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Jason, my opinions on this matter:

I think you are very much right in that tech needs to have a purpose in the game, otherwise we don't bother to develop it. I has to be organical and you've done that a hell of a lot of times already (Tarr mentioned good examples).

I just think there's a few things that should be pushed more for tech upgrades to have this feel.
Needing more types of resources to keep cities going and making up supply chains for stuff other than directly food helps, and fertilizers, refrigeration do help with that. But I also think a greater push for world exploration and city expansion should be an absolute must for the game to feel entertaining long-term. Later that could be done by more biomes I think, which would be mostly aesthetic, but now adding those rare resources, specially those that are hard to extract from off-town localities is one of the best challenges you can add to the game I think. If these rare resources are needed into already existing suppy chains that is even better.

Maybe this way there is even that famed push for city communication, and trade.

I just wish we could cook boars and pigs on a spit.

both tbh. but its more likely for him to take it from there I guess

I like the idea of crop diseases and pests but they should be a small balancing mechanic, not griefer fuel.

the closer to an aqueduct now is a road to swamps with a few cisterns along. Helps transporting water better than it's needed, quite frankly.

That's the only use other than hauling buckets from a distant swamp (which is barely ever needed and would still be expensive, but rails could do very well)

problem with esperanto is that eventually it would develop into something else. languages are not estatic constructs.

Because the right way to make suggestions is going to reddit and he is working on steam.

I've got responses like that too but it's just he's busy, you know? what did you suggest anyway?

My two cents on the issue is releasing it as early dev allows you to once again in the future draw some hype to the game when it's the actual release.

Maybe that would be the next time you need to take some time for some big fix/changes, those have happened before right?

yeah, I really wish we'd get another biome update, you know? so much can be changed about the game by adding something that's available right from the start like a biome. I just wish new biomes would have both late and early game resources. feels bad that grass has got most goodies.

also, we need more mechanics that enable reviving towns/savingn them from last girl crisis. I think bells would help if spawns were a tad bit closer. it IS possibe to find othr towns, just that you'll normally need a horse to do that, and then, why would you saerch a bigger town?
Maybe some rare landmarks would be neat as well, since people could gather around.

then you run out of branches and die horribly without a axe. Pick cannot be such a priority. axe is more important than how too.

so, i've thought about it and some other people have as well.

currently iron is one of the most important resources as it has many uses and is non-renewable. In fact, since iron can make most tools and locks and knives, which help keep your other goods, it is arguably the best material to be used in a currency siystem too (but this is a side note)

I think there's two possible solutions to this. One is making a rarer variety of iron vein with more iron, so whoever found one would help even more gens. The extra chance to find these would make mines, in general, a tad more common. The other idea is making it so here is a second tier upgrade to mines that gives so much iron that it'll probably take more people to mine it all. This way people will want to mine because it is so late game and cool.