Vezzra wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 1:17 pm
LienRag wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 6:39 pmDepends on your value of "not too broken anymore".Interesting, I'd say not yet, but YMMV.
This is probably the important thing here. While it hasn't to be perfectly interesting and engaging already to count as "not too broken", it should be sufficiently interesting as not to be nothing more than a chore for the player. Meaning, something a player has to do/deal with, but which adds no gameplay value add all yet. It should at least be interesting enough to provide some fun experimenting with the new mechanic.
I guess it really depends on the player.
For now it has been relatively enjoyable even when clearly broken because of the potential it lets the player glimpses, as it is clear that we are testing a new thing.
That "discovery of promising developments" aspect will work very differently when put on the Stable version. Some players may still find it new and enjoyable, some others will probably (we already had one example on the forum, though I don't remember his name) consider it a chore that is force-fed to them.
And yes, as of now it is partly a chore. One needs to have a quite good understanding of the Policies (which are not well documented) to begin to find fun in this part of the game (again, some may find the learning part enjoyable, I'm talking about others here) and this fun is imho limited by the fact that Policies are still a mess, with no real coherence and very limited intuitiveness.
The Stability factor can be somehow interesting when calculating how to reach a specific threshold (I remember that it was during the cooperative multi-player game, when I was trying to understand how to get the 10 stability needed for a GGG) but is mostly a chore, especially because there's not much geographic variation (only the one created by Palace and IRAs and sometimes by Specials).
It can be, from the feedback we got from new players, particularly difficult to grasp - and remember that we get on the forum essentially the feedback of players who haven't been discouraged entirely.