Klox's Review - mg_farm (NMRIH)

======================================================= Farm/Seeds =======================================================
The farming mechanics are really nice. You need a little bit of time to get used to how to plant, water and harvest, but it's nothing too hindering... Unless you do really big batches of planting. It gets too tedious after a while to move the seeds, plant and water them. Of course, with more players it's super easy and fast. So far it seems like there's no "point", in getting all the crops available. We got much better yield & profit from tomatoes and weed, than anything else.

I don't know if it's possible to implement upgrades for the seeds, like be able to plant in an area maybe? Like 2x2 or 3 crops in an straight line, and so on.

Also, you could get another upgrade tier for the seed teleport. Like for example in each level, you get a better function to it, at level 3 it adds an button near all the seeds types that allows you to teleport them all in a single go.

======================================================= Barn =============================================================
The Barn was a pleasant surprise when we found about it. It gives you a really nice boost to your income and the animals are really cool.

One thing that could be improved, is the Animal Feed mechanic, because it's kinda of hassle to buy the Animal Feed at the store or harvest it in the farm. It has some delay between each purchase and it takes a while to wait for them to grow. Also, the faucet where you get the Animal Feed could be a little higher, since you can miss-click it when you're trying to pick up the Animal Feed and get another one instead.

Also it would be really nice, if you could put all the barn produce in the basket, allowing you to save time going back and forward to the trunk. Or maybe you can buy an upgrade for the barn that allows you to get a trunk near the barn entrance.
======================================================= Town =============================================================
This was a relief when we finally made it!

All the possibilities, upgrades and farming needs. And of course COFFEE.

Not much else to say about the Town honestly. It is really pretty and you can get what you need fairly quickly. Once you know the layout of the Town, you'll be zooming all over the place.

Dunno if it was intended, but at the Gun-store when you buy one of the guns available, it doesn't respawn. Also the Ammo-shelf sometimes it doesn't let you buy them and some of them are kinda high and you can't access them easily.

Also, the bulletproof vest what does it do? Only gives you protection?

A good addition to the Town, could be a Restaurant and a Secret Lab. In the restaurant you can buy food that gives you different bonuses to your characters and in the Secret Lab you can get all crazy "experiments" for your farm, and crazy upgrades hahaha.

==================================================== Red moon / Zeds Wave ===================================================
                            															 They're coming to get you Barbara!

The staple of any NMS. We though at first, that zeds only spawn outside the farm, like in the path to the town and whatnot, but surprise, surprise, we got raided in day 7! (iirc)

Those raids or "red moon" days, are good but they are really hard, specially in early days. The things is, you don't have any reason to defend the farm nor kill the zombies. Most of the time we just skipped those waves and stayed at the springs until they were gone. We found it more like an hindrance than anything else, since we couldn't do anything around the farm without being harassed by the zeds.

Maybe if during the raids, you could get (% for each kill or some unique zeds to appear like the doggos) some sort of special seeds for your farm or even special ingredient for something, like upgrades or to even sell, that would be a good reason to actually stay and try to kill as many zeds as you can. Or could make each kill, give you 1$

In my case, it tanks my fps to a point I can't stay in the farm when that happens (Yeah I got a potato PC :( )

======================================================== Gameplay ========================================================
ZE COFFEE IS LIFE. You can't play without that Super Strong Coffee from the 7/11. It is so damn good. When we found about it, we became INSTANTLY addicted to it hahahaha.

On that note, we found an interesting mechanic (Dunno if it was intended to work that way or not), if you get the 5$ Super Strong Coffee, and rest at the spring during night time, you won't lose the Coffee effect! So all you have to do is a single purchase and you'll become Sonic 4EVAH, until you die xD

Since we're still on the Coffee topic, the Coffee Machines at the 7/11 have no real "use" because of what I have previously mentioned. I mean, we bought it at first, since we though it was better than the 7/11 vending machine, but when we tried it, the Coffee effect it's actually slower! A nice change to them, would be, the Coffe at 7/11 vending machine should give you 1.5x speed and the rest of the Coffe Makers when you get them should give you more Speed and so on. And an even better addition to it, would be to make your OWN Coffe. Plant it, harvest it and brew it in the Coffe Maker, giving you an HELL of a boost and the option to sell it for that $$$.

But enough about Cofffe, let's talk about the spring. It seems you can use the Teleport at the spring to actually bring items to your farm, but no the other way around. Other than that, really good place in early days to get extra income from fish and mushy.

About the Turrets. Turrets seems to not worth the money. We invest on them around 8 / 9k, and it didn't 1-shot zeds. We tried all the ammo types, and lots of the upgrades to make it better, but it didn't seem to matter that much. It was really inaccurate and just spray bullets, missing most of the time xD

The furniture is really nice, and it's pretty cool to see the progression of the house. Seeing new stuff all over the place, more pets (BIG CHONKY LOAF  and our buddy the Capibara)  and few props to play around. Really neat. BTW that sound box IT'S AMAZING, the best 25$ we ever spent in the whole play-through, If it was like a sound board like, when you can choose what sound to play it would be 100% better. Still, really amazing to have around xD

Oh and one of the big bummers we came across, was the Hover Board. We were so excited to get it, since it cost 25k, and when we finally got it, it was very "basic". Sure it gives you a few laughs and you can mess around with it, but that's it. It didn't have much use.

=========================================================  Conclusion ======================================================
Overall, this is a really well done map, extremely fun and addictive. Like I previously said, it was unexpected to see this type of mode in a game like NMRIH.

Of course, this map have BIG potential to be expanded and improved with lots and lots of stuff. Add more upgrades to the farm, crops, shops in the town, new areas to explore, and so on.

This is the true NMRIH experience. When someone ask about it, we should show them this xD

Congratulations to all you guys: Porkchops4lunch, durkhaz, Merzarime, and Dysphie. BIG THANK YOU for creating this incredible map!

  													                                            Score = 10 / 10