Hi everyone!
So I, like you all, really enjoy this game, the idea behind it is awesome, the game is awesome. However, the potential of this game seems to me far from as good as it should be (even though, it is really good).
Although there are plans to improve the user interface, there wasn’t anything about assisting new players, which is in my opinion, the biggest issue on this game. I know there are dozens of tutorials but they required a lot of time to understand what to do, and how to do it right. I think that assisting a player with suggestions and mistakes of the player during the creation of a spacecraft would be a tremendous help and would bring new players. I've seen friends who really liked the idea behind the game, but once I've told them my experience about what I had to know to create a spacecraft, they stepped back. This is where the game could expand the game community and it doesn't as much as it could. For the current players, a situation which I believe it is common, it is when you build the spacecraft, you launch it, you're nearly doing the objective, but then you realized you made a mistake either by putting a piece in the wrong way, or because you forgot something... This shouldn't be happening and it happened to me quite a few times, and it could be fixed with the game assistance when building a spacecraft. Even if there are mods for that (which I admit I didn't look for it), I don't want to rely on mods as they tend to crash the game and not be as much reliable as what a game usually offers, since they are made from enthusiasts and not from hired professionals...
The stability is another issue. I know, mods can screw up the stability of your game, which brings the next issue I would like to discuss, which is the graphics...
The graphics of this game really look outdated. The menus, the parts... They look as if the game was released 20 years ago. I've seen parts that look really good as you can see in this video: https://youtu.be/8I7t-SrTRms
By improving the graphics, if the visual mods are really the issue behind the stability, then it wouldn't be a problem anymore...
Please, take this in consideration. I really like this game and it is sad to see the game with such potential to have these issues...
Happy holidays!