@calvindang it showed up as an open source project by one on hacker news and the author is a long time member there. People were hacking on it (writing bots) and cloning it pretty much immediately. It just sort of blew up from there.
Dear kong, can we please restrict ourselves to adding badges to games that aren't broken? Fortunately(?) the automatic powers are strong enough to beat the game without assistance.
This game is horrible, even by the abysmal kong multiplayer badge standard. You claim that "We have many thousands of Kongregate players who are here for more than a badge" but all the top rated comments echo the sentiment of my first sentence. TBQH, you should take a look at the top rated multiplayer games here before trying this again because while those games are not that great they at least have a pacing that makes them tolerable for casual play.
Dear Game developers, please stop implementing non-banked elevators unless you are also implementing AI smart enough to handle multiple elevators efficiently, which is at least an order of magnitude harder... so really just do elevator banks if elevator building is an important part of your game. PS. badges are broken.
let me restate joppelarius's problem with these games getting badges. Single player games get badges when the community decides that they are good and by and large single player games with badges are fun. The MMOs on the other hand pay for badges and are generally crap, while there are a few really good multi-player games on kong (transformice comes to mind) they are not the ones that get achievements. If they were, no one here would have a problem with it.
How i got the hard badge (building on ragnarr's post):
word set 1 (verbatim) -- flying, preflight
word set 2 (word + plural) -- flight, fly + by, boy, over, paper
word set 3 (word + -ing, -er, -ers, -ed, -s) follow, flower, finger
get as much out of the boiler except f, l, and y
write down the words from the above lists in order. on each level use words like fig, fog, falafel, fly, yule to open up 5 boilers as fast as possible... don't use words from the main list or you will end up with repeats.
once you have 4 or 5 boilers open crank through your list of words as quickly as possible... don't even bother looking at the letters that you have up and don't worry about repeats because there are more than 20 words in the list (as long as you are using all valid variations).
HTH
On reflection I want to amplify what I said previously... The prices for this game are so mind-numbingly insane that I can't come up with any explanation other than that the developers are trying to scam children that have access to their parents credit cards. I don't have a problem with P2P but these kinds of scams do not belong on Kongregate.
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I did have that but somehow I broke it :( will add back soon!