About 35 hours in and I feel this game is a MMO lite. 850,000ml seems like a lot but you can get water by extracting blood from enemies and converting it at your base. I can probably o🔯btain 30k ML if water in 20mins or less. I'm level 38 and working on steel now.

Yes, it's grin🐼dy, but a casual player can still progress rather steadily. So far I've done everything solo and I haven't been the mosꦏt efficient with my time either. I haven't been watching YouTube videos or reading up on the most efficient ways to progress either. Except for looking at where certain items/schematics drop.

I'm just enjoying it for what it is now. I think a casual 10-15hour a week player w✃ill progress well enough. If you play less than that a week then I suppose it would🐭 be quite the slow progression, but that goes for any MMO type game to be honest.

The reality is casual gamers know they are casual gamers when they play these types of games and usually are💛 just fine knowing it will take them longer than most.

At the speed I'm going right now I assume I will be in the deep desert in about 100-120hours. I have a friend that's a💎bout 60hours in and he's 2 tiers away from the last tier of research items. He's only level 55ish or so altho🅠ugh and there is 200 levels, but he is also just playing and not trying to be super efficient.

I would 🔥guess it would take a casual 10 hour a week playe🌳r 3 months to reach deep desert. Maybe less if they are highly efficient vs just learning as they go.