Island Sanctuary

[Bsrking5]

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.

I browsed the achievements for it, and it's appears level 10 is the highest. I can understand it's content for the long run, but the way tokens are, once you max out there is basically no reason to do any gathering yourself. The island tokens are super under valued compared to other content and in island sanctuary, nothing uses it. Just log in, water plants and feed pets/collect daily and weekly send mammets out and set workshop build orders.

[MoofiaBossVal]

Spent a couple hours trying out the new plantation owner gamemode. Built the workshop.

The gameplay is a clicker. 90% of the gameplay is running around clicking anything that glows. The other 10% is navigating menus to order your robot slaves to build stuff.

I can't help but compare the Island Sanctuary to the Sunsong Ranch from WoW, which had much more engaging gameplay. You didn't plant seeds by navigating a menu or just clicking. You grabbed a shovel and tilled the dirt. Then you planted the seeds. Then you grabbed the watering can and watered the soil. Then as your crops grew, you had to do various things to maintain them, such as grabbing a tool to spray the bugs, or grabbing weeds and slowly walking away from the dirt patch to yank the weeds out of the ground. Or a bullriding minigame where you ride a living vine that is strangling your crops and beating the crap out of it. etc. You also expanded the farm through a lot of interesting quests with the NPC neighbors you cared about, rather than just clicking and navigating a menu.

[Bukachu]

I browsed the achievements for it, and it's appears level 10 is the highest. I can understand it's content for the long run, but the way tokens are, once you max out there is basically no reason to do any gathering yourself. The island tokens are super under valued compared to other content and in island sanctuary, nothing uses it. Just log in, water plants and feed pets/collect daily and weekly send mammets out and set workshop build orders.

where are Island achievements located?

[Alleo]

I am enjoying it though I also dont understand why one currency is bascially needed for everything but hard to get and the other is bascially useless if you dont want materia. For something that is meant to be relaxing its surely focusing a lot on the grind. But I guess I will slowly work towards the things that I want.

After all I do need to build and sell items which means that I need to gather the materials. That alone will keep me busy with it and is a nice change between other content.

[Deveryn]

Spent a couple hours trying out the new plantation owner gamemode. Built the workshop.

The gameplay is a clicker. 90% of the gameplay is running around clicking anything that glows. The other 10% is navigating menus to order your robot slaves to build stuff.

I can't help but compare the Island Sanctuary to the Sunsong Ranch from WoW, which had much more engaging gameplay. You didn't plant seeds by navigating a menu or just clicking. You grabbed a shovel and tilled the dirt. Then you planted the seeds. Then you grabbed the watering can and watered the soil. Then as your crops grew, you had to do various things to maintain them, such as grabbing a tool to spray the bugs, or grabbing weeds and slowly walking away from the dirt patch to yank the weeds out of the ground. Or a bullriding minigame where you ride a living vine that is strangling your crops and beating the crap out of it. etc. You also expanded the farm through a lot of interesting quests with the NPC neighbors you cared about, rather than just clicking and navigating a menu.

If you were looking for engaging gameplay, you bamboozled yoself

[Skivvy]

If you were looking for engaging gameplay, you bamboozled yoself

So....we shouldn't expect SE to be able to deliver engaging gameplay?

[Byonka]

where are Island achievements located?

Achievements > Character > General

Scroll alllll the way down. (I hope/assume they'll add it's own section in the future.)

[Deveryn]

So....we shouldn't expect SE to be able to deliver engaging gameplay?

We were specifically told this would not be.

[Skivvy]

We were specifically told this would not be.

I'm not finding the quote, can you pull that up for us? :3

[swiss_Momo]

was having fun at the start, but then I build the workshop and got hit with a market graph and the expectation to run a sweatshop as the main drive of farming tokens, and my enjoyment dropped to rock bottom.
I dunno about you Yoshida, but I don't consider "managing project workflow with EXCEL spreadsheets" as something relaxing