The game has a lot of promise, but needs quite a bit of work. There seems to be several glitches and memory leaks in the game. I run the idle on my laptop, and the crashes will happen about 3-4 hours into game play consistently.
Next, the balance between Idle earning and offline earnings is way out of whac. I can make more by leaving my game open for one day than I can for leaving the game shut for months.
Current gold earnings are far too low to be significant. The game suddenly grinds to a halt once you are able to kill Lich. The shard bonus seems to be on a curve rather than a linear progression, and resetting after earning 5-10x more shards than your current maximum only nets you a few bonus percentage points.
At this point it will take me years to earn all current achievements because gold earnings are far too low. The leveling treadmill is currently sucking the fun out of the game.
battles take too long, and cost too much money for the low level of rewards given. It's time to restart for more Dark Knights by the time I have 1/3 of the map conquered.
Spending bits does decrease production speed, but only at certain points. If you're spending 256 to double your speed, make sure you have more than 2x the bits spent, so 512*.04 = 2048%. 512 bits is the break even point. 512*.04 = (512-256)*2*.04 = 2048% everything after that is a bonus. From there you just need to divide the bits spent vs the reward gains to make sure it's beneficial.
I've got a level 6 ultimate boost, and in the statistics it's only reading x2. 7 days played,and I'm not even level 200. The "faster leveling" is still slow as can be.
I'm over this game. I give you 1 star.
The leveling treadmill is way out of whack. I can idle mine for 12 hours and only pick up 3 levels and 5 stat upgrades makes this game seriously slow. I can see at the exponential rate of slowdown that in a day or 2 it will grind to a nearly complete halt.
The game lacks a complexity to continue to be interesting past a few days with this kind of treadmill.
Next patch should hopefully make late game a bit more rewarding!