PAY ATTENTION, bugs can happen when purchasing packs, and both developpers and Kongregate fail to answer when asking for Kreds refund: I would advise NOT TO BUY ANYTHING IN THIS GAME.
@archerbob: The "penalty" for AFK is part of the game. However, the game runing slower when in another tab was not done on purpose. The developer explains that you better put the game in a separate window.
Anyway, if you let the game running for hours, at some point you'll get 0xp, 0 gold and your bags will be full. Later you can buy stuff to make it more idle. To my view, it contributes to the longevity of the game.
Simplest gameplay, beautiful design, nice music, jokes, coherent universe, depth... It's been a long time since I've had so much fun with a kong game. Congrats !
Ideas for little improvement: items have identical values for every class. Could be good to specialize a bit. Make it a bit more idle (e.g. auto-assign to merchant order, planned auto-fusion, planned auto-desynthesis etc...), remove need to quit adventures to try final boss...
@Socratesofathina It seems to me that augments stack. For example Anomaly detection device gets more research when combined with an augment that gets you more research than when not.
A great improvement would be to change the way galaxy effects are displayed. First list the general effects, then list by sector instead of by effect (e.g.: Spaceport ouput increased by... Spaceport processing speed increased by......Spaceport extension costs divided by... Housing facilities output increased by...etc). It would be much easier to read and choose the next galaxy.
@SirCabbage To me Breakthrough automator was a life savior: it activates every breakthrough which renders the game more Idle ! Just invest a bit more in it and it will save you from carpal tunnel syndrom.
some ideas for improvement:
1- A free option to auto-pick Holo-vid coins, (for example one per hour), then reducing time by using cosmium (pay cosmium for getting cosmium, worth spending Kreds for that ;;-)) )
2- An "upgrade all sectors Max" button
3- permanent timer for next breackthrough
4- give the Better Bargain augment a % to increase the chances of obtaining rare items.
5- more free cosmium per day
Before my first Galactic reassignment I got three very rare (purple) augments, in around 20 missions. Then I salvaged them all... Now I just got another one after around... 200 missions !
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Good news! We just pushed a patch (1.0.4c) which should address your game load issues.