Comments for War Clicks

Yeah the randomization at late game can be annoying at times. We'll definitely look into it when we can get some free dev hours for it.

Well we did address the issue in a few ways already and will continue tweaking things. But it's a long progress as we have to tweak things little by little to not break the experience. Especially with a small team. As far as trainer upgrades go - this IMO is a quite misunderstood "concept“, as essentially it does what time warp does (and is fine in all games), but much more efficient if used in the "right" situations. For example, when time between deploys gets long, it can be super cheap/cost effective, especially if most of the progress depends on a small number of units. It's definitely not designed as a "money grabbing" element, but as something that offers variety of gold spend and can make your spending it much more efficient at times. Thanks for the well-thought out feedback - I hope we can make it enjoyable for you for more than 4 hours with future updates we are working on :)

Unfortunately our authentication system is based on cookies so there is no other way right now. In the future we want to rework this but it's a big task and not something we can do soon. Only way to not enable 3rd cookies and play would be to play directly on our site, but that uses different database from kong's.

We'll be looking at doing some general optimizations in the following two weeks so should improve that gradually. We generally don't see a lot of issues with this anymore on Windows, but we'll try on OS for testing in the future as well.

We want to have a think about more options to extend fuel, but at the same time we don't want to change this into a "you must come back every 5 minutes for 24/7" if you want to get optimal progress. So we tread carefully around this topic until we can find something we think would fit the game and keep it from going that way

For performance reasons (as these are calculated constantly reducing it to "active users" only makes it a lot more optimized), and also we want these rankings to feel "current". The Hall of Fame still contains all time rankings/all players if you're interested in seeing those.

We'll be considering something like this - definitely some clearer indication of when you can next privatize will be added, but possibly also a timer like this.

That seems like a way too long time indeed. Silly question but you don't have AdBlocker enabled right? Also, are you playing any other games with videos and having the same issue there as well or not?

Unticking the "Prevent cross-site tracking" is what enables the use of third-party cookies and should get it working :)

The author of one of the backgrounds (Andy Ray - Reinforcement), which is a licensed one we got from Unity: https://soundcloud.com/muzstation-game-music/action-game-soundtrack-full-preview The other 2 I can't find details on quickly as my coworker was looking for them, but I believe all backgrounds were probably licensed/purchased. We don't have a great record of this, but the backgrounds are definitely all licensed from Unity and/or soundsnap.com I could dig a bit more if I got some more time, but that's what I can help you with for now :)

We hope to have time to add something like this soon. It's on our list, but some little things like this can be a bit more annoying to do than one would think, so we have to use that ample time on other more pressing updates that will have a bigger impact. But we'll get to it slowly!

We have this on the list, should be deployed within 2 weeks max I'd presume.

TC as is is awful right now. My first thought on "click to refuel" sounds a bit "boring" to me, but I can appreciate the thought. We want to have a go at complete TC rework (really complete) make it more engaging, fun as one of our soon-to-come updates, and with that we can also consider this. And if we can't come up with a good way/reason to keep a way of a "TC", then "simply click to refuel" might be the best alternative. Will think it over!

Did you claim the Summer Pack which gave 2x DPC boost for free for 2 days? Most likely that ran out and returned your DPC to where it was without it.

Yes this is a bit bugged and am finally working on COMPLETELY reworking the convert rewards to scale nicely this week. Hence why not fixing this issue, as we should deliver a complete overhaul of this by the end of the week. Sorry if it's annoying/causing a bit inconvenience atm, but it will be worth the focus on the rework to bring it out asap!

Yes this is a bit bugged and am finally working on COMPLETELY reworking the convert rewards to scale nicely this week. Hence why not fixing this issue, as we should deliver a complete overhaul of this by the end of the week. Sorry if it's annoying/causing a bit inconvenience atm, but it will be worth the focus on the rework to bring it out asap!

We'll be having a re-look at improving PvP soon, but the loss formula should already take that into account - at least to a certain degree. Can you give me an example of the "ratio" between your and opponent's units. i.e. land units, that you typically fight against?

We'll be working on improving balancing/battle/boss toughness in the following weeks. Especially mid/late game in War Zone is pretty inconsistent experience and is due some major improvements there.

We've got some improvements lined up to improve this. With tons of feature updates in the past month, we left balance/experience updates on the side for a while, but will now be working on better balancing things, as well as improve distribution of gold.

We've got this bug on our list. Did it happen just once and were you able to complete it properly after right? If it happens again , could I ask you to open developer console (F12), and then try to click and see if you get any sort of error written at the bottom of the log. And forward us that error so we know a bit more exactly where the issue lies.

What do you mean exactly? Try to refresh the game, if you seem to not have been logged into your account, while you ARE logged into Kong account.

Where did you see this? Within the Free Gold section, from offers Kongregate's ad partner provides? I'm afraid that's not on our side to handle - but from my experience these ad partners only add safe offers. But this one is indeed a program that takes up your computer resources - it's up to you to decide if it's worth it.

Thanks for the very detailed information! Will definitely be looking in these cases and getting to the bottom of this... Bunch of clicking/testing time to do today!

The drops are random and, well, quite rare as they are right now (something we might want to change). And due to the way the drops are implemented/stored, the "drops for each user" are refreshed once a day. So if you're "unlucky" one day, then you'll get little/no drops during that whole day. And on the contrary if you are "lucky" with the drops, you'll be getting them a lot/often the whole day. We'll see if we can rework this to make it less random & more frequent, while keeping the behind the scenes optimization acceptable.

We are looking into this still, hard to replicate exactly on our end and find the exact rare remaining cause of this. You are always using 30s and support power correct when this happens? Do you also tend to just (a few seconds left) beat the boss? Unfortunately due to the way it's handled support attacks and 30s indeed aren't reverted, but if this happens several times to you we'll gladly add them back manually if you let us know via PM/bug report!

Sorry, could you elaborate which problem exactly? You mean the "login to unlock" button within the competition widget, or something else?

Glad you enjoy it! There's definitely tons of updates coming in the following weeks already :)

Investors do stay, but specialized trainers do not for a reason - since it's something I haven't seen in other games let me elaborate bit more on this: for the low price they can be a very efficient strategy option, and if they stayed after deploy they'd be overpowered compared to any other gold use. Sometimes just with 10-60 gold during a long deploy run you can get a huge benefit from them by upgrading a single unit, that contributes the biggest to production. Consider them an alternative to time warps, that in many cases can be far more efficient than a time warp (one-time boosts) on extended runs. They were designed to offer an alternative to using gold better than i.e. on a time warp or a bribe, and when used properly they can be far far more cost efficient. They're definitely not the best use of gold on "quick deploy runs", but that's not their purpose. Regarding settings, you mean that the changes don't save, or just visually not shown clearly it's been saved?

We've got this shit on our to-do list, we should add it next week, the latest.

I see thanks. We have some stability updates due, that should make that less frequent. As for mobile, the game as is is far from optimized for it - currently if it works on a phone - great! but we don't guarantee it. We hope to get there in the near future, if not a full UI revamp for mobile, at least some general optimizations to make it run better.

We've got this on our list, I'd assume we should be able to add this sometime next week :) Edit: This has been added a while ago and can be toggled via settings!