Originally posted by tfrostw:

the game is horribly optimized for the graphics looking, if you have a good base with a decent amount of stuff around your base, you ain't getting more than 60 fps with all low, that at least for me, its not appetizing to play the game. I feel like this game is slowly getting abandoned.

Each time you alter the terrain.... raise land, lower land, flatten land, build on, you are adding more and more 'instances" to the area which add up and start making things run slower.

The devs addressed this in a past update and this was part of the patch notes....

"the new terrain-modification system. The new terrain modification system is made to reduce the number of network instances and make loading faster and smoother. Technically it’s a pretty big change but hopefully you should not notice that much of a difference except some minor behaviour changes to the hoe and pickaxe and of course much smoother loading of areas with a lot of terrain modifications. All terrain modifications after this patch (using the hoe, pickaxe or cultivator) will automatically use the new modification system. For existing areas where heavy terrain modifications have been made before this patch we have added a special console command “optterrain” that basically converts all the old terrain modifications in the nearby area to the new system. To use the “optterrain” console command, you first need to enable the ingame console by adding “-console” as a launch argument for the game."

You are playing an UNFINISHED game yet treating it like it's supposed to be done and polished... Things are still being added, things being removed, things changing constantly, and it would be a huge waste of time and resources to try to "optimize" every time changes were made to the game, and this is why Optimization is generally done near the END of the project, after most everything is in place.

The game is FAR from being abandoned... BUT it is also far from being completed, and probably (my best guess) a couple years away from being finished and ready for optimization in the scale you are expecting.