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Getting a trasnformer pin: You need 16 Plasma swords (1 plasma = 64 Hot Dirks --> 64(Hot dirk) x 16 (Plasma) = 1088 Hot Dirks) 1088 Hot dirks for 1 transformer. Drop rate of Hot drik = 0,1% for 1 (or 2 at 9/10 area) So you need to kill about 1088000 monsters. Enemy spawn cooldown = 2s (I think) Lets say you kill them instantly. then you require 1088000 (monsters) x 2 (seconds) = 2176000 seconds or 25,2 days. This needs to happen in 1 season (if you go for a new season you will loose all the swords or trash ...) And there is no offline prgress,so you need to be 25 days online ... Yea ... joy .... the transformer is permanent ... but yea ... you know ... 25 days!
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on top of that, i lost my laser sword, which was the ONLY THING that even made it possible to get to a prestige in the first place. the BoB's are good. for the first 2 maps. worthless after that. the actual prestige upgrades dont seem to be helping in any way. ive yet to get a single critical fusion as far as i know, and since theres no simple "multiplies charge/charge rate by 100%" type upgrades, im still progressing as slowly as before.
" i lost my laser sword, the ONLY THING that even made it possible to get to a prestige" So the other 3,000 players that started the second season in 2 or 3 days without a FREE Tier 7 Sword are cheating? I don't know what are you trying to say.
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FINALY got the first prestige. did so with ~11k points. said points help NONE. first off, the first node on every tree that says it unlocks "upgrades"? it dosent. what that means is you have opened that tree. the "unlocks upgrades" nodes do NOTHING but waste points.
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plasma sword dismissed after new season...
well. maybe it active only this season cause that is Xmas present, not new year present.
Plasma Sword is a Special Pin and all Special Pins are lost on starting a new season but you get Pin Souls. To get a Plasma Sword outside the event you will have to farm A LOT of Hot dirks at 5-10.
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After leaving game for some time running, I return back finding game screen completely black and after restart no was progress done. (Chrome)
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also, for every single one of you that keeps asking for sorting or organization of some sort..there is, there's an auto sort, if you just play the game till i think end of map 2 or somewhere in the middle of map 3, you get the ability to craft a thing that lets you sort things. also, everyone, take a minute and just look through the season stuff, you will see quite a few ways to unlock idling stuff
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@capkloud & @Furiousrage you must not really be playing it at all then, because i'm able to start a new season after just 3 days, and there's idling in the game, its just there's no offline progress, but you can totally just sit there while your pins kill things and you get a free alpha every 10 minutes that ignores cap, yeah its slow, but just because its slow doesnt mean its not there
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Got to agree with DoruTheDragon, Tuning gets unlocked very early, yet despite being at the leader stage, and already on the 3rd map part, I can still not tune anything. Like what is the point of unlocking it so early, if it remains unusable? It just brings up frustration in the player, simply from the knowledge of its existence. Reading the comments that point out that there used to be an offline mode as well as alphas not taking up space and it makes me wonder why the game is getting worse, rather than better over time.
You get free Derium since the first login and the only place to spend Derium is there. Anyway, at map 3 i doubt you have enough unlocked Pins to worry about using that feature a lot or no. Alphas not taking space, obviously, it was a bug, instead of fixing it i let the autospawn add Alphas ignoring the cap. Nobody said that "there used to be an offline mode" because thats not true, actually people want more offline progression because there is not enough.
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the base auto fuse is 300 seconds but Alpha pin spawn is 600 seconds, is that not backwards. auto fuse should be 2.5X the base Alpha pin spawn rate this would help both idle and active play
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Not fond of the combination of "Unlocks are Pins" and "Pins are Scrambled on Reload". It makes returning to the game really messy when you start having dozens of placeholders mixed in with all the Alphas and Epsilons. Maybe there should be a separate bag pouch for unlocks vs for usable pins?
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Enoyable game but lack of offline progress is frustrating. You are forcing people to leave their browser open - and there are plenty of people who will leave their computer on all night, which makes the game an ecological villain.
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You used 2 years to make this game i feel like you wasted your 2 years of your life design a game that is flawed and slow. I apologize but that is what the game is. At first i had no clue what to do the "tutorial" is written bad and the text has to little spacing and almost unreadable. Note that the white text looks more readable if words have more space between each character. Or simply choose different style. Also the difficulty is stupidly high.
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10 days. and i still have yet to be able to prestige a single time. THAT right there is how you know your game balance is TERRIBLE. if it takes 2 weeks of "playing" to get to the prestige, CLEARLY you need to speed things up.
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I wish I didn't have to keep re-arranging all the pins when I get back online. It looks so bad having everything thrown around trying to distinguish between pins to use and idle pins.
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Could you add seperate pages or bag filters for the pins? Having the cosmetic pins mixed in feels kinda cluttered. Or change it so that the game remembers the postion the pins are in when you exit the game? It shuffles everything when you re-open the game, which makes organization impossible.
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A lot of these unlocks need rebalancing or re-looked at to make it so newbies aren't conflicted or confused why they exist in the first place. Example you get to challenge the first leader but immediately feels impossible at the time you can. Synthlab is pointless without a big boost (christmas event). Seeing crafts like cloak of invisibility that could make players believe they need to grind for days in one area before the very first season goes. It just all over the place, I like the game but this can easily discourage players.
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new patch, alphas take up inventory space, further throttles progression. Newish player experience is poor, I'm out short of it being reverted
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a snap-to-grid option for the bag would be wonderful, instead of just randomly dropping pins everywhere including the "passive junk" pile i have in the corner.
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There NEEDS to be a way to save pin positions, sort pins, or hide pins. Every time I load the client the pins are a mess, and feel the need to sort them manually, which is tedious. Thank you.
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Damage scaling from enemies versus what you have available is insane; most enemies can mow through even larger formations fairly quickly, slowing progress to a crawl. exacerbating this is the exponential growth of alpha cost for pins beta onward with the tier ten pin costing 512 Alpha, tier eleven costing 1024, tier twelve costing 2048, etc.
Frankly, either enemy power creep needs a nerf, alpha generation needs a boost, or the fusing system needs reworking to be actually achievable in a reasonable time scale.
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It would be nice if rather than a wasted attack when the monster is already dead and about to respawn, the effort would go towards healing the particular particle.
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Loving the hell out of this game so far. My only BIG request though is to save the bag positions of pins. OR allow us to unlock a BAG pin that we can dump all of our passive pins in.
I really hate the sorting mechanic because it lumps all of the stuff I never want to look at in with the stuff I care about. I like to group all my passive stuff in the bottom corners out of the way, but it's discouraging me from wanting to open up the app again later or move to a different computer, because I know I'm gonna have to waste time again to put them back how I like it. Need some solutions here.
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I'm confused. There's no real tutorial when you start. No instructions on what to do or what anything does. Dev you worked so hard on this and it shows but you forgot the most basic thing. New players have no idea how to play the game.
I had no idea you had to click the alpha then click the tiny little rainbow box in the bottom right corner of the pop out on the Alpha to get it started. That's bad design.
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i didn't get an EM pin from the holiday slots via sock, cane, cane. gave me a delta pin (which is the lesser reward? just 2 canes)
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adding in the rest toggle completely changes how to play the game, but the pin doesnt work, only get 2 instead of 2.5 with medium potion. combining things is a little frustrating when they constantly repel each other, maybe make it so you click on the two you want to combine. being able to sort the crafting would be nice, like just simply being able to make uncompleted crafts be up top or by uniques and repeatables. I'm not sure how it would work, what with the boxes being so small, but it would be nice to be able to see what slots pins can go into while they're in the formation. this is just a suggestion, but maybe some kind of incentive to go back and farm things, like for every 1k you overcharge, you get like 1% or maybe even just 0.5% increase chance of getting loot, barring maybe things like the EX pins and such. One last thing i can think of right now, but maybe being able to close menus by clicking outside of them would make things a bit smoother for some.
Thanks! The rest system has too many variables and sometimes do weird things, I plan to add some new options there so all code probably will be rewriten. I plan to add new Season upgrades to boost drops. About the closign menus suggestion, I also think that would be good, actually now there are some menus that work that way (like news or changelog), just testing how they work to add that option to every ingame menu.
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Before I forget, it might be helpful to have a event timer so everyone knows how long this last before it leaves. right now it might start a mad rush to get to the end cause there no timer to indicate when it be gone.
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Oof, I thought alpha pins not counting against the bag space was there so idling was actually more possible but now it no longer a thing, I gonna have to check it pretty often. I realize there things to improve bag space but I won't be seeing those till later.
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for all the people that just complain about this game or simply just trash on it for not being an idle game, obviously y'all don't understand what idle games are. I have played numerous amounts, just look at my profile, and i can easily call this an idle game since true idles literally have you doing nothing, no clicking, no anything, you are just watching the numbers go up. all idle games will have some activeness, it cant be avoided, and sometimes you have to actually power through the start of most to actually get to good idling. Keep up the good work ark, i myself am actually enjoying the game and will try to provide as much feedback since you are actually listening and still updating the game
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Merry Christmas! Perhaps it's just me, but the cost increase for tuning with locked pins seems kind of harsh. Assuming you get like 3k Derium / Crysblood a day it seems as if it would take like 1y+ to get a full rank S/S+ upgraded pin. (Perhaps I am exaggerating, but it well seems like it)