(March 11th, 2015, 10:11)T-hawk Wrote: Yeah, the FTL Reddit can be a bewildering place for us hardcore gamers. But that's how the casuals play things. This guy apparently didn't even realize that crew can repair systems, so he's jumping around with shields broken and other systems on fire. There's a whole generation of iPhone "gamers" and internet reviewers whose sense of agency literally doesn't go beyond clicking on whatever a game prompts them to do.
This one is pretty extreme even for Reddit, but there's no shortage of obliviousness out there. Reddit is full of so many posts about getting trashed by the flagship or just barely winning... with something like 4 bars of shields and weapons and no purchased systems. What were these people doing for eight sectors? Yet we see that over and over. There's a vast population of players who don't process the idea of finite resource availability and a ticking clock. They're used to anything from GTA to Candy Crush to even Minecraft where you can just go grind up more whenever you want. The concept of a game as an exercise in optimizing inputs is unfathomable.
I keep reading this... description... and can't stop laughing.
I have to run.