Also it's SUPER shitty that you don't tell us that 10 is the max skill level for our assistants. I wasted one of my bones on a guy who had 8 skill level, thinking it would double to 16, when I could have used it on someone with 5. Really a kick in the nuts considering how weak the other upgrades are.
The upgrade progression isn't very well thought out. It costs way too much to upgrade your assistants. You're better off just waiting until you've unlocked all 4 of them before you buy even one upgrade for them. And the difficulty ramps up much higher than the bonuses do. Even maxed out I only get 20 per click, but some levels have 36 spots with over 100 in each - that's a ton of clicks. Would be better if the upgrades scaled a bit closer to the difficulty level.
@Erkan, Plague give you reputation growth per second and also there is an upgrade that increases production per plague. The reputation growth is pretty slow, but seems helpful for offline production. They start showing up once you get to Country level 40.
@MavenTee, they are useless until you complete mission #10. Then you can buy an upgrade that lets each Diamond give +1% production. I assume there are more Diamond upgrades as you go higher, but that's all I have seen so far.
lol at the people who say there was no need to nerf. In the old build, if you waited until you got the GPS boost special, then used both power miners, then both power clickers, you'd increase your production a CRAZY amount. It wasn't even close to balanced. I'm not saying it's perfect now, but there is no way that it didn't need to be nerfed. Get real guys.
Hey dev, I've been checking back here every several day or so, but you're really taking way too long to update this thing. Gotta get it updated before everyone loses interest or else it's kind of pointless. Not being rude, just saying people won't check back in forever.
Thank you for your suggestion. I really do my best to make updates as fast as possible. But it requires some time. Trillion challenge update is almost ready. I'll publish it in a day or two.
@Bananadrippins, it takes your GPS at the time you use the skill and permanently adds that to your GPS. So if you're making 30 GPS and you use it, it adds +30 GPS forever. So you always want to wait until you have a GPS booster active before you use it, since that's the time the skill is most powerful.
The UI is weak in this one. Very hard to tell what's going on with all the items and cards and stuff. Idle games that succeed are very simple to look at, but have deep content. This one seems to have deep content, but will lose a lot of users because of the crappy UI.
We are currently working on more intuitive and less cluttered combat HUD. We may alter the other UI at some point in the near future , but need to collect more data and feedback first. Thanks for your comment!
In general, the lighter you are the better, but the big thing to focus on is the lift rating for your stage. If your weight is above the lift rating you go much slower. Also remember that each stage falls off after it's done, so your second stage can have a lower lift rating than the first one.
My pointers for completing challenges: For the regular mode you do best with a light, efficient penguin. Use a light body, ion pulse or solar panels and don't focus on launcher or boost (use weight reduction instead if you have it). That will pretty easily clear everything up to the 1 million mark without too much work. For the payload the ultimate cheat is to use the super penguin body. Otherwise you want a heavy build (I prefer something with the bullet body so you get speed too). When you're spending bonus points don't bother with the one that gives you interest income - it's super worthless.
Hello, arigold16!
Thanks for your feedback! If you tell me how exactly it would be necessary to change the interface so that it was "pleasing to the eye", we will be grateful!
http://www.kongregate.com/forums/618672-ascent/topics/676763-suggestions-for-revision-and-gameplay
On the home screen before you choose your mission (the screen where you can view your global skills), it would be really nice if there was a menu where you could view all of your unlocked upgrades and the conditions for unlocking them. I know I've unlocked some stuff that I've never used and I am curious what it does.
Public service announcement: In the endless mode, when you "explode your coins" it doesn't matter how much you have in your bank when you explode. All that money is wasted. What you get is 60 seconds worth of coin production, including clicking. So spend all your cash before you explode... I wasted a huge pile for nothing.
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Thank you for your suggestion. I really do my best to make updates as fast as possible. But it requires some time. Trillion challenge update is almost ready. I'll publish it in a day or two.