I don't know if other people didn't realize this (like I didn't) but you HAVE to bribe your boss (gift) if you want to get to the higher levels, just wait till the last day before promotion day and then gift till you are rank 1.
The new upgrade layout is much worse, you have a much harder time of finding the particular upgrade you need. How about 4 lists, showing upgrades for guns, weed, meth, and cocaine respectively, sorted by price..
Honestly, it's not even the bad features of the game like the banners and the pay to win system that's the worst about this game. It's just a bad TD. There isn't much happening each battle, and often even less between. It's just uninteresting.
Rangers are still the most powerful unit in the game. They attack fast enough to counter even their resilient units, and 8 can kill a tin golem before it reaches half the distance to them. At the moment, rangers can kill anything that attacks taking no damage themselves. There should be stronger units.
When you are producing really slowly, say less than .5/second, could you change production rate to the period instead of the frequency? Either that or add more decimal places. I always seem to be producing really slowly and it's hard to avoid massive stocks without exact figures.
I find it a bit annoying that the descriptions for upgrades don't appear until you click them, could you change it to show the description of whichever button the mouse was last hovering over?
I've had some really bad lag at times once I get fully upgraded, particularly on the tree section. Could you make some sort of low quantity mode (maybe after a certain upgrade threshold like once you have all snails/mining bots) where gems/ores only drop a single piece each time tree/mines are hit/mined that is worth more (large gems worth 5x for tree, large ores worth 3x for mines)?
It would be great if you could upgrade the transmutation quantities, 100 is tiny when I'm trying to focus resources on the more valuable and have 160,000 copper.
Found a bug. Select pieces for a pickaxe weaker than the one you currently have. Select them to craft, but don't combine them. Click the sell weaker picks button and the weaker parts will be sold but remain in the craft area. Click to combine them and the final pick will be made despite not having one or both of the parts
Each nodes has a number of hits before it completes, currently minebots hit for whatever upgrade they have. I'm changing them so they will mine whenever they're on a node now which should fix this.
There are so many gems being mined at times, it would be really nice to have an auto-refine system that automatically refines everything to the highest level.
I wish there was a faster way to earn diamonds. What about some diamond upgrades, starting the gem rate lower than it is now and ending higher? I expect you'll do something about this when you release the mine anyway.
Did you do a bug fix some time ago? Crates no longer seem to open that notification window at the bottom and I also seem to be receiving far fewer special items.
I have a rather serious bug. I've been playing for a while now, (have promoted all weapons once) and sometimes the game simply breaks. There's the message "Unity has encountered a fatal error and has to close." but other than that nothing. I just have to restart the game and lose a little progress, typically back to the last completed level.
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You can now move your mouse over the upgrade button to see what it does. No more clicking needed.