It seems the unmodified experience is not shown in the ritual tab after the last update. I think it was a neat thing to show as some quests and activities reward unmodified experience. To determine sacred ritual progression it is useful to see the current unmodified experience.
It is possible to graduate early by clicking on the graduate button by mistake and skip remaining quests and challenges. I didn't have any local saves so it is impossible to revert that. I'm not sure it would lock further progress but I think a warning would be in order.
Reply to the earlier comment about highest rate dish not coming during megacook: The dish is not discontinued and comes up in other cases; cooking through money or single coupon. Here is the link to the save: https://justpaste.it/8lmed. I was thinking bad luck, but 1% felt really bad :P Thanks for checking it out!
Thanks for the link. Yeah, seems like bad luck, got it eventually from coupon supercook too. I was thinking about some mechanism to compensate that kind of bad luck on coupon supercooks, but that would require some hard math to not mess it up. For now I added an option to set percentage of coupons used on megacook (down to 10%), which should give more rolls and therefore more even distribution.
I'm wondering if there is a preference to certain dishes when using supercook with coupons. I did over 40 supercooks in a row with 45 available dishes. My highest income dish hasn't come even once which corresponds to (44/45)^(5*40) = 1% of the possible outcomes assuming equal probability for all dishes. Or is there a preference to certain dishes?
It would be nice if it was possible to cap the fleet designer automation. Depending on the experience spending, the research can easily reach such levels that the ship design maximum level causes the production times to reach hours, slowing down the battle progression.
As others have noted, more challenges would be nice. The last challenge with 7 dishes with the same first letter doesn't seem to be possible for some letters. Perhaps the challenge could consider unlockable dishes so that it is possible at each new restaurant.
An idle with an emphasis on building combinations. I liked the relaxed nature quite a bit. Each prestige threshold opens up new ways of building stronger combinations. Some dish types are overpowered compared to others (meat+fastfood+cheap combo or desert+cheap combo) with larger number of dishes than other types and multiple dishes having the same combination of types. As others noted, the dishes appear randomly, which causes time to prestige of successive trials vary quite a bit. Still, one can always come back later to use coupons if there were many unsuccessful cooking attempts or start a new restaurant. I believe challenges are finite. Overall, unlike many idle games that abuse "dopamine seeking-reward loop" of your brain, it has a nice, slow paced feel. Keep up the good work!
Gunner production by the cube seems to be bugged. Unlike other robots, the queued gunners are not produced offline and they are removed from the queue when reloading.
A strange bug: During a rechallenge fight with Lich King in the background I opened the boss dungeon on the fourth turn after Larry Jr. was downed. Strangely he had 0 hp and was considered dead and was not passing his turn. I reproduced this by attacking Lich King again and by exiting the battle after downing Larry Jr. and coming back during the next fourth turn.
I believe this should be considered a bug: Grogmar's snipe skill can't damage Lich King while Larry jr. is "Bone Down" as Larry Jr. is probably considered the lowest hp enemy.
The pop-up messages on top left stay awhile and prevent interacting with that part of the screen. Either moving the pop-up location to for instance lower left part of the screen or making them removable by simply clicking on them instead of clicking on the cross feels easier for me. It may cause premature cancellation of a message, but majority of the time those messages are not very important. I think the lingering disappear effect for the pop-up boxes is sufficient for that purpose if slowed down. Keep up the good work!
A well polished game! The feeling of progression is smooth and unlike many other idle games with exponential growth, pacing feels much more natural. I really liked the small icons on the item or craft bars showing the resource requirement and associated guild. Following that example, I think it could be nice to also show guilds ordering that item, so that it is easier to pick which item to craft when trying to fulfill the orders, as the orders are hard to keep track. It could also be nice to click on the guild icon on an item to jump to that guilds screen. Also, I guess the inventory can be auto-sorted every time it is opened. Sell all is a nice feature but I tend to scroll down before I sell all items and auto-sorting would be handy in that sense. There is no way of moving items as far as I can tell.
Cultist stuck on a worship loop, leading to depletion of all resources and death of all cultists... except for John who had been a disbeliever from the start. I can't recruit any new followers, but John keeps donating so I guess that's nice :) Anyways, funny little game, but as others mentioned i has many bugs and would benefit from destruction and additional automation features. Keep up the good work!
Seeing a few comments I checked 5 hours. The mechanics are exactly the same, and considering javascript is easily accessible and the mechanics are somewhat unique to 5 hours, this game really seems like a rip-off. The interface looks more beautiful, but structurally it seems exactly the same. I don't know if TheLastFinalBoss asked for permission, but if not I would say he or she definitely ask for permission.
Intuitively, the time feels like it is in terms of min:sec:ssec (per skill point assigned). But strangely it's not how it works at all. For instance the passage of time for first upgrade of "cool" slows down as it is closer to the finish of the count down. Could there be an explanation for this in-game? Otherwise time planning is not clear. I have no idea if this game is interesting at the moment, as it takes more than 30 mins and counting to understand how to increase the skill points, retrofit a couple of times and wait for the timers to finish. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for this! I think I'll try and add some tool tips over some of the mechanics.
You're right, initially, Cool is on a 24 hour timer. It takes 24 hours of cool to fill Leadership to 1 which allows you to rank up. After you invest in your ship and retrofit a few times, Cool will start to fill up much much faster.
I wouldn't worry about it until you're around 4:00:00 hours of Starfight. You'll then need to Rank Up a few times to get your Starfight over the 5:00:00 hour mark and get Legacy!
It is not clear what objects are interactable. It might be a design choice, but it becomes tedious as there is nothing that separates them from the background. The selected objects in the inventory have their names shown, so perhaps interactable objects can have their names shown, as well. Or a special highlight or animation that activates when the pointer is near the object. The knife in the kitchen gets picked up when clicking on the top-left cupboard. I haven't progressed in the game beyond the room with the little devil, so I can't comment on the rest of the game. Keep up the good work!
Interesting playing style and nice minimalistic art :) Not being able to see the whole field makes it difficult to keep track of the game... Perhaps there could be a 2D projection of the surface as a map in the corner? Keep up the good work!
It would be cool to have some way of keeping track of things. Projecting 3D information onto a 2D map sounds like it would be really hard for most people to follow along - the brain doesn't think about two things on opposite edges of a rectangle as being next to each other. Also, the map would get distorted the further from the equator you go. There's a reason it took hundreds years for the world map we know today to be the accepted standard! If you know of any games that do a good job of projecting the events of a globe into a UI please message me! I'd love to study them!
The game has a nice retro feel to it. Still, there are some bothersome aspects. Chests are by far the weirdest aspect of the game. They are targeting your position and can crash you to death. They dodge you to the side of the screen when you try to open them. Accidentally pulling a key or not being able to use it in time prevents further use of keys. Like others have mentioned, the cost seems too steep. It plays like an old school arcade.
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Thanks for the link. Yeah, seems like bad luck, got it eventually from coupon supercook too. I was thinking about some mechanism to compensate that kind of bad luck on coupon supercooks, but that would require some hard math to not mess it up. For now I added an option to set percentage of coupons used on megacook (down to 10%), which should give more rolls and therefore more even distribution.