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A topic by docnutnut created Sep 26, 2023 Views: 514 Replies: 5
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I made a post before which was replied to by the dev, but all the old posts were deleted and this new message board was implemented before I had a chance to see what was said. I will try to remember what I wrote and maybe add to it now that I have taken the game way beyond its current ending.

Obviously it's a little odd with the dimensions. The final mountain (so far) being a million km high, but it's just a game so that doesn't really matter. Crazy numbers come with the territory. Though it may be possible to start at mm or nanometres.

In the meditation menu, if you hover the mouse over where a hidden skill will eventually be, you can see the name of it in floating text. I don't know if this is an error or intentional.

Two of the aforementioned skills, the ones that give you a 'buy all' button give you strangely named buttons, considering. The 'Buy All Updates' button allows you to buy all upgrades, and the 'Buy All Attributes' button allows you to buy all aspects.

I had been wondering why the 'Next' upgrade limit for the aspects is 200, 100, 100, 100, 50 but after playing for far to long I have realised that you need more than 1000 Mm for a single aspect before reaching the next bonus, so this makes sense.

The game seems to be more of an incremental clicker than an idle game, but maybe that is an aspect of a planned future version, or maybe you want the people that this game is aimed at to find it more easily.

I look forward to seeing Achievements, Quests and Challenges as well as the other hidden extra. It's a shame that my save game probably won't work, but it is what it is, and it won't be too hard to get back to where I am now that I know what I'm doing.

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Just wanted to cosign the dimensions part--an easy solve as you say would be just to shrink the starting numbers, although it may also provide cover for early-mid game rebalancing as will inevitably be needed when updating for polish imo. The dev would be wise to consider your extensive feedback, I think.

EDIT: to elaborate on the point, Olympus Mons on Mars is the tallest mountain range in our solar system at a little over 21 km high. I'm not even sure a megameter mountain is physically possible, given the apparent limitations of terrestrial planets. (<EDIT again for SciShow link)

Developer(+1)

Hey thanks a lot for all the feedback. Most of what you mentioned will be fixed, except for the mountain size, at least for now, I mean, it's a fictional mountain in a fictional world after all. As for the Idle distinction, that is actually a good point. I might reconsider the name going forward if players think it's misleading. 

The save is a difficult topic, since the game it's still so young, I'm sure I'll have to keep breaking stuff between major updates, but I will always try to keep it compatible where possible.

When I first played, taking the reduction in price to 20 made the cost infinite. Now it makes it free and 21 gives you money. 19 must be the limit.

Developer

Yup that's a bug, since the content is only up to meditation 10, I didn't even think of that possibility.

I have 85 meditation points on my savegame!

I was going to go for 195 (20 speed and 19 cost for each item), but I gave up.