Goonhub
03-12-2025, 05:58 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-12-2025, 06:10 AM by Lyagushka. Edited 1 time in total.
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I used to play rancher long ago, it wasnt pleasurable and barely rewarding, now, after 2 years - its still hardly worth the effort. I understand you might disagree with me, but its not the point I want to make.
What I mean is:
Its an amazing game module, that lacks propper effort+time/reward ratio gameplay wise. Yes, some things are busted, but it doesnt matter because most of the time while hydraponics harvests money from trees equvivalent to entire station GDP, Ranch is empty, or best case scenario has brown chickens.
I observed that its very unpopular job and after playing it many times, meeting all needed conditions, dedicating ALL my attention to stats - I understand its just not worth it. It takes 50 minutes to reach tier 2 chickens, and even when you do that they just die because you looked at them a wrong way I guess.
Yes, there are chickens that prevent aging, but its the same deal with them. And with fact that you are well into the chances of having 5 hens with no roosters or 5 roosters and no hens means they will die all the same while you try to breed more chickens. HOWEVER, if you breed too many - they will again, die, because your pen is overcrowded.
To put it simply:
1. Its hard to achive much.
2. There is a lack of tool to move large quantaties of chickens which results in overcrowding and deaths. (having 10 cages on the belt, takes around 20 seconds minimum just to scoop 10 chickens.)
3. RNG is absolute ass. There is no way to force evolution. Its very common to just being unable to progress even if you execute everything by the book.
4. Playing rancher is insanely timeconsuming.
Suggestion:
1. Add some kind of ability to force evolution. Why not use fish for that. That would make fishing more integrated as part of the job.
2. Make a big chicken cage that can pick up many chicken at once, with either a single action bar or none at all. However, make it take time to let all chickens out of said cage to prevent dumping a pack of raptors in an instant.
3. Expand Ranch. Every map has its ranch insanely small. Its just impossible to keep up with their space demands, when you share a studio apartment with them.
Maybe you have ideas too, I simply ask to have a talk about this, because it saddens me how much potential is just being ghosted.
What I mean is:
Its an amazing game module, that lacks propper effort+time/reward ratio gameplay wise. Yes, some things are busted, but it doesnt matter because most of the time while hydraponics harvests money from trees equvivalent to entire station GDP, Ranch is empty, or best case scenario has brown chickens.
I observed that its very unpopular job and after playing it many times, meeting all needed conditions, dedicating ALL my attention to stats - I understand its just not worth it. It takes 50 minutes to reach tier 2 chickens, and even when you do that they just die because you looked at them a wrong way I guess.
Yes, there are chickens that prevent aging, but its the same deal with them. And with fact that you are well into the chances of having 5 hens with no roosters or 5 roosters and no hens means they will die all the same while you try to breed more chickens. HOWEVER, if you breed too many - they will again, die, because your pen is overcrowded.
To put it simply:
1. Its hard to achive much.
2. There is a lack of tool to move large quantaties of chickens which results in overcrowding and deaths. (having 10 cages on the belt, takes around 20 seconds minimum just to scoop 10 chickens.)
3. RNG is absolute ass. There is no way to force evolution. Its very common to just being unable to progress even if you execute everything by the book.
4. Playing rancher is insanely timeconsuming.
Suggestion:
1. Add some kind of ability to force evolution. Why not use fish for that. That would make fishing more integrated as part of the job.
2. Make a big chicken cage that can pick up many chicken at once, with either a single action bar or none at all. However, make it take time to let all chickens out of said cage to prevent dumping a pack of raptors in an instant.
3. Expand Ranch. Every map has its ranch insanely small. Its just impossible to keep up with their space demands, when you share a studio apartment with them.
Maybe you have ideas too, I simply ask to have a talk about this, because it saddens me how much potential is just being ghosted.
