what does the $100 book upgrade do?
I mean it would help to know if there truly is a point to get it? Because I got it and it seemed to have no effect, I wound up getting bored grinding pages for more passive money that is **extremely** inconsistent to buy scribes which actually did something.
I am not joking about the boredom bit. the slowdown between pages and chapters and new books is tiresome if you are going to make the player need to scribe letters. I had like 30 scribes and 30 books. I was STILL faster scribbling than the scribes who averaged around ~11 words each of their ticks, and I had multiple times where my books produce 10-20 cents in a row.
Also to be clear, design. 100%, art 100% sound effects, besides the explosion on completion, 100%. The current gameplay effects are just negligible, unknown or inconsistent.
Book upgrades are the way to progress in the game. I tought that the visual effects on the page were clear enough to give a clue about its importance, and It really have a gameplay effect that makes the game progress faster. I will not throw a lot of info to the player about the calculations made under the hood, this kills some of the magic, and i will risk turning the game into a math class.
About slow progress, another person talked about this already, but as a game developer i need to find a middle ground between a game that ends in 5 minutes of gameplay and a game that everyone stop playing after 5 minutes because It is too slow. Thats very, very hard. And every person playing has a tolerance of grinding, so its like cooking or making a movie: impossible to make everyone happy
Another chance given... and seeing the "results" just appearing to be aesthetic and also lag the game was not very convincing.
116 scribes, 6 books. If there is an effect on getting 9 for all the corners or 10 for something else, not worth the lag. If you intended for it to be a monetary effect, I am still getting issues of 10s of cents or less, sometimes in a row.
What do you mean by "lag the game"? are you talking about performance issues, or are generation of income lagging? About book upgrades, they really have a direct impact on passive income. Maybe you arent noticing it because generation is somewhat random, like a business in real life: You do not earn a exact amount of money every day, but it really does give the possibility of earning more