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I am loving the game. I am amazed that it doesn't have more of a following. But...

I'm curious as to what the drone weapons do. They seem pointless. They do no damage, they don't help you earn blueprints faster, and the auto select ability doesn't auto select 'complete' when a mission is done. So what is the point of them?

Also, the game seems ridiculously hard to progress. All negative things - cost, enemy HP etc. - increase massively, while everything you earn increases horrifically slowly.

Am I missing something with regards to speeding up my earnings of blueprints other than drones and drone capacity? I need 6 million grey blueprints for the weapon upgrade which is beyond insane at my current rate of earning.

Maybe you planned this game to be the only game that I should play for the rest of my life, but I'm already 47, I don't know if I'll have enough time before dementia sets in.

Fluffy Lotus3 years ago

If you are trying to get a lot of blueprints, you are sadly at the end of the game :( I'm currently working on Magirune 2 because a lot of people liked the first one. But if there's a few people like you that really like this game, I'll probably finish working on it next.

docnutnut3 years ago (2 edits)

Oh, what a shame.

If you do make any changes, number one has to be increasing the size of all the buttons and writing. It is probably this and this alone that put people off the game. I just happen to have super-cyborg eyesight

I am almost at the second set of blueprint weaponary - support gauss - so I will keep playing and see how far I can progress.

If you are able to put the same game on Android with a few tweaks to the display, you could easily make a few bucks with IAP's through the Google Store for people who would rather shop than farm. Some optional ads for x2 this and that. Add an active Discord and you could have a winner.

Anyway, good stuff. I'll try Maginrune when I give up on this game ;)

Fluffy Lotus3 years ago(+1)

Thanks for the suggestions. I wrote them down :)

docnutnut3 years ago (1 edit)

I managed to get the next weapon which comes with 'free blueprint' ability. With a macro running reset and blueprint, I can get many blueprints now. Unfortunately, yellow blueprints aren't included, either that or I have just been very unlucky over the last two hours.

If you do decide to work on this agaim, drop me a line as I have many suggestions and a very useful glitch that needs to be corrected!

docnutnut3 years ago (2 edits)

So I don't forget the things I will write them here and edit as I go.

PROBLEMS

I've said it, everyone says it - make the HUD box fonts larger!

From sector 180, the enemy health bar is in red rather than green depleting into red.

When weapons go above level 1000 the level number is not shown.

Free blueprint ability only gives red, blue and green, not yellow.

When parts of the ship are changed, you are often left with an impossible design with guns floating alone in space.

The game slows down when you increase the buying multiplier above 1.

IDEAS

Be able to quickly change between different weapon setups. I have my part grabber setup, miner setup and power setup. It is annoying to have to change each weapon one-by-one each time.

Give better blueprint rewards for quests. I would like to buy most things before I'm 85.

Make all the information boxes on the screen fully customisable. Be able to resize and move them wherever you want to fit your personal play style.

Be able to customise the look of the ship and its weapons. This would be purely cosmetic but aesthetically pleasing, I think. You could also have premium skins as rewards or IAPs.

BUGS

The sparkly cat reward can be reset endlessly with the reset ability.

If you activate an ability from the weapons sub menu, it appears on your active abilities whether or not you have that gun equipped. If you later equip then unequip the gun, the ability is (as per normal) lost.

Bug or idea, not sure: When choosing your quest faction initially, just clicking on a faction selects it even without starting a quest. I chose the wrong one once and had to get to sector 100 and prestige before I could choose again.

The parts cost of unbought grey blueprint items rises uncontrollably. Something that was 575 blueprints this morning now costs 30 million and something that was 11 million is now 110 million.

Super bug: I wanted to see what offline gain was like with the three x3 and the two x4 bonuses. I quit the game and opened it 6 hours later. All my progress was gone and I was back at sector 75 of my first run. Game over for me :'(

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