Wow. So if you go idle and miss the captcha you can get banned? I'm still in the tutorial zone and already 1/5 of the way to a ban just because I was working on another screen.
For anyone crazy enough to do the hard badge, you don't need to kill the final boss, but here's the tactic you need to use (very annoying). Dodge the pepper bombs the boss throws (switch sides). Figure out the very annoying timing that you need to hit the cheese balls to the middle while on the conveyor while the boss is on the bottom level. Hope that helps, but I probably won't bother beating him myself.
@Diratel - after you have played endless for a while, you'll get the option to "explode" and end your game. You can wait until you've built up a better GPS before exploding.
If you beat level 15 and don't get the badge, disable your zoom (if you have it on) and reload the page. It worked for me. Thanks to Mortbise for the idea.
Maybe "Ranging" means that he gets his armor as health when he would have died? Perhaps, it is a typo and means "Raging?" Now I am getting him down to 1 health before it jumps up, so it seems intentional (but evilly designed).
I keep fighting the Guardian with "Ranging" ability and he starts with 6666 health. After a while I manage to get him down to 99 and then he jumps up to 23.7k health (presumably after a hit and a bug). Please fix.
Wow. What a grind. Just start playing the hard levels only so you don't have to play them more times than you need. Drop down if you need to race ahead and get the next ship unlocked. I got all 900 stars and I still have 7 achievements to unlock.
Also, for most of the bosses you can hide near the upper corners and dodge down and shoot them a little and hide some more. For the 100th level, I bought the healing helper and it made the difference.
If you want to fight pirate officers, just start at the lowest system and kill off all the pirates. Then the officer appears but only if you go in order. When you beat the officer, the system is safe and you can move to the next one to fight some more. You can also reset the pirates for the current map (and harder maps) in the options in case you want to do a mission or aren't ready to move on.
Re: my comment about stone not being produced faster, it looks like there might be a bug where the new bonus doesn't apply until later for some reason. Now it shows 17 minutes but never showed 18 or 19 before and it took a while for 17 to show up.
I don't understand this. Stone takes 20 minutes to produce. I've upgraded the village center to produce it 15% faster and it still takes 20 minutes to produce.
sticky key bugs make this game pretty hard to play sometimes (mostly a problem when unpausing, but I've seen the issue just running around and shooting too, but less often).
These crashes have lasted for several months. I seem to get them mostly as Endazu. Reloading is annoying but doable, but it gets very frustrating when you are playing for the 3rd grandmaster win in a row.
I'd be glad to send any helpful debug info if you would put that up on the crash screen.
Why are the spikes magnetic and why is my goblin made of metal? Because every time it bounces anywhere near spikes it jumps/teleports right to the spikes....
This game takes a huge amount of memory for me. 1.7 Gb at the moment. I seem to notice this issue when I play Metris. Possibly a memory leak specific to stealing cards? Although it could be a more general issue.
Very easy to beat the final levels with a big tank and all your guns in mega or auto. Just don't put any bubbles down and put all the guns in a cluster along the class 4 or class 5 circle. You'll go slow but you have high health, a small hit box, and great damage output.
This is a TRICK - unique ability of guardian. Then his health comes to the end he uses armor as health.