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Now really impress us and put it in a bottle! Just kidding, that too a good artistic eye and a lot of patience, nice result and glad you feel satisfied.

In the single player exploration game I don't see any downside to having at least one protective barrier available for each Yland in your world. I think it would be really cool to be able to easily build an easily changeable base on each yland. I don't know what the implications would be to the MP part of the game because I haven't and probably wont play that part. Maybe the devs aren't willing to diverge the sp and mp in any significant manner.

The way the crafting potion used to be added a lot of fun to crafting and seemed really magical. I think the devs should reinstate it the way it was because as you stated all you need are multiple crafting stations and I have only used one crafting potion since they changed it and never even thought about making another one. My last game had a 6 kiln building and a 6 smelter building which both took up a lot of space within my barrier. The main object of a game in my opinion is having fun! Please make the crafting potion fun again!

Personally I like a great mixture of game types and Ylands ( at least as much of it as has been playable for me ) fills a peaceful niche of exploring and creativity that I hope to play again once it becomes fully playable for me. One thing I have always loved about PC Gaming is that I can have more than one game to fill my entertainment needs. I've only bought 2 early access games in my life this one and another similar game where the game company out and out lied in advertising, demanded that paying customers were obligated to report bugs and do their preliminary legal screening work for free and then shut it down when they were done milking their player base. So far the Ylands team has been very gracious and open. Compared to the other game company they are virtual angels. It sounds like maybe you should not be buying early access games. I generally do not condone paying for things before they are finished but the Ylands experience for me has not been horrible, not as enjoyable as most complete games I buy but still not horrible.

I think the whole energy system could use some love. With building games we all need ways to keep things nice and neat looking. I like the idea of being able to see the energy links but the method is not that great. The system should provide easy ways to keep things neat looking. The street lamps should have the nodes up high overhead. The nodes themselves on everything should be much smaller. Every device should have a built in splitter or a power out node as well as a power in node to facilitate chaining things together. If the system is designed with neatness in mind I think the energy streams would lend a very nice ambiance.

The detail is needed for finding raw materials. frequently when i was playing I would buzz a whole island with the prop pack and then once all was revealed I could look for the resources I needed as the different ones have different colors. I'd hate it if that went away.

Ownership and permissions `probably should be a thing. Im not sure if its planned or not but it would be good. I havent played multiplayer because it seems geared towards groups who already know each other to try and avoid griefers. And reports of griefing have been pretty clear on steam.

I actually don't care about this enough to bother with it. Like you said, it's not optimized and absolutely everything else I run has no problem. I was just trying to be nice and report the problem so that they can fix it if they choose to do so which I assume they are interested in doing. I'm not interested in solving the games problems for them. The game was cheap and watching Keralis play it showed me it could be fun so I broke my own rule and bought an early access game and now i'll put it down and come back to it when it's finished reminding myself why I had the rule in the first place. I did have fun playing it's just not at a point yet where I can fully enjoy it.

My HDD is on auto defrag. Also when only one piece of software causes trouble I tend to blame the software rather than the hardware that runs every other program I have just fine. Thanks for taking the time to make a suggestion though. If I had to make adjustments to my computer every time I wanted to run a new program I'd get nothing at all done.

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