Thought of it after reading my first - but maybe do the opposite of what I said in my other comment about 'wrong' paths, and instead add a 'bonus' path that warps the ball back to the top. At least, this way maybe matches the game as it is now a bit better. :D
Like the idea, but as the other comments say - it still feels way too slow. I've been playing for the last few days, reset a few times, and now I'm back to waiting and waiting for a ball to pop out. Kinda makes me wanna ragequit the browser. I want to see lots of them going crazy and earning me points right from the start, or at least by now after a few days of resets. The 'difficulty' I think should scale more on surviving the zones. Maybe they fall off the sides or down the 'wrong' path instead of always eventually reaching the end. Most often I think of pachinko as a gambling game, but the only gamble in this really is maybe the ball is destroyed by RNG.
I would recommend watching Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler. Manga/Anime/Live action movie - there is a pachinko game he plays that is very exciting. May provide some ideas, or just be fun to watch while playing. :D
Ok, I've had this happen to me a few times now, and just now had it happen again, where I'm going down my prestige layers one at a time after putting stats in, disabling the auto buyers, and moving to the next lower level, in order to stack the levels of stats. However, just now the autobuyers from Level 4 prestige automatically bought the level 3 upgrades, and my stats from levels 4, 5, 6, and 7 were reset.. However my stats in 10, 11, 12, and 14 still remain. I didn't have any in 8,9, or 13. I'm not sure if this is a bad bug or something I'm missing, but I was pretty sure I hadn't gone to a higher level and reset a few times before, and this time I was absolutely positive and kept double checking to make sure I had the right auto buyers enabled, just the ones from levels 2, 3, and 4 were left after starting from 8 upgrading 7 and disabling them as I went down.
Starts getting really tedious when you have 20+ heroes and only 1 enemy to kill them all off. Takes forever to manually level prestige when you have lots, so getting killed to trigger auto buy is necessary.
Would also be nice to have some sort of control over how auto buy works. Currently it's just annoying to fight with the laggy UI enabling/disabling them all constantly.
Two main changes it needs is a way to instantly kill off your team and auto-buy, and for them to disable themselves once you've already raised the stats as high as they will go.
Last thing I will say is that the UI lag really is a problem too. Doesn't really happen until you've got a few different levels of prestige maxed out and are up to higher numbers, but when you are? Holy hell. Clicking any kind of upgrade, or waiting on the autobuyers just brings the game to a screeching halt. Could definitely use some optimization with whatever calculations are going on.
Otherwise, an enjoyable simple game.
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