David wrote: ↑Fri Apr 23, 2021 8:58 am
Just curious, what kind of mod are you working on?
I think I talked about it before already ... more like half a year ago lmao
but eye problems are always plaguing me.
Mostly I just want to flesh out some of the product groups a little. Increase the complexity of research a tiny bit thanks to the features from the digital age DLC. Try to make it a little more indepth in terms of semi-product importance and diversity but I don't want nearly as much depth as the other mods have going for them. I don't like how the other big mods are just stacked to the brim with different products which may or may never even be produced and cause massive clutter on the map with factories and the likes. There are so many products in some of those mods that many companies don't even produce a lot of goods for a very looong time and no competition ever takes place because of this. This makes it feel like you are doing business in a desert as the only water salesman. I want to keep it compact and every product be meaningful while you constantly face off against AI's who are vying for market share.
For example, the Sports Equipment group only features Backpack, Golf Clubs and In-Line Skates as products. These are kinda okish but I just wanted to flesh this whole group out a bit with something interesting like Bicycles, Skateboards & Sports Balls. The Sports Equipment group is further subsumed into the greater Leisure & Entertainment Mega-Class (Toys & Sports) as Sports Equipment is absolutely trash to get an expertise in at the moment. Terrible market size, worst store to sell in, semi-hard inputs. Generally a badly balanced product class because of this and it shouldn't be imho. Sports Equipment should be awesome to get where you feel like a cutting edge company providing entertaining products.
Some small tweaks to other products, in how frozen chicken, frozen pig and frozen beef are all the same price per lbs when this is ... to say the least ... incredibly inaccurate
so chicken and pig is cheaper now while beef is more of a luxury like in real life. Other weird things that bothered me such as Tissues being a Household product but not Toilet Paper. I mean who can forget the global toilet paper shortage
? It just irked me that it was such a strange and odd choice to add to that group. I mean it's not terrible but its certainly not one that I would have picked as a developer.
So some of my current development goals are.
> Flesh out some of the product groups but attempt to keep the number products as meaningful and significant as possible. Try to aim for ~8ish products at maximum. The less the better actually. No clutter!
> Try to flesh out a bit more of the semi-product class to make it feel a little more important than it is right now. Electronic Components being a substitute for EVERYTHING electrical and electronic is ... lame
> Balance some product classes and more evenly distribute market sizes.
> Currently trying to kitbash a bunch of interesting new store and factory graphics together. Which I will release to the public if I ever get to finishing them. Photoshop skillz are in radical R&D mode right now
(especially a new Small Factory building that looks modern is on my priority list because I'm sick and tired of using the ugly Small Factory which looks like a Smelter to produce my Software in
)
> Experimenting with deepening the gameplay such as a possible research tree.
> Ultimately I want to turn the clock of the game back to the 1950 era and have it go all the way to a futuristic 2050 but this is a more broader goal that I will try to work towards as I finish the other major goals first.
> Also just generally have fun with modding as I always enjoyed it as a past time, that's why the alternative manufacturing recipes possibility was so interesting to me.
It fits perfectly with my goal of trying to make the semi-products class a little more interesting.
That's it really. Got to stay humble for my first project.
