We're starting to shift from the word "happiness" and the term "HAPs" towards just "points" / "Colony Points". That's what they're currently named in-game. The UI surrounding them has seen some big changes this week! Here's the upgrades-menu:
Two weeks ago we showed you this. I believe the new UI is a big improvement :) We've also added new UI elements that show the distribution of meals and happiness/points items. Here's the one for meals:
And here's the one for luxuries:
Statistics related to the new Points-feature are now also tracked. Here's a graph of the amount of points being scored per item type over a 24-day period:
Fullscreen And last but not least, here is the graph of the history of your Points-amount:
It might look pretty confusing here, with just static images, but we believe it already works a lot more smoothly than the old happiness system did. The old system barely rewarded you, it only punished you when you failed to generate enough happiness items. Recruiting colonists resulted in more "Unhappiness-due-to-Overpopulation", actively working against you for doing what we intend players to do (which is, grow their colony). The new system helps foster a new attitude towards colony growth. Every new colonist is an opportunity to earn more Points: a colony with 100 colonists can gather Points a lot more quickly than a colony with only 10 colonists. When you properly set up the production chains needed to craft new Points Items, this quickly results in a steady supply of Points, which helps you unlock the upgrades you want. So testing the game has been a lot of fun, but of course, we've also noticed issues. Items that weren't properly balanced, science unlocks with strange requirements, Points Upgrades with weird steps in between them, and strange new issues in regards to monsters and guard timing. The new features aren't ready for mass testing and/or release yet, but we're getting closer every day :) Bedankt voor het lezen! Reddit // Twitter // YouTube // Website // Discord