Yes can we please rethink the respawn times on very limited items? We're literally out here fighting one another over cotton....
And a FOUR HOUR respawn on hops, another of the things that is needed in the highest quantities ingame, is just ridiculous, guys.
Come on, devs. We love your game. We've stuck with you when everyone else left, but you're driving people away by dragging things out to the point of absurdity.
I like grindy games. I enjoy the grind, and I even usually enjoy the grind of Pax Dei, but it's getting worse and worse and everyone keeps asking you to PLEASE let us enjoy this game, and instead you just keep taking the fun and turning it into tedium for the sake of "longevity."
Yes, people who play longer will generate you more revenue, but the way you're ignoring the needs of your players is only ensuring, again and again, that everyone walks away from it.
We need to actually feel like we can get somewhere, and past about level 20 or so on every single skill, you've made progress too slow to even be felt, gathering too tedious to be enjoyable, and you continue to go the opposite direction of what your entire player base is asking of you. That isn't how you keep players, that's how you kill a game. Again. And I'd have thought you did that enough times with this particular player base to kill this game for good or learn your lesson by now, so which one is it going to be?
We want to play. Please make it so that we can continue doing that. People will stay, but not because you forced them to gather for months or because you chained them to their crafting tables - players won't be chained and they leave games that are frustratingly tedious, but they STAY for the long term for games they actually feel their progress in, and my whole clan is quickly coming to the point that that isn't happening, and so my whole clan will end up wandering off to find something to play that is actually rewarding. Again.
Please give us more than a trickle of xp on goods that take thousands of mats that took hours upon hours to gather and are gone in less than a hundreth of the time it takes it to respawn. Please let things respawn in a reasonable amount of time, and add more spawn spots so the entire server doesn't have to race each other to everything as soon as it respawns. Please don't make people wait 2 hours for cotton or 4 hours for hops, or any other excessive amount of time on other mats, when everyone is standing around just waiting for the respawns in that ONE place because there isn't even enough for one PERSON on the whole map, let alone a whole server of people. Please stop making us fill up our bags with so much useless crap every time we mine or gather or hunt that we have to spend endless hours just throwing crap away that no one needs. Please stop making the crafting fail rates higher and higher so that now everything fails at about a 50% (or higher) rate, even on easy. Please stop making all our gear have so little durability that one repair pretty much means you have to waste hundreds to thousands of mats just to replace the things that broke, rather than even bother repairing it. Please stop nuking all player stats and gains from consumables, while also making NPCs heal so fast that it often isn't even literally possible to reduce their damage bars with a group of people hacking away at it. Please stop replacing mid to upper tier mats in every single biome with useless garbage (like rain lillies, that seem to have been intentionally used to replace all the cotton that used to spawn because you thought people would mistake it for cotton and wouldn't notice how horrifically you reduced cotton spawns)...
And side note, stop assuming we're idiots and won't even notice you've done all of this and more just to try to force people into playing longer. We aren't, in fact, idiots and we do, in fact, notice.
Please let us continue playing this game. We're literally begging you.