Ah. That means I’ll just have to experiment until I find all the dialogue!! >:3
But the main thing is that for the past 2 times that I’ve done a full playthrough of the game, it’s just that it takes such a long time to re-set everything up exactly the way I had it before. It’s not necessarily that you have to play the game again- that’s just a good time. It’s more so just that, each time I’ve had to manually copy down on a physical piece of paper all of my structures and in the exact locations that they were on my last playthrough.
And I mean- yeah of course I could build my base mostly differently on subsequent playthroughs, but it’s like, I’ve already used all my brain power to optimize everything as much as I could the first time, I want to spare myself the effort of having to it again. That’s honestly part of the reason why I’m so adamant about the addition of some sort of map that you could easily access to view an overview of your entire base. Partly because, yes, in-game it would be a really useful and handy feature, but also because any time I, or anyone else would want to recreate a setup that they’ve already made on a previous version, they could simply open the map and screenshot it. It would be much quicker than manually jotting it all down.
I don’t know how difficult this would be. I don’t know anything about game creation and coding or programming or whatnot, but I’m thinking this idea would either range from not that hard, to way too hard and unreasonable for a project of this scale. But I was thinking maybe, along with the map, you could add some sort of “blueprint” feature. Where instead of actually copying the structures over from a previous save into a new version, all acts as is a way to view the image of your previous base from a previous version in the newest version.
All it would be is just like showing you just an image of your previous map on the screen while you play, and you could probably hide it by pressing a certain key, and bring it up again by pressing the same key again.
Because if there was a map that would just have to screenshot yourself, you’d have to keep tabbing out of the game to look at it. But I was just thinking maybe if you could just view the image in the actual game, that could make that process of recreating everything even simpler.
I feel really apprehensive whenever I suggest sort of- I guess ambitious stuff like this because I’m afraid that I’m either coming off as entitled or just suggesting way too much.
If that’s the case I apologize. Heh.
But really I don’t mean it like that and I really hope I don’t come off that way. I just like the thing you’ve made, and my silly brain has a lot of silly ideas.