Pod Wars Feedback + Development Plans

[Garash]

you just hit it with a wrench and start a progress bar to construct it in place

This is SO important. Having to deal with tedious manifolds, circuitry and control interfaces is incredibly lame when you just want to get on with pod warring, especially when it's on top of wiring, metal & glass sheeting, and multiple wrench&wielder steps.

I'm not sure about the matsci integration though, punishing novice players with a garbage pod because they used pharosium/syreline as their metal doesn't seem desirable. I like the current "can you make it in a fab, no? what's missing? go get it!"

What seems to me like a simple fix would be to have special pod wars frame kits that let you skip multiple steps, with much longer progress bar on each remaining step.

Add in a bunch of "Building space pods for dummies" picture guides and I think a lot of players would get to experience the better parts of pod wars!