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Autonauts

Make and teach robots to automate the world! · By Denki

Some Additional Thoughts for the Future?

A topic by Bloodemi created Aug 06, 2017 Views: 409 Replies: 3
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Hi Denki (or if there is any additional developer: Hello dear developers)

i'm right now in the mood that i got nothing to do after about 10 lovely hours of automatization with Autonauts. I know that this game in pre pre alpha and really: I liked it alot!

For additional updates i have also some thoughts about some improvements:

  • more Robot Commands: I really liked the repeat until ... command but there should be some options available like that the robot should continues until the receiving machine (like a workbench or a seeding tray) is full with the stuff that is needed, also a AND command like "until the storage is full AND the hand of some other worker is also full" here is also maybe intresting to add some other worker as condition. Also a command like until the storage is at a certain volume.
  • Robot overview: after i created SO MUCH WORKERS it was a pain to find out which worker did this and which worker did some other task. Also it would be nice that you could copy the commands in the workers.
  • Command Toolbar: Sometimes you want to build a "recharge" robot... but there is right now no robot that needs to be charged. It would be much more easier and helpful to add a Toolbar with commands that are available.
  • Linked Items Markup: Sometimes you have a command that a robot gets out of that storage into that certain workbench... but which one is not highlighted when you move over the command with the mouse... and this would be really nice :)
  • Change linked Items: Sometimes you change the position of a storage and then... the worker will do nothing until you teached him the new storage and fix the problem. Also after that sometimes, he still does nothing so you do the whole command row again. Would be nice if we could change the linked storage in the "get" command
  • Better Metal usage: Right know, there is no real sense of metal tools instead of saying to the workers that they should get automatized a wooden tool out of a storage instead of getting as fast as possible metal tools. the benefit is really not that high that you say: YES METAL TOOLS.
  • Any usage of the villagers: right now there is no afford for having the villagers, only for usage of milk that in my case was everytime full of storage :D
  • Get rid of any item/liquid: right now there is no way to destroy things. instead of a recycler could be some scrap maker that makes scrap and that could be used in some other way? maybe to feed the workers? :)
  • new contant and new materials: I think that is unnecessary to say but i liked to get this also out of my thoughts: some tier level like in minecraft or other familiar sandbox games is what that game would get much more depth then before, also maybe some special workers or specialist workers. Also please at every tier it should get harder and harder to get to the next stage, so you need more and more things to goal the next tier.

everything else is right now really really nice, i appreciated playing that game so much... so i could not resist and give denki some money for his afford. Also developing that game from only one person is so awesome! Please continue your work with autonauts and make it to that sandbox game that everybody was searching for :)  (if more developers then denki: thanks also for there afford!)

Edit: Also one question: Is it allowed to stream or share some videos in youtube of that game?

Thank you

Bloodemi

FYI a few youtubers have already uploaded videos and they are still up after months so i'm sure they don't mind. Also, you requested a lot of things, it's going to take a while for them to implement small changes, much less the large ones, so patience is key here. Rome wasn't built in a day.

For sure i will be patient, i didn't requested these things, its the developers opinion to include that into the game like it should be everytime... Not that the beta tester or anywho make a 'request'... The game is made by the developer and if they are thinking: no thats not the stil for this game, then they don't include that into the game. 


But i wanted to share the Community and within also the decelopers my thoughts what would be in my subjectiv opinion a improvement of the game. 

And also thanks for your reply StreamSniperess. Even if some youtuber uploaded some videos, if the developer wants them to, they could also choose that they need to delete the videos, so asking before acting is everytime a confirmation that you are allowed to do the streams and videos including the view of the game :) 

Developer

Woah! That's a lot of stuff there :) They're all great ideas but each one is already on our to-do list! So you must be thinking like us. 

Thanks so much for taking the time to put this together and the kind words.

And yes, stream and youtube this as much as you want.

Oh and btw there's 2 people working on it, Aaron and Gary. You'll find us both regularly on the Autonauts Discord server.

Thanks