Island Sanctuary feels intentionally slow and inefficient.

[Packetdancer]

Bro how are you rank 8 in 3 days.

You can functionally trade materials for XP at an unbounded rate; you can reconstruct a landmark into another landmark instantly, but evidently it still gives you nearly the amount of XP that constructing a landmark for the first time does. So if you gather a sufficiently large amount of a very limited set of materials, you could hypothetically go to one landmark plot and reconstruct, say, the windmill into a treehouse into a windmill into a treehouse into a windmill into a treehouse into a...

I'm not sure if this is an oversight, or just not considered a balance issue. (Either way, it's an interesting design choice, though I can see the benefit; if you build the wrong landmark, you don't have to wait another eight hours or whatever to get the one you wanted.)

I see no need to race through the content, so I've not bothered with it, but I can absolutely see how someone could utilize that to race to a higher rank.

Imagine how much better the game industry would be if consumers didn't pay for games until they were relatively certain the game would meet their expectations instead of blinding throwing money around before release just to end up disappointed (the games industry doesn't care at that point - you already gave it your money).

This is less true with live service games. It is still somewhat true, but live service games want to keep people playing.

[dapperfaffer]

Island Santuary is just a worse version of WoWs Garrision system just without the forced time-gate tie in to the actual content of the game. Thats why OP is rank 8 on day 3. And thats why they are complaining. Its the exact same complaints about WoWs Garrision system.

[amihavingfunyet]

Wish it would take advantage of the "normal" gathering, crafting and gardening systems, even if not related to your DoH/DoL-levels and stats outside of the island. Might as well throw in some (normal) fishing as well. Once you got your buildings set up all to do is wait for timers and/or burn out clicking on the same 10 nodes for hours.

You can functionally trade materials for XP at an unbounded rate; you can reconstruct a landmark into another landmark instantly, but evidently it still gives you nearly the amount of XP that constructing a landmark for the first time does. So if you gather a sufficiently large amount of a very limited set of materials, you could hypothetically go to one landmark plot and reconstruct, say, the windmill into a treehouse into a windmill into a treehouse into a windmill into a treehouse into a...

I'm not sure if this is an oversight, or just not considered a balance issue. (Either way, it's an interesting design choice, though I can see the benefit; if you build the wrong landmark, you don't have to wait another eight hours or whatever to get the one you wanted.)

You get less XP form reconstructing. Windmill/Tree Fort give 135 XP (for 50 materials) and Bathhouse gives 180 XP (for 53 materials). So Windmill/Tree Fort are slightly worse than spamming Sweetfeed or Makeshift Nets (10 XP for 3 materials) and Bathhouse is slightly better. Edit: Since you need to alternate between a 135 XP and 180 XP it comes out slightly worse than normal crafting either way (315 XP for 103 materials).

[Kahnom]

Smart people have realizes very quickly that grinding mats just to lvl up their island was not the most efficient way.
They let the system run on its own, check the island every 4 - 8 hours, gather mats when needed, planning workshop's schedule-
-tending crops & animals and spend their time doing other stuffs.
No one tells you that the content was design to takes times ?

[SomeRandomHuman]

The only issue I have is that the mammets think it's ok to take 2 days off. I get that they need to recharge their aetherical batteries but that's what extension cords are for.

Graniary mammets work 24/7 with no issue, so why do the workshop mammets need to unionize like this?

[Payadopa]

Animal crossing players when they can't time travel.

The funny thing is, I legit never did that. But I also don't subscribe to the idea that everything must be handed to me immediately. IS is pretty much what I was expecting and even surpasses what I thought it would be. It's a nice distraction after a night of min ilvl raiding.

[LordGiggles]

Imagine, complaining that a time sink like Animal Crossing is...a time sink. You knew what you were signing up for.

This feature is absolutely nothing compared to AC or stardew, literally the only content here is clicking on nodes/animals and waiting for timers. A time sink should be something that actually allows you to sink time into it, not 90% a limsa plaza lifestyle sim.

The way this thread is swapping between comparing it to those games and blaming people for expecting it to be like those is honestly just bizarre.


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Timegating combat stuff to keep it alive longer I get, but this is singleplayer content, I don't see how timers add anything to it. Could play casually without them, as heaps of players (including myself) have been doing with other content for ages now. Amount of content is the same either way.

[VelKallor]

I'm trying to give it some time, but so far a lot of it feels pointless. I have zero idea what I'm aiming for or what the connections/benefits to the rest of the game will be if any.

Making your own small island for the fun of it?

Why does there have to BE any benefit to the rest of the game? Its a standalone place for fun and relaxation..we've just averted the end of the world, stood against mighty foes..so now we have a place to kick back and relax for a change.

Not EVERY DAMNED THING has to be tied to player power.

Whats the rush?

[george357]

so far i am having fun on my island gathering capturing and building up to rank 5 so far about 3 days so far.ps new update have made it to rank 9 need one more workshop renovation and a last land clearing for a lighthouse i think you get mount flying at rank 10.

[NekoMataMata]

Making your own small island for the fun of it?

Why does there have to BE any benefit to the rest of the game? Its a standalone place for fun and relaxation..we've just averted the end of the world, stood against mighty foes..so now we have a place to kick back and relax for a change.

Not EVERY DAMNED THING has to be tied to player power.

Whats the rush?

It's not all about player power. Part of it's just motivations. It's normal to ask what's in it for me.

And that motivation can be as simple as the cosmetics, orchestration rolls, minions and so forth. It can also come in the form of a good looking island but right now... it looks so linear and it doesn't look like there's going to be lots of design options for IS, so I'm struggling to stay motivated that way.