Not a lot to say, it's just really fun. Very charming. My only real gripe would be that evolutions seem kind of boring.
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That's just RNG for you, sometimes you'll have a nutty triple evolved thing that obliterates, sometimes you won't. Usually when I don't get what I want, I just take anything decent that I did get, it makes it easier to switch to another strategy if an opportunity shows up.
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The number of enemies you encounter per area goes up to 4 quite early in the game, so you end up having 4 to choose from. Reroll would be interesting, but there aren't enough mechanics to have a cost to it, nor was the game balanced around it, so it's probably too late to introduce it. I thought the area selection is enough of a substitute, giving you some control over what you'll encounter.
Area symbols are determined solely by the # of each type that can appear at all rarities, so I agree that it can be a bit misleading early game. Fire and Electric combined have only 3 mons at common level, so there have to be some wildcards to fill up the quota. Not sure if I can fix this. I guess I can only recommend looking at the full list of possible mons and use the type icons as a very general guess
Not sure what you mean by team-wide penalty for assembling a comp - there are actually party buffs for having multiples of the same type.
From my experience, the Steel bonus is more relevant late in the game, when battles take longer. It's really bad early when everything dies in 4-5 hits
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> The number of enemies you encounter per area goes up to 4 quite early in the game, so you end up having 4 to choose from. Reroll would be interesting, but there aren't enough mechanics to have a cost to it, nor was the game balanced around it, so it's probably too late to introduce it. I thought the area selection is enough of a substitute, giving you some control over what you'll encounter.
The area selection is before knowing what you are going to find, most re-rolls are taken after knowing what you will receive so they aren't used for the same thing.
>Area symbols are determined solely by the # of each type that can appear at all rarities, so I agree that it can be a bit misleading early game. Fire and Electric combined have only 3 mons at common level, so there have to be some wildcards to fill up the quota. Not sure if I can fix this. I guess I can only recommend looking at the full list of possible mons and use the type icons as a very general guess
Maybe you can put bars or a graphic, something visual to aid the player.
>Not sure what you mean by team-wide penalty for assembling a comp - there are actually party buffs for having multiples of the same type.
I misunderstood the multipliers on the help text of each party bonus as "all mons get this bonus" instead of "mons with this have these advantages". I was very dumb, sorry.
>From my experience, the Steel bonus is more relevant late in the game, when battles take longer. It's really bad early when everything dies in 4-5 hits
Well I never reached lategame and assumed most combats would end up in less than 10 hits.
Another thing I forgot to mention is that this game is a lot more punishing with defeats compared to other auto-battlers. In most of them you don't die in the first loss, smoothing out unlucky rolls if the player is not able to assemble anything useful early on. Also they allow you to gamble your hp for a better late-game or gold leading to more choices, though there are people who don't like this.
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Not saying that the balance is perfect, but a triple evolved uncommon and another double evolved uncommon with a matching type by Area 28 will generally get you far regardless of which mons they are. You got some nice luck on that run!
I haven't done extensive balance testing of the game and won't be able to do much of that alone, I'll probably have to gather data post-release and react accordingly
But even considering that, I'll probably nerf the Jellyfish a bit before release. It snowballs too much if the first enemy is weak to it
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Auto-battlers aren't everyone's cup of tea, but it is the core element of the game, as I wanted a snappy version of Pokemon. It doesn't feel as helpless once you git gud - I consistently get far into the game. If the game gets any attention at all, I'd love to do a bigger, more player-involved game in the same setting.
Evolution should probably be renamed, yeah. It's only named that because of the Pokemon standard. It's more like an upgrade. I'll think of a better name
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