Get One Lonely Outpost on Steam ➜ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1465550/One_Lonely_Outpost/
Got some more time in OLO and was able to answer a bunch of FAQs.
They’ve got a Kickstarter in the works once their Discord hits 500 people, if you want to check out the playtest, jump in to their discord @ discord.gg/anxEG5t
Enjoy!
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Really looking forward to this
Damnit Mitch! No! BAD! Don't sell the crystals sell the gold, the game practically spells out for you it is more valuable, you can always get more gold later.
There no point crafting any furnace. Just buy them, use the crafting materials for sprinklers (if they were working).
It's entirely possible running current through melorium heats it up so it's inclusion in the furnace recipe negates the need for fuel to smelt. Since you seem to be getting unlimited electricity from somewhere. I mean they must have antimatter drives to colonise space right?
Entering and leaving your ship unwatering everything does explain a lot of crop time measurement anomolies.
You are misusing the word efficient. There are several metrics at play here and for a quick start the most relevant one is cash flow. Faster turn around means faster expansion, which means more profit over time vs something which is just high return on initial investment. This will change midgame when your early returns mean you have more money than you can reinvest in a single day. Your next most significant metric is work load. Return per harvest is not necessarily as important as return per tile, when you have to invest time watering each tile every day. There is an upper limit on how much you can get done in the 23 hours the game gives you (planting time does factor into this to but it's going to, though not at much as multiple waterings). Beware falling into the trap of thinking profit per day is simply crop sale value minus seed purchase value divided by growth time. The maths is sadly not that simple when starting up or maintaining a full sized farm. Feel free to report back with those metrics when you have researched them.
Placing the furnaces accurately is nigh impossible and as I can tell you can't pick them up yet?
You can't 100% reproduce the watering bug by walking in and out of the ship… You provided video evidence of that. 😛 (I suspect it's ordering new things on the computer that resets it)
They want to hope they have save functionality working for the demo for the kickstarter as they need to prove they can handle that if they want backer confidence.