I played this game a few years back, threw 50hrs or so into it and had a lot of fun. Recently I came back to it to finish off the remaining few acheievements and to see if there was anything new, and I'm happy to say it did not disappoint. I had a similar experience to last time, but with plenty of new updates, dungeon creation being the biggest noticable change. I can't recommend this game enough- however there are a few things I would love to see added at some point, to really complete the game:
- Professions. This is intergral to the real life MMO experience, and it's a shame it doesn't exist yet in this Tycoon game. I could totally see how this would work, researching professions to unlock 3 main ones, and then further research to add additional professions that you could possibly customise. Would be nice to be able to place down Profession trainer NPCs, and profession nodes around the world.
- Neutral NPCs. At the moment, I'm using Guard NPCs to place down things like chickens, cows, and other neutral NPCs that I don't want the player necessarily going out of their way to kill- but I'd like to give them the option to.
- Expanded Individual NPC Customisation. Essentially, the ability to change NPCs levels and individual weapons. You can currently change elite NPCs levels, but you can't change a Guards, and in some cases, I actually would prefer these guard NPCs not to be as overleveled as they are by default. Furthermore, you can currently change what weapon types the NPCs use, but say I want a specific elite bandit NPC to use a knife, but other bandits to be able to also use crossbows, I can't currently change what the elite bandits weapon is.
- Custom Weapon Creation. Just a menu where you can change the look of all of the existing weapons would be cool!
- Guilds. Allow this as a tech upgrade from the Friends List, where players will more likely group up with guild members. It'd be great to also be able to see and even edit the Guild tab- being able to rename a guild, invite and kick players etc.
- Raids. This could be as simple as making it exactly the same as dungeons, but just allowing a larger group to enter, 10-mans, 20-mans even. I could see this being an upgrade from the Dungeon tech easily.
- Gates for the Walls. This would just be a nice aesthetic, as opposed to either keeping the gate open, or using the one gatehouse structure in the game that doesn't really suit most of the existing walls.
- Expanded Ability Customisation. Currently what is on offer is amazing, and feels really satisfying when you create something that is uniquely your creation, but adding effects like a charge or jump, where the player rushes or jumps towards their enemy, or even a simple addition like increased speed for X time would be nice.
- HC Tech. Hardcore in the MMO community of late has been thriving. Would be fun to see a tech based around that, where players can opt in at spawn to be a HC player. If they die, they simply respawn as a new player and "go agane". This concept would be perfectly aimed at achievers.
- Quest Giver Return Checkbox. This is simply adding a checkbox to the edit quest section to make the player either come back to the quest-giver, or not. This would be more applicable for fetch quests, rather than kill quests.
- Zone Music. Currently when you zoom in to a zone, you might hear some music start playing. I appreciated this the first few times, it's nice music- but it got old quick. I feel like more music that matches the kinds of art packs you can buy would be a great way to differentiate the zones. In the zone edit menu, you should then be able to select a song from any of the art packs you've got unlocked.
- Increased and editable Level Cap. This one is completely personal preference. I don't mind too much the existing level cap of 20, but it would be nice to be able to select from a wider level range.
- World Bosses! You've got the boss template already from dungeons. Allow us to research a tech, late game, to include bosses in the open world.
Give the game a try, especially if you enjoy sim and tycoon games.
