This game is grindy, but maybe too much so - Steel Ingots

[rustyknight44]

We know by now where to find iron, how to suck it up and get the noeds for about everything. A conversion rate of 5 iron ingots to 1 steel ingot. (thank god it uses up 10 charcoal a pop...)

It might be a good idea if the developer either slightly increased the iron nodes, or sllighty decreased the steel ingot requirements.

Opinions?

[gpcstargate]

SOUNDS a Bit Grinding to me ... hope they adjust that.

I don't JUST Play Games ... I have a Life Also.

[Wingtip]

there are plenty of iron nodes.... this is the least of their worries/fixes needed

[OreThaneMannie]

i have almost 37 hrs in the game , i don't think its Grindy at all . yes iron nodes are a little hard to Find when doing steel but with the News of iron nodes able to re spawn with up coming updates i think that will fix that issue .

[hillbilly78]

Originally posted by gpcstargate:

SOUNDS a Bit Grinding to me ... hope they adjust that.

I don't JUST Play Games ... I have a Life Also.

hm u not play games and this is in your profile (76 Year Old Gamer .. Been playing forever it seems.
Have over 7000 hrs in 7D2D .. Vanilla and Modded.
3000+ in Skyrim and a Gaming library of over 300+ games, Not all

[stretch]

They have just increased the spawns of iron nodes so it's much better now, I think you might need to clear a few of the islands they are more common on.
You do however need an awful lot of ingots overall to get everything and I think it's probably a lot better if you have a few players all sharing the gear it's used to make. Solo it's a little much.
The biggest thing is possibly the time taken to refine the ores and that's gotten around by building multiple smelters. I have 5 to make bars and that knocks them out really quick.
I thought I read that the ingot smelting might be bugged just now but I haven't tried it since the last update. My new game is about to get to that point.
Iron and copper nodes have always respawned but it's not fast. Might be as long as a week in game but it does happen. I would often come back with 30+ iron from one island although I couldn't name which ones offhand. The little mutant island right near the start island is a really good source early game and easy to clear.

If you avoid several of the vehicles that require 10 ingots each it's better. The helicopter was unusable for me and I think some of the boats that need 10 ingots have no storage so are effectively useless as well for general play. Might be fine for sea combat later on but for now they are toys.

[myk]

Those are for the highest tier items, made by a highest tier item. If they gave you that easy you'd then complain about how little content was in the game and how easy it was to beat.
Grindy yes, it's a survival game, that's what they are.

Seems like they did increase the ore nodes if you start a new game.

[SimpleSimon]

It is the nature of survival games to be "grindy". There are down times in survival games where you stop action activities to deal with the grind of resource gathering and management.

[Maze ♡]

I don´t mind it beeing grindy, because then you at least have a reason to sail again to the islands. What I do not like is that the smelter only takes 1 ore at a time. Constantly haveing to check and babysit the schmelter is not fun.

[stretch]

Originally posted by Maze:

I don´t mind it beeing grindy, because then you at least have a reason to sail again to the islands. What I do not like is that the smelter only takes 1 ore at a time. Constantly haveing to check and babysit the schmelter is not fun.

Yep and I think they have said they will look into it from a previous similar comment.
I have 5 of them and it makes it pretty quick.

[MJY]

Originally posted by stretch:

Originally posted by Maze:

I don´t mind it beeing grindy, because then you at least have a reason to sail again to the islands. What I do not like is that the smelter only takes 1 ore at a time. Constantly haveing to check and babysit the schmelter is not fun.

Yep and I think they have said they will look into it from a previous similar comment.
I have 5 of them and it makes it pretty quick.

same, i got 4, maybe more would make it really faster, but its already good, 1 is painful for sure

[HiGenX]

Hell levels in EQ1 and Lineage , now thats grind :). This is sunshine on a spring day while sipping some tea .

[LuluGamingDK]

kids now a day dont know what "grindy" is lol endgame in 2-3days is not grindy.. try 2-3 years lol just to get a full endgame set.. oo the good oldday.

Side note.. I think it fine. you dont want the game play to be to fast, it not like we are playing pvp (most of us are not) so there no need to hit endgame in 1day like Rust lol

[Whiskers]

big issue is grind makes little sense. for example using rare resource like circuit board to build a fridge which is just a "cosmetic chest" and you have no clue until you research it AND build it. feels bad

[cpuman]

My personal opinion on steel, make iron able to be smelted more than one at a time, meaning you can stick and collect more than a single piece of metal at a time. And reducing the amount of iron vs steel that you get would be nice as well, a 1 to 1 ratio on ore to iron feels a bit high imho, so being able to put in like 6 ore and get 5 bars sounds better.

[myk]

Originally posted by LuluGamingDK:

kids now a day dont know what "grindy" is lol endgame in 2-3days is not grindy.. try 2-3 years lol just to get a full endgame set.. oo the good oldday.

Side note.. I think it fine. you dont want the game play to be to fast, it not like we are playing pvp (most of us are not) so there no need to hit endgame in 1day like Rust lol

IKR? And I bet the ones complaining the most are those PVP players who think every game should be PVP and they want machine guns on day 1. It's exactly why I'm not thrilled with the idea of this even being optional PVP because they will be complaining until this is no longer a survival game, it'll become PubG with eating.