I really hate doing this, because I know it might mean a nerf to my favorite faction, but I think I know why the demons are so strong all the way through: There's no division of funds for assistants and mana. Their main moneymaker is the hell portals, so of course you want to put your income in there, but most other factions have this balanced by introducing another source of either mana or assistants. The other factions have split this up among buildings that don't produce nearly as much. It's not a bug, but it might be an issue worth looking into.
Hellphantine, it's because it starts by showing you the boost for reaching level 1. It doesn't start by showing you your current level of 0, with 0 bonus, it shows you the next level up. There are 6 factions, so that's why.
I can confirm that you can use the 50% boost right away and still reap all the benefits of it. I just did a soft reset, but did not buy access to my gems. I used the 50% boost when I had a click reward of flat 50 (no production boosts were ever used) which bumped it up to 75. Then I bought the next flat upgrade, +4950, and I now have a click rate of 7500 coins. (If it had only added the flat upgrade, it would have been 5025.) Please upvote if you think this is important information to have!
@suco- oh, sheesh, obviously. Sorry.
One thing I've been wondering is how the 50% bonus to clicking upgrade works. That seems like it's a flat, one-time bonus, right? So I should wait to use it until really late game? I mean, it seems silly to use it when I have 1k g per click.
@Vulcan900, the gems don't go away in a soft reset. So the gems you see are in addition to the 19k you already have. It takes longer to obtain them for that very reason.
Meteora, it will continue to grow based on clicks. Guys, does the 2% of production scale up, or should I wait until I have a ton of production going on?
Even for late game, I'm guessing I'll need between 1m and 2m more faction coins for the 500 exchanges. To put that into perspective, I've earned ~450k faction coins in the last 24hrs. I have 148k gems, 13 assistants and all the elf upgrades. I'm not saying it should be changed, just that I'm not sure I have the patience to wait it out.
I'm currently playing as the elves; I have 100% chance on faction coin drops, and I'm sitting at 334 faction exchanges. I like to change up my faction pretty frequently, and it is going to take FOREVER to get to 500 exchanges, given how steep the increase in cost has become. This is one trophy I may have to live without.
100 Halls of Legends don't unlock an assistant, it's the only building that doesn't. That is because it's an unique building which already unlocks different upgrades and allows for different strategies.
I still don't think that the cost of the upgrades to the early buildings is proportionate to the gain. In fact, most of the time I've played, a single building is churning out at least 80% of the total production, which makes all the other upgrades extremely useless and very pricey.
I just have to say how super impressed I am with how responsive and invested in balancing this game Divine Games has been. Massive kudos to you. I'll be watching for your future endeavours.
So, I'm playing Angelic this round, and I've got a tip for you guys: You can pop God's Hand and then hit tax collection for a major boost. They work together. My regen is such that I just managed to get two tax collection boosts while God's Hand was active. Hope this helps!
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Glad you're enjoying it! There are forums on Kong, and you can certainly get some discussions going if you like. =)