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add a timer to it so it shows when it will clean out, or add a manual selection for cleanouts, do auto or manual. That would be cool, "last cleanout: 25 oz" i would love to read that
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the sluice box problem... if uw atch the programes its just like real like when they get break downs stock pile is full things stop so its bit of a balance tbh more people u get more break downs n problems( stockpile fills)
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Is the sluice box broken? It's supposed to raise storage capacity by 5 each level but mine has stayed the same for the past 20 or so sluice upgrades.
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@Donnadonut: I think the value of ingots is being able to make large sums of gold into ingots to sell when the price rises exceptionally high and to allow you to "sell all" excess gold other than ingots when the price is low.
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I don't quite see the point of putting our Kong name on one of the black figures walking back and forth. Does it even matter at all?
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I think there's something funny going on. I go to a different page in another tab and watch youtube or something for 10 minutes and get 0 gold.'
play with game in a fresh browser and not a new tab!
good game, hard to get starting, hope the developer adds fresh material to this game, needs more objectives for the player to achieve (maybe things like miners can dig bigger bits of gold, or an upgrade to the sleice box like 'refine gold' increasing the gold output) overall i give this gem a 4/5 could max 5 if more things are added!!
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For all nonidle-gamer > Many Idle games on kongregate doesn't work if you open another tab. ;) Open a new window for Kongregate and it works.
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Correction, it DOES sometimes work on other tabs, but not always or else the odds drop dramatically. I did some comparisons. Either I am just WAY unlucky or else it's definitely more likely to drop gold if you're on this tab.
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I think there's something funny going on. I go to a different page in another tab and watch youtube or something for 10 minutes and get 0 gold. I stay on this page and listen to youtube playing from another page and I get gold regularly. It just seems like if I'm not focused on this page I don't earn anything.
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This is a fun game but it gets stupid when you first play it because shouldn't dirt give you money???? there's no point in collecting dirt if your not going to get anything out of it .
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I'm going to agree with the general flow of most comments and say that the sluice box is sorely unbalanced and quickly makes this one of those 'broken' idle games where waiting for hours/days to make any forward progress. You should consider allowing the purchase of, say, additional sluice boxes or a multiplier to how well the sluice box works, for gold ingots, so they have a purpose.
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@Equi4, you got your maths all wrong. One worker gets his full capacity and bring it back while your sluicer does its job 6 times. So basically one worker with a capacity of 6 equals a sluicer with an efficiency of 1, or 60 workers with a capacity of 1 work as fast as a sluicer with an efficiency of 10.
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Uhhh.. Is it me or when you get 25 diggers you might aswell not even have workers.. considering the digger can just put the dirt in the sluice box if it was on the other side...
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The sluice box scales VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY badly! Just 1 more per upgrade - that's ridiculous! I have 80 labors, when I upgrade what they can carry just by 0.1, I have an income increase by 8! so I need 8 upgrades on the sluice box to compensate that... but I increased the capacity of the labors by 2 !! That means 160 upgrades needed... after 6 hours I still don't have a good enough sluice box to use all the extra stuff the labors are bringing.. and the cost of additional capacity is like 0,0001 of what the next level of my sluice box is... please fix that...
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Ingots are useless except as score-keepers. Just wait for a favorable gold price (I've seen as high as $1635/oz.) and sell all. The only difference between smelting, waiting and selling ingots vs. just waiting and selling all is that you come up $1000 short for every ingot you smelt. For the rest, it's easy enough to calculate whether hiring another worker or increasing worker capacity gives the better return on investment, but the digger and sluice upgrades are not so obvious. What kills it economically is the absurd pricing scale on the sluice, turning it into a development bottleneck. Instead of costing 4-5 times as much as a digger upgrade (which would keep pace with the flow of material) I'm now looking at well over 1,000 times the cost.
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I first voted 5/5, then i noticed it didn't idle if i was in another tab, little inconvenient but whatever, gave it a 4/5, then i got futher in the game and the prices became ridiculous and the game became almost unplayable (sluice box is main culprit)
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Lol it says even after refrshing I've only played 90 minutes. That's interesting considering I've had it running oh I don't know about 4800 minutes now
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this game is not logical, the more you advance, the more an upgrade is expensive. So, it means you will have a betteer productivity with 2 small units than with one 2 time bigger. In an economic way it is totally unbelieveble. Normally the biggerf is your production unit, the cheaper is the price to produce the same quantity. Here it is the opposite. An economic game without economy of scale, totally irrational.
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Gastyz, yes you can melt an igngot at low and sell high, but why does that matter when you can just sell all at high without spending 1000 to melt the ingot. In a sense you "make back the 1000" but in reality you piss away 1000 everytime you make an ingot
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Not nearly as complex or interactive as I would expect from your second big project, you have so much potential mate, use it
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I dont understand all this ingot rants.. Think about it, an ingot is 400 oz, oz price variates between 1100 and 1500, so if you melt 400 oz when the price is 1300, you recover the $1000 cost of melting if you sell said ingot when price is 1303 or more!
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About not idling while other tab is open, its not developers fault, but flash. This happens in all idles that use fps instead of time to calculate things. The simple workaround to fix this is just to leave this game in an individual chrome/firefox/ie window, and just do internet stuff in another window with all the tabs you need.
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Some people don't see the usefulness of smelting an ingot, so I will explain. You can smelt an ingot so that you don't have to sell all of the ounces that you have. That way you can save your ingots for later when the prices are high and then sell them.