Post by Twisted on Aug 27, 2017 17:50:12 GMT
Hello all! I'm having a ton of fun with Academia, it's a gem. I played it for about 2 hours and I wrote a bunch of stuff down, so here it is! Some of these are bugs and I'll write separate bug reports for them (I already did half of them) but I wanted everything to be in the same place.
UI Feedback
Gameplay Feedback
Item Wishlist
Bugs
UI Feedback
- The camera moves too fast when zoomed in
When you zoom all the way and use WASD to move the camera around the movement speed seems to be same as the zoomed out speed, which makes the camera difficult to control - When building, tooltips only appear after selecting an item
This is probably just personal preference - I like tooltips to appear on mouseover - When placing a door blueprint on a wall it's very hard to see that it's there
The door icon is very faint and it can be difficult to see if it has been placed without zooming all the way in - When placing items or walls pressing escape should deselect the item
Currently pressing escape does nothing and the only way to deselect the item is to close the menu. - Pressing escape should close open menus
Having to close menus with the mouse feels a bit clunky - Item search bar
As more items get added the building menu will become crowded and it will be much easier to find the desired item with a search box - The edit classroom menu should have student capacity
It should count the amount of student chairs inside the clasrrom and give us the max student number. Not crucial, but would be nice. - You should be able to see teacher stats after hiring them
This might already be in but I wasn't able to find it - When placing zones it should have a visual indicator if it's too small
Make it have a red tint if it's below minimum size, light it up when it's big enough. - Scrolling in menus shouldn't zoom in/out the map
Self-explanatory - When placing a large area of a floor it won't get placed if there's other floors already present
If I'm placing grass around my concrete path I should be able to select the entire area at once - make it ignore the concrete, not fail to place grass. - Zoom to mouse
I hear this is surprisingly tricky to implement, but it would be nice to have! - You should be able to hold+drag when placing objects
If you want to place 20 student chairs you need to click 20 times. Dragging the chairs would be preferable - Grant complete notifications are not obvious enough.
When you complete a grant you get a little green snippet of text in the top left, it should appear in a notification box same as the sick students notification
Gameplay Feedback
- Students pee in bushes even when you have toilets
If there's no available toilets they should queue and just wait a minute or two - no need to walk 50 tiles to the nearest bush - The peeing animation seems wrong
I have south-facing toilets. Male students go up to them, face south, unzip, do the deed, zip, and leave. They should face north while peeing. I'm guessing this is just not 100% finished as I don't think I've seen anyone open the cubicle door. - Concrete walls cost 10x more than other walls
Probably just a bug. Concrete walls cost $100, all other walls cost $10. They seem to be functionally the same. - The trash can shouldn't be just in the club tab.
Trash cans should be everywhere around the school, not just in clubs. Maybe there should be a 'Hall' tab that would have trash cans, clocks, plants, windows, and the like? - Everyone is late to class!
Class starts at 8:00, teacher arrives at 8:30. Same with the students. They know when their class starts. The teacher should head to class sooner so he makes it in time (being 5-10 late would be okay), students should hang out near their classroom until the teacher arrives. Also, maybe that could be some kind of teacher trait - I had teachers that were always late, and I had some that would always be on time. - The trash dumpster can be hard to find in the menu.
I couldn't find it and I concluded that it wasn't an object that you could build. It didn't occur to me until later to check the 'All' tab for it. - 'Placing' a floor under a wall costs money
This might be intentional, but I feel it shouldn't cost money and that nothing should get placed. - The circle indicator needs to be in a zone to work
Another dumpster problem I had. I figured they were bugged until I decided to place several other dumpsters. It turns out the little dumpster circle was not in the garbage zone - I intentionally placed the dumpster next to the sidewalk. It makes sense but it wasn't immediately obvious. - Window placement should be encouraged
Windows and natural light are really important for education. I completely forgot about windows until I stumbled upon them in the object menu. I feel that each classroom should have a window - this would also make school designs more interesting since it would force you to make each classroom have an outside wall. Otherwise I bet people will build classroom blocks that look like a prison. - Too many students take a bio break during class
I don't think a teacher would let a third of his students just leave the class at the same time. It feels weird that every time a class starts 1/3 of the students are walking in the hall. Maybe limit it to 1 student per classroom at a time. - Janitors should clean a classroom while class is in session
They're disrupting the class! Wait until after school hours.
Item Wishlist
- More chalkboard variants. Bigger chalkboards, smaller chalkboards, wall mounted chalkboards, whiteboards
- More chair variety. Just different colors would make a big difference
- More wall mounted items - display cases, periodic tables, educational posters, school crest
- More decorations such as different plants, sculptures, statues
- More door designs! Different color doors, glass doors, doors with glass panes
- Outside decorations
- Vending machines
- More flooring options
- More windows
Bugs
- Mousing over character name while selecting them ingame causes an audiovisual glitch.
- Placing a 1x1 wall on a door that is being deconstructed glitches the wall placement and you can't do anything, loading any save keeps the bug - game restart needed.
- Open any building menu. Pressing space closes it, moving around with wasd and pressing space opens/closes random menus.
- I lost the ability to place objects/walls. I have enough money, I choose an object but no silhouette appears and clicking does nothing. Complete restart needed. I don't know the cause, it just happened while I was placing doors.
