Starting is SO boring :/ you usually should set a quick start, to make it interesting and catch the player, and slowly starting to make it harder. Frankly holding the click for over a minute with no reward or any kind of real advance at all is plain boring.
So, here's what I think the main problems are after playing it for 5 minutes. First of all, click power upgrades are overpowered, it makes it way too easy to start. Once you can buy a few 10 seconds upgrades, game is just over because it gets too quick to buy top tier auto upgrades. Auto upgrades are too cheap, you need to increase cost exponentially, don't just add a few minutes/hours or double it, but instead multyply it for a number like 1.3 (30% more cost) every time you buy one. That way, the more you advance the harder is to buy them. And well you could add eventually a prestige system like most idle games, if you manage to make your game hard enough. The main problem being your game's too easy. And you could add buttons to select how many you want to buy (you know, the clasic 1, 10, 100, MAX buttons) for lategame and post-prestige features. Prestige could give you bonus by upgrading the time machine with what you learned so far, and the goal needs to be like 200k years.
Currently the upgrade costs get increased by 15% each time one is bought. Obviously that seems too low and I am working to correct that issue.
Edit: Tweaked balance issues and incremental upgrade costs.
I don't get how crit chance works in this game. I mean, Relentlessness gives 5% crit chance per level, or at least it states that it does, and with 10 levels, shouldn't that be 50%? How is it that I get a critical attack every like 12 or 13 attacks (and that if I'm lucky)? I would love to know what else actually affects crit chance because it is quite obvious that's not all of it.
So, if I enable hardware acceleration in the latest version of Chrome, WebGL crashes 10 times a day, if I don't game won't work because of the black screen. Any way to fix that?
I wish developers stopped making new games on a whim, and decided to keep updating the ones they already made. Why even making games if they won't make sure it is the best possible work they can do every time? Too bad you won't update this anymore, it was a fun concept.
New game will be a second version of this one. This one has limitations that I can't get around without continuing to break the game for those that have saves. It was my first game and it turns out I really didn't know what I was doing.
So annoying, once in a while (which is several times a day) webgl crashes in my chrome while playing this game and I have to reload the page, really annoying -.- and the only solution I find online is disabling hardware acceleration, but if I do, game won't work.
How does a 50% crit chance produce 5 regular collects ina row? You probably shouldn't use just a randomizer for that. Maybe maybe something like "after 3 fails you must get a crit" or something, 'cause even when chances are probably right, they don't feel that way if you make it fully random. I mean, we totally could get 1 crit, 10 normal hits, and then 9 crits if it is literally 50% which simply feels wrong in a game.
You know, the game is fun, but I have a new plan. Every time you release an update, I'm not gonna use any of the things you added until I wait a few days and see what people say about it, 'cause since you started working in your steam version, game has been having serious bugs on every new release. As I said, it's a great game, but you need to test the things you add before you upload the new version.
It is quite a weird way to reload to set the current bullet amount to 0. Wouldn't it be better to simply add something like 200 bullets and use If statement to make sure it won't go above the current max? (Something like: if (currentBullets > maxBullets) {currentBullets == maxBullets}. Just saying xD Or even easier, make the reload key set currentBullets == maxBullets and play the "Reloading" animation. It is quite weird to see the bullets go to 0 and then reload. Obviously your variables's names would be different but I'm sure you get the point.
I am assuming this is your first big game, because I find quite a few problems with it. Like the fact that current money updates really slowly, sometimes I'm in the upgrade menu and I still can't see the current cash and I have to wait for it. Also, too many things stop you and make you start over, I mean, you move barely backwards becase of a wrong line, and you get kicked out in a pinch. Also it's really annoying that game stops when you lose focus of the windows since it happens a lot by mistake when you try to place your lines and it literally ruins the current launch almost every time. Also sometimes you just can't draw the lines properly or you can't draw at all even when you can. And overall physics have quite some problems, you should check them.
It's actually the game with whom I learned Unity so it's has a lot of flaws.
It's was just a test flight here on Kongregate and for me is a win even if you just got 5 min of fun out of it.
So, got 10 wanderers and I can't buy more :/ bought the first upgrade to the wagon and now I just can't get any more wanderers to fill the 100 needed for the next level, not even hire them 1 by 1
You have to avoid rushing when programming a game, specially if you have to fix a bug that affects only a very little portion of your players. Because the bugs you've generated with this are massive for everyone. Problems with the forest, buttons that don't respond well when you click them, the "don't hire" button that sometimes just doesn't do anything and you can keep hiring. Go back to previous version and start over.
Any plan to improve money from staffs? because after you get the shooting range or the casttle and start with your army, the money they give is literally useless (you get 5sp from an enemy and 500qi from your best staff :/ )
So, if the items dropped by monsters are too close to the border of the screen, they disappear and you don't get anything. Could you fix that please? Because instead of moving inside the part of the screen you can see, they disappear showing a text of what they should give you, but you don't get anything.
Any plan to make homestead useful if you chose tree of fairies instead of the farm? Because since you can't increase other thing that the farm's food production, it becomes useless.
Doesn't to freeze now when changing tab, but production gets reduced a lot. Focusing the tab I get .1 Qi per second, when I swtich tab I get .1 Qi per 5 seconds, maybe even less.
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Thanks for the suggestion.