Island Sanctuary

[Deveryn]

Already at rank 6 and I see a problem. Mammets ventures cost seafare tokens. Seafare tokens are slowly gained by set timers. Island tokens are next to useless, make the grainery take island tokens instead of seafare tokens.

The problem is you went too fast. The tagline on this is "living the slow life" and you couldn't help but grind it out. It was designed like those other idle mobile games that have timed tasks going for hours and days at a time. Going too fast is going to leave you short on currency and materials.

[GeminiReed]

Devs themselves have directly stated they DO NOT want Islands to be a replacement for housing.

They did? Where? The only statement I've read was that it IS NOT a replacement. Or more specifically to curb our expectations.

[Deveryn]

They did? Where? The only statement I've read was that it IS NOT a replacement. Or more specifically to curb our expectations.

On at least one live letter, Yoshida said it's not a replacement for housing and to temper expectations for it.

[Bsrking5]

The problem is you went too fast. The tagline on this is "living the slow life" and you couldn't help but grind it out. It was designed like those other idle mobile games that have timed tasks going for hours and days at a time. Going too fast is going to leave you short on currency and materials.

Uh, no. The problem is spending half the seafare you earn on basic operations and island tokens being throwaway currency that's almost worthless.

[Fynlar]

Not sure if I missed someone replying to this - but this caught me out too.

You don't click on the seeds themselves, you click on the empty box where the seeds need to be moved to. This will then give you a little pop up panel with items you can place in the box under your mouse (bit like when you have to turn in a quest item).

Well, crap. I was trying to click them in the inventory. I didn't even notice an extra box appearing only in sow mode because it wasn't there up until that point.

Really feel like that part could have been explained better.

[Kisshu]

So I got to level 5, upgraded the main building, 2 workshops and 2 granaries, 1 landmark complete and another nearly complete.

At that point I'm at around 5000 exp from the next level and can see two options:
1: Grind it out, meaning I click around 500 times on material collection.
2: Afk and just collect exp from workshop items, animals and perhaps the fields(no idea how long they take).

So my options are basicly hardcore grind or do nothing/afk.

Does not feel like a good design imo and can only wonder what it will be like on higher levels when I can't get much exp boost from making new buildings.

[Rolder50]

The World is Mad. While Island Sanctuary may seem large to players, in reality it's gonna be much smaller in tems of data compared to housing. Just few 1/0 choices to customize which allows every player to get their island home.

... Are you ignoring the fact that the island also needs to keep track of your island inventory, your workshop progress, your animals, and your crops?

[Illmaeran]

Way too overpraised in this thread.

Satisfaction with content is subjective. The people "overpraising" IS clearly love it and appreciate it for what it is. Some people like raiding and really praise the New Hotness when it comes out. I hate raiding, should I call their expressed opinions Overpraising because I don't like raiding?

No. That would be stupid and demeaning to their opinion.

[cactusbees]

We get to pet the sheeps! We get to have our own [REDACTED!]

Now, how the heck do you get up the ladders to see out of the top of the windmills?

[Oizen]

Indeed

Its a case of " i love this im enjoying the hell out of it " > hours later> oh no i didn't take a break now im bored > log onto forums> complain.exe

I do not believe waiting an arbitrary amount of time between picking up resources makes the game play loop any more interesting.

If your answer to "make island sancutary fun" is to not play the content, then I have some bad news for you.