Feedback #2

Clicker:

Speaking of feedback, I miss the feedback you would get from clicking the "CPC" button - numbers used to pop up when I clicked the button telling me how much my click was worth (I know, I know, it shows the number below).  Now when I click there are no more "+XXX.X credit" numbers popping up - only the little G credit symbol pulsates.  Can we get the numbers back?

Small gripe but it feels impactful from a player perspective.  "Oooh I clicked a thing, something happened!" vs * "G wobbles 1 time"

Game crash:

During the course of typing this very message, at about ~9:25pmEST, I had the game crash (over on crazygames.com) after watching the ad to get "G" (credit).

Using Chrome Version 133.0.6943.98 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Ublock Origin utilized

Windows 10

Google Chrome did not crash nor hang. (other tabs responsive)

Crazygames.com page did not hang (still able to scroll, animations happening on page, links live)

Only Console Idle froze.

Google Chrome asked to wait or close - clicked wait twice, ending up reloading site.

Automation Bots Bug

The following automation bots are displaying an "Idle" number in the negative value (Support Hand, Fine Support Hand, Advanced Support Hand, Advanced Casting Tong, Advanced Explorer Bot, Advanced Scrap Grapple).

I'm trying to figure it out based on the numbers, but when I reformatted my consumption was high and I had 0 max energy (no hardware bought yet)

After buying a bunch of hardware, I decided to Withdrawal my automation bots so I could get my consumption lower than my max energy.

It appears that those bots just got deleted altogether when I unassigned them from their production task.

All the bots were deleted (nothing in Bot manager even though I unassigned tons of bots to get my consumption down)

And it assigned me a negative Idle number (Idle: -6,  Idle:  -74) for the bots which were unassigned.

When I purchase a bot now it increments the "Idle: -X" by +1 or +10, etc. equaling the appropriate value of bots assembled/purchased.

BUT, since the game is reporting -Idle bots, even though I now purchased these bots and can see them in bot manager, I cannot assign them to production task because the game thinks I have negative amount of bots and tells me "no Casting Tong in Warehouse" - even though I just Assembled Casting Tongs and see them in Warehouse. 

The number of bots above each bot icon is correct.  However, when you highlight the bot, that is when you can see the -Idle Number.  (-Idle number also displays in production when adding bots)

The negative Idle number is incrementing upon Assembly - so I would have to purchase enough bots to make my Idle: X positive before I can place actual bots.  Meaning my new "Zero" would be however many bots I had to assemble to get the "Idle: -6" to 0.  So if I assemble 6 bots, I would then have 0 Idle.

If I assemble 7 bots, I would have 1 Idle and can then assign to production task.

GUI LAG

The new Console GUI is excellent.  The animations and soft design changes are a nice touch and are really tying the experience together in a big way.

However, I am noticing some severe input lag.  Especially during Performing Sequence Task, Pressing Task, Etc..

The lag is not consistent.  Sometimes it will respond quickly, sometimes it's soft and spongey and it has made doing tasks less fun.  Especially the sequence tasks which would light up instantly as you correctly input directions.  The arrows now lazily light up whenever they feel like it.

World Map battles are lagging as well.  Choppy Status Bars that sputter/burst upwards during battle.

Ooooo, just tested color changes.  Not sure if this could help you pinpoint the issue but there is HUGE graphial lag when switching color schemes in System Appearance.

It appears there is now a slight fading transition animation when swtiching color schemes - it looks really smooth and very cool - BUT it lags out the framerate so hard that the transition happens in small stages.

Don't get me wrong, it looks really trippy and I like it - but you can tell the framerate is just dumping and chopping.  If I change color scheme and quick grab the window slider, the refresh of the window chops as well during the color change and then the frames come back up once the color stabalizes.

I am really liking watching the transition though!  Especially how the windows fade first, and the other buttons and icons fade just a moment after.

It's making me wish we had a 2 tone color picker! XD (Bring back Cyan and Pink from the oooooold days) but I know it would clash with the other colors you have going on.

Visuals

Building on colors, the new eye-candy icons and hues/gradients are very pleasant.

Rounded Window edge soften the GUI and are a subtle touch.  the option to change them back to square is one that I find funny but if people like square windows it's nice of you to keep those people in mind with an option to get square. (Even if the aspect of the windows/menus are as such that your mind portions them off a rectangular/square-ended zones)

The layouts are tighter and more well-defined.

All in all, Console Idle gained more depth, character, and style.  This game is going up.

Still testing it out!

More to come!

hi, hope you liked this new update :)

Loving it!

There's a lot of new stuff!

I only had ~30 minutes to check it out last night (late night IT jobs were all finished and I was crashing out).

Hats off!  Jumping from v 0.94.1 (I think?) to v 0.98 in one update?.... _NOICE!_

I need a bit more time to get familiar with the new upgrades and battle system.

Feedback:

One thing I've noticed is that I can't place a "mega mech" into my battle layout - it says "cannot assign mega mech to multiple lanes".... but I don't have mega mech assigned to any lane.

It happens even if the layout is blank (nothing in any lane).

Another thing I've noticed is that the items in the HQ Store  prices (CPU, GPU, RAM, Fan) ramp up and get expensive REALLY FAST.

Like I'm having trouble affording keeping my system heat in check and I've put so much time into this game I have INSANE resources.

It could be that there is an upgrade/software to reduce the prices of HQ store, but I haven't been able to fully explore the new version so I'll get back to you on this one.

But the HQ hardware prices get really expensive, really quickly (compared to the old version!)

Mango for president 2028!

This is some good stuff mango!

Peace from FL!!!!

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG

You can't rush perfection!

Take your time do it right!

We're all behind you Mango!

Cheers!

We're 25d:04h:42m into Max CPS Run #2 and we've made gains!

The run is going fairly well and we're on course to get the First Paycheck Achievement that I missed by a few days last run!

We're holding tight at 46% threat level!

My Format "Next" CPS Bonus is currently 10x my actual CPS Bonus!

All in all things are going great!

Can't wait for the new update!

Peace from FL!

It may be but a myth to you, but to some...

There are still rarities of coins out there we aren't fully able to comprehend as a species.

We simply haven't clicked them yet.

You don't know!

Hey yo where's my king coin?

Hello???

XD

Just checking in!

Much love from FL, USA.

Peace Mango!

>you know why!, the code to calculate max limit energy for Sequencer is not ever there!!!(fixed)

NOOOOO! NOOOOOOOOO! BOOOOOOOOOOO!

>Thank you for reporting this bug, and oh don't panic, it will not be hot fixed.

YAAAAAAY!  YAAAAAAAY!  HIP HIP?!  HOORAY!! lol

>PS: What is a King coin? :D

I thought I remembered the King coin from one of the earliest versions of the game???

I thought it was like the BEST type of coin you could get?

Am I going console crazy?

PS - Whats the rarest coin you can get? Asking for a friend XD

I'm burying the bug report in this 2 month old comment so nobody else can abuse it XD

There is no limit cap for Procedure >>> Sequence

I have 1000 support hands in Sequencing :O

It was purely unintentional at first, I was just spam clicking bots back into procedure after a format and then I saw it overflow past the limit.

Then I was like "eh, I'll just add 10 more"

And then I was like "eh, I'll just add like 10 more"

And then I was like "well, I'll just add like 10 more"

And then a week later I was like "well, I've got like 40M materials" *clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick*

And here we are!

(Hi my name is NoClickBotISwear and I'm addicted to credits!)

Much Love!

Peace!

PS: Is the King Coin even still a thing?

Nononono

Please don't balance on this

I'm abusing bugs sir!

Literally 99% of my CPS is from a juicy bug

And I'm willing to tell you about this bug for a price (king coin)

Well all good things come to an end and at 99% GAIA infection it's sadly time for my first Max CPS run to come to a close.

My format screen - notice the Next Bonus % =D

Total System Uptime:  24d:02h:23m  (super bummed I couldn't get the 30 day system uptime achievement!)

Max CPS without Coin:  76.737ad

Highest Credit Held:  ~11ag

Total Data:  77 TB >>> 299 TB

Data Gained:  222 TB

(My previous run was Max DPS run so I started this run with ~77TB and ended with 299TB)

I was able to get a few more of the hardware achievements as well so this run went great!

Online Shop was very nice to me later in the run over and over - really got me off the plateau and back into blast off mode.

Today officially begins....

Max CPS run #2! Let's gooooooooo!

Peace Mango!

When we go out of Beta are we going to reset?

PS: Online Store really did me right tonight with some choice upgrades.  Thank you bro!  I know it was you!  XD

Update #2:  Rare Coin Found CPS x 1445!!!!! OMG WTFFFFF!!!! WOOOOOOOOO!!! YOOOOO!  YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!  Cheers Brotha!

Console Idle Rocks!

How you holding up buddy?!  Hope everything's good!

Console Idle Report:  I'm 2+ months well into my "Max CPS run".

I am earning on the lower end of the ac register at ~16ac/CPS.  

Somedays I feel like I'm on a CPS plateau, other days I think I might hit the logarithmic booster function and blast off to the ad/CPS register.

All apologies, I _AM_ abusing a bug which is giving me most of my CPS.  And when I say most of my CPS, I mean probably like 99% of it.  

(Special note: This is not a cheat, nor a hack, just a bug!  If I don't exploit this thing to get more CPS satelittes GAIA is going to win bro!  Don't be mad!  I'm trying to help!)

But at this level of Console Idle, I'm just trying to figure out how it all works.  I still cannot get HALF of the achievements for owning hardware (450+) even on keyboards, despite my inflated CPS.

Idk I thought after getting the format upgrades for +CPS on Satellite, Dish, Solar Generator, Tower, etc.. that I would be able to get maybe 500/600 hardware, but even after all upgrades, I don't see a huge increase in the amount of hardware I can afford. 

Hardware prices scale up really high and I don't yet see a natural method of CPS generation to afford it (probably by design at this point).

I have many more thoughts, topics of interest, and even future ideas about Console Idle.  But I won't beat you with them all at once because I'm excited for what you are going to do :D

Cheers!

UPDATE WOOHOO!

:D

Idk Console Idle scratches that itch bro!

we require more vespene gas

>i was originally going to keep the uncommon GAIA + coin thing to stay since it is a way to reward an active player

GAIA + Coin all the way

There is a lot of potential for active engagement and active player actions in this idle game.  

>but now the effects will be additive, like x22DPS and x145DPS = 167DPS.

Booooo!  BOOOOOO!  XD

Tangential thoughts on the topic of additive effects:

From a player's perspective, additive effects when you see a % sign always feels sluggish.  Multiplicative % effects eschew a sense of motion or ramping game-feel, which is yours to control, but with a lot of the effects (frequency, computing softwares) you see a +% to base CPS implied in the description but when purchased you find that you are really just additively increasing a "+% CPS Modifier" additively. (additively)

Not harping just harping.  I can't afford my softwares! :D

I will tell you that this run is my own personal late-game CPS/Hardware test :D

I have to see what the ceiling is.

I'm 100% maxed out upgrades. I have 77 TB left over.  I was able to get some TB Data by timing coins with GAIA attacks:

If I played long enough, a coin would appear during GAIA attack, and if you click the coin before completing task, your GAIA reward will be multiplied by the coin amount.  So Rare+ Data Coin and GAIA attacks made me rich in DATA.  

In the new update the GAIA attack draws over the coins I think because I haven't seen this event (coin + GAIA) since you updated recently.

However, I was able to get MOST of my 77 TB in one version of Console Idle where Ad Network would give a coin, then a coin would spawn organically - so you can get DOUBLE COIN OMG YES.  When this happens, not only are you getting _absurd_ DPS (GBPS), but you could reset your task rewards and they would scale with "Double Coin Bonus DPS" - giving you huge GB/TB payouts.

This method sometimes takes hours of playing to get a lucky timing - but I'm practicing guitar so I'm just playing anyways.

I'm pretty sure I got lucky with Double Coin + GAIA Attack and got 40+ TB - I have the screenshot somewhere.

The bugs?  What bugs?  Are we talking about grasshoppers or more like termites? XD XD XD 

Bro I have so many questions and things.

I practice a lot of guitar, so that means I've also played a lot of Console Idle (23+ days total time).

It's been fun to have played through several revisions of Console Idle and watch new features roll out (exciting! part of what keeps me playing!  what's the world map going to be like? who knows???).

I have some questions about hardware scalings?

I feel like I hit a wall in the same place even though I have lots of upgrades and have CPS bonuses from formats.

Maybe it is subconscious feeling and not empyrically measured, but I feel like hardware CPS scaling isn't scaling hard enough late game?

Or maybe I'm not lategame?  Maybe I just think I'm lategame but I'm actually midgame?

Also bugs!  There's bugs!  Some of the bugs are great for the player!  I like 'em!

All in good fun.

Console Idle is great because I can play it and practice guitar at the same time!

Cheers!