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Yes, yes, the ability to level down an investment would solve the problem… even if you had to sell off everything like with other investments. For some reason it didn’t occur to me that I should just sell off stuff to be able to afford the investment, likely because the coast was so astronomical and the current footprint was only wealth generation and so a gap of 5 magnitudes appeared impossible to overcome, though likely it was not.

In response to your response to my comments on the game, the main thing I’d say is that core wealth isn’t really visible enough, nor are it’s effects really known. The reason why my trade was going down was because core wealth was going down too much, but core wealth was just a fraction of my actual $$$/sec, which kinda makes sense with included systems -system, but just.. it’s not as visible? I guess.

I never would have caught how simple the culture decay equation was if you hadn’t said so. I got mine based on what percentage of culture actually made it to each star and just plotted those. It looked identical to an exponential decay so that’s what I worked with. Would you happen to know how large the Gly would have to get before significant deviation would become apparent?

I just started playing First Empire a while ago and I LOVE IT! Great job creating an amazingly unique idle game among the droves of AdVenture Capitalist and Clicker Heroes knock-offs. I haven’t made an AMAZING amount of progress as of yet, but there are a few suggestions I would like to make. First off, there are a few aspects of the game that could be better explained with popups in the GUI, such as what precisely will let planets progress from known → occupied → connected → included. There’s no clear explanation on this. In addition, upgrades within the “Truth” and “Special” categories say they need more CORE wealth/science, but what that actually i, is never explained to the player. The “Personnel” menu seems to be missing it’s contents, I’m assuming that it just hasn’t been implemented as of yet (much like additional missions past the first 5)?

I’ve also seen a number of comments regarding lost save files, which is disconcerting given the extensive playtime required to progress in an idle game. While I don’t advocate making knock-offs of others games I think that the game that had the best backup method, currently, is Clicker Heroes. Clicker Heroes allows you to create a save file of your current progress and saves it to your computer as a text file. I would highly recommend adding this feature to resolve issues.

Overall, this is one of the BEST new idle games to be released in a while and I can’t wait to see what other additions you’ll be adding over the course of the alpha. I would be very excited to see this game add itself to the ranks of F2P games on the Steam store, hopefully in the near future. Keep up the great work!

Some more observations on later-game (313k Active truth):
1) As i said in other dialogue – need more options to buy or a field to input our own amount. Buying 4 millions buildings with x10k is very time-consuming. Unless Your new feature (Provost Kings) will help us there.
2) In a meantime i’ll be able to surpass Footprint with Land (11.9k F/6.11k L, And it’s without Dyson Sphere) – probably Footprint amounts will need to be scaled a lot. As well as Prices for bigger Buildings or more building types need to be added.
3) Systems at this stage become totally useless…
4) And when you get to tuning – A/I/J/V multies – too many buildings we actually don’t need there in late-game because they don’t have direct dependencies like Wealth.

Hope this helps. And keep up the great work :)