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You're absolutely correct, and I fixed this specific path issue several versions ago (or thought I did). Need to figure out if my fix simply failed or if this is a regression, but spoofing the handshake is supposed to replace the  Defeat Electronic Lock step entirely, not come after it.

100% you're right. 

It sounds like the proper place to target would be improving what a corporation can do for the player to replace some of the "criminal" resources that get locked out when you Incorporate. This fix will take a bit longer - it's not just fixing some buggy code, it's (as you said) addressing a deep balance issue, but I really appreciate your feedback in this.

Your sacrifice will be remembered.. On the backlog it goes! I know why this one is happening at least.

I'll have a fix for these in the next release for sure

Excellent catch, adding to backlog

Your corporation should start with enough cash-on-hand when you incorporate to let you buy a warehouse, an office, a sales desk, a factory line and hire a worker for each with a decent chunk of change left over for experimenting. If that's not the case then something is very much broken

Definitely a bug. I'm on vacation right now, far away from my dev rig, so it will be a while before any of this is addressed but revealing the merchant math more completely is going on the back log. Insofar as the actual loop itself goes - That's the balance I'm trying to find right now. Too easy and you will simply breeze through, too hard and prestiging becomes a punishment. Big part of the reason why I didn't push to the main site with this is because I know the balance needs work, but to really dig down into where I need the exact feedback you're giving me.

Have you been using the new Corpo skills to improve efficiencies for your company? Those are the main early game levers for gaining capital so you can start snowballing with the parts of Corps that aid you in the rest of the game loops. There will be more avenues for the corp helping the player directly in the future, but for now the only real direct aid is paying yourself a wage from its earnings (equivalent to 4 levels of Trust Fund at max right now) and with the missing community projects I've noticed that it is a lot harder to pop off, so to speak.

Pretty likely. Do you have Multitasking, are they part of a container or just stand alone items and what conditions did you give them? Plans are hard to trouble shoot because of all the variables involved, unfortunately

It's displaying the cash you had when the display was first built. Refreshing the screen will update it, and a fix is coming very soon!

That's a great idea! The URL is https://jackchancer.itch.io/idlepunk-beta and the password is BloodAndChrome

Anyone is welcome to come try the new version. I recommend exporting your save file, found in the Meta tab in game, from this version and bringing it to the beta.

Nope! This is all on me. I'm fitting in pre-release improvements between my classes so things have slowed down on my end quite a bit. But slow doesn't mean no progress - in fact I'm making another patch as we speak to address more mobile issues.

The reason I'm putting such an emphasis on a relatively polished Play Store release is I've seen how fast attention fell off in Itch when I released this web demo version. I'll likely never have more eyes on my game than in the first week or so after its release on a platform. So to retain those players I need to present a reasonably balanced and complete experience. Current roadmap is to finish the third ascension, then do a round of balancing each of the game phases and adding additional content (more mission paths especially), then doing the Google Play release and dropping into maintenance mode with periodic event updates.

After maintenance mode becomes fairly stable (meaning time spent fixing bugs is very low because there just aren't many left) I plan on starting work on another game featuring space exploration and more graphics. I've already started talking to a couple of artists who are interested, but we're still months away from any serious agreements and have only the most bare-bones framework for what the game might be.

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You've been amazing - your feedback and interest has really spurred on the growth of this project. Thank you for everything you've done so far. 3rd ascension is going to take a bit, but when it's ready I'll let you know. 

It was overly active redraws - redrawing every element on the merc page every time credits updated as part of a check for if the player could afford to hire the merc. Limited the redraw to just the buy button and got smarter about how the check was happening (raising credits won't make an affordable merc unaffordable so no need to check sort of thing). A couple other pages had the same issue but weren't hitting the tipping point in elements where the slow down was obvious - yet. Tried to fix everywhere where it was happening as part of the last set of patches.

These issues normally come down to over-zealous redraw events in godot, and if that's the case it should be pretty solvable with some judicious logic. I'll take a look.

Thanks for the heads up. This time was way more benign - I didn't hit the right checkbox convincingly enough apparently.

Merchant tasks just got a bit better. Merchant_2 (aka Courier Drone Commission) is supposed to be selling only 1 loot per. If you're getting a ton of money from it its because your merchant skill is so high, and now merchant skill bonuses also factor in to loot price.

It's pretty important to me that the mobile experience be smooth and easy - I don't want players to have to whip out a microscope to find the spots to scroll. I think the issue is the current touch checks if you're hitting a header but is ignored if it's a card instead. Next patch will have a fix.

You're the second person to make a similar request. I'm a bit reluctant because it'd require handling automissions before I'm ready to, but obviously this is a big enough deal it needs to be higher on my priority list.

It shouldn't be cycling at all  - Definitely a bug. 

Hmm, yeah, they shouldn't have levels which means the no_levels flag isn't being honored properly. The tags should only come into play with mission planning (and I'm working on making that more visible in general). The tooltip should also be more descriptive of what tags are being added and removed (electronic and obvious, respectively) too. I'll get this worked up.

The intent is to either have a stealth difficulty 3 with a mandatory combat if there'd been any combat earlier in the mission OR a deception difficulty 2 if the player has no obvious gear, but the indenting definitely suggests what you're saying. Good catch, I'll double check execution vs intent here

Good to know. Probably no signal running another check for the launch button on credit update. I'll get that wired up

Actually, never mind. It's a race condition that exists for all the tutorials that I just so happened to have not hit. Fix coming in with the next patch

Interesting. I can't repo this one, it does vanish on my and my other tester's screen entirely after being read.

That's a great point. I'm interested in hearing more about the process you use to simulate and test this. 

Yet. Just wait until DNI is common place. Imagine what sort of mad things will come of fever dreams then.

Weird. Reuploaded the proper file. Not sure what I did to mess that up, but let that be a lesson - making game changes while running a fever has risk.

Found the issue, 0.40.1 has the fix

Well, that timing actually destroys most of my ideas about what might have been going wrong. Having a name certainly isn't worth orphaning people's games. Thanks again for all the testing you did with this, and glad I could get you back into the game.

Next patch is going to remove the pop up entirely and function on an opt-in system instead. If you're still having issues then we'll know it's completely unrelated to the name system, and if the opt-in causes issues you can skip it entirely.

Thanks for checking on that. Current version also has disabled background processes while the Handle dialogue is up so if it was a signal storm situation that should fix it. I'll keep poking, because I don't like not understanding, but I'm running low on ideas of why this might be happening. 

Out of curiosity how long have you let the screen sit before giving up on it? I'm wondering if it's just loading save state data and some conflict is making the page slow, not actually crashing. It'd be good diagnostic data to have

That's a pretty important clue and indicates it has something to do with loading a game, possibly with the "while you were away" summary popup trying to compete for the same space. 0.39.4 coming shortly to handle this

0.39.3 should at least help narrow down where the issue is actually occurring with DDG. The expectation is that you'll be able to set a random name at least.

Change is a good thing though! I'll see if I can sus out what the delta is between the two browsers. I suspect its a permission issue as duckduckgo tends to be more restrictive about that than most.

0.39.1 or 0.39.2? 0.39.2 has the latest fix for it.

Have I mentioned yet how much I appreciate all the feedback you've given? It really does mean the world to me. I think I understand where I went wrong and how to fix it, updating coming out shortly to address the issue.

This one is borne from my inexperience as a mobile developer. I think I have a fix coming out in 0.39.1 that will enable a virtual keyboard on mobile devices, but in case it doesn't work there's also a random button that uses the same method as the random mercenary names. I'm very interested in hearing back on this one as to whether the virtual keyboard works or not.