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I'm sorry but what am I supposed to do other than panic and keep clicking what ever I can? I tried to read infos on each square and buy the upgrades, but one third of the area is already black and I have no idea how to stop it, how to get that green potion(?) etc. Congratz to anyone being smarter than me, but "Experiment by clicking random box" doesn't quite cover, what to do. :(
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Build Order for pre-win map completion: 1)Wood until 100/min preferably around elf village, else around wooden city spot. 2)Pop mushroom forests and build a couple magic villages, save for tower of light. 3) While waiting for magic, pop a couple rocks and mining village. 4) Pop tower of light and level 2 when ready, focus tech, get lighthouse, circle of stones lvl 1 when you have enough, and light research facility. If you have done well the dark should be beat to the start. 4) Whatever you need to get potion factory and lvl 2 and max out magic prod. Keep an eye out for magic cities and try to max out bonuses for the specialty magic villages (mushroom, tree root, water). 5) Remember magic village docks boost all magic adjacent to the water. 6) While beating back the darkness with potions fill out the map.
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I love this game and come back to it often. Is there any chance you will make a more long-form version at some point?
Yes there's a chance - I still like this concept and think there's a lot of room for expansion. But I have no idea when that would be - I don't have a lot of time to work on games nowadays and I'm also working on The Final Earth 2 mobile+Steam and I'd also like to try some new concepts, too. A new Stop the Darkness obviously wouldn't be on Kong - it's no longer possible to upload games, after all. I'll try to let you guys know though.
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Heh, you can use the darkness to get more unique buildings by letting covering them, building one further in, and then beating it back.
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No, there is not a way to specifically direct which direction a port will come out but you can see it ahead of time before you click to build the village and reorder the construction of your ports for optimal placement.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/StopTheDarkness/comments/g8drz1/complete_area_journal/
The complete area journal for anyone that wants it
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Revisiting this for the umpteenth time. Wish there was a 5+ rating. Also wish there was a sequel... not sure what it would entail, but i'd theorize on it for hours.
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awesome game! please add relax mode with terraforming and destroy functions. It really would be nice to see mooore large maps
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Is it possible to beat Extended Mode, or is it just endless? I can't seem to get enough mats for the second stone circle until the darkness has consumed all
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afte 63 minutes but at long last i maxed out the entire map on extended mode. great game 5/5 it held my attention to the sweet end. :)
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i really don't like these games where you have to make decisions quickly and every decision seems to waste more time than save it, i know i'm really just bad at these but this medium badge for me feels like super hard, especially because the board is randomly generated i can't learn a plan from repeated playthroughs, this game is too chaotic for me i need structure and time to plan, i beat the easy/normal mode with a little stress and loved the post-game free build, i just wish the free build was the whole game, and i really came here for the medium badge for the best of 2018 series, this is another one of those badges that will haunt me because the genre is outside my wheelhouse and invalidates the other 9 badges i collected for the set
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Another suggestion: Change (or give the player the option to change) the Next Upgrade text so that it shows what changes. For example, instead of "Production per minute: 5 Stone, 2 Tech. Next Upgrade: Production per minute: 5 Stone, 4 Tech", it could show "Production per minute: 5 Stone, 2 Tech. Next Upgrade: Production per minute: +2 Tech".
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I have a suggestion. Please add icon(s) to the center of each space to show what resource(s) it produces. This should make it easier to look at a group and see that "OK, if I upgrade this building, it'll boost Tech production, but there's only one adjacent building that produces Tech. I'd be better off upgrading this other building, because it'll boost Wood production and has three Wood-producers next to it".
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Nicely done. The fun of using the terrain to find all the upgrades reminds me of my early days of playing 4Xs. I like the magic theme, finding magic in mysterious special areas. The spiral pattern of the darkness adds another strategic consideration, making central tiles safer investments. It works. However, sometimes I wish there was a way to protect high-value areas. Have you considered using a system similar to Civ 4's culture system, with developed tiles radiating a certain amount of light into surrounding tiles, putting outward pressure against the darkness while the darkness puts inward pressure on all tiles?
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@bonifacio6: It's a resource for building things, just like stone or wood. It can also be used for potion effects if you build a potion factory.
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For those looking for the very last building... It is simply the Potion Factory lvl 3. Since it stops the darkness, you can't build anymore it if you have already fully upgraded the stone circle or the Light Research City.
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Could use a sandbox mode where the Darkness never starts to show up at all, just to fiddle around with the unlocking of different building types. Other than that, a solid game. I beat the standard mode ages ago, and came back for the "Best of" quest badge.
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Using Explorer11 (updated version) on my windows8.1-laptop, results some buildings in part of flickering (it of black squares e.g. on theof the image), shows up when playing the game on x1-speed, couldn't get a screenshot yet and didn't appear continously there. btw: awesome game.
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@archerbob: Click to build up a square if you have the resources. As the description says, adjacent squares also affect what you can build. The goal is to build something to stop the darkness before it overwhelms you. It's not a big game that needs an extensive tutorial.
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Stumped as to how this is a "Best of 2018" game, it must have been a crap year... I have absolutely no idea what I am supposed to be doing, a tutorial or better instructions would be extremely helpful. 1 star
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in some maps, it's impossible to complete the tutorial because the tutorial message is blocking the woods that are highlighted.
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Ive played this prolly over 100 times. I hope you make a sequel! You should speed it up over 3x cause every game ends with me waiting for 2 minutes. Also give a choice on what structures to place instead automatically selecting, say tower of light when I wanted a port. Good work!
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I was playing to get the best of 2018 but I couldn't beat the extended version. I guess I'm just not good at these kinds of games! It was really fun but it feels very concerning when all of your cities and mines get swallowed up by the darkness and you just have to just sit and watch as there is nothing you can do anymore but cry as your world comes to an end. Anyways, great game!
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Got em all; main tricky ones are all the Great Cities and port variants of things. Many things are "Great City of X and Y," make lots of cities in the post game and you'll probably get most of them. As for ports? Just build interesting cities on the water. Make a lot of docks too.
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@TheCoolest505: you can get technology by upgrading your rocks, mining village, and/or city. if you're already maxed its level, try upgrading your adjacent tiles to unlock it first.
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Finding some of the buildings was too hard for me, would be nice if on completion of a extended run, it gave you the requirements on the Area Journal, would also boost replayability. Also, I think I found (only) one bug: If you build a mainport you can upgrade the connected docks to level 2. However, it actually lets you upgrade all adjacent docks to level 2, allowing you to get 3 (possibly 4 with super unlikely world gen?) level 2 docks on a single body of water, and, it's crazy good with larger bodies of water that are surrounded by production