The RNG does not even out in the long run, the chance of things going right for you in a run is a way to small.
The fact you are forced to take food that doesn't help you can mean your main dish almost never gets made, the tier up perks can also just give you stuff that does nothing for you, the science can force an immediate represtige when it bricks your main dish with drink or dessert tags. It's really unfortunate as I like the concept and what not (though there really should be some way to cause your main dish to be more likely to be cooked)
I'll look forward to the future updates but it's a fact that not only time but sheer rng gates progress in this to an extreme effect, the waiting 10 minutes for a single cook from coupons wouldn't be a big deal if you actually were guaranteed your main dish in it for actual progress. But I'm glad the dev seems active with this game and feedback.
The science and MotD interaction was changed about a week ago (it didn't really screw that much since you could still use those dishes as drinks and desserts for MotD and they would get the same bonuses, but this was a frequently requested change). Tier up perks got clarified (there is a max lv 3 for every perk, so not knowing this some players felt they suddenly became massively unlucky, but in reality they just already maxed out all the good perks so only bad ones were left). And by RNG evening out I mean that sometimes you get more or less lucky than average on a single roll, but the more you roll, the closer you tend to get to average numbers (that the game is balanced around). I've rerolled a lot of restaurants while testing and they all come surprisingly close in terms of Prestige Points per day.
Decent idle game, not too fast or slow imo but seriously a huge portion of it is just constant resetting until the rng gives you a little luck and even then you can get screwed by more rng. Discontinue dish should give you 5 charges per stack to remove from the pool. The offered perks should be based on what you have in play. The add science should be more controllable (if I have 2 that work as main dishes don't give them drink or dessert)...I've reset so many times because of science, perks, novelty bonus (honestly the novelty bonus is just kinda annoying to deal with in general) and then the worst of all just not getting the dish I have set as the main one (my current run has random stuff I didn't start with near the thousands while my main dish is at 300)
Fun game, but have to say when you get to the point that the real limiting factor is the trees/water (wanna say after floor 6) the game just becomes annoying. Dragging the buckets of water barely does anything (like ~100 wood per bucket but it's a click and drag thing and I need like 130k+ planks per crane piece, there's nothing to upgrade to make it go faster (as I've tested with both the water pump and cloud machine upgrades and rate of wood gain didn't change) and resetting at this point barely gives me any gold bricks (not that gold bricks do literally anything for water/wood gain).
It's already annoying dealing with the wheelbarrow guy that moves the bricks/planks as he's not affected by the drum for some reason but this tree thing might make me quit since it's straight up a long wait with no real player interaction way of speeding it up.
Fun concept for a prototype, only issue I had was that the max cargo was 40 and the medium fish were 3 units each so at max you could never fully fill it unless you went back to catch a smaller fish. In my opinion either the medium fish need to be 2 size or the cargo max size needs to be a multiple of 3 (whether that be 39 or 42)
Yea, someone pointed out one of the perks doesn't even trigger as a result of this (the one where you need a full cargo). Totally an oversight on my part and a future version will change how that works.
Pretty decent game, only complaint is the time in game and total gold earned achieves. By the time I hit 1 day in game (4 out of 7 time in game) and 17 bil gold(8 out of 10 total gold earned) I've completed every other challenges, I think they should be peeled back a bit to match the pacing of the rest of the game as at this point I'd just need to keep the game on and running for however long it takes to fill out those 2 challenges. Was decently fun up until this point though <3!
I actually really like this and will probably try out some of the dev's other games. Found one bug I think in the normal mode the laser tower doesn't seem to get the crit chance bonus from the temporary boost.
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The science and MotD interaction was changed about a week ago (it didn't really screw that much since you could still use those dishes as drinks and desserts for MotD and they would get the same bonuses, but this was a frequently requested change). Tier up perks got clarified (there is a max lv 3 for every perk, so not knowing this some players felt they suddenly became massively unlucky, but in reality they just already maxed out all the good perks so only bad ones were left). And by RNG evening out I mean that sometimes you get more or less lucky than average on a single roll, but the more you roll, the closer you tend to get to average numbers (that the game is balanced around). I've rerolled a lot of restaurants while testing and they all come surprisingly close in terms of Prestige Points per day.