"Upgrade Strength" and "Recruit Mercenaries" becomes useless after a while, since they only add +1 to damage. You should instead spend XP on other 4 upgrades.
I've been playing CW3 since its release, and I'm happy it's out on Kongregate as well! One compliant is that I've used F1-F8 shortcut keys for weapons(default for CW3 in Retail/Steam) and I had the page refreshed when I intend to put Nullfier(F5) in this version.
Too much flaws to trying to rate it more than 1 : base life upgrade is completely garbage since you get 10 base HP every time you continue regardless of its level, simply outnumbered after wave 17, very unrewarding "THE END" text.
5/5 just for the jmtb02's release. I wanted to change gardening a bit so you can collect carrots and other stuffs by just mouse over-ing them instead of clicking (no problem with planting part, though hotkeys would be helpful)
About new growth system. it's great, but I fear it would defeat purpose of purchasing houses by upgrading farms for massive food output: How about Houses don't raise the max pop on purchase(or half the increase), but will increase "the cap for max pop" by 5 per a level?
One might think so at first, but the way the growth system is set up, even producing massive amounts of food, the most you will ever get is one cycle's worth of Growth Bonus at a time. It takes a number of cycles equal to your Max Pop for the Growth Bonus to fill, e.g. 100 Max Pop = 100 cycles. When you start getting up to the higher population amounts, it becomes more and more worth it to "invest" in housing to expand your Max Pop quickly, rather than to just let Max Pop grow naturally.
Even though I have to reset nearly every time it's updated, I love this game. Ruler's "Farming" upgrade says 5% in description but it goes up by 2.5% per level on Economy screen.(I know it's because one farmer produces 2 food while other workers produce 1)
Sorry for a comment cut off. Parallel Universe Monkey doesn't collect Blops so you'll still have to move around, ALOT. I don't really mind about blop collection(but it's worth more if he does) but Parallel Monkey SHOULD be at same Y position(vertical) as you to make him better(If so I'd pay extra blops(not real money!) for him or the bundle.)
One more thing they should do something about it : Parallel Universe Monkey. It's so useless because they mirror your Y axis(up/down) so you cannot use its full firepower when you stay at lower part of screen. and it doesn't collect a single blops so it'
3/5 for me. Tips for players : Shurikens + Plasma Beam combo works well until 3-5 for me, provided you research alot on them. Tips for devs : Trophy reward should be increased by stages(10/25/50/100 in stage 1, 20/50/100/200 in stage 2 and so on). Completing 6 Awards and 100% Blops should also give you some money to make it less grindy. stage 3 and later lags like hell. PLEASE give transformations from golden Bloons max level of counters(pops the bloons which normally cannot); it sucks when you get a magic transformation AGAINST CERAMICS WAVE.
Wish if there's "protect" option for items you wish to keep(like, Luck gears before you try to forge something), preventing forging and selling while the option is enabled on the item.
other than that, great idle game!
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Its not my first game just first game using Flash usally use HTML and JS. Skins are good ideas also you can already upgrade those things