Good game, but the premium purchase math is backwards.
This game is enjoyable to play, but the math behind the premium purchases is backwards. First, if you were to buy gold, it is the most cost-efficient to buy it in packs of 70. One would expect the more expensive gold packs to be more cost-efficient, but nope. Second, the permanent multipliers bought with gold also are priced in an illogical way. X2 multipliers can be bought for 10 gold each, while x20 multipliers cost 125 gold each. It’s far more cost-efficient to buy x2 multipliers (they’re multiplicative with previous multiplier purchases, so it goes x2 -> x4 -> x8 -> x16 -> x32… rather than x2 -> x4 -> x6 -> x8 -> x10…), since 2^(125/10) = 2^12.5 = about 5,793. So, one can get a x5,793 multiplier for the same cost as a x20 multiplier by buying them in x2’s instead of x20’s. Mathematical errors like these and poor balancing (although the latter doesn’t seem to be an issue in this game so far) are my biggest pet peeves in idle/clicker/incremental games, and they are present in almost all mobile games in this genre. Besides that, it also bothers me how respect stops increasing until it is claimed (by resetting or using gold) once it exceeds the required amount. It should continue increasing indefinitely, based on whatever formula is used (seems to be nearly the square root of session income). Also, the respect upgrades to add extra levels to labs are useless, since they increase the cash cost to buy more of that lab. Those should probably be removed entirely, since changing those upgrades to not increase the cash cost of labs would require rebalancing other parts of the game. Please take all of this into consideration, says someone who has played incremental games virtually daily for nearly 8 years. Thank you.
Edit: Deducting another star because now all the numbers besides respect points say “Number too big” and the option to reset for 200 gold bars won’t appear even though I’ve finished the game. I literally cannot play the game anymore, and have been ignored when commenting on the game’s social media platform. Why ask people to write reviews and visit the game’s social media channels if you won’t reply to anything or fix anything?
Edit: Deducting another star because now all the numbers besides respect points say “Number too big” and the option to reset for 200 gold bars won’t appear even though I’ve finished the game. I literally cannot play the game anymore, and have been ignored when commenting on the game’s social media platform. Why ask people to write reviews and visit the game’s social media channels if you won’t reply to anything or fix anything?
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Good game, but the premium purchase math is backwards.
This game is enjoyable to play, but the math behind the premium purchases is backwards.
First, if you were to buy gold, it is the most cost-efficient to buy it in packs of 70. One would expect the more expensive gold packs to be more cost-efficient, but nope.
Second, the permanent multipliers bought with gold also are priced in an illogical way. X2 multipliers can be bought for 10 gold each, while x20 multipliers cost 125 gold each. It’s far more cost-efficient to buy x2 multipliers (they’re multiplicative with previous multiplier purchases, so it goes x2 -> x4 -> x8 -> x16 -> x32… rather than x2 -> x4 -> x6 -> x8 -> x10…), since 2^(125/10) = 2^12.5 = about 5,793. So, one can get a x5,793 multiplier for the same cost as a x20 multiplier by buying them in x2’s instead of x20’s.
Mathematical errors like these and poor balancing (although the latter doesn’t seem to be an issue in this game so far) are my biggest pet peeves in idle/clicker/incremental games, and they are present in almost all mobile games in this genre.
Besides that, it also bothers me how respect stops increasing until it is claimed (by resetting or using gold) once it exceeds the required amount. It should continue increasing indefinitely, based on whatever formula is used (seems to be nearly the square root of session income). Also, the respect upgrades to add extra levels to labs are useless, since they increase the cash cost to buy more of that lab. Those should probably be removed entirely, since changing those upgrades to not increase the cash cost of labs would require rebalancing other parts of the game.
Please take all of this into consideration, says someone who has played incremental games virtually daily for nearly 8 years. Thank you.
First, if you were to buy gold, it is the most cost-efficient to buy it in packs of 70. One would expect the more expensive gold packs to be more cost-efficient, but nope.
Second, the permanent multipliers bought with gold also are priced in an illogical way. X2 multipliers can be bought for 10 gold each, while x20 multipliers cost 125 gold each. It’s far more cost-efficient to buy x2 multipliers (they’re multiplicative with previous multiplier purchases, so it goes x2 -> x4 -> x8 -> x16 -> x32… rather than x2 -> x4 -> x6 -> x8 -> x10…), since 2^(125/10) = 2^12.5 = about 5,793. So, one can get a x5,793 multiplier for the same cost as a x20 multiplier by buying them in x2’s instead of x20’s.
Mathematical errors like these and poor balancing (although the latter doesn’t seem to be an issue in this game so far) are my biggest pet peeves in idle/clicker/incremental games, and they are present in almost all mobile games in this genre.
Besides that, it also bothers me how respect stops increasing until it is claimed (by resetting or using gold) once it exceeds the required amount. It should continue increasing indefinitely, based on whatever formula is used (seems to be nearly the square root of session income). Also, the respect upgrades to add extra levels to labs are useless, since they increase the cash cost to buy more of that lab. Those should probably be removed entirely, since changing those upgrades to not increase the cash cost of labs would require rebalancing other parts of the game.
Please take all of this into consideration, says someone who has played incremental games virtually daily for nearly 8 years. Thank you.
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