About update 23.03.25

Hey. Big fan of the game... BUT... I do have a few thoughts.

The new system makes very little sense from the standpoint of being king over a growing nation with what should be an expanding populace.

If you want the system to make sense as a ruler, consider this:
A finance minister (the taxes guy) who you discuss the budget and taxes with - you had that perfect already, just add that he handles the trade and resources, perhaps forwarding requests and decisions if you haven't directly answered them from the overland travel map yet. The "overview map" guy - make him minister or Public Works, and handle workers and building projects, and your Lab guy is your Minister or Research, keeping track of the latest experiments./. Ryen, as king, could decide what to budget for and how often, what to produce locally versus trading with neighbors, and where to build new improvements. You had a lot of that right the first time around, and it mostly worked pretty well. But businesses and nationalized resource gathering backed by the crown should never directly sully a ruler's hands aside from rubber stamping his approval of their requests and vetoing or recommending their actions.

Resources should just go up or down based on those decisions, and how you respond to disasters or the aftereffects of missions, and attacks or thefts by enemies, bandits, or disasters like fires, floods, and weather.  THAT would be a much more natural solution, and would leave Ryen free to adventure MOST of the time, but what you could do is have disasters or places needing Ryen's input show up on the travel map. And if he does not respond in time, the kingdom loses resources, or a building needs to be rebuilt at extra cost because it burned down, or a farm flooded or froze in a spring cold snap, etc. You'd just have a timer check for whether a random event should occur, and have a table of positive and negative events, and locations they can occur. Positive events would boost prodcution for a time or bring a windfall of gold, while negative events could reduce production, devastate the stored amounts in stock, reduce currency from theft or require Ryen to personally go to or sent the army to stop the bandits, recover from disaster, fight fires, etc. within a certain time or lose more, or lose the producer and require the rebuild. Much more sane to keep up with and makes much more sense as the ruler of a nation.  Just an opinion, but I think it's a better overall solution.

Just my thoughts on it... Thanks again for all your hard work on a great game.

-Drake Steele.

P.S.: The storage issues really are awfully severe. There really should be no limit to storage, except that the cost of building more buildings, or digging cellars out to store it would keep going up, and resources like food would slowly rot if you kept more than could be consumed or traded for too long, and just be more to worry about losing in thefts or disasters... and then all that storage y'ou paid for to be built lies empty, costing more maintenance per round for nothing til you can refill it... another consequence for the player of letting it collect too long.

Another option could be to make every quest that shows up on the city board a way to gain reputation 

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1) For the timers the real question is how often do you want players to check in with the kingdom? Assuming 1-2 hrs is roughly the edge point, you probably want to increase generation per tick (or have it stock up over time), and then have the timers be a decrease every 10 mins or so.
2) Production speed needs to be automated and in the back ground, link it to something akin to what the gold every x amount of time was previously. The cap per resource is fine, but many intermediaries should be removed, unless the base resources are going to automatically convert as they did in the previous turn based iteration. Any researches or requirements to the final product can have longer timers if needed, but intermediaries are silly and are extra micromanagement no one want to deal with in a rpg focused game.
3) Re-iterating, the max storage limit is definitely over kill. 
4) see 3
5) See 2. The intermediate products really have no purpose here unless they are automated- even in a game about making products and selling them (offworld trading company!), there are few-no intermediaries. It's all raw resources-> product.
6) That check would be a good idea I think, increase the base resource cost to do the research/make the product, and then once it's been made at least once, set off a flag confirming the item is there and no longer need to make it. 

Battle system skills: Given that the game and combat was clearable prior to these battle system skills being added, it's hard to say what would be needed to make reputation valuable. That said, I haven't tried these at all yet given that the initial attempt of trying to get kingdom building to work went... poorly, so I can't give accurate feed back here. 

One thing I can suggest is either increasing the storage more, or getting rid of the maximum limit, at least for overall storage. Also, I prefer the old UI where I could see all my resources without having to go into a menu or submenus of that menu.

when you put a maximum limit on how many things you can have at a time, but then make the player go into multiple menus just to look at what they can get rid of, or how much they have and need more of, it gets annoying.

My only complaint about the system currently is that I seem to have found a bug with capturing Lind so I can progress that plotline. I've defeated every single battle on the overview map, even on the highest difficulties, several times over. But, she never appears in the prison like she's supposed to. My current theory is that maybe the sequence I did things in caused a bug? But, I can't recall what the sequence this time around was, so I can't speculate as to what two events may have conflicted.

As far as the overview map, my strongest suggestion would be to scale up quantities and production, that way you aren't trying to keep everything so tight with regards to timescale. For example, we can sell 15 furniture and 25 jewelry to begus, but it takes half a dozen turns to produce that much, making it much less worthwhile, especially with you repeatedly having to check the exports at your port every turn in order to not miss out on those profits. If you increased the scaling of those values, you would be able to adjust things more easily, to achieve a proper equilibrium between not making it tedious but also making it fulfilling.

I'm also having difficulty finding the auto battle function. I have an overabundance of troops to spend for it (I might never have to manually battle again, at this point.) but, I can't locate the option toggle. Wherever it is, it's really obscure, because I've checked everywhere I can think of, from the main options menu, to every single overview map menu. Unless there's a criteria to unlock it, that I'm simply lacking, I can't get it to turn on.

But, I do want to say that it's a cool idea conceptually. I think that, had the game been designed with it as a planned feature from the beginning, it could have been even better. But, personally I have to say that it does feel a bit out of place in the current game style. Considering the limitations of the software you're using, you've done an absolutely phenomenal job making a very unique system and integrating it with the other game elements. But, it definitely feels more like a standalone game, rather than a part of Renryuu ascension. The setting is the only thing the two halves really share. I mean, yeah. The vanguard commanders appear as NPCs in the other half. But, they aren't particularly captivating, and once you make them commanders, they basically have no more role to play in the roleplaying side of things. They really just exist to be vanguards and that's it.

my only compliant about the fights is that i didn't get any budget