Comments for Idle Conquest

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It would have been too much combined with world conquest multiplier. In fact, I did some math and time calculations and figured it was too much in general. Sorry about that.

Yeah but now it gives straight gold with a much faster completion time. Meaning you can simply spend more money in the buildings that do give troops. I feel this is easier to balance and people do like gold I think :P ~Taiga

Catherine x LeLouch, someone ship it, fanart please! ~Taiga

<3 seriously happy to hear this! Knowing what helped people also helps me advance as a programmer. I've learned a lot of stuff thanks to the feedback from you guys and it's been great. Although I still have concerns about making new content right now. I will see exactly how the game runs for people since there definitely is an issue going on with some components from Unity 4.6 and if there really isn't anymore lag at all I can begin work on the dialogue overhaul update. ~Taiga

You gold digger you! Ahem... if I can trust Unity to stop lagging people's computers I will actually be able to create new content and I really want to get missions going as you can see I foreshadowed them all over the place. Hoping for that final release any day now >_> ~Taiga

It is supposed to increase. Hallowed encountered a weird bug but I already fixed it, pushing out the fix now lol. The bottom of the altar tells you what the multiplier will be after the reset. I know it's kinda confusing I do it this way cuz most games just say "Multiplier + 5" then it forces you to do the math I thought this was a more 'lazy' friendly approach. And fix is up! ~Taiga

Can you PM me a pastebin of your saved data so I can check it out? However you can only gain a maximum of +5 to the altar multiplier per reset. +5 per world conquest so for it to say 120 is wrong. ~Taiga

And to expand on what I just said, 'export' also forces a writeout of the saved data to the hard drive. ~Taiga

Sorry that had to happen and every time someone mentions a saved data loss such as this, I run tests to see if it happens to me and, it has not happened to me after these tests. I would recommend using the export feature to save out your game to notepad to import back in later. Unity webplayer could be conflicting with any number of things including firewalls and virus scanners that might prevent it from saving your game to your hard drive. Too many variables exist with this webplayer thus export was made. ~Taiga

Go to options and use low quality settings if you are getting lag. It'll have to be this way until Unity finalizes its release candidate version of its software which we used to make our game. We added new images and used some features from the new version of Unity to make our game look REALLY good, the components seem to be using too many resources, low quality will disable them. Just be mindful that low quality will hide your game's graphics while you are not focused on the browser, but the math calculations still run. ~Taiga

309.60 billion per hour. I'd say that's a pretty decent payout actually. And the more dark knights you have the more you can get per each reset. Pretty much triggers a spiral down hill to big gold payouts and faster world conquests. :P ~Taiga

Check the Kingdom Overview Altar stats to view your current dark knights before reset now. I removed the text from the button. ~Taiga

Take your total troops and multiply it by your army power. Your army power multiplier is in the altar in Kingdom Overview. ~Taiga

I am sorry for the inconvenience regarding that but my previous system was a bad design choice that is why I had to change it. I cannot revert back to how it was or it would create a serious imbalance regarding the overall speed of everything. Once Unity finalizes their 4.6 webplayer and people's lagginess stops, I will work on adding more to the game which will be more upgrades so I hope that will make people happy. ~Taiga

I am hesitant to add anymore content to the game until Unity confirms a stable version of their 4.6 webplayer. All I did was add some more numbers in this current update and some more images and people's CPUs are going nuts. We literally can't add one more thing to this game until Unity is done finalizing their web player. We aren't giving up on this game at all, but we are also trying to work with Unity and help them hurry along their final product. I've already submitted my project file for them to look at as well. More gold producing structures = more vector map calculations, more bars, more texture graphics so it would just turn an already teetering between too laggy game and slightly laggy into a lagfest. Although if you have even a semi decent computer this game runs great. GPUs help instead of built-in intel video cards and Unity Engine only actually uses 1 core so even if you have an 8 core processor it only cares about your CPU ghz :P

Thanks for playing and rating! We are still looking at lag, but the problem is extremely mysterious to us at this point. We have literally over optimized the game and put in options to completely disable all graphic elements when the game is out of focus, and it seems to have completely fixed the problem for some people, and messed it up for others that never had a problem, when the things we changed should have been a massive improvement on CPU and GPU usage... So unfortunately the lag fixing is at a standstill until unity gets back to us on some questions we posted. I hope most of you are able to play ok! Sorry for the problems!

Are you getting an actual error message with the unity logo? or are you getting a white screen/no kongregate stuff loading (chat/highscore/game tabs etc). We have experienced both on and off in testing. an actual unity crash can usually be solved by clearing cache, and if that doesn't get it, a fresh install usually does. The other i believe is a script crashing on the kong page itself, not sure how to fix that yet besides just waiting and trying again later =\.

Really appreciate your feedback! Taiga has been doing the lions share of the work the past few days. Round of applause for Taiga!

Like an intro video? Or an interactive tutorial? Its really a somewhat simple game to start with so we didn't think it was necessary. But if enough people want to see it we might be able to whip something up!

I made an update status emphasizing why it turns blue and why you should not worry about it. Simply click back into it to show the visuals again. The game still calculates the math it just stops the visuals that is all. ~Taiga

Change the graphic settings to low quality. If that doesn't work, wait for Unity to update their webplayer. ~Taiga

I timed all of these objects with a clock and threw my findings into the Kingdom Overview screen. All objects run in a framerate process which means that if you are loading a youtube video, it may cause a 1 second or 2 second delay, heck even receiving Skype messages can affect it. It will vary from computer to computer. Please do not use that timing as a perfect representation on when something should complete. I have optimized my game the best I can. Now we wait for Unity to optimize their web player. ~Taiga

Well at least that problem's in the bag. People can idle the game and go Youtube or whatever else they do which definitely makes my time worth it. I'll check out a few more things I just thought of and may private message you to see if there was a difference. The issue is that some Unity component we need to make our game work is chewing up resources fast as heck, so I was able to help by optimizing a great deal of my code everywhere I could think of in order to compensate for the component sucking up CPU processing speed. Our game looked like crap before the update, as you can see the update made things look so much more pretty and these components are the reason for it. The low quality settings removed the need for any 3d math to happen anymore which, in-turn, creates lower quality lol. Not sure what else I can do. Now we can only sit back and watch lag comments pile up for days or weeks on end. ~Taiga

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Go to options and change to low quality settings. I just tested battle bars and they work fine. The log appeared normal too.

It was impossible to balance it. People created a metagame where they ignored other troop producing buildings and just built up Cathedral. If I lowered the troop gains from the Cathedral, it would have generated comment complaints 5 times a minute so we removed troop gains and made it gold producing. This lets you put more money into troop structures anyways so it works better.

We would love to see it! I'm curious how other people interpret Catherine's appearance actually.