If you could change/improve/add ONE thing in Game Dev Tycoon, what would it be?

Add multiplayer. The game would be much funner with COMPETITION.

Exactly. Maybe once everyone is done with the other games they help get the slow cooked ones finished. Or move to other ideas. It would make it possible to always get in a few releases every year or have major release years and off years.

Yeah that would work, or if there was a team of 10, you could always have 2 people working on a game, 2 people working on another game, and the other 6 working on the main games, than you the leader would tell the two teams what they have to make. They would probably have to be a specialist.

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Have the various topics clearly affect the slider balance in conjunction with the genre choice.

i.e. a Sports Action game doesn’t need story, but a Sci-Fi or Fantasy action needs some story. Similarly a Space Strategy doesn’t need as much world design (empty space with a starry backdrop, sparse stations and barren moons) as a Fantasy Strategy.(hills, forests, rivers, oceans).

Absolutely nothing, because I jus couldn’t do it. I’d be stuck as to ideas for improvements.

Better UI. There is little to much of menus for mouse. You just click at random space or work mates and thats it. I’d like to see more advanced UI.

I definitely agree with this. I find myself choosing the wrong engine sometimes due to not remembering what it was capable of.

I would say that there is a strong need for multiplayer like having several different company’s competing for the most money or fans like Sony, Apple, and Nintendo, those kinds of company’s would be able to join or to have rivalry’s.I also would think having a longer story line like 50 years and having a bigger HQ like a 100 story tall building and being able to make MMO in the early 40 years.

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The hardware lab needs something it can do automatically with its excess productivity, the same way the research lab can contribute research points.

Getting a console out requires a heavy investment in the hardware lab. Repairing consoles doesn’t take nearly so much - I invest heavily in QA. (I’d do so even if it wasn’t optimal play, simply because I love the idea of building consoles that will still run decades down the line.) I’ve not been able to figure out how to exactly balance the amount of budget the hardware lab needs, so I’ve been overpaying for it. I’d love to find them something to do with their spare time.

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4D Graphics ftw!..

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A better rating system/ a description of why you got the score you got.

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I would like more options in the hardware lab.

Games editing/modding support?
I know about “%LOCALAPPDATA%\Temp\nwXXX_XXX” (on Windows), but - I want to try make other offices for my company, or decide which is maximum level of 3d graphics, or maybe support other companies in game (for example Vonny) in making next consoles?
If any player is in year 100 or more, then game is very boring. Why? Because other companies don’t make consoles, there aren’t any researches to unlock - game is monotonous, very monotonous.

Make MMO’s work like they actually work, meaning not selling 2.5 billion units of a game released on a console that’s sold 10 million units. Have and initial sale of the boxes (and the expansion boxes) and then a subscription income.

More campaign options, such as randomized story (Random consoles, certain ones have certain specs and some of them flop), or scenario play where you have to accomplish objectives.

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More in-depth story and a varying history, like if the Dreamcast was very successful that the Playstation failed miserably straight away.

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Instead of having the news appear in a pop-up, have a panel with scrolling text that opens to show the news in more detail when clicked. It gets very annoying having them pop-up when playing the game. If it was organised like this, it would be less intrusive and allow players to focus on the game play and check the news when they feel the need.

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I would slow the game down a bit, 30 years is gone before you know it.
Adding a % counter above the silders

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Other Game Competitors.

i would like to see some big end game stuff like something that costs 50-100 million dollar stuff