The survey we created last week was answered by over 600 people! We want to thank everybody who participated very much. We're going to use the results to improve the game and to balance our priorities. We want to share some of the results with you!
The colonists that can build and dig were very popular, and a huge majority of those who answered were very enthusiastic about them. We're currently working on some minor issues and improvements, but the next big update will very likely contain this feature!
The proposed change to stockpiles & crates was received less positively. We've lowered the priority. We still think it would be a good idea, but it's a lot of work and will significantly increase the difficulty of the game again. It seems like the game is difficult enough currently :)
On one hand, nearly 75% of those surveyed thought this change was awesome. One the other hand, a similar percentage said it wasn't a high priority or not important. We definitely want to add it before the definitive release, but we're working on more content (SP+MP instead of MP only) first.
The conclusions of the previous question are confirmed by the results of the question regarding priorities. Stairs were generally considered a high priority. Animal husbandry and improved world generation were seen as slightly less important. Changes to multiplayer were ranked the lowest priority.
It was very interesting to see how many players had done certain things. Google Forms shortens the names of the questions so here is the full list, from left to right:

• Multiplayer with friends
• Multiplayer in a public server with strangers
• Joined the Discord
• Posted in the Steam Forum
• Replied to a Friday Blog
• Wrote a Steam Review for Colony Survival
• Wrote a Steam Review for a different game

Nearly half of those surveyed played MP privately with friends, and significantly less people played MP publicly with strangers. That's good, because we mostly intended MP for private servers. We certainly do appreciate the hosts of public servers like Colony Empire though! We definitely want to improve public MP before the definitive release. More people joined the Discord than posted in the Steam Forum. That's probably good as well, because we're more active on Discord than on the Steam Forum :) Replying to the Friday Blog was one of the things that people did least, according to the survey. That's interesting, because the survey was mostly promoted in the Friday Blog! Last but not least, we learned that a similar amount of people hasn't written a Steam Review for Colony Survival yet. On the other hand, a majority of people has written a Steam Review at least once! It seems like this question motivated a significant amount of people to write a Steam Review, which we sincerely appreciate.
The final question. A majority of those surveyed believes $25 is a fair price. But a significant minority thinks this price is too high. We understand those concerns as well. We want to add more content the coming months and will probably raise the price somewhere in Q1. What we're currently doing Not a lot, apart from monitoring the sale, Steam Forums & Discord. We've worked during the weekend to make sure we could release 0.4.3 before the sale started. We're currently getting lots of new players, and we believe the most recent update makes the early game a lot more accessible. We've mostly taken yesterday and today off. Next week, we want to start working on some smaller issues. The dedicated server from SteamCMD doesn't work properly on Linux yet, so that should obviously be fixed. We also want to add passwords to servers, and we're investigating a pathfinding bug. When we've fixed those and other small issues, we're going to start on the next big update: colonists that can dig and build! Bedankt voor het lezen! The game is currently 25% off. If you don't own the game yet, or want to convince a friend to buy it, this is the perfect moment!

[ 2017-11-24 15:03:20 CET ] [ Original post ]