Made a little Tutorial / Review

[hpongledd]

18 minutes ago, Kabrute said:

These things cause lag

Autosweepers

 

noooooooooooooooo! nooooooooo! mind to elaborate why?

[Kabrute]

duplicant pathing interference best I can figure

the sweeper does a job dupes do, so there if there is any conflict between who is going to do the job, lag

[hpongledd]

2 minutes ago, Kabrute said:

duplicant pathing interference best I can figure

the sweeper does a job dupes do, so there if there is any conflict between who is going to do the job, lag

hmm so if completly deactivate storage and supply for dupes there should be no lags?

[Kabrute]

turn on steam fps view and build a couple, watch what your frame rate does.

test and re-test everything is also great advice.  Last note, transition temps are 3c past listed temps

[hpongledd]

Just now, Kabrute said:

turn on steam fps view and build a couple, watch what your frame rate does.

my fps is 7 but that happens after a certain base size, supply/storage is completly deactivated for dupes, pathing is optimizated to only a route, debris (mainly regolith) was removed in debug mode but still 7fps i have around ~30 sweepers installed, i'll remove them and see what happens

[martosss]

OK, if you want advice regarding the tutorial itself, then I'll try not to give you advice regarding play style (such as sweeping everything early on, doing no research and making 3 outhouses and no sink, digging oxylite ... ), since a player should find their own way of doing things. So if you want to leave details out try explaining the general laws by which the game is governed and the different tools that a player has in their disposal. You might consider starting  the explanation with all important overlays (F1, F3, F5, F8 F9 at the start, maybe show F2 when you have electricity...). Also show all possible operations - dig, harvest combat ... Explain how gases work(flow from bottom right to top left for light/heavy). Then Show the timetable(little timer) in the top left corner, the alarm mode, the priority tab, the food tab, the reports tab. Once the player knows those things exist and what they do, he can start using them.

Also you're doing some things that a player should in almost all cases not do, such as digging up oxylite, as this destroys ½ of it(the ½ dig loss is another point you can mention).

Also try using the keyboard - "c" for cancel, "y" for autoharvest, "g" for dig, "k" for sweep ... again, it might be just me, but clicking at those buttons is utterly annoying and much slower than playing like a gamer - with a keyboard

You also might explain how slimelung and F9 works - if there's no slimelung in the air, it will not get spread unless you dig out slime that is contaminated, so you can open a pocket and go around it without problems, as long as you don't dig the contaminated slime.

Also your strategy of mixing polluted water from the caustic biome that has no germs with toilet water that is germy isn't good - you're basically contaminating all the polluted water. A much better strategy is to separate it. I'm not sure this should be part of a basic tutorial, but it sure is one of the tricky things that can give you problems along the way(you make a water sieve, hoping to get clean water, but instead you get germy water ... boom .. dead colony).

For planter boxes and many other things, you can use the "copy settings" option(in my setup it's linked to the "\" key, so pressing a planter box that has mealwood selected, pressing copy settings and then selecting all plants will plant it in all plants). That's 1 more thing that's worth mentioning - it will save you A LOT of time to use that instead of clicking each planter box individually and digging through its settings to select the right thing.

Regarding ladders and firepoles ... There's more than 1 way to do them, and I'd say yours is not the best one. If it's a basic tutorial, maybe just make basic ladders?

So, as a conclusion, a good tutorial for this game I think should give you the tools and let you discover the world alone. Giving gameplay advice of what is better can be very controversial.

[erso]

20 hours ago, EdmonEdmon said:

Hey guys,

Been a while since I last posted. A friend of mine has been meaning to get into this game for a long while now. So I made her a little review/tutorial. I thought you guys might also like it, but I'm not sure what your policies are on linking youtube videos on the forums. So this is sort of my pilot thread. If you like this and you want me to make more stuff, then please let me know.

Oh, and sorry for the umming in the beginning, the current summer heat is murdering my throat lol.

https://youtu.be/hvLvZQk2BQY

I found it helpful for a beginners until the time index 34:00. Just details in dealing with water you could have shown by far better (than by accident).