Ranch Simulator

Ranch Simulator

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Toro1ST Nov 1, 2023 @ 3:05pm
Certain issues and "missues" bothering me for about about a year now
Me and my girlfriend have been playing as a duo since very very early phases of the game. Around when horses were released. Together we've shared over 1000 hours of joy, fun, lovely couple time and funny bugs.

But when we're talking about releasing this game as a FULL RELEASE right now, it makes me very worried. What was with the LONG pause with updates? We sincerely gave up on this game in the summer, worrying developers gave up.

But now it's nice to see some fresh air and stuff going around for better again!

Since I see the heart of this game beating again, here are some of my issues with suggestions, which I can personally guide/try to help/test myself when necessary.

#Issue1
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First of all I'm a huge fan of horses since I was a child and been a fan-non-pro-occasional horse rider myself. My family has 2 horses, with my girlfriend mostly minding that side.

Coming with experience towards horses, really love that You've added stats to horses and it gives a bit of a variety plus different colour combinations. Too bad we can't have an Appaloosa :/

Now running in circles and training them up for potential money and doing it all over again got pretty annoying soon. Eventually I spent 10-30 minutes (depending on luck) to buy MAX stats horse just for show-off and level him up after running in circles in Training Paddock for 15 minutes ... again. Then have him/her in my garden or paddock and enjoy the view and hard work. Eventual result - disappointingly low amount of actual interactive gameplay.

Since all animals can breed, so should obviously horses. But wait ... they cant? Why? That's another big issue. I mean come on ... what? Just what? On top of what? Why? Just why not?

Me and my girlfriend we've played this game from Legacy till this day for over 1000 hours combined and grown tired of it already because our favourite animals are pretty much unusable in this game. Just occasionally travel around in this small map and that's it.


#Issue2
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The other concerning problem to me is MONEY in the game. It's so easy to get everything going, even all the animals if You want to. Set Granary's and Windmills up and You're good to go. Now once for example you get a couple of cows or beef going just by grinding hunting meat and quests (Without treasure quest ofc, DUH) you already get milk and beef going. Or go cheap and just get 600 in Day 1, buy male and a female pig, chop some logs and a small 2x3 or 3x3 yard. Boom, they repopulate so fast it's MONEY in the bank. When really lazy, just start off with a foodbag and no granary/windmill. While they grow, just hunt and grind quests again and bang , You have the required tools in Day 3-4 to already make meat production work. From there on it's gg. Do whatever You want, absolutely nothing to worry about, money wont be bothering you anymore.

But that worries me the most.
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Here are my ideas to these issues:
1) Re-evaluate money in this game. And (if it's not too much to ask) a bit more realistic prices. No harvester in real life costs that low. Moneymaking with stacking up meat and waiting for 2x price is lame.
2) Which leads me to point 2. REMOVE double prices from Burger! It's pointless just to stack mountains of certain sausages or cheeses and wait for them to 2x. It's also very bad for FPS, because the game is always rendering those stacks of meat in Burger King store. Even with 2x Loot room in coolers ... stack coolers now? Still not the best solution.
3) Now about horses. First things first. FIX HORSE MANE. The "non-advanced" version looks way more realistic than the Advanced Mane version. Oh god is it bad. Just awful. Peter Griffin's voice saying awful. But the basic one isn't graphically much improvement either.
4) Horse movement. It's just weird and clustered. Get's stuck very awkwardly, every nuance is an actual speedkiller. Jumping specifically needs to be readjusted.
5) After making profits or training them all to max is just pointless to keep them. All they do is cost money. Occasionally you can ride with them but when the map is learned to your head, there's not much to travel to.
6) PLEASE PLEASE make horse breeding available! And PLEASE make genes more of a variety. Make no horse MAX stats from auctiion house, so no matter what you'll have a non-perfect horse. And then ONLY by breeding You can eventually achieve max stats horses. Only then I would see value in keeping horses instead of massive beef meat makers of massive money that just take some patience. Or just pigs you know. Or make some milk. Or make some cucumbers.
7) In general I feel like all the other animals are fun. Just add some interactions to them aswell, but horses are at a very bad state. Contact me personally when necessary and I'll be your advisor, dear Developers :)
8) I love that You're trying to do something with the handling and fix it. It has come a long way and is much better. But just a reminder: Handbrake DOES NOT lock front brakes, only rear brakes. Žiguli handling feels quite realistic actually and take that into inspiration for all rear-wheel drive vehicles! And it's fun to drive/drift around, it really is! But that handbrake also locking front wheels feels weird. Then again when just braking, it feels like all tires lock up immediately and there's no ABS whatsoever. Which makes braking distance longer, which then again makes me use handbrake and maybe occasionally tap break (self-initiated-ABS).
Long story short, please fix the issue with handbrake locking all 4 wheels and some minor adjustments to other vehicles. Other than that, major overhaul made it much better. We have suspension now! Yeii! :)
9) There are some weird building limits at certain angles, when weight support from the bottom or 2 sides is given. Which makes certain general builds impossible. When necessary, I can post pictures of what I mean. But when support is given to an angled roof, then adding a support pillar instead of adding "Door frames" all over the place would be more aesthetic. And more building options please. Make triangles more variably usable and muuuuch more (slightly customizable) Decos and usable furniture for Multiplayer social moments. Even for 3,99€ expansion in the future when You need money for further developments :)
10) Variable animal respawns. So that there could also be danger to wolves endangering your own fleet of animals.
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This post is my attempt at constructive criticism towards this lovely game called Ranch Simulator. I really love this game, I've spent many hours in it and I want to spend more. I just end up at an eventual wall of development in-game because there are some incomplete elements in the game, that I especially turn attention to.

Other additions and further developments with bugfixes have given a much more liveable game atmosphere and we're no longer randomly flying to space or cars without reasons disappear etc. It's becoming whole.

But I really hope you guys are ready for the full release and fingers crossed!
Hope some of my ideas come into fruition.

But I still feel like there are some annoying bugs/mishaps and finance system that needs to be adjusted. And horses need a revamp/reform/update and +BREEDING ASAP!