The Magical Number Seven or Cutting the excess — Sirius Steam update #1574618

Hello Players, its Devblog time about short term changes! I've recently remembered about something called "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two"...

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Sirius (368720)
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Published
7 January 2016 - 05:48:57 UTC
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Hello Players, its Devblog time about short term changes! I've recently remembered about something called "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two". It is, in fact one of the most cited papers in psychology, and sometimes even in Game Development. Tetris uses the 7 Rule, EVE Online does, and a whole lot of other games do as well. It defines that the human Brain can only process 7 (+/-2) Things at once in short term memory. Thing is, I thought it would be irrelevant. More is always better, right? Actually, it isn't. And therefore I have to cut a bit of excess content. Mining. No one's actual favourite gameplay went way too complicated. I will cut ELEVEN ores from the game, leaving seven really cool ones and kicking similiar ores out. The Current Ore lineup consists of: - Ferrite - Bauxite - Thulium - Deuterium - Mercoxite - Chaoite - Aurum - Iridium - Niobium - Strontium - Titan - Van...

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