3. First Time Use - Choosing your location

First Time Use - Choosing your location


  • It would be nice to have more guidance when choosing your very first room. In particular:

    • don't let the user pick a room from the world map that doesn't meet the criteria (occupied, no energy, etc.)
    • offer some hints or strategy about spawn placements
    • show a helpful message when placing a spawn in an invalid location

    In my case I chose a room that was not adjacent to any other and tried to place a spawn. It gave me the dialog to name it, which I did, but it wouldn't actually place it. There was no error or explanation. Going back to the World map and choosing a room that met the criteria (I assume) allowed me to place a spawn and claim the room.


  • I had a similar problem, however, I think the problem is simply:
    "Sometimes placing your Spawn does not happen."

    I had the problem when I wanted to respawn (and I can reproduce it that way):

    • Go to menu, respawn
    • go to the room you were in
    • wait until the timer is finished
    • click on a valid location
    • you get a popup which asks for the name
    • click "spawn"

    Nothing happens...

    • click on the same location
    • the popup asks you for the name again
    • click "spawn"

    Your spawn gets placed.


  • When I first started, I found a sweet room, that I really wanted, but placing the spawn failed quietly - inspecting the game comms revealed the actual error - this was one of the "closed" rooms - dimmed on the world map. So the error code is actually available, for those who want to know what happened, it's just not displayed in the UI.