Am I understanding the upgrade system correctly... you can raise your bullet speed, but when you raise your gun your speed bonus goes away and you have to pay more cash to get it back....?
3/5 needs a better health system and if an enemy spawns in the direction you're moving + moves towards you, it's way too hard to avoid them. Maybe if you moved slower or something....
1/5 until there's something to balance out or deal with people dropping. People could be allowed to join games in progress and take over unused units. A simple AI could control people who left. Etc. Many ways to fix such a stupid system.
Your character carries over when you change modes. Can get xp in arcade or replay an adventure level, then go back and finish the gates that you need a high level for.
Now that I've messed with it more, I see that having an entry log longer than 1 guess is a bad idea. It'd promote guess and check. Better to figure out how to solve it quickly by learning/understanding each one. ---- Most are quite doable in ~30 secs max and with 1 or 2 guesses before solving. Variable subtraction might be the only exception.
Finished it in about 25 minutes, without making notes lol. Wouldn't mind better help with memorization, but wouldn't be as fun if it was too much easier. I like the random ones with best times.
Without cheating I was able to build max everything (200 of each, 100 for mine) and 2500 soldiers, plus accumulate almost 400,000. Also the rock/paper/scissors uses very simple logic.
In the last level rocket the yellow mine base to the right of your base and turn it into a fighter base. Turn the rest of the yellow mine bases into fighter bases as they get taken over then move from there.
2/5, The computer sucks and there is no way to really enjoy it without a capable opponent. Beat all challenges with a basic black deck + ES and didn't lose once. Also Enforced Silence is too good to cost 1 purple, maybe 2 or 3 would be better.
If you're having trouble, remember that attacking from multiple angles at the same time will be more effect. Even North and West/Southwest is good enough.