanks for your (literal) thoughts! Very helpful to get an insight in player's pain points, a lot of those I would attribute to a lack of polishing and for phase 2 and 3 also a lack of depth. RNG is definitely too impactful for phase 2, silica gating shouldn't happen.
Gotcha. My current idea is to lock the Von Neumann probe longer, so players have to go through phase 2 and scale up production more. Getting a lot of resources together to finally build the ultimate probe.
For phase 3 I am not sure yet how to make the gameplay a bit more interesting, currently you basically only buy engineering upgrades to win the game. Any ideas what you would find interesting?
Those are some great points, thanks for the feedback! Endgame definitely needs some balancing tweaks, I might also still add some different/additional mechanics. And the pioneer probe is not needed in phase 3, I guess that is what you mean that isn't needed anymore?
Congrats for making it through all three modes! Prestige mechanics are not really implemented yet, want to get the basic gameplay right first.
The research center bug is already fixed for the next update, there should be unlimited upgrades now. The carbon discovery is not triggered indeed, it should happen once you scan your first system with carbon, will take a look.
What did you think about the gameplay mechanics in the later stages of the game and the transitions between them?
Actually, you are right, it has the additional requirement of having discovered Carbon, but it is not showing it. Carbon only becomes available when you leave your home system and get resources from other systems. My debug jumps unlocks carbon too early. Will fix that is shown as requirement.
