There must be SOME sort of mouse acceleration, as the mouse quite obviously does NOT respond linearly in the game. Not sure how a flash game changes that, but it really needs to be fixed.
Idea / Suggestion: make coolant cells replaceable (not just upgradeable) with shift-left click. It would be nice to be able to immediately replace coolant cells without running the risk of ticks going by while you're in the process of replacing them, especially when your design is loaded to the limit (i.e. will melt down in one tick without full cooling).
"-Gamble extreme bad luck buster for a more balanced “I’m risking everything” experience." sounds like he's normalizing his probabilities over a long period of time... i.e. you won't get huge losing streaks, so the longer your losing streak is the more you should bet! So far I have seen 8 losses in a row max (from my own game).
"... I also asked my cats and they sorta agreed." There's your problem dev... it's already well-established that cats defy gravity in the first place. Hope you didn't pay too much in consulting fees.
terrible game... requires no skill, just a tremendous amount of luck. Doesn't even help to spend more time on it, since levels don't mean anything at all. Waste of badges Kongregate!
very anticlimactic ending, but hey, so is a lot of scientific research. I know firsthand that 3/4 of the time, nothing interesting is found out, or your research isn't productive.
Magic and laziness. Mostly magic.