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I have completed Earthen Antibirth. Is this the end of content? I see 3 locked areas in the waste, but no way to make any progress.

Getting 40 void crystals is too grindy, considering I could only get 1 per run.

Getting 40 red crystal in a single run is currently possible, but very grindy too. Provisions and green crystal are currently impossible to get that many in a single run.

I got both of the above and applied the void effect on skulls. I thought that filling up the void bar in the world might cause something to happen but it didn't.

Bug report: typo : Memory - misc - use small void crystal has the word 'void' leaked out.

Nice jam game, I had fun.

I think the most significant balancing problem is: feeding the hole doesn't boost the digging / gold gathering in any way. This makes the game loop feel somewhat broken.

The numbers totally inflated after getting the multiply unit. Numbers could easily get to 1e20 and above. I think this is intended since this is a jam game.

I think the automatic camera rotation is clumsy. I suggest adding manual rotation as an upgrade, or simply add it at the start.

Phase 2 progression is too slow, there's too much waiting before the investment starts generating returns.

I suggest making the cargo drone cheaper but with less capacity. Add an option to send PM to settlements to kickstart their production, and allow retreiving resources before all planets are extracted.

In early phase 2, carbon is the only useful resource to be gained from settlements. I think it would be good to have a cargo ship fetch only carbon and not waste its precious logistical capacity on other resources.

Right now each settlement can only have 1 cargo ship assigned. I think this is an unnecessary restriction. When set to production mode, the settlement should request a cargo ship as soon as it has enough resources for a full shipment.

Repeatable researches. This makes use of the compute mechanism, instead of letting the compute sit idle.

Skill points. The player needs to decide where to allocate them, instead of simply buying everything affordable.

I suggest change the print cost modifier of engineering to be additive across different upgrades instead of multiplicative. Multiplicative costs means that upgrades actually harm rather than benefit.

Another solution to this problem is to allow removing upgrades, so they at least won't do harm.

I think it would be good to have the option to end a run early. Near the end of demo I need more stone than iron and crystals, and after mining all the stone in the mine there's no more purpose to stay in the run.

I'm playing on web using Chrome. However I can't replicate the bug either, so nvm.

Interesting game. Good pacing and interesting mechanisms. Had fun.

There is a bug with manually canceling deep release, giving huge amounts of energy, and another bug that only show new era animations in setting doesn't work properly.

This definition is too trivial and vague that it doesn't capture any useful notion of incremental.

IMO the core aspect of incremental games is incremental accumulation of resources. The whole game is centered around accumulating such resources, using them to overcome challenges, and accumulating more of them. These resources are usually persistent, but exchanging some of them for another type (like prestiging) is also possible.

In contrast, a puzzle game is trying to solve a problem within clear boundaries. In this game, when trying to beat the final boss, there's a clear boundary: time limit and batteries avaliable.

Really enjoyed the game! It has vibes similar to The Perfect Tower, which is also a really good game.

Some suggestions: Many of the workshop upgrades have too little effect per level and many levels, thus requiring many many clicks. I suggest adding a bulk buy option: Spend x% of currency on the upgrade. X could be configured with an input box, or just use predetermined numbers (10%,25% and 100%).

Mastery upgrades are somewhat confusing at first, though they are easy to understand after more unlocks. I suggest showing the unlock condition for each upgrade, and add respec option (because it's a continuation of talent tree).

When dragging the game speed slider, the game sometimes reads the input wrong and the hero starts moving towards top-right corner.

I suggest showing the base HP and attack of enemies for the current wave, so that I can make more informed decisions.

I don't mind AI images that much in a free game, but not disclosing them is really bad.

How do I unlock mastery? The tab is unlocked at start but I'm not able to do anything with it

Edit: unlocked it after completing the skill tree.

I'm kinda surprised that mastery can't be respecced. I thought it's a continuation of skill tree so it could be respecced too, but actually it can't.

40:51. Awesome game.

I got the merges for a while and rolled quite some gems, and have boosts in all 8 gem tiers. However there're no boosts in prisms at all, and it's not obvious how to get one. Anyone knows how to do this?

Played halfway through the demo and had fun. Wishlisted and decided to wait for full game.

Some thoughts:

1. There are horizontal lines in the graphic. I don't really like this visual effect, will there be a way to disbale this?

2. There's no way to demolished buildings. However, since the game is based on relatively short runs, a mistake won't have long lasting effects. I think this is interesting.

3. It seems every building I build will exponentially increase the price of all buildings. This is an interesting design choice, I wonder why you chose it over the traditional "every building exponentially increase the price of the same type of building".

I think the current mechanism encourages not having less effective buildings, and put all into the most effective building. The 'traditional' apporach will encourage having a diversity of buildings, but it will also degrade into just buy whatever you can afford.

Anyway, I suggest adding some nodes in the reputation tree to reduce the price growth.

4. Wooden baskets are too weak. Each amber is worth 3, each basket takes 2x as much work to craft and is worth 5. The ship cargo space is not scarce enough for this to be worth it. Furthermore, there're multiple boosts which increase amber worth to 6 (artifact +1, tree +50%) which makes them directly worth more than baskets.

Finished the current game. Had quite some fun.

Another problem report: The furnace has its content all deleted when going to mine. 

Blast radius 2 is weird. It does nothing other than unlocking blast radius 3. Then why not merge the two upgrades into a single one?

I started a fresh save and noticed a few more upgrades with their actual effect not matching the tooltip.

Mining speed: says +30%, actually +50%.

Smelting speed: L1 says +100%, actually +50%.

L2 says +500%, actually +200%.

L3 says +20k%, actually +500%.

L4 says 80k%, actually 800%.

L5 says 4m%, actually 10000%.

Max energy looks somewhat weird too. It seems to have more actual effect than shown instead.

Bug: Blast force and magnetic pull somehow end up overlapping in the skill tree.

Edit: another bug: Disabling chromatic aberration doesn't disable it for the elevator.

Some other feedback: I saw RGB split visual effect in this game. It looks cool, but it's not eye friendly. I suggest add a toggle to disable it.

Balancing: Increasing depth increases resource gain by 3x but block hp by 5x, which means I can only get 0.6x resources overall. I feel it's only useful when I run out of blocks to dig in lower depth, and when that happens, it's more penalizing than rewarding. 

I suggest change it to the other way around: Make resource gain mult grow faster than hp mult, like 8x vs 5x. This way it's rewarding for the player to unlock new depths.

Max energy upgrade looks glitched. Level 2 and 3 cost 0 gold.

Edit: Smelting speed 2 also has problems with the effect. Description says +500, preview says +500, but when I buy it it's only +200.

Interesting nodebuster-like game.

The pacing is okay. I think it may be a bit too slow, especially the starting part. I think the price of early levels of upgrades should be lowered a bit so that the player can afford a new upgrade every run.

Many other nodebuster-like games have difficulty levels. If you go far enough in a run, you can beat a boss that drops special currency, and increase the difficulty level. Increasing difficulty level makes runs more difficult but also rewards more resource to buy more upgrades.

IMO bosses doesn't fit this game, but having difficulty level is ok. I'm not sure what effects it should have though.

The quest system feels out of place. I suggest removing them altogether, and maybe replace them with difficulty level system instead.

There's an oddball upgrade: increase the max number of collectors to buy. I think it's out of place too. I think it should be changed to give extra collectors directly, so buying it is immediately useful, not requiring further spending into collector count upgrades.

Feature request: allow the player to move around in the upgrade tree. Currently there is only zooming but not moving around.

I suggest adding different types of collectors. They can collect with special effects: Collect in an AOE, scoop-like collection, bonus mushroom spawn on collect, bonus currency gain but spawn no mushroom, etc.

The AI of existing collectors may need tweaking: They currently go to random mushroom. I think they should go nearest instead.

Overall I think this game is quite novel. It needs more content and polish, and is worth working on.

Is this game still being worked on?

I need UI scaling. I'm using a laptop with high resolution and currently texts are too small for me.

Temporal prestige is broken. It should generate prestige points based on current pending pp, not owned pp.

I think life upgrade 'consciousness expansion' is also involved in the explosion

I don't understand why strategic placement implies irreversible placement. In fact, removing buildings could allow the player to experiment with different layouts to maximize efficiency, which actually improves placement gameplay.

How to remove placed buildings? This is absolutely necessary because of the price scaling.

What's the formula of stardust gain and dark energy gain?

I upgraded super magnet and found out I'm no longer able to extract uranium. I'm softlocked. I think selling the pit may solve this, but I really don't want to sell it because there's not much gold to gain. 

I suggest chaging the mechanism of super magnet so that upgrading no longer locks out of uranium extractions.

Dust gain 2 upgrade actually has an effect of x1.5 per level instead of x1.25 in the tooltip. I think the current balance is fine and tooltip should be fixed

I wonder how much does the factory heat affects the planetry environment. 

When they consume electricity, they turn those energy into heat. At endgame we can have tens of Petawatts or even higher than that. This is as much as the total sun energy received by the planet, and should have an effect on the climate.

I suggest splitting options into a separate tab, and put all the options there. It will help a lot when future options get added like export/import.

Another suggestion: Certain numbers like number of bought buildings and upgrades should not ne formated into like 1.05k or 1.05e3, I want to read them with integer precision. Please format them in commas(like 1,050), or simply print the number without format.

Ah I see, the backup button does an export.

Are there plans to have import/export function? I'm currently playing it on itch, but plan to play the steam version later on.

Also, what's the use for sol shards past 8? Will more upgrades be added, or additional effects for overflowing sol shards?

Enter currently works, but currently all buttons that need to be repeat clicked are toggles, so enter will keep toggling them on and off, which makes them work at half speed

The third society upgrade requires manually clicking learn 300 times? Did I do it wrong?

Death wish is really insane, got e130 stress mult at around e8 sol

Edit :at e11 solarity it become xinfinity lmao