Solve negative reviews: Make deconstruction full refund by default

2 votes

This game should have so many more reviews and with a total 95%+ positivity rating. The genre's top beasts -- Factorio, Satisfactory, DSP -- all have full refund by default. When you look at negative reviews for COI, they overwhelmingly complain about being punished for mistakes in placement (especially when you don't know mechanics of new tech) and subsequent death spiral.

I KNOW you can customize the "refund" option, but another observation is players hate feeling like they need the baby or easy mode. It sours them and compounds the likelihood they will give up and leave negative reviews. Pander to flawed human psychology and don't make them ask for an easier mode where similar games set it as the default. :)

Under consideration Game machanic Quality of life Suggested by: MS (05 Aug) • Upvoted: 07 Aug • Comments: 3

Comments: 3

09 Aug
tabu1a
please, add button to vote down :D
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17 Aug
MS
Why, tabu1a? You can still play exactly how you play today with a single click in the Customize Difficulty dropdown. It will just improve the retention for new players, especially those used to full materials refunds in every other major factory game in the genre. More positive reviews = more funding = COI lives forever!
05 Sep
John
Um.... because satisfactory is a game about a fictional situation (FicSit), and factorio is about a spaceman with an IQ of 9000 who suspiciously does not require sustenance and can craft insanely complex recipes by hand while carrying millions of tons of stuff ranging from fully functional nuclear reactors to rocket silos and literal freight trains. On top of that Dyson sphere program is about a literal consciousness that is uploaded to a giant mecha that has the goal of constructing literal dyson spheres and whose physical capabilities are even more bonkers than the Factorio Engineer's.

Difference here is, you're a captain of industry sitting in your office, not some guy in a simulation or a literal god like the factorio engineer. You tell your truck drivers where to deliver stuff and lay out production floors that those trucks then deliver stuff to that is then built for you. The level of realism here is different, so the mechanics are different. On top of that, that is a setting.
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