AColony Reviews

I wish I could give this a good review. Its a great concept but far too much going on to make it playable. Its almost like you are racing against yourself, clicking around trying to keep up to attacks, unhappy people, research, building, resources, planting. You reach a point where you have too much to tend to your people become useless and die. It becomes a frantic click this click that, this person is smashing his own stuff, out of wood, no food, attack, click on each person individually put them in defend mode then place them where they need to be. Why they don't just attack when invaded I do not know, instead they will stand there with an AK-47 and die. You find yourself pausing the game constantly making adjustments then high speed then pause. Otherwise, your stuff gets destroyed and you don't even realise. Playing on regular speed is far too slow and high is far too fast. So its fast to pause, pause to fast, fast to pause. Its incredibly frustrating. There is just too much going on to be clicking around and reviewing every single tiny detail. Pause, Play,Pause,Play,Pause,play, I've never played a game where I spend more time on pause than Playing. If I make someones job a wood cutter. I don't want to have to tell them constantly where to cut and how much.(maybe make it so they cut AND replant the area)? Being able to set mining depth would be nice, instead of locked in 3 blocks. Pick and plant farms would be nice also. Instead of picking randomly and planting later. The structures are too week. I don't even bother making steel walls or fences now because you use up valuable resources repairing them. They are just destroyed too easily. Having your armed people fight when threatened would be good. I thought there was a way to set that without constantly pausing and manually doing it but maybe i'm thinking of something else.