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Are you sure you are not missing a few zeroes in the might we get on level 10 spellupgrades? The costs get ridicolous, but the might we get is almost as low as ever. There is no reason you cut down my faith generation by an order of magnitude just because i got more faith production. 50k faith needed for 100 might?!
I would also like a way to arrange the people in the houses (esp important for multiple fanatics per house). It could also be an option to sort the menu mess.
Also as a more fundamental design question: I highly dislike the punishment for misclicks and the active play variant you use.
1. If you misclick you may kill a few k of faith fanatic without any compensation. Why is this even a "feature"?
2. Being punished by set back to hour 0 by forgetting a guard or missing an event that comes every 60 secs is really questionable design for anything with an "idle" tag. Maybe consider more of a reward-system for active play instead of punishing missing attention.
Hi Iluya, to be honest the design is in process, I just posted it expecting nothing as a personal test project and got popular very very fast so there are features non-developed yet that definitely must be there, as you may have noticed I upload updates almost every day according to how statistics are moving and also considering recommendations like yours. It seemed fun at the beginning to have the possibility to strike your followers, but then a "meta" was created where main unit is fanatic and now all spins around its functionality and no-one wants to miss one. I'll upgrade it in short term and the next feature will be permanent rewards faith on different spells/units/bonuses. This is a sort of a clicker game with strategy (not thought as full clicker from the start), but is not well balanced yet because of all I said.
Thanks a lot for playing! I'm taking each point you made, specially spell might reward after lvl 10.
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I dont really get the use of the 1,5m guys. Im assuming the rushing ghouls kill fanatic zealots and I cant see how that is worth the risk when they give thousands of faith. If the fanatic zealots cant defend against ghouls Ill risk them the moment im away for more than 10m since the guards will expire.
Seems better to spam fervents/skeletons on my fanatics than to risk all my faith. Besides the acolytes will get slaughtered too fast for the bonus to get very high.
Didnt try though because my 3 fanatics are giving 20-30k faith.
Hi, it depends on the strategy you are planning to run, with current published units you can go
1. Fanatics-Acolytes-Pastors you will have to check every 10 minutes and place a Guard, it's a very productive strat but has some risk
2. Skeletons-Fanatics, is an expensive strategy but will give you tons more of permanent fait on your click, so no matter if your units die you'll still have enough faith in your click powers.
3. Fanatics-Preacher, will give you a constant flow almost unattended of blood for your fanatics but it is not permanent.
Short term strat:
1. Fanatics-Fervants, it is great to start
2. Full Zombie rush, they boost a lot and will take you up to level 8 with no problems.
Sacrificing Fanatics will be an option in the near future, they'll grant you attractive rewards.
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Hi Community, just as basement_dueller did I encourage you to speak your mind of this game, if you want to send feedback either on comments or in private please do it. I'd love to hear from each of you.
Thanks for playing!
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While interesting for a while it gets terribly tedious:
Obviously you want to have the fanatic zealots and the 1.5M guys in combo. Obviously you want to feed the fanatic zealots with kills, but having to spam new fanatics all the time is meh - better to be able to buy a building that produces fanatics and upgrade the building instead of making everything an active chore in slooow (IDLE) game. The scrollbar at the bottom makes is very annoying. Otherwise it was a fun theme, cool graphics and sounds etc. Could be made great if developed a bit.
Hi! Thanks for your comments, it is actually all of that in progress. Statistics are helping me to determine the points to enhance as well as your comments. Upgrades are a must, and definitely the store has to be changed for better. There's a problem also after level 10 were it tends to be tedious, that has also been detected and I'm developing and changing existing features. I'll do my best to keep this game going, and again these kind of comments is what I appreciate the most to make this a better game.
Stay in contact, I'll be posting updates. Many of the recommendations given by other players were incorporated within this week, and as well I'll do it with yours. I'm implementing what I consider as the most valuable for gameplay.
Yup... I failed there, let me cuote xD:
"DEVELOPER RESPONSE FROM TRISTANMX
I misspeled God and couldn't change it back because people started playing. I would have to delete all and upload it again and so far I believe that will cause me to die by hundreds of lightnings xD.... "
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Hi Gods! Today update 1.0.0.5 went Live with a couple of tweaks and new cool features like bonuses. If you'd like to know more take a look at Game Updates tab or go to my website for news.
May Zhan God be with you...
I misspeled God and couldn't change it back because people started playing. I would have to delete all and upload it again and so far I believe that will cause me to die by hundreds of lightnings xD.... Is everything ok with your game?
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Hi Gods! As you know Dark Pastor is the new unit and I want to promote it so check my latest submission at leaderboards production, I reached level 9 with a production of 4218 FAITH per seccond with only 5 Fanatic Zealots, 3 Dark Pastors and tons of Acolytes. What are your combinations? Have you tried this combo? Explore new balancing to improve your production.
Thanks for playing!
I've seen statistics and Skeletons are very popular! I'll post more units, hour-spent awards (+X production multipliers), and more... It's great to ear you liked the game!! Have tons of fun!!
Thanks a lot for playing!
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Why does the fanatic only sacrifice those behind him when his knife is clearly in front of him? "lemme stab you with my handle" - no one ever
LOL I know, is like touching a giant turtle with your footh and dying xD... I'll see wha I can do. Thanks for playing!! ---> Your prayers had been heard, no more stabbing with handles!! Enjoy...
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Regarding a possible game saved lost here’s a note from Construct site regarding games lost, tool I used to develop this game.
“WebStorage does not store in the browser cache. If the user opts to empty the browser cache, WebStorage data remains intact. However if the user opts to clear all their cookies or offline website data, WebStorage will be cleared.”
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Hi all, the new unit I promissed is a little delayed because game balancing is important and I don't wan you guys to get disapointed. Please keep following, my best expectation is to release it today. I have a good progress together with some new features. Thanks for playing!
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@TristanMX - level 16 I believe, next faith step was like 10.5k or so. Have not manually or used any programs to delete any cookies or clear cache recently either.
I'm really sorry about your game, I'll keep working to have a good cloud storage. If you want to try the "sandbox" I have on my site feel free to look at versions I puslished which are non-final but are great for play-testing. Look at my profile, there's the URL.
Really? :S This happens only if under very rare circumstances, because it isn't usual, your browser deletes the WebStorage area, this ain't Cache nor browser history data because game data is protected to prevent this fault. What level were you? I'll try to cloud save next month and link it to your account, it takes a while but I'm working on it.
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By the end of the day a new unit will be published, wait for it! Since I'm not able to link with Kongregate Leaderboards in the short term, let's see who has the highest level and might acumulated.
Thanks for Playing!
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@Xron01 Fanatics also sacrifice skeletons for a permanent net gain of three faith. once you can manage to buy them efficiently, I find they are much better fanatic food than the 500 guys.
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Would be nice to be able to sacrifice higher level followers to gain more than +1 faith. Currently, no sense in buying anyone higher than the 500 cost one for sac
Hi Xron01! That feature you mention is actually in development, currently when you get a Zealot there's no more motivation of getting any other unit but Fervents which are cheap, since these were the initial units for a short prototype and I didn't expected this much positive response to be hones, I'll be designing new units and release them hopefully on block at the end of today and they weekly (this is my best wish).
Thanks a lot for playing!
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NM on new building, saw note about hitting F5 and it is there now. Weird that doing manual refresh did not achieve same thing though
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New building icon does not show up so you cannot purchase it. Can see text about properties and how much it costs though. God lvl 14 now!
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Oh my god I am deaf now! What the hell were you thinking with that loud music upon loading? Please for the love of hearing turn it down and don't just expect people to do it themselves. Some people do use speakers and live in places where they can't make a lot of noise or else get kicked out, not to mention the damage done to headphone wearers. Please turn it down so that those loading up for the first time don't suffer for it.
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When i try and choose a building it has a pop up with no words. Two buttons but nothing in the box or either button. I cannot click anything and have to navigate back to the home screen then hit "return" to get rid of it. Firefox.
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The fanatics are definitely the way to go. They do NOT kill eachother, so you can have 3 or 6 working together. Over time their production gets quite large. Unfortunately the game seriously lacks in terms of long term features. Also there should be a single button to buy guys, rather than double click, and ideally there should be options to buy 5x, 10x, etc with one click.
Hi! Yes the game is still short as this was a prototype but it seems it feels right, and yes long term play hasn't been though yet, I will come up with something too. I will add more content as soon as I can. I need to incorporate Kongregates leaderboards too, this will be a new challenge for me. Thanks a lot for playing! --------> arigold16, several improvements were made to the game, now it's at V1.0.0.81 and your comment together with additional comments given by players derived in new features including the start of long term play. Take a Look! =)
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This could also benefit from a Temporary vs Permanent faith system. It's extremely annoying to have my click power diminish when worshipers leave the temples. It makes sense in the context of the game to have their idle power drop when they leave, but not the actual click power.
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I want to take everybody for playing the game, I really wasn't expecting that much audience, thanks a lot! Remember that this is a prototype, I'm sorry if any bug had caused you trouble but I will try to fix them immediately. Late night all the comments caught me in the middle of an update, all of them had been enriching and I'm reading each one you posted, those who made a good point will definitely be included in the game and I thank those who took the time to report a bug and describe the scenario. I will all keep you posted, I'm willing that by the end of today all of the main bugs reported will be fixed.
Thanks again and keep playing!! - If you mind sacrificing one of your fervents so my coding gets accurate I will thank you in the name of Zhan!
Hi, because of the tool I'm working on effects and shaders I used in game currently don't work in Edge, I'll try to fix them in later updates. Please play on Chrome, it has been widely tested in that platform.
Thanks a lot for playing!
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Having buttons instead of having to double click things would be better imo as i was completely confused why i couldn't buy a unit at first trying to click on the temple, dragging and clicking the unit once did nothing. Then i accidentally double clicked it and bought it. And a general explanation for anything would also be appreciated
Hi I will review and considered, currently a double tap was meant to avoid miss-taping when scrolling the store. Is a way to prevent purchases by mistake.
Thanks a lot for playing!
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I see all sorts of potential. There needs to be more depth, however. The ability to create buildings, idle unit creation, unit upgrades, and more actual abilities. Research tasks for better rituals, summoning evil creatures, getting more faith out of tortured acolytes. Maybe even unlocking new lands to convert to the dark faith. Keep going!
Hi, yes you are right. This was my initial idea for this version, it actually has passed 2 previous faulty iterations that didn't convince me. You can check my personal website http://imcsw.com to know more about it.
I will try to come up with more features like the ones you mentioned, and yes unlocking lands is potentially a feature to include, but besides coding I have tons of drawings to do xD... stay tuned.
Thanks a lot for playing!
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Had 12/12 followers (~50 faith), went to drink a coffee, now I have 0/12 followers. What happened? I have to start the whole game over if I spend 2 minutes away?
Hi, I'll just paste the same answer I gave above, hope it works and enjoy.
"Here's the trick, for some reason the web browser sets idle this tab, don't know exactly why but I will do some more research, what you can do is detach your tab and put it on a single window, this way game will still run without much attention. I guess this is some kind of optimization the browser does to prevent over processing."
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Bought Zhan God Deserves Better, a large box with two smaller boxes popped up. No text, no buttons, no way to get rid of it.
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The chapel upgrades don't work for me. Once they are double clicked I get a blank purple box with 2 black squares. The only way to get the purple box to go away is to click on the hamburger and then return to the game.
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Update on lvl 6, apparently it is not 160 faith needed that is shown and is higher. Did not see when, but somewhere around 400 faith now and am now level 6, which is the last level you can gain it appears
Faith goes up and down depending if your acolyte are worshiping inside temples. I'll check this scenario for bugs, but if you reach just for one second enough faith it will grant you level 6.
Thanks a lot for playing!
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What purpose does religion serve? It seemed like I maxed devotion to 24. I wasn't able to purchase any of the chapels.
Hi, thanks for your comments. Devotion can be increased by using "Flagellation", then if you reach enough might you can purchase the chapels. By scrolling left-right store you can purchase more stuff, this UX issue is related with a comment I received below. I'll take it seriously.
Religion is the main theme of the game, although it serves nothing else but for the whole context of the clicker. I'll take your comment and think about what additional feature should be included to emphasize the religion. Thanks a lot for playing.
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I'm completing this post since I think I missunderstood it: Religion is the main topic of the game (previous answer) but what I didn't clarified is that "Religion" in game is the maximun followers capacity in your temples. That's why you need to buy more temples to obtain a maximun capacity, but this capacity isn't earned untill you use "Flagellation" although some buildigs give Flagellation as a reward.
Hi, currently I've only developed till level 6. This is a prototype and if you got interested and reach level 6 it had served its purposed to at least indicate that the mechanics can hook people up. I will also give more relevance to leveling up, by now leveling only allows you to reach new "speels" that you can click.
On next update I will release more levels too.
Thanks a lot for playing!------> For future readers, Evil God was updated and all levels are open by now with its corresponding rewards.
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Scrolling through the units at the bottom is not intuitive. The arrows look like buttons that don't work. For other players you need to click and drag to see other units at the moment.
Good game, I'm still going towards lvl 3 but I was stuck there for a while until I noticed this
Hi, You are totally right, I will make it easier to understand.
Thanks a lot for playing! ----> Update, this issues got solved and general gameplay has changed. =)