Hi Klei!!
First off, just want to say thank you for all your hard work. Dont starve, Reign of giants, Shipwrecked, and Dont starve together are all AMAZING games. I have bought all seperately, as well as each one individually for my girlfriends ps4. I am also going to be buying the Bundle pack for mine to just support you guys further.
Now, my topic, and or request is this... Now that the game is finished, and we have all these versions, and everything is stable. I think in order to allow longevity and keep people reeled in for much more time to come, you should introduce a QUESTING feature as well as a checklist of various things to complete.
For example, make the risk reward fun, challenging, but worth it if you survive.
A fun checklist would be something like fill in the entire map- earn 2 gears
Craft one of every item- earn 3 fire staffs
Etc...
And then as far as questing goes, anything would make the game even more fun. Having SOMETHING to do is critical at this late stage of the games life cycle. Your user base has experienced almost all there too offer, so a fun quest system will further enhance the gameplay.
For example-
Talk to pig king for quests (or make a specific quest giving NPC)
Quest 1- Find a tier 3 spider nest and destroy it before it spawns a spider queen = X amount of resources or food
(Bonus= allow spider queen to spawn and then kill it within 10 mins)
Quest 2- craft at least 5 chests = 12 marble pieces
Quest 3- succesfully make it to the ruins = 20 gold pieces.
I TRULY believe this is whats needed now for your game. And it wouldnt evem be hard to impliment.
And as far as what the quests are, have your fans and customers post their ideas, and you choose your favorite ones and then asses if its a possible quest with a reasonable reward.
If anything, even a simple response from you at Klei would be amazing. I hope to hear from you soon, and i hope to hear that this is becoming a reality even sooner.
I believe you should at least ask your fans if this is something they would want in the game. I have a strong feeling it will be a majority of yes. And i, as well as others would even pay for it if you need the money to equate the resources and time it takes to impliment something.
Thank you,
Chris
Aka
Kyrinthian