Ape Apps

So this is my first post and was just thinking would it be to implement a feature where it would be possible to visit other players colonies maybe for a fee of sorts and in turn you could recommend or like it and every week or so the top colonies get some percent tourism boost
Just thinking

I think it would be nice to see other people's colonies too. Maybe if a live version is too hard to see, it can be a static of their last save or some other more minimal drag on processing. Some have screenshots, and that's cool, but would be fun to explore other maps and get ideas for your own.

Yeah, I actually had this working at one point when the game used Facebook login. The problem is that game files are getting a lot larger now with big colonies. If I can make a special save file that just stores what structure is at which tile and removes all other stats, that might be a way to store all colonies on the server for viewing

That might actually be a good idea Bast to help with saves anyway. Splitting the structures and the data could ease up on how long it takes to save things for the bigger colonies. If the structures are fairly static on the bigger ones (not as much upgrading but maybe buiding more of them) then a structure file wouldn't change as much, and the data file would only need to update for all the related stats locally.