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http://gyazo.com/059f03fe3c41ab2e6f35ef45a8ba6fea
Is I think getting close to the limit of balance between heat and power. Heat exchangers could just be affected the same way as vents by plating, increasing all of it's parameters by 1% per upgrade per tier maybe?
OR combine the final tier vent and exchanger so it's super ultimate. and use the extra component slot for something that extends what is considered an adjacent tile - like a straight off heat pipe so the quad cell could just vent out into tiles
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So game only runs when it has a window/tab open. Guess it does save on computation requirements, but most idlers tend to run even if it doesn't have a window/tab. Not really critiquing, just find it odd as it took me a while to figure that out.
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Would you mind checking the "Don't allow ads that expand on rollover" in the kong upload page? They can be pretty bothersome sometimes when trying to scroll down the page
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We need +1 tier of everythings (battery, plating, fans etc), or just get rid of battery, cause to autocollect 2-3 quad nefastium cells a need to build all reactor with batteries
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Request: Ability to paint structures (Click and drag to build) for when you accidentaly blow your load when editing your reactor. Will help building lines of stuff instead of clicking on each cell
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There should be a help section clarifying the hotkeys and shortcuts. I'm not sure if it's a bug, but the shift+left click doesn't work for me even if I have enough money to replace everything.
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My current build: http://i.gyazo.com/8bef8002411f85adcec3c5febb50c019.png
Remove a heat vent to let the heat build to near critical and then replace it. Do not use any heat exchangers
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Idea / Suggestion: Space being limited on the Upgrades page, and updates coming fairly often, I would like to suggest a modification to the Upgrades page. * http://q.gs/7ze0R * This example shows how you could use available space to create pages of upgrades for different tools in the reactor. It has space for whats there now, as well as several extras. ** A second suggestion would be to create something similar for the Options/Help menu, with each page showing an example of how each item works, how heat travels, etc. **
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small suggestion, a sell all button would be nice for when you want to start over with an entirely new build without having to manually sell each individual item and not reset
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This game doesnt have NEARLY enough leeway. You misclick just ONCE and everything suddenly goes boom and you have to start completely ****ing over. ALL ****ING OVER AGAIN
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At later levels, the battery storage aspect alone ruins the game since it decides the possible builds...and the idle aspect is just too much of a grind since we have to keep our CPU's running for 50+ hours just for 1 upgrade.
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@Zimfreak That looks pretty good. The only way to squeeze more out is to arrange things in a loop so that all the reflectors touch 2 cells instead of 1 (see the ends of your columns). Might not be worth ripping things up and re-arranging just for a small buff though...
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I don't know who created it (and left a damn hyphen in the URL, which is really, really uncool!), but there seems to be a wiki for this game. http://reactor-incremental.wikia.com/wiki/
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@Temps Nice, just a question of tuning it a bit if you want to get more power from idling (replacing cells/fans with even more capacitors). If you've got an auto-clicker of some kind then problem solved LOL!
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My variation on single Nefastium with two fans, upgrades through 10T. I think it's the most productive hands-off setup I can build right now.
http://imgur.com/7UK3F7K
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Would be nice if one simple mistake didn't wipe the board in a matter of seconds, possibly eliminating all earning potential. Maybe just shutting down components for a time instead of destroying them. Addicting game otherwise.
Oh, and extending the duration of something AND having an auto-replace feature is a bit redundant.
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With enough reactor plating and upgrades, a heat vent can lower its own heat by more than the maximum it can hold? I guess that explains why it's so easy for me to misplace a fuel cell and have my whole reactor explode in under a second.
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Heat Exchangers need some reworking. Like, to never GIVE heat to an extractor, always move it to fans if possible, take more from reactor and other components if fans can handle it...
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What tommy9512 wrote. The game is a step by step simulation, which is what allows for all the interesting non-linear heat transfer stuff to happen! The way most idle games work offline is by looking at how much real time has elapsed when you return and multiplying that by your rate of progress. That only works if the game is linear (or other straightforward formulas, using exponents etc.). That wouldn't work here (the currently popular zero-exchangers builds are a special case and exception). To make a real offline mode, the game would need to run the simulation at maximum CPU for however many ticks you missed when offline; which would probably mean the game would freeze for a ridiculously long time every time you loaded it... On the plus side, you would have a chance to experience a real meltdown (of your CPU) :-)
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Great. Now I'm doing this: place some cells, immediately redline the entire structure, then quickly place fans next to them to negate the heat from the cells. The reactor heat isn't dissipating naturally so there's nothing to worry about.
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@Temps; with those upgrades and the current version you can get ~556M/tick. Need to use reflectors and heat things up a bit... Just ask the happy reactor: http://imgur.com/yTv5h4Z
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@ShadowCake123 it does not. The developer says this "(I regret to say that due to the emergent nature of the game, an offline mode is not possible.)"
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Suggestion: Add multiple pages to place more buildings, i find it difficult to make efficient things with such little space.
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This is an amazing game! However, if I'm reading this correctly, the only way to get heat out of the reactor is via the heat exchangers. So... No matter how much heat you can store/vent, this limits what type of configurations you can have and there's no way to improve it?
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Solid game, I like it. I'll throw some stuff out there though, maybe it will give you ideas if you want to keep working on this.
For balancing, something to help manage T6 power cells.
- T6 equipment can easily do this but is more just a game extension
- Increase effectiveness of pipes to open more practical cooling options. As it stands its easy to overpower fans by adding reactor casings.
- A way to auto replace cooling cells would add an expensive way to manage heat.
New equipment
- Emergence coolant. When X heat is applied it activates, absorbs Y heat over Z ticks then explodes.
- Super battery. A new line of batteries that hold a great deal more power but produces heat based on use.
- Heat Sink - Works like coolent but doesn't explode when it reaches its heat cap.
- Control Rod - When enough heat is applied it stops or slows nearby cells. Ki
Tech
- Core Dump - If the reactor overheats only power cells explode
- Expansion - More reactor space
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Excellent, but, as many have said before, heat exchangers really need upgrades. There's an entire row unused in the upgrades menu, as well...
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My vents have glitched. Their heat/tick does not update when I buy/sell reactor plates anymore. I shall perform furhter tests...once my nefastium cells have depleted.