Somehow, I have a negative research rate and no way to increase it. How do we see what is draining resources? I have upgraded focus a lot... does that drain research rate?
We understand your frustration. We playtested the build in Discord last week and things are stable. You should see an update this week or next! Almost there :)
Why can't I save the game (even though I've seen the "game saved" message flash multiple times)? The save buttons don't work, and every time I play the game it starts from nothing. And there's no way I'm going to copy and paste a thousand-character string every time.
I'm sorry you're having trouble with saving! The game only writes the game saved message if it successfully wrote to local storage, so if you are having trouble loading a save file, it is likely on the loading end. If pasting your save in the settings menu is working, there are a number of things can cause the game to not load properly. You might need to enable third party cookies in Chrome's advanced settings. Otherwise some adblockers have been known to prevent the game from loading. If neither of those fix your issue, you can check the browser console for errors which can help me assist you further.
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