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  • Just some tutorial text highlighting the system saying you still need X amount of resource would be enough to make me go back in. It's the repetitiveness of late game I would be more concerned about. The icon on the right I meant the one on the HUD you kept highlighting as needing to fill 100 to build an outpost, at the moment I wouldn't say it was clear this icon is the important one to fill to 100 and pass the tutorial.

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  • You have nothing to worry about when it is on mobile because you must delete app data and doing this is usually a sign you want to delete the app and all save games. When you update the app, the previous save data remains.

  • Congrats on the game it looks very nice, probably more in depth than No Man's Sky lol. I don't think it looks too repetitive to keep scavenging until you reach 100, if I was a new player though I wouldn't think that icon in the right is more important than any other icon, maybe it could be highlighted as such. Maybe you could stop the player from re-entering a system they are already orbiting so they are forced to try somewhere else? It's also not clear what the enemy is doing, I guess that's where the real gameplay comes in other than collecting resources.

  • Ya so as mentioned above you must add a variable condition with the 'pick random instance' condition that excludes the vent so you can say ventopen=1.

    You can add a timer behaviour to the vent, when you collide start the timer for 10 seconds. Then another event 'on timer finished' set it back to 1.

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  • Your ID is from admob, you've put a version number.

    support.google.com/admob/answer/7356431

  • Get out of the habit of putting every X seconds as a sub event of an event that is running every tick. Move the every X seconds out to its own event and you will have less problems.

  • So the idea is when you collide with ventreturn you want to pick a random vent but not the one you collided with to get to ventreturn? There's a lot of inbetween events here.

  • Well technically you can use vent UID is not the one collided with, but that's not the problem, if you can't get it to work with a variable then it's the event structure so please share a screenshot.

  • I don't know how your game works but in general you can toggle a variable on the vent so it is different from the others and won't be picked when you a picking a random instance.

  • On the collision top event you can add an action to change a variable on that one vent, then when you pick a random instance later on you can say pick a random instance that doesn't have that variable set i.e. it will not choose the one you collided with. You could use where ventopen=0 but I don't know how exclusive that variable is and how it is used so you can always add another one for this pick event.

  • When you collide with the vent you narrow it to only that instance for future conditions and actions in that event. You could add a 'pick all vent' sub-condition BEFORE the pick random instance which opens them all up again to be picked. There are also other options such as running a function which inside the function picks a random instance (functions start again with no picked instances).

  • The action where you change the variable, you do the relevant actions at that point