The game seems to really hate when it isn't the focus. If you are browsing in another window -- it stops reporting progress. If you click on something it tends to jump but it is one of several potential causes of things frozen at 0 and you can't get them.
Is there a wiki somewhere for this game -- trying to remember where I found the gems -- the jeweler is going to be NASTY to level as I didn't hold onto them before.
Question on permanent potions -- can you remove them from slots? IE if you get the ability to use better permanent potions -- or once you use it your slot is filled forever -- permanently so to say.
Neat now there are pages -- really scared me tho -- I had my quests freeze which has happened 4 times -- reload fixed -- this time it took oh 2 minutes before it loaded me into the game.
It's something that has been considered quite a bit, and is on the to-do list.
For now, if you tap sort in the recipes screen, it switches from ascending to descending.
The alchemy profession tends to lag well behind the others. I had to dedicate a hero to just low level gathering for a long while to get it to the next level of potions. Maybe seeing as there are so few potion recipies -- they should give more experience per use.
The last four idle games have been overly simplistic lacking choice from the player against the couple before that and some of the better games this author has created. It is kind of sad to me as I look forward to omgnoob games. Maybe next game try for something more complicated, something requiring more thought to play and a bit less on the random side.
I hadn't noticed the resummon mechanic. About to reset my skills due to knowing that, plus I wonder if that means there is a resummon artifact that if you do not have it you are way behind. I mean random out of 23 is...
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Something that happens at max level, be sure to check the Reddit & Discord for more info as well.