Good idea with color changing icons, I'll try that out.
thank you for playing!
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>Started as Mummies, don't think all my Weapons were that useful.
Their weapons are the oddest set you can start with, the tractor beam is mostly defensive, while the ropes are useful to reduce enemy dodge, their real strength comes from the extra scrap you get while killing other ships with ropes attached. The double laser is sort of a punishment for getting some other good perks to start (level 4 weapons, three crew with +weapons skill) because it fires slowly compared to the basic laser, but you need it to break shields where the others can't.
>A higher Rate of Weapondrops, or more Weapons to buy in Shops would be nice tho, just the start laser alone is really slow.
in explore mode the drops are throttled and the prices are jacked up to slow down the progression. It will make more sense when there are quests/events.
>Repairing my Ship doesn't seem to work, the Button is locked out, even at Traders.
it only works at the home star in explore mode, that's where the yellow line points in the star map, always home for repairs.
>When your entire Crew dies, the Game should just end
yes, I'll fix that. I was hesitant because there's a small chance you can come back from having no crew, but it's not worth it.
Thank you for playing and thanks for the analysis.

foiled by a mac, I'll have to try this again on a PC. I'd let you know *why* it can't be opened, but this is the entire error, and when I click the question mark it opens an empty white box. Looks very fun, I'll be back but I wanted to let you know there may or may not be something wrong with the mac download.
I don't have fullscreen enabled on it because the radio UI is right where the fullscreen button would appear. On the other hand, since it runs in browser, you can just change the zoom level of the page. There's a few ways to do it, my preferred method is (on a mac) holding command and pressing the minus key. On a windows computer, you should be able to hold ctrl and press the minus key to zoom out.
- Different icons for shops on the map would be nice.
they're slightly larger when you zoom out with c+click, Maybe I'll do the same with the stars in normal view
- An "auto" setting for the radio would be nice, so it changes channels by itself when a song runs out for example.
you can put the radio on shuffle by clicking the channel number, this will turn the text green and the music will randomly change occasionally.
- Could never repair my ship the option was always crossed out. When are you supposed to be able to?
when you're playing in explore mode, you have a trail and a yellow line. The yellow line always points to your home star, which is the only place you can repair. In run mode you can repair whenever you aren't in combat.
- Fought a ship with no enemy crew, intended?
if your security room is turned off, the enemy crew disappear, as does the health bar for the enemy ship. This is because the security room represents the scanners and doors.
- Pressing Z on enemy crew did nothing, intended?
increasing your security room power will allow you to know more about the enemy crew.
Thanks for playing!
The solutions are brute-forced, in some cases (as the algorithm is vulnerable to local minima and it's got limited degrees of freedom) where you can get over 100%. The highest I've seen was 108%, but there's something nice about beating the algorithm.
Here's the algorithm as code, the step variable determines how many steps it takes to do a spin of a ring, then it counts through, scoring each change, and finds the best one it can in two passes through all the rings. More passes could do better, but on secret expert mode (holding 'g' will unlock super secret expert mode) it's already really demanding to compute the problem space, and it gets slower and less accurate. If I were to do a daily puzzle for instance, with say 30 rings, I would solve it locally and store the solution, but since these puzzles are procedurally generated the solutions need to be done at the time of generation.
I guess the short answer is that it's done iteratively. I'm mixed on the 100+% thing, and for psychological reasons, it may be better to cap it at 100, and solutions over 100 would still just display as 100 as has been suggested to me in the past.
Thank you for playing!
I think it's great you called them a pet, they're equals for some reason. Well, Pote is a pet, but Pomao treats him as an equal. Good tip about descriptions in the shop. The left-right thing was because I got too complicated super fast, the badge menu and the fight selector are on the same list, so when you press the button it's scrolling through one part or the other part of the list, and it's a bad design so I'll fix that too. Thank's for bug-not-finding, because I'm glad to hear that. There will probably be a more map-like structure to the fights like slay the spire as you say with a bit more of an overworld feeling, also the scroll bar in the fight selector is an experience bar, more labels needed. Thank you for playing.
Yes, it's really opaque right now but more or less it's like: the top behavior fires 40% of the time, the second goes off 24% the third is like 10% and so on. The last few actions barely ever get hit. I'll add a reset button too. Thank you for playing!
And actually, on second thought some of the behaviors are position and angle specific. Melee for instance will be reserved until they are in range, so that they don't waste the cooldown (internal to attacks and shielding, 50 frames shared)
Revolutionary Bob (Gulpod) has some really good stuff in badges, including an AoE poison move. The moves they start with are more support-y, healing and such. The tongue move scales pretty well, but it's not the strongest scaling move and I think over time with more complex fights it becomes less dominant. Thanks for playing!
Oh yeah, and the tongue move experiences defense reduction on each strike, which mitigates it's power on defensive enemies.
I spent 15 minutes on the first level, its more an indicator that I'm not good at this game than of this game being too hard, but I think it's too hard. The eyeball thing is cool, but honestly a little tonally dissonant with the cute pogmen. Also I think the parallax is devouring computing time, just a guess but my computer did not like it.