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Great work on the update! 👍

More notes:

- There's currently only 1 power provider (GridPower Co.)

- PDUs can only be connected to 1 Power Feed (Power provider failover is not currently available)

- Larger PDU capacity's a requirement at Era 5

- UPSes have too little runtime to be useful

- Because of how time ticks hour-by-hour, a UPS will run out of charge (& the servers will lose power) before the generator could kick in.

Potential solutions: 

- - (option 1) Increase UPS runtime to at least 2 hours

- - (option 2) Generators to be linked to Power Feeds (so they can detect if the Power Feed fails & kick in immediately) 

- - (option 3) Create 'Battery Backup', & have it sit in between Power Feed & PDU. It should last at least 5 hours, & could have multiple options.

- Staff offers are rare (I've only seen 1 staff offer in 6 months) 

- The 'Cable cut' & 'Regional blackout' events make it impossible to pass Era 5, since they affect ALL ISPs & Power providers & will crash your reputation to 0. 

To achieve an uptime of > 99.5% OR a high reputation, you have to be lucky that 'Cable cut' doesn't happen.

- Customers below Gold cannot be allocated onto more than 1 rack. 

When a 'Server Crash' happens, the customers in Basic + Bronze + Silver affect the whole Uptime stat, and I can't do anything about it & have to wait until the next month to try again.

Potential solutions:

- -  (Option 1) Reuse Kubernetes into an unlockable platform module that can be spread onto multiple racks, that acts like a redundant server rack, & allow for Basic + Bronze + Silver clients to have both redundancy AND still only occupy 1 CPU.

- - (Option 2) Split the Uptime stat into separate uptime stats for each individual customer, or for each SLA tier (whichever's easier).

Another Bug: Due to one of the requirements of Era 3 (99.9% uptime), along with there only being 1 ISP provider, I cannot fulfill the requirements to go to Era 4.

Suggestion: I can't tell which of my ISP lines is down, since no change is made to the node (like what happens to the Generator). Same for my Power Feeds.

> When you install a new ISP, you have 3 choices with different price and bandwidth !

What I meant was something like this:

- TeleCom (1% fail / day) | 1 Gbps - $100/m | 10 Gbps - $500/m | 100 Gbps - $3000/m

- ComLink (0.2% fail / day) | 2 Gbps - $170/m | 15 Gbps - $700/m | 80 Gbps - $3900/m

- CheapOL (5% fail / day) | 3 Gbps - $80/m | 15 Gbps - $ 200/m | 50 Gbps - $1900/m

(etc.)

The provider would be chosen via a dropdown or a tab menu.

Thanks for the quick update! 👍

- The guide suggests that there are other ISP providers that can be connected to, but there's no option to change the provider from TeleCom.

- - Suggestion: The different providers should have different prices, bandwidths & failure rates.

- Suggestion: Listed clients could be sorted by IP address

Additional suggestion: Loans (available from Era 2)

More bugs:

- The guide suggests that I can link multiple ISP lines together, but when I try to link a 2nd ISP line to a router, it doesn't let me.

Suggestions:

- Game pace moves too slowly. A 12x speed multiplier's needed.

- Unable to move placed items.

- Clients should have bronze/silver/gold/platinum backgrounds in the 'Clients' tab, based on SLA requirements.

Bugs:

-  After some use of the 'Clients' panel (moving clients), I am unable to click on the clients anymore.

- I cannot close the right side panel.

> Can I ask what audio log you made it to? To be 100% truthful, I haven't edited and implemented anything after, I think, audio log six yet.
...Then I'm pretty sure that I did all of the audio logs.

Even if that's the case, I can't view the full transcript text for the log & can only see the beginning parts of it. For now, being able to see the audio log's entire text would be enough.

The demo stutters & lags a lot for me. The audio logs don't even play anymore. :(

EDIT: All bugs that I've encountered:
- The audio logs don't play at all now, they just get stuck at the beginning & play no audio & make no progress. Previously they lagged & stuttered.

- If I play the snake game until the timer runs out, it doesn't allocate resources, or allow me to allocate at all. I am forced to take a fail.

 

- The blocks in the stacking minigame will jitter violently and sometimes will not allow me to successfully stack said blocks.

Love the update, especially the new endless mode! Chose to use the Synthcrops to beat the game.

Concept's intriguing & could work, but requires the following to be addressed:

• Sanity drain via breaches must be reduced dramatically (10 at most) 
• Stipend must come in quicker (every 10 secs)
• The type of anomaly cannot be random & has to be choosable to the player, so that they can pick up safe anomalies in the beginning. Otherwise....
• ...Security guards (or some kind of threat draining) need to be immediately available at start, not locked 

I don't like the new layout.

I liked this game because it was minimalist & everything could be CSS compacted into a 800 px height frame. The new layout makes it near impossible to now do so.

Thanks :P 
Enjoyed the game for what it's worth

Both my 10 & 12 run scores got deleted.... :(

Dimava's right: Server side validation's desperately needed to validate scores.

Edit: Got it down to 9 rounds :)

The first round needed to be at least 13 points, and I had to beeline straight through the left path. Had to restart the run if I couldn't hit the Circle before I started Run #4. 

Then I stuck with one side of the circle whilst picking up the Angel Ring, Watermelon & Birth Certificate. Filled up the end of the circle first, before filling in the rest of the circle, and then working back upwards.

Cannot zoom out in game, and stuck to one resolution. Everything is either off-screen, or too big.

The game is too large for my 1366x768 screen. An 800x600 version or smaller would be preferred.

Got caught in the "Green Energy" trap as well. Made it impossible to fulfill the blue/red objective.

Nice little puzzle game; Loved it 👍

1366x768.

I tried playing the Windows version as well, and it was still sluggish. :(

 The crux of the issue is more in the game itself,  rather than where it's being executed in.

Tried playing it. A few notes:

- The spinning globe is a major distraction. I had to continuously pan around the globe to keep track of each region's progress.
- The recovery system is way too fast. I was barely able to get a region beyond 20% before they recovered.

Great demo 👍

My biggest suggestion is that there should be a way for the buildings to auto-upgrade themselves & increase their electric demands.

Great game! Instantly recognized the Gnorp Apologue influence.

Managed to beat everyone else and bankrupt them :)

Great game; Can't wait for the multi-processor & marketing features to be shipped :P

The last level definitely took several re-tilings to get it right. Great game!

The days move way too slowly: I'm always putting the game on fast forward and it still feels 5x too slow.

The 'Enhanced Human' doesn't have a portrait when they're not old.

Further reply: ....My brain can't stop thinking about expanding the 'Personal' game mode. I've already patched in 2 additional upgrades & am in the process of adding more actions & tweaks.

Played the new mode. It was a treat ♥ 

One suggested tweak: Add a `stroke-linecap="round"` property to the tail to make the end rounded.

Loved the game ♥

As shown in the title, the Community College could be another purchasable building.

• Change classes / coursework to include hypnotic suggestions
• Advertise the college to attract new students / hire teachers (new NPC spawner)
• Upgrade classrooms to help students with learning

Finished it in an hour: Great game 👍

Possible improvements:

- Minimize panels to reduce necessary animation renders

The days go by too fast: It feels like it's on 3x speed

> "Stop the Darkness"

Haven't heard that name in a long while :)

Great game: Already wishlisted it on Steam. Looking forward to its release.

You've added too much brown sugar.