I'm absolutely in love with this game, first of all. It's like a combination of every farming life sim and exploration and crafting game I've ever loved. I adore all the characters, and am very excited to see where the game will go in the future.
A few things I love about the game:
1. The vast colorful world and characters, all the places to explore. It's beautiful even on my somewhat crappy computer which requires me to turn the graphics to the lowest settings. I love the stories behind the world and the characters and the events.
2. The crafting. It's challenging without being impossible. While I dread waiting 20 something hours to make ten copper bars, I do think I'd be somewhat more frustrated if the game was so easy that I could just get them all immediately. I enjoy all the possibilities of things to make.
3. I like that there are so many different ways to gather materials, if it was just mining and tree cutting and gathering I'd get bored quick. But we get farming, fishing, gathering, woodcutting, mining, quarrying, shopping, fighting creatures, a little bit of everything!
There are a few suggestions I have as well:
1. With there being so much to do to gather everything for crafting for commissions and quests and such, there is little time left for socializing. Normally I wouldn't mind this so much, I'm usually content to just talk with people as I see them and pursue friendships with the ones I want on my own time, but even that is hard to do. I find it very hard to befriend sooo many wonderful characters when each heart takes so much to fill up. Even with increased social skills I'm finding it difficult to make friends and romance potential spouses. I'm also scared this will be more difficult depending on how losing points over time will work. Maybe I'm just not as good at managing my time and resources, but not everyone is an expert level player.
2. I love love love all the different marriage options, but I find myself wanting to make my character look cute and suitable next to whoever I choose to woo. This is a kind of out there suggestion but maybe we could have a height slider or a taller player character in general? Just by a bit? I keep feeling a little awkward being half the height of Arlo or looking half the age of Aadit. That's another thing, I'd love if we could have more cosmetic options or face or body options that would just make the player character look a little older if we wanted. I've tried to mess with the eyes and eyebrows and such to make my character look older but...being half the height of some of my favorite characters I want to romance makes me feel...off. I'm not saying I want to play a full blown middle age looking adult but my character feels almost childish rather than 18 or 19.
3. Dunno if this is a suggestion or a bug, but I was jumping around and got stuck behind the Commerce building. Halfway through my day. After a trip to the ruins. Kind of frustrating having to restart my game because I got stuck.
4. I love how many requests and main quests there are to do, but I'm finding myself having to choose between focusing on main quests and quests gotten thru talking to people or the mail or events, or commissions. And it's hard to level up my workshop if I'm not taking commissions all the time. I've yet to get enough points to get a first or second place rating.
5. I would also loveee to see farming being further developed. Maybe a plot of land or a greenhouse that we could get? And tools to take care of the plants instead of having them just grow? It'd be a fun break from all the running around collecting things. Just a nice hour at the workshop to take care of some crops (animals would be so exciting too!).
Sorry if some of these suggestions are out there, I absolutely love the game as it is but I just kept having these thoughts as I was playing. Thank you so much for making this game it's one of my new favorites!