Vindicator
Member
Must be a tough one...
The population hovers around 20-30 despite more than 100 revived matroshkas but a little progress is there, 54k earned toil isn't enough
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The Tomorrow Children [OT] Where FTP means 'For The People'
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Must be a tough one...
The population hovers around 20-30 despite more than 100 revived matroshkas but a little progress is there, 54k earned toil isn't enough
somme
Member
You know, I love the game but the combination of new players who don't know what to do/undo the work of those that do and the constant barrage of attacks (I haven't noticed a change) has made me want to stop.
I spend hours sorting shit out only to have it undone in mere minutes. All the wood goes on repairs, all the buildings and defences get destroyed as do the trees. So everyone starves, the buildings disappear and we're back to square one.
That's alright once or twice but I've been in this town for 10+ days and it's happening everyday. Highest we've gotten the population to was 250, or there abouts.
I spend hours sorting shit out only to have it undone in mere minutes. All the wood goes on repairs, all the buildings and defences get destroyed as do the trees. So everyone starves, the buildings disappear and we're back to square one.
That's alright once or twice but I've been in this town for 10+ days and it's happening everyday. Highest we've gotten the population to was 250, or there abouts.
TheJollyCorner
Member
Yeah, food seems to be a constant issue in the towns I cycle through.
I agree with the post recommending trees that can't be so easily sawed (or another way to add to the food source; i.e. like a food paste machine mini game or something)
I agree with the post recommending trees that can't be so easily sawed (or another way to add to the food source; i.e. like a food paste machine mini game or something
)RageWaffles
Member
Really wish there was a way to better target your snubs.
The town I'm in has a player who is putting turrets in the middle of town and shooting other players, the bus, buildings, and dolls when they get dropped off by the bus. Trying to snub one person, means you often snub anyone who is close to them as well.
The town I'm in has a player who is putting turrets in the middle of town and shooting other players, the bus, buildings, and dolls when they get dropped off by the bus. Trying to snub one person, means you often snub anyone who is close to them as well.
somme
Member
RageWaffles
Member
they'll also usually have several dolls in them (around the ankle or wrist, usually?) and maybe some flashlights or other tools.
So, some things happened in a few towns I was in yesterday that I can't explain.
1) I don't know why but all the apples in the trees in the town started to fall down themselves and every 5 minutes the trees would have grow more apples that would fall down again. We got like 50-100+ Food in like 30 minutes, wtf?
2) Something happened, I don't know what but a guy was near the gree crystal depot in a town and suddenly, dozens and dozens of green crystall pop-up out of his bags in one swoop. Is it a bug or?
1) I don't know why but all the apples in the trees in the town started to fall down themselves and every 5 minutes the trees would have grow more apples that would fall down again. We got like 50-100+ Food in like 30 minutes, wtf?
2) Something happened, I don't know what but a guy was near the gree crystal depot in a town and suddenly, dozens and dozens of green crystall pop-up out of his bags in one swoop. Is it a bug or?
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
I want my quest from the npc's
What happen?
What happen?
Crab Milk Mickey
Member
Welp, ran into a bug where I can no longer redeem my toil over at the Ministry of Labor. The game hardlocks whenever I do and crashes regardless of what I try. Partially have myself to blame for this; slipped my mind entirely to visit it sooner since the town I'm in (now that it's finally up and running) needed constant maintenance one way or another for approximately 2 - 3 hours, so the tasks kept piling up until it reached this point of no return. Not sure what to do about this. Sent a report with a video clip to show for it, for what little good that'll do me currently.
We just patched the game, the izverg will be a little more varied in their attacks and not attempt to take out the entire town every time now
Single red izverg just took 3 passes through my town. Going to take a while to recover. Then another spawned between the island and the town and is marching straight towards us.
Are the glowing coloured spots on izverg just decoration or do we do more damage there?
Can't wait that they remove the halloween update where monsters spawn frequently
Sangetsu-II
Member
I just wish they added private towns (Ultra Bourgeoisie Papers, maybe?), even as paid DLC. The main issue is griefers having more leaway than what the game punishes them for and I don't like playing with random people that just teardown food farms or waste resourses on buildings we don't need.
Game has potencial but lack of user feedback hurts it.
Also, give me more trophies and I will play it more like Warframe.
I can't say much but Fortnite has a better sense of fortify and defend. While they're different beasts thematically and execution wise, tomorrow children could learn some lessons from it. It's also more of a "game" in the sense of progression.
TheJollyCorner
Member
Darkness during night time is BRUTAL - even in some towns.
Especially fun when some asshole grabs all the lanterns and moves them away from town.
JetSetRadio
Banned
I have two locked slots on the left, is that normal? Says it's out of stock when I try to buy an extra secret pocket.
Sangetsu-II
Member
One unlocks when you have 10 points of might if I remember correctly.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
I have this problem since the update of f2p.
The police dude used to give quest if you talk to him.
this is fixed in the next update!
I really don't understand this sentiment and unfortunately feel the need to respond - I'll probably get shot down just "because" but I feel we designed the game to be very unexploitative.
The only gateway to bourgoisie is a cheap $5 cost or a few days "graft" picking up dollars from the ground. The game is designed to give you enough freeman dollars for "free" to let you try out pretty much anything you want in the game over the course of a few weeks.
The core game is based around coupons which have no relation to real money and pretty much everything is available in some form or other via that route once you have the basic licenses, which are just fixed one time costs and not repeated. To get a game of this magnitude and with persistent online support and updates about $10 really isn't much to ask.
So where's it being exploitative? The blackmarket is all about just getting things that are a touch better than the stuff you can already get but they aren't necessities by any means. Bribes and puzzle skipping are easily covered by the freeman dollar drops.
Sangetsu-II
Member
That's hyperbole.
While I agree it should be balanced to be between the amount of food we had at launch and what we have now, but there are plenty of towns that strike a healthy balance of food after the initial drought.
Sangetsu-II
Member
I'm not kidding, most of the new towns I visited had from 0 to 10 food.
CorianderV
Neo Member
I wish it were hyperbole as well. The food drought has not only stunted the growth of the towns I've attempted to restore, but has caused them to regress and become abandoned. I was all for upping the difficulty we had at launch, but it's gone so far that I find the game currently unpleasant to play.
somme
Member
It's really not. Very rarely does the food get above 10-20.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
Also i want to say since the last update from this week finally i have the dress for played the beta!
This one:
http://c4.staticflickr.com/6/5796/23513570435_852b9561e5_b.jpg
2 months fighting with the sony support for nothing.
Ask sony.I did it for 2 months for nothing but in the last update i get the costume.
Sangetsu-II
Member
Wait, you get a dress for playing the beta? Why didn't I get this?
PackAPunchedMick
Member
I dont know a single person that plays this game in the UK that received the beta costume.
Crab Milk Mickey
Member
EU player here, received the beta skin as per the latest update too.
I really don't know wha thappened here and we got tied in circles trying to chase it up within Sony.
Apparently an e-mail should have arrived with a clickable link in it to enable the costume months ago.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
Is there any way to get this costume?
http://www.jp.playstation.com/op/thetomorrowchildren/playersinfo/2016/09/info023.html
http://www.jp.playstation.com/op/thetomorrowchildren/playersinfo/2016/09/info023.html
I enjoyed the game despite a few bad eggs, but my comment stems from how the core design feels to me. Resource collecting feels too slow, personal storage feels too limited, tools decay too quickly and, like tools, weapons usefulness is fleeting. Many of those things can be remedied by upgrading your character I understand, but at it's default feels far too restrictive. It sounds weird to say I'm looking for convenience when hard work (which is usually arduous and involves time investment) is what the game rewards you for. I find no fault with spending money on it, but it irks me when priced content optimizes instead of adds to the experience.
Frankly, I'm part of the problem. I played with a friend during the stress test held earlier this year and we had a blast. That was with the content that is now locked behind bourgeois papers. We decided to sit out buying the founders pack and waited for it to go free to play yet now we've all but stopped playing. It's clear we were interested in what we thought the game was before restrictions were put up. Time is asked of us if we don't spend money and I guess we feel our time is spent better elsewhere.
What I meant by exploitative is that the option to bypass tedium is with money. Money shouldn't be used to bypass or speed up core tenets of the game unless of course it's backed with a design meant to entice impatient players. Perhaps I misspoke when I said it was intentional, but this feels far too similar to time gates often seen in games with F2P sensibilities.
Prototype Viktor
Member
Someone spent a long time doing this the other day in a town I went in
I understand all that but we balanced the game with no ability to purchase using real money, so apart from the licenses (and I think this is the missing component in this conversation) which we consider the only gateway to the game's full experience we made sure the game was a ton of fun with just the dollar drops.
However, if you and your friend have avoided spending even the small amount on licenses then my only question is... why? We can't make these crazy experiments completely for free. That 20 dollar pack was pretty good value for money I think.
Anyway, it's all a big experiment at the end of the day and there are very few f2p games on the ps4 so we're doing our best to find the right balance.
One thing that going f2p has really given us with TTC is an influx of players who wouldn't even consider spending a dollar on this kind of "weird" experimental title and then they realise (5 hours later) "oh... this is err pretty interesting". I think that's pretty awesome as it's getting harder and harder to reach people with games that are an odd genre!
Peterthumpa
Member
Is there a PS4 Pro patch planned?
Toothless Spoon
Member
I didn't even know this game was out :/
Yeah I always felt the f2p model was extremely fair. I dif play a lot of f2p that are way worse.
Please help spread the word!