"Red Luck" is amazing due to a lot of different things, mainly the "Build Red Reservoir" idea and the fact that it can be kept.
"Orange Luck" in small amounts can be good for speed, as well as a very small amount of the next two.
But I can agree that later lucks (like "Blue Luck") are nigh useless in the current game state. Make such to get high amounts of "Red Luck," but you can definitely skip out of the others if you'd like.
But at the same time, this may be what the developer is intending: idle gameplay. Every update they've done (School, then Hordes, then Village/Farm) was made to make the game more idle and extend available content. While it will still be an incremental, it seems the end goal is effectively a check-in game. I don't want this, personally, and would prefer if resets stay between 3 and 7 days or so.
This isn't really that urgent, as I don't think the effects will be that bad until like a month or two from now, but at some point some small changes to address this would be nice.
Wouldn't "Corruption Not Allowed" and "Into the Trash" be a better combo for this? It'd give three equipment capacity and also reduce corruption as an additional small bonus. And using your math for the cost, 19.16/0.1375 = 139 green gem cost for "Corruption Not Allowed" and 19.16/0.055 = 347 green gem cost.
139 + 347 = 486 average cost for the two cards, which is less than double the cost of "Backpack Check" for an additional equipment slot. I agree that Backpack Check is weirdly powerful, but I think that more powerful strategies exist if you look at the farther down packs, especially using "Corruption Not Allowed" to compensate for the additional corruption.
Wait, really? Which ones? I've spent ~90% of my green gems total so far on Hordes cards, and still haven't completed the "Dangerous weapons" card pack, much less any others. You mentioned earlier that you'd done the "Plants in the city", what's the other one? "Miners and equipment"? (Note that I think that cards are cool, not complaining in any way)
Alright, looking at this update with a closer lens makes it less bad. The key things to note are:
-Hordes didn't get changed
-The update for Mine was an upgrade (other than bar smelt time, although this shouldn't change too much), and should increase progression rate.
-Village is almost unaffected early-mid game as far as I can tell, and so this just encourages shorter resets to increase faith. Also faith production overall was increased, buffing this effect more. I think this one is a bit harsh for late-game production, but we don't know the reasons why it was reduced (No info on update log). Without knowing the reasons we can't judge how necessary it was. Although an explanation would be nice.
-All farm fertilizers now have the effect of Grow Time /2 and rare drop rates have increased. I think that the changes just make it so you don't use your sprinklers, and DNA gene upgrades with the buffs to gene bases should at the very least mostly compensate for the time increases. Also the 5min-30min grow times for crops didn't make sense for how the game works, and it should've been obvious it was going to be changed with a similar degree to Hordes. Also overgrow rework is nice, old system was a bit annoying
So I think there's some minor RNG issues in the card system right now. I've opened 10 or so 'Old Memories 'packs, and the last 6 have had the exact same 2 cards. This is like less than a one in a million at this point, so something's up. I really want to finish my Hordes card collection, but can't because every time I pull the same two cards ('Mushroom Guide' and 'Sawblade Launcher' in case you're wondering). Is there any plan for a RNG patch coming up soon?
Also this is like my favorite incremental game by far, don't think I dislike the game. It's my current favorite, and I love the gameplay (Hordes especially, the rework was good long-term) I'd just like to know how to fix my card pack to contain more cards.
Loving this game overall, I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea. Favorite itch.io game by far, possibly my favorite idle/incremental. 5/5 any day, but I do have some small things I'd love to see added / changed: (Note that this is just going to mainly be opinion stuff, no need to agree)
-Mining: Pretty cool overall, to me feels like a solid baseline game which is always moving forward, if slowly. I like it, the crafting system is cool, and the prestige timewall's an actual reasonable one. Basically, it's cool because you can switch to other tabs while waiting. No changes needed here, but some additional abilities on the rock or something could be cool (I guess that's just hordes then, though...)
-Village: From what I've seen, the game which is the deepest and has the most strategy. Still working out what the best time is for Prestiging (quick 8 or less hours runs seem the best so far, but I'll continue testing and see). Good variation of upgrade choices, no blatant timewalls other than the generation of resources.
The only thing is the weirdly high tax rates vs. weirdly low food generation rates. I'm at ~7000 blessing gained, and haven't needed church tax at all. Changing this to a minor buff to food or something would be great, but I also understand that I'm still early-mid game or so, so I shouldn't expect everything to click yet. If this is the case, then making church tax unlock later in some way could have the same effect.
I think this is the most well-crafted out of the various games, and could almost stand alone. It's currently my favorite, I believe, out of the main features, but Hordes used to be my favorite by far before, um, you know...
-Hordes: Yeah, so honestly thank you so much for responding to what people asked you to do. They wanted you to remove the corrupt soul timewall of 8 hours and you did.
But this upheaval of everything is making me literally relearn the whole section, every upgrade, equipment, and achievement relic gain is different, and the main problem (in my eyes) is the combination of soul capacity and timers for enemies. I think that the system for gaining monster parts was improved, but the fact that the whole entire game was either ramped up/changed drastically should probably be some red flags in development.
Even if a lot of people weren't saying it, they liked the old system (mostly liked it, and at the very least more than this one), and seeing it change so much hurt a bit. If you look at the comments below, and at other places, people also seem to have prefered the old version. Big changes in drastic sweeps like this have scared me away from games before, but this game is just so good I have to stick around and see if everything sorts itself out.
This is the main reason I'm writing this. I've done farm as well, and enjoy it, but I want my main focus to be on how changes work in the future. Because changes will happen, it's just important that they're moving in the right direction. So my big thought:
-Voting! Yeah, after you get far enough, vote/comment on the coming update, which is leaked beforehand so people can share their thoughts on the different additions and changes. And if people think something isn't a good idea, maybe a tweak or something to help shape Gooboo into a game somehow better than this masterpiece I see before me
-Gems: Gems were handled amazingly, good eye-opener on the scope of the game when I unlocked them, and they force some long-term strategy. Green gems and their uses are my personal favorite, but they all have their perks. For the themes, having the ability to buy cosmetics for a cosmetic-only currency really made my day, and is very rarely seen in a free game.
-Which I do want to emphasize this is a free game. I truly appreciate this, and know that this would have been done mostly as a side project/hobby, and is now the game which is bringing joy into my day. And that update will be a bit slow, and that we can't expect perfect, and definitely not expect it the first patch. The game will grow and improve as the months go by.
-Event: I expected the rewards to do more, mainly, but honestly fun. A ramping/pity RNG system would be nice, and if you could have something I could do with my spare resources which are now literally useless until I unlock the third potion slot (Even like a super small amount of essence or something).
-So yeah, overall LOVE this game, and hope it goes in the right direction, and grows big enough to create a huge stir in the idle/incremental. Please continue developing, excitedly awaiting the next addition to my current time waster! :)
