I think the game needs a lot more upgrades to reduce the repetitive actions. To fully complete the game the amount of back and forth movements with the mouse has got to be nearing 5000 movements if not more. The risk of actual RSI from playing a game is a little too high...
My ideas:
- Desk fan/conveyor belt upgrade to automatically move the tickets to the scanner. Can be further upgraded to work faster/on more cards
- An upgrade to be able to right-click tickets on the table to move them to the scanner without having to drag with the mouse (reduces 90% of the mouse movement of having to travel to the scanner and then back to the next ticket everytime)
- Be able to collect the profit of a tickets you're checking from the scanner by clicking anywhere on the screen in the same way you can when discarding a losing ticket (reduces the mouse movement by 100% of having to travel from the scanner to the collect button and back again everytime)
- An upgrade to repeat the previous purchase exactly (reduces 3 clicks and 2 mouse movements to a single click)
I just don't think it's worth it to be moving around a mouse so much just for a game that's supposed to be relaxing
So I got nearly 40k prestige points when I finally got to tier 25, which makes multiple presiges rather unnecessary. Personally, I think it took me a total playtime of like 20 hours or more to AFK to get from tier 20 to tier 25.
I think that if you removed the tier requirement and changed the prestige points earned to be the max tier you reached or something then that would make multiple runs something worth doing. I dunno, there's lots of different ways you could balance that out.
The orbs orbiting the magnests is pretty cool though!
This game was a lot of fun to play! I really enjoyed the unique aspect of playing with multiple characters at once - an idea that surely could be expanded upon to create puzzles or secrets.
I'll definitely be checking this game out again if it gets any updates or a full release!
I finally got around to doing a little math, I don't know the actual ratios you use for the spawns of each pool but these values seem pretty accurate to me from my experience of running the game.
These values assume that you're constantly spawning orbs (ie there's no cap on the number of orbs present, or orbs are always able to merge), and that you're starting from zero orbs each stage.
The formula is simply: Longest/Shortest Time Required = Tier Orb Value Required / (Min/MaxPool Orb Value * Spawn Rate unlocked by that point)
Hopefully the formatting of this table is readable... (edit: it's not so I've just left the results)
This game reminds me a lot of Atomic Test Incremental. If you haven't seen it before I think it would be worth looking at some of the upgrades that game used and see what might work in your game.
Prestige currently feels like an impossible goal. I personally feel like the amount/value of the orbs that spawn per second is super low.
Personally, I think that the game should keep track of the amount of each tier orb there is and try to make sure there's at least 4 or 6 of each spawnable tier by using a dynamic weight for the chances to spawn. I also think that the maximum number of orbs can be increased, or it could be a scaling amount that you can upgrade. That way if someone wants to actively play they can, and if someone wants to idle/AFK they can still do that as well.
Looks like the momentum of the orbs when they spawn in has changed. Most end up in the center rather than on the edges like they did previously. (It's nicer this way)
The tier requirement really slows down the game now. Now it takes hours to go from one tier to the next
Scales a little too slowly IMO, and the spinners don't really feel all that useful. If there were more upgrades for spawns/second or earning more points for the higher tiers, that would help a lot IMO.
Having a popup showing the points gained when two orbs merge together would probably also help with understanding how the points are earned.
I think that the game would be better if you could prestige earlier in the game rather than at the end of the game just so that you can get back to the end of the game again faster?
Either that or for there to be something more to do after Dyson Sphere, and make it known that there's more to do before you prestige.
I love the fact that there's a dark mode!
And I almost want to think that research should require an amount/second rather than a nominal amount, although the way it is now is probably less confusing.
Because you have such a boost from a pill or something that gives +20 to all stats before-rebirth, then post-rebirth just feels like an AFK simulator to me
Fun game. If there's going to be further updates, especially for the steam version, it would be great if you could enable/disable items you unlock in the upgrades menu as it's very easy to get too many items unlocked that you never get the items/cards you want during your runs.
