At first, I sort by lowest hint, just to get the 0 and 1 hint recruits out of the way. Then I sort by highest (not including maxed units) to get the more expensive ones out of the way, to get a nice high income going so that I can buy lots of hats. Once I have bought all of the recruits once, then I switch to sorting by lowest (including maxed) so that I can work on ranks.
Um, so the problem with increasing the max number you can buy with recruits to 25000 is that it is over the cap, which makes it almost impossible to use with higher recruits. Even dialing it back down to 1000, when combined with the autoclicker, isn't stopping at max rank anymore. So currently, without wanting to, I'm stuck at CHARLESing at rank 3 and level 35, making the Highest Cost sorting a bit useless.
Can you explain how you were previously buying recruits? Honestly, I've never "used" the highest cost sorting I usually go lowest cost and level from there (so this issue didn't show up when I was testing whoops).
Another weird bug I've noticed before but forgot to mention - new game versions seem to mess with offline progress. For example, often when a new version is uploaded, I will open the game and find that I created around 11 hints while offline (after selling them before logging off, so it wasn't because of the cap).
So, here's a weird bug. I've somehow done something where it says 2537/2537 recruits earned, but only 2536/2537 recruits discovered, preventing me from earning a medal for discovering them all. v1.1.1.8
I feel like setting all of the previously owned recruits would allow you to jump back in way too quickly after a reset, but thats just my opinion. Also, you would run into problems with the medals for spending hints.
Scroll wheel support is an interesting touch, be as a laptop user the game is still almost literally unplayable for me. Whenever I try to scroll using my trackpad, it scrolls down the webpage instead. This forces me to attempt to drag the upgrades/achievements, which with a trackpad, is incredibly tricky to do. I'm all for forward progress with a game, but honestly this update in general seems like a huge step backwards for anybody who is not playing on a mobile device. I did find this game enjoyable, but I may just walk away from it now.
Strange...what browser are you using? Keep in mind that the saves are stored in the cache...so incognito mode or browsers that don't let you store data in the cache won't save!
Why do people suddenly prefer Vulcan instead of Horus? (I asked this a while ago, but I never saw and answer, and I think it got burried a little bit, so I appologize for asking again)
That seems more like like than anything. If you can get to prestige level 40, you can unlock a skill that tells you the exact chance of recruiting. The only 100% chance ones I've seen are the exp ones like Pinata
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Bug... It'll be fixed soon!