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It would have been nice to have released the new alpha a year ago, but reality is what it is. It would also be nice if rainbow unicorns gave me the winning lottery numbers. But alas, it releases when it releases. Chris

For alpha 20 streamer release I watched every day for 4-6 hours of live streaming, then probably 4 more hours of videos on Youtube each day as well. This time, found I had very little interest in watching live streamers as most of them were doing multi player and I play solo and those styles are not the same. So within the first hour I stopped watching A 21 streamer events. I tuned in when they were setting up games, but as soon as they started playing multi player I turned it off. I am much more interested in playing the game solo or rwg worlds than watching others spoil all the new things for me. But, I have over 4800 hours playing the game and still not burned out and excited to see what is next. I hope the Fun Pimps have good data harvesting programs running on the experimental to track all the things we think need balancing. This will allow them to get a much larger pool of information together before making any balance passes based off streamers runs and more on general play of their core audience. Chris

Thanks jorba, But I don't code or program so that is right out. I have been around playing the game since it used to start you in wasteland sometimes. Just seems this should be a toggle. Multiplayer should have a toggle to spawn at a specific spot for teams. Single player should have an advanced toggle or choice to spawn either by map coords or biome. Especially since trader's will no longer be spawning at the edge of cities automatically but could spawn in the wilderness or even inside towns or cities. Or I hope at a crossroads like some of the new poi crossroads I have seen. Just wondering if this is even on the Fun Pimps radar. Only reason I am asking is it really bothered me to the point I deleted a rng 10k world because it only had a single spawn point. Believe it or not it was 3.9km from the nearest trader and literally right next to wasteland. But no matter how many times I tried I could not get the rng to spawn me anywhere else. On most rng worlds I can use random player names to get random starts. Generally I can find 3-5 spawn points by being creative with my player name. But unfortunately I hit the rng wall and found a map that there was only one spawn point ever. That to me is very broken for a random world and should be part of world generation or at least on the board as a choice when you spawn a new player into a game. It should always be a part of single player. Chris

This might be a silly question, but it keeps coming up in the RNG worlds I generate. When will we be able to select spawn points. In the last 10k rng I generated, no matter what name I used to start a game I always started in the exact same spot. That is a waste for a 10k map. Every generated map should come with around 5 starting points at a minimum for safe areas and at least an option to start in Desert or Snow or even wasteland as a toggle. Yet, I find myself always starting in noob areas and even with creative name changes it is very hard to change the only starting location. Is this a thing or am I the only one wanting to have a choice when we start, either by map location or biome or skull rating? Probably way to late for this to make it in alpha 21 but just wondering why this isn't a thing for RNG? I have just short of 5000 hours playing this game and starting new and different games on the same map is a thing for me. Only being able to start in the same spot is just wrong and broken. Chris

But it is next year already.

Once they announced the end of the Dev Streams, and I have seen Twitch and YouTube streamers announce the end of their current 7 Days streams and events. I have been waiting for the streamer announcement. But alas, all revved up and ready to watch 7 Days alpha 20 streams and no streams to watch. Even after playing 4000+ hours I am still excited about this game and will watch hundreds of hours of gameplay while waiting for a chance to get my hands on the latest build. Are we there yet? Chris

With the coming scaling of biomes, can we get a toggle in the game system setup for starting locations. I personally do not mind starting in snow or burnt or desert biome when starting a game. Each has its own difficulties, but are nice to start in as a change. Currently on RWG I almost always start in forest biome. That is getting old. Granted I have 3500 hours playing the game but seriously. Do we always have to start in forest. At least let us toggle this choice, allowing starts in the other biomes, outside of wasteland would be ok for me and if its a choice it will not affect the new players. Great work, game is looking better and better. Chris