Why constantly complaining about the time speed and feeding rate?

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People have right to complaint, but we have right to say that the game is fantastic w/o every1 being negative. A lot of people did not do any tutorial or tried to understand the game mechanics. Most of people did not assign any work zone for feeding properly or they put the food not accessible. If you really want to help the team there plenty of ways to send issue with screen shot or save gameplay. You either stay negative with only complaining or you try to help them for real.

I have close to 100 animal in my zoo and no problems of feeding or breeding at all...

 

[Agathorn]

Thank you Agathorn to understand us and for the move in our camp 🏕... I loved to read this!

So a change of mind to that topic is possible - maybe others will change their mind too when their zoos get bigger and they catch themselves mostly paused too... because so much is going on and they begin to miss out on animals and other stuff.

A slower time is not just a point of enjoying different, it's a important mode for beginners too in my eyes because Planet Games are very complex and need time to get used to. ❤

Sadly most people these days argue with minds already made up. Like Doctor Who once said. "I try never to understand. It’s called an open mind."

 

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Sadly most people these days argue with minds already made up. Like Doctor Who once said. "I try never to understand. It’s called an open mind."

''Open mind'' You guys want some change in less than 1 month when the game was build around this time speed... Give them some time because it could impact way more than you think if you slow the timerate. Like economy, breeding, mechanic, A LOT of the mechanic are all builded around the actual time rate and require more than 30 days to change it. They proved they are listening with the offline franchise mode.

 

[Agathorn]

''Open mind'' You guys want some change in less than 1 month when the game was build around this time speed... Give them some time because it could impact way more than you think if you slow the timerate. Like economy, breeding, mechanic, A LOT of the mechanic are all builded around the actual time rate and require more than 30 days to change it. They proved they are listening with the offline franchise mode.

I never said anything about any of that. All I said is I went from initially being against slowing down time to being in agreement with it needs to be slowed down. I never demanded it be done in any period of time or even demanded it be done at all.

 

[Crea_TivELA]

People have right to complaint, but we have right to say that the game is fantastic w/o every1 being negative. A lot of people did not do any tutorial or tried to understand the game mechanics. Most of people did not assign any work zone for feeding properly or they put the food not accessible. If you really want to help the team there plenty of ways to send issue with screen shot or save gameplay. You either stay negative with only complaining or you try to help them for real.

How do you know what "most of the people" do... do you sit next to me when I play? Proof? I don't think so... if there are problems were we can help people we are/will do it - that's something we can do something about. For example look at the threat "I can't put my Hyena in the tradecenter" (something like this). But we can't do anything about the time we want... other than tell our wish clearly and why. We are different, so there are different reasons to everyone, but many explainarions are simular.

I don't get your point why our wish is "negative", slower time would help to even enjoy the game more for many and it would be a great thing for beginners too who have to get used to the Game. That an argument.

 

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How do you know what "most of the people" do... do you sit next to me when I play? Proof? I don't think so... if there are problems were we can help people we are/will do it - that's something we can do something about. For example look at the threat "I can't put my Hyena in the tradecenter" (something like this).

I don't get your point why our wish is "negative", slower time would help to even enjoy the game more for many and it would be a great thing for beginners too who have to get used to the Game. That an argument.

Plenty of people on youtube/twitch enjoying as mush as I do ? that an argument too...

 

[Crea_TivELA]

Plenty of people on youtube/twitch enjoying as mush as I do ? that an argument too...

That's not what I asked.
I'm enjoying the game too, I just see what maybe can be better and it's nice to tell Frontier about ideas and wishes. It's still up to them if they do it - they even ask for our ideas and wishes, so they can even make the game better than it is. It's not negative and not hurtful for the game to wish.

Other than the point you wrote what "many other people do"... I don't understand what is wrong about wishing and help Frontier (and the Customers who play the game) to make things a little more great.

 

[Xerosic]

My only real complaint is that the weather that occurs in the temperate biome, which is the only biome I've played in so far, does not seem to correlate with the current month in any way. In fact it seems like multiple years go by between "seasons". It rains and snows at a fairly regular rate leading me to think that it's just a timer based on each biome and has no actual correlation with time of year. I found this kind of disappointing because it would have been a great way to add some more depth to the game's management and would give the player a decent idea of when it might get colder and snow or get really hot.

I also wouldn't mind if the game time moved just a tad slower but to me it seems fine the way it is. I never have any desire to make the game run at any faster speed with the time controls as I'm never in any rush while playing. It was hours and hours and hours before my first animals died of old age and they were halfway through their lifespan to begin with. The only time I pause the game is while building my current five habitats, none of which have taken more than 90 minutes.

 

[NL_Mutso]

This is going to be my last post in this topic cause I don't think much is getting accomplished with these posts, but anyway, here we go:

I wasn't one of the people calling people names if they liked the timespeed as is, so please don't insinuate that I was. But there was also never a thread called "Why are fanboys okay with the current timespeed?" Do you see the difference? If you want to argue for the current timespeed then great, go ahead. My issue here is this thread was made for the sole purpose of pointing out people that have an issue with the timespeed. That right there is like calling for a fight.

As for the personal issues, someone shouldn't only have a legit concern if they understand the basic game and features. That's not how game development works. As a game developer, you have to make sure the game is friendly to everyone, and if that many people are having issues with something others consider only viable if you know how the game works, then clearly it's the developer's fault for not properly teaching people how to play the game.

I'm not saying you're wrong. But you also shouldn't discount someone's claim just because they're potentially 'not playing the game right'. In fact, even if that were true, that once again points to the fact the game wasn't made to be clear on /how/ to play the game. And if, once again going along with this hypothesis, hundreds of people are complaining about the timespeed because of a misunderstanding about how the game works then, again, that's an issue.

Haha, I wasn't talking about you.. So don't create that argument... I agree with you on topics like these.. I just don't like it when it's (apparently) allowed one-sided comments on certain subjects. Maybe not in the title but def. in the first post.

I believe that for game development you should at least try to understand the basics.. Skipping tutorials and going for the main game is never a good idea. When I see posts 'Hey this doesn't work like ZT/ZT2 or PC', I think they expected an updated version of ZT/ZT2..

If you are new to management games, this game doesn't provide enough explanation. Blame the tutorial/explanation, but not the speed..
Personally I think most people wanted a zoo game (yes, like ZT/ZT2) and are overwhelmed with the management stuff.
I think they bought the wrong game. (and sadly there's no alternative)

 

[Llamadrama]

A spelling mistake is easy to fix. Speed and time systems are not. You know that. If they get around fixing it, it will take time.

Sorry, but they dug their own graves here. There was absolutely no reason to make the speed go faster in this game when the engine is the same as PCoaster.

Maybe it's not an easy fix but it was a terrible decision. Now either they fix it or I'm not buying the game.