The 3/4 of the screen that are actually visible are *just enough* for me tell that it says "loading: 98%". Yeeeeeeah, I'm not gonna bother with this BotD.
The game has plateaued really hard for me for the past month or so. It takes me at least 4 days to be able to double my gems when I abdicate. My last reincarnation was probably 3 weeks ago! (I'm at R11, btw)
*UPDATE* I found it. When I got a game over, a statistics screen came up that showed a list of 12 total achievements. But IDK why I got a game over. My last day was Day 11, is that when the game ends? Did I win or lose? *shrug* Oh well, this was only the first game in the series. The sequels improved a lot.
I can't tell whether this game has achievements or not. (I mean in-game achievements, not Kongregate badges). I keep seeing little text boxes pop up for 2 seconds at a time saying that I did something in particular & get a reward for it, but I can't find any UI button or menu that opens any list of achievements to see what all the possible ones are & which have or haven't been earned yet.
@HeavyDuty I followed your advice step by step exactly as you said, but it made no difference. I've refreshed the page, I've completely exited FF and reopened it, but still every time I open this game it just says "[10] Setup has failed: Loader bypassed"
FYI everyone, this game is broken because UNITY & JAVA GAMES ARE NO LONGER SUPPORTED BY FIREFOX. This game can now ONLY be played on Internet Explorer or (for Mac users) Safari, or on older versions of Firefox that aren't automatically updated. It's all explained in the forum post which is mentioned in the HUGE BANNER DISPLAYED RIGHT ON THIS PAGE, DIRECTLY ABOVE THE GAME SCREEN. http://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/716510-announcement-official-npapi-unity-java-support-ending-march-7-2017?page=1
Hello there, DivineGames, I just want you to know that I really like the new UI changes. The new bloodlines menu works really well, and the bigger "Buy" buttons for royal exchanges are a huge help for me.
It used to be annoying to go back & forth between the upgrades screen & the excavations screen, but now not so much, and also now I can close those screens & look at the map area while still being able to tell at a glance how many upgrades & eligible artifacts there are. Although I do wish the excavations side-panel button would indicate when I can afford to make excavations. Most of the times I open that screen it's just to check whether I have enough money to do 1 yet, since I can't easily "just remember" how much the next dig will cost.
For the achievement "Magic Builder", what exactly is "Universal Substitute"? I've learned all the spells there are to train, and I assumed that the labratory spell from the "elements unity" upgrade was it, but I've used that spell many many times and the achievement progress still reads "0 of 50"
What new players need to understand when they start this game, is that it starts out SEEMING very hard. You just have to make your way through the tutorials, one at a time (don't worry if you fail a tutorial level, you can redo it as many times as you want). As you play, you inevitably earn achievements, and each achievement gives you points that you can use to upgrade skills. Every upgrade makes the game easier to play, and each time you start a new game you keep all your skills, which makes it easier to earn more achievements so you can buy more skills, etc.
In other words, THE MORE YOU PLAY THE GAME, THE GETS EASIER (& MORE FUN) IT GETS!!
As you progress & upgrade, you can buy more kinds of resources and learn more spells, and do both more efficiently, so you don't have to worry as much about making the exact right chains of the right items in the right places in order to succeed. That's what makes this game so great!
...Ah yes, that was the problem. Thank you for the replies. I had one of the other pets active when I collected the ectoplasm. I didn't realize that was necessary because I got the feats for collecting the other 2 resources without checking first to make sure I had the right pet active (I just did have the right ones turned on at those moments, by chance.)
"Spooky" feat is broken. Twice (once yesterday & once today) I've collected a full glowing stack of ectosplasm but not gotten credit for it. I already had the ghost pet before each try. Also, each time, like 30 seconds after collecting the ectoplasm and noticing the lack of feat credit, the message popped up to notify me that i've smashed today's pumpkin. Apparently when you open the game for the first time in a day, it takes a minute for it recognize the event, so YOU MUST WAIT AT LEAST A MINUTE TO SEE IF THE PUMPKIN MESSAGE POPS UP BEFORE YOU COLLECT A RESOURCE STACK!!!
(Comment part 2) There's no way to verify if any one number has the CORRECT blocks colored around it, meaning we can't use process of elimination to figure out which ones are incorrect. Basically you have to solve multiple puzzles on the same board simultaneously without making a mistake in ANY of them or else you're screwed. ____ FFS, I'm on one of the Links APPRENTICE levels right now and every number on the board has the dot saying the right amount are colored for it EXCEPT ONE. But there are literally ZERO changes I can make without making another number incomplete. I'm at a stalemate. I have no choice but to either cheat by looking up the answer online, or lose this badge of the day.
(Comment part 1) This gives me frustrating rage. I know how to play this type of game, I'm good at this type of game, and did well at Pica Squared, but somehow this one is MUCH more difficult. Some puzzles are impossible solve with guessing some squares, but if one guess turns out to be wrong for one color, there's no way to change that guess without altering all the color & number sets adjacent to it. Even if you seem to have solved all of one color correctly, if you can't fit enough of another color somewhere then that proves one of the ones you solved is NOT correct so you have to re-do it.
There's something seriously wrong. None of my progress is being counted towards any of the badges. I've beat 4 campaign levels and 1 challenge level, but the badge progress meter still says I've beat 0 so far. In other word I've earned the BotD but am not being credited for it.
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that would be cheating ;)