Stop worrying about the keyboard controls (or learn to compensate...), after a while your paddle is so wide it doesn't matter at all.
@NormaTheNorman, it does slow down indeed when you're off page, which is why you get offline ticks. Also don't forget that this is a browser system, to throttle down invisble browser pages, so developers can not do anything against it, except by giving compensations such as calculation of progress during offline time, or giving an offline bonus, which the developer has done here.
@NormaTheNorman, I get idle money faster then I could possibly click together. Maybe you forgot to invest in Runners? They're the ones that get the automatic money rolling. I currently have 65 Runners in my team, which gets me around $6000 a second, while each click gets me only $90, so I'm pretty sure if you have at least 20 runners, clicking doesn't really contribute anymore.
Maybe it's not clear from the game: each runner gives you the amount you get per click every second. (Having 65 runners is like clicking 65 times every second)
Guys, read the dev's comments (or at least look at the amount of chips when you're doing things, to so what influences it's amount), and you'll learn that chips are needed to buy upgrades. So the faster you get your flops, the faster you'll be able to buy upgrades, but since your chip rate does not go up, you'll have to buy the more expensive (less efficient) upgrades, as each upgrade costs 1 chip.
TLDR; can't buy upgrade? you don't have enough chips, so buy a more expensive upgrade
To the developer, some balancing suggestions:
Currently my progress is limited by the speed of which the seeds come in. It takes about the same time for seeds to come in as for plants to grow, but I have 8 pots and only 5 seed generators. To keep this in balance, my Seed Growth level is 12 higher than my Plant Growth. It would be nice if I could keep those together.
I would also suggest making Tier 2 plants a lot more valuable, now they're definitely not worth the seeds since they take waaaay to long to grow for veeeery little added value, and they even take 2 seeds, which is my limiting resource. Currently I don't use these at all, especially with the effort that goes into making them (waiting 7 seconds is too long to be fun and too short to go and do something else).
And some usability suggestions:
When a combined seed is created, don't swith to Tier 2 seeds, this is very annoying since I have to switch back to Tier 1 every time so I can continue combining.
To those complaining that it's not an Idle game: it is, but it takes a while to get to that point. As with most idle games, you first have to do some active managing to get the flow going, and then you can start investing in the idle upgrades.
In early game, it's best to invest in lowering Plant Growth times and then raising Plant Worth, getting both of these to level 5 will make sure your level 1 seeds have the highest profit/time ratio. Once Plant Growth times is getting above 20, the most profitable plant will start shifting towards the end, since minimal growth time is 10.
@Bazurith, if you buy all hero levels, you'll have 10% of DPS as click damage (and you can use some Infinity Tokens to boost it up some more), which means you can double your damage per second if you click 10 times per second
@reefizer, the cash per second is a very handy indicator to see which item is giving the fastest cash (also good to determine which items you should focus on with micro-management), and to get a general idea of how mach cash you earn each second, so you can easily calculate how long it'll take before you reach a certain amount of money
@dark87, that's not necessarily true. Say you have to wait a long time to reach the 1900's, and you doubled up your AIs. Even with the doubled income, it'll still take a long time (half of the previous time) to reach the 1900's again. The paid upgrade will give you the AIs and save you that time, while an auto-upgrade would still require you to build up everything from the beginning, only buying upgrades that you can afford.
Oh, the math is actually pretty simple: your income goes up by 15 times, so you can afford to let your income through AIs to reduce to 1/15th. This means you need about 1.07 sextillion AIs before buying the upgrade. But that's just a guess, really.
@xzaksx, that update costs a sextillion of Angel Investors (AI). AI give you a huge bonus, which in your case was probably bigger than x15 (what you get for the upgrade). You should wait with that upgrade until you have way more than a sextillion AIs. I didn't do the math, but I think their general rule of "don't spend more than 1% of your AI" (which is where they stop showing the warning) might not be a bad rule.
@anon9mous, this may seem like a bug, but it isn't :)
Say you need 2 minutes to get an oil rig, and you have 40 seconds left. This means you have been running it for 1 minute and 20 seconds since the previous completion.
Then you get an achievement, so next time needed is 1 minute.
The game then recalculates the Oil Rig, so for the 1 minute you had already completed, you get a payout, and you get the left over 20 seconds in the next run, so you will again have 40 seconds left for your next payout.
@BlackLeopard, I've had that issue as well. This only happened with the game that got carried over from the previous version. When I did a reset for Angel Investors, the game ran correctly
@Bob_howdy84: in my experience, the game continues when it's closed. If you keep the game client open and, for example, hibernate/sleep your computer, it'll just continue where you left off when you continue. If you close the application and open it again a while later, it'll calculate how long it was closed and advance your counters accordingly.
Anyone else having troubles getting the achievement from the third level in the easy campaign - Swamp Touch - Cast Swamp 3 times.
I've cast Swamp around 20 times by now in that level and I still haven't got it.
Other than that, great game ^^
I love this game, for the very cool graphics (the desktop environment was a very nice idea), the awesome analyzation tool (even though it doesn't help at all, the heat map is really nice) and the fun. It could use a hard mode though, but still, 5/5
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Maybe it's not clear from the game: each runner gives you the amount you get per click every second. (Having 65 runners is like clicking 65 times every second)