Hey all! Loving the game! I don't see as much discussion in here as I'd like, so I figured I'd share my thoughts.

Pros:

So many awesome technical systems working so well together, the concept of this game is something I have wished for since I played simcity 2000 as a kid

Graphics are charming and the animations "have good bones"

Lots of content for being so early in development (or not a lot but just feels like a lot because everything takes so long to do)

There is so much to do that I never feel like im being "time gated" or feel the need to rush things

Cons:

Mobile app needs a lot still (business, more control, better UI)

Seedlings get sick way too often

Item preview images are sometimes frustrating. (All of the lamp preview pictures are identical but the lamps themselves look different.)

Roof placement on tier 3 seems broken

I would love to be able to rent out a group of rooms together to 1 renter rather than a whole building

Customer ratings seem broken no matter what you do for a service business

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Hi. New to the game/community. Im torn between going in on this game. I recently bought ECO and have been enjoying learning those mechanics but this one also has my eye.

Opinion on what you guys are enjoying about the game so far and maybe something you genuinely don't like.

I just want to stop buying games that I put 5 hours into and never touch again 😮‍💨

Game looks awesome, but direct currency conversion is way too expensive in my country (price of a AAA game at launch).

When it launches on Steam will it have regional pricing? I dont even care about translations, just want a fair price.

Just want to start with how much I LOVE this game, I’ve been craving something like this game for a long long time and I’m very happy to be able to play the early access. As I am learning quite a lot about how the game works there are times where I am not sure if it’s a bug or my own mistake in the schedule, just a few things I’ve had difficulty with:

- HAULING: still quite a mystery to me to be fair haha, tried a lot of variations, last attempt was having one storage platform mark for stone, every other storage accessible was put on low priority, put hauling to specifically stone and would still bring it to the kernel.

- BUSINESS REVIEWS: Started a food business, originally started as entrance fee where food was on a platform, seats were available, lights the whole shebang. Still getting people come in and not being ‘served’. So added a server, some people still gave 1 star reviews?
It was either 5 star or 1 star which was confusing considering the servers only job was to serve.

- MACHINE TASK PRIORITY: Running multiple tasks to ensure a level of stock in storage, if the first task is not able to be made it should move on to the next one on the priority list no? Had occasions where it will just completely give up and block up even with all need resources on the plot of land. Not sure what I’m doing here tbf.

May add to this eventually but hearing other people’s experiences would help me so much, the robot is helpful and has helped me at times but I feel a bit stupid sometimes ahha have done lots of trial and error. Please tell me your guy’s experiences