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I just started a new game, and I noticed the combat system seemed a bit off. with Undead, the maximum number of enemies you could fight completley reset, with Elves fighting an enemy once was enough to unlock the next enemy, and with orcs you had to guess at how many enimies you needed to fight to unlock the next one, I haven't gotten barracks yet. if your intention is the orc system, I'd suggest saying somewhere how many enemies you need to fight before unlocking the next one
When you start a new game, the max enemy you can fight is supposed to stay the same. To unlock each enemy type you have to be able to fight the minimum level for that type as well as defeat the previous enemy type. I tested it and the max enemies for undead stayed the same through a new game, I'm not sure what could have caused that.
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I think the display for orc meat production got messed up, I found this out when it said I was producing meat and I was actually loosing some. Also, just a suggestion, but maybe the trolls should kill per second (and in less amounts if balancing is an issue) rather than during battle. I find most units that have that formula are rather under powered when compared to other units
The last update fixed a bug with the meat display, it wasn't being affected by banners' 'Rally' ability. The thing about trolls is, they can kill per second OR in battle :D. I agree they're a bit weak now, but I'll wait to see how they work out when the new achievements come out.
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Some sort of indication how long it's going to take before elves can attack would be helpful, since there's no expected losses countdown like on the others.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. I think it'll be an 'archers needed' count until you get phoenixes, and after that it will be 'expected losses' which say how many phoenixes are needed.
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I kept on complaining yet i kept on playing the game... WTF is wrong with me? 5/5 U surely did makes me to kept interests on the game.
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are u kidding me? mummies are passive and need book to activate him to kill??? and only kills 1 for 1 per units? this are the most expensive thing yet the most worthless units ever!!!!!!
Soon I will add new ways to get achievement points, which will allow a significant reduction in the fight timer. Many of the undead buildings are designed with this in mind, so the undead are not very balanced at the moment.
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I seem to be at the current end of the game. Awesome game, I played it obsessively for an entire day.
Some suggestions:
- Starting a new game is painful. After you get the first few rewards for each race you're doing the same sequence over and over. Some ideas to help this: a reward that doubles the production of every building; retain 1 of every building you had after restart; way more interracial perks like Human Alliance, so that each new race makes the ones before it quicker to build up; let players spend achievement points without restarting.
- Some of the achievements are super underpowered. Miniature Horses would save me like 10 food per second, when I'm generating 500+. Taking 1 second off the fight timer isn't nearly enough considering how scarce achievement points are. 5 or 10 seconds per point would feel better. Same with the +% battle rewards, it should be like +100% per achievement point, with a hard cap if you're worried about it being OP.
I'm glad you enjoyed it :). I'm planning to do a big update with more achievement rewards and ways to get achievement points, which will make restarting more rewarding. I envision that at some point it will be possible to get 59 achievement points and reduce the battle timer to 1 second. I'll also buff mini horses and OSHA which are nearly useless.
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do skeletons from tomb and mass grave count as 'saved/protected' when 'safe on'?
lets say at time 0, i will lose 1000 skeletons and i would get 2000 skeletons from grave/tomb, will battle last longer until liches kill rest of enemys or it counts as 0 losses and i gain fewer free skeletons?
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sorry for spam I'm just confusing myself today, no edit options sadly. No human achievements are better than timer, 4 of 5 orc achievements are, and 2 of 4 Elf achievements are.
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Kinda funny, but lots of the unique achievements are weaker than the -seconds for battle timers once you got your strategy down. OSHA is completely unnecessary when interracial marriage and chapel gives you more peasants than you'll ever need. Trade routes all become pretty insignificant after early game. Miniature horses is useless. Cannibalism isn't necessary because orc army minimizes losses anyways. Seeds become superfluous pretty quickly, as well as live traps. Perhaps the achievements could be geared more towards boosting late game, as 0% of human, 20% of orc, and 50% of elf achievements are worse than timer reduction late game.
I'm planning to buff the human achievements, OSHA and mini horses are clearly useless, and caravans are underwhelming for how many points they cost. As for orcs and elves, I'll see how they work out in combination with future content I'm planning.
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@unyil99 , atleast i use 'safe' with undead and having more skeletons doesnt make you lose less like humans. skeletons are..... useless :D
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u should update the Tombs, Crypts, and Sepulcres production, the cost to upgrade the building is too much with totally low outcome. In fact its totally wasting stones to build those buildings considering how much skeletons u get "after battle"
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It feels like the prestige system is extremely underwhelming. In fact, in most cases it just feels like the amount of time that would be needed to break even just sets you behind. The main benefit of the prestige system seems to be shorter time inbetween battles, but the achievement points themselves take so long that by prestiging, you're losing way more time to climb back to where you were before. The benefit doesn't really seem to help you break any walls either.
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choosing enemy wasnt that hard to begin with, but atleast now it shows clearly when new enemy is available. BUT... i dont like e5... e is for 6+. also assuming you keep e5 (i hope not), why some have it and some dont? http://i.imgur.com/mPlIZUu.png , inconsistency is irritating.
I don't like e5 either, but a lot of people asked me to change to switch enemy interface so I figured that was more important. Besides, after e6 you only get 2 significant figures anyway. (Hmm... I could make it 3 significant figures for numbers under e10.) The other options I see are: 1. Decrease font size - would be bad for people with poor eyesight or huge monitors. 2. Fit 4 resources vertically in the bottom area - would look really crammed. 3. Increase the game window size - it's currently a nice standard size (800x600), and for people with small monitors like me it uses almost the whole browser window already.
Also, I think you might need to review your scientific notation :P
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I'm very happy with the new battle UI, it's much easier to pick which enemies to fight! it's also much more apparent how little my units are actually doing, but I also don't have that many fighting unit production building (I focus on resource collection usually). As far as transparency goes, maybe try a similar UI for the buildings with multiple functions as you used for battle? an indication of what restarting does would be nice (as I said, it took me forever to find out), something about it in the tutorial and/or a tool tip in the achievement section might help. Also, I know you're probably working on it, but I really want some achievement perks for undead, even with the battle timer their resource production (non-battle dependent) could use a little boosting in my opinion.
I can't really make the same UI for buildings because the trade post (which is the main problem) has too many options to make an icon for each one. I personally don't like long tutorials, so I want to keep it as short as possible, just enough to get started and let players explore the game. So yeah a tooltip in the achievements view is probably the way to go. More undead achievement rewards will come, but probably not in the next update. I'll try to do a big update with a bunch of achievement rewards as well as new ways to get achievement points so players can restart and get them all at once.
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This game could use some more transparency wrt buildings and what they do. It would be good to know exactly how many skeletons my tombs are producing per battle, and what buildings get additional functions over time. Also, some indicator as to how I can spend my achievement points would be good (I know I need to start a new game to do that, but I shouldn't have to do research on it to find out.)
Overall this is a really good idle game and I can't wait to see what future updates bring!
I agree that it lacks transparency. How do you think I should improve on that? Decrease the tooltip font size to fit more info in? Make an in-game encyclopedia? Just put a FAQ in the game description?
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I've found undead to actually be really powerful, mostly just because of abomination and obelisk. Even w/o achievements they are fighting as big or bigger armies than the other races.
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Walls and such seem hideously underpowered. Saving 1000 soldiers per wall per million soldiers, ignoring knights and paladins, just seems utterly insignificant.
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I haven't gotten mummies yet, but with how much pyramids cost it'll take forever to get one, but otherwise I've nearly finished. Undead use an insane amount of books, and only humans can actually produce any (and elves with perks), maybe you should have a way to produce books? also, it took forever to get some buildings because there's no resource production for materials that are used quite often, including stone and wood, which becomes ridiculously time consuming unless you have a lot of fighting power. some Undead balancing may be helpful
Making liches and mummies don't use books very fast. Apocalypse, Curse and training necromances do, but all those buildings have other options that use no books/way fewer books. I believe the undead are in general way underpowered at the moment, which is actually intended, because in the future I will add more ways to get achievement points which will allow you to significantly reduce the fight timer, which will greatly boost the undead. So I made the undead somewhat unbalanced so that I wouldn't have to drastically change them in the future.
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current progress: http://i.imgur.com/OOeaHos.png , if someone could confirm that im not even half way, would be great.
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can someone explain how rewards work? from reading comments i assume they have something to do with achievement points and starting new game, is all progress lost? whats the point of starting fresh? im on first (long) day and atm 274 liches, i think i have all buildings in previous races, not sure about undead yet. not knowing what is considered end game or what would happen if i (should) started fresh is frustrating.
If you start a new game, you can use your achievement points to get rewards. Each reward in red costs 1 point, and you can use 1 point to decrease the fight cooldown by 1 second. When you start a new game, you lose all your buildings and resources, but your achievements will remain.
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sorry here is correct link not sure if that one works
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CyDF5Qsi_S4Ic6bjNLhawN1qs9LGzAaV27pcDg99QdY/edit?usp=sharing
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I made a google doc with balance ideas for Humans (I have probably even more on other races but starting with 1 for now). This isn't prescriptive, like I think any of these ideas are needed, just to give ideas on balancing game. I'm just focusing on the biggest culprits, like stuff that seems useless.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CyDF5Qsi_S4Ic6bjNLhawN1qs9LGzAaV27pcDg99QdY/edit
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Cool, new faction. haven't been playing for a few days thu, cuz there were not much too do. what I would like to see next are definitivly more achivements. an online save option would be very nice too, as I'm playing two different games on 2 differen computers, would be nice to be able to swich them easly. Adleast an export save button would be nice. still hope more achievment are on your priority list thu. not that i'm complaing, new faction is really nice too, anything new too do is fine with me:) But just starting with undeads, so can't really comment on that:)
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Black Magic is working for me. However I'm still struggling to find out the priority order of undeads. Seems to be rather counter intuitive.
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Also whats up with those random downvotes just for asking stuff or remarking how something is definitely underpowered. I'm pointing out clairity issues and balance problems which undead got quite a bit atm. And mummies take the cake (and probably ate it too).
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Ok... got it... pretty useless apparently. Way too underpowered. High cost to build up and even need books to do anything.
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After getting Necromancers the tooltip for items after coffins got messed up. As a result I dont know what limbs and necros do. At least not for certain.
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Bug: after defeating the enemy that gives coffins, the things to the right of the row with coffins in them started displaying the info for coffins when mousing over them. Consequently, I haven't been able to figure out what necromancers do... Anyone know?
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with the way enemies unlock now, progression is much slower. also, I find it nearly impossible to figure out if I've unlocked the next enemy, and I've slowed my progress further several times trying to figure it out. maybe instead of cycling through the enemies, you can make it so players choose which enemy they want each race to fight at the time (assuming that enemy is unlocked). There should also be an indication of when all buildings are unlocked and/or when the last enemy for a race has been reached
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A tool tip for buildings that kill the square root of the enemies per second would be amazing. Like "kills enemies^(1/2) per second [xxxxx]"
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I cant seem to change to enemies that i have unlocked before the update now. I cant progress anymore with the orcs or the humans as I cant get all the resources needed to build more
To unlock enemies you now have to defeat a large enough army, as well as the previous enemy. i.e. to unlock wolves you have to kill the 250 peasant army, to unlock rogues you have to kill any wolf army + any army of 800, for witches, any rogue army + any army of 2500, etc. It works the same for all races.
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Disregard my last comment, I just realized that was probably how you intended it to be. The way I read the patch notes and the way "Fight" and "Automatic" were separate in the last iteration kind of made me think "Fight" and "Safe" had to be separate too.
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I'm having the same problem as XJoschYZ. I just started up the game and with the combat reset, I put both Safe and Max on. When the timer hits 0, nothing happens. It only works if I have Fight enabled too.
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Ok... seems like I can but only using Fight AND Max. Using Safe or not using Max seems to disable advancing in enemy amounts. Look into this please.
Hmm... it seems to be working for me. What exactly are you trying to do? Are you talking about automatically increasing enemy levels with Max or manually with the + button?
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Great game. Far better and more depth that the art made me expect.
It wasnt clear that unlocked perks are only applied to a new game, i had to risk losing progress to find out. Also i couldnt get past the first 4 elf buildings without reading in these comments, maybe a little icon in the corner of ones that can be cycled would help. And i agree that trade posts and combat could use a better ui. I hope you keep adding to this game, i've really enjoyed it so far.
Currently the top buildings are walls/cathedrals, hydras/workshops and nests. There are also caravans for the humans, which you can unlock with achievement points by starting a new game.