Idle Earl, home-made
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Haus
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OK, one thought on the number spam.
I see you added a "don't show money" and "don't show damage" checkboxes, which is great! (I unchecked money because arena money is a rounding error once you start piling on passive income).
Could we get something like :
I see you added a "don't show money" and "don't show damage" checkboxes, which is great! (I unchecked money because arena money is a rounding error once you start piling on passive income).
Could we get something like :
- Dagger/Skull damage in orange (and/or desaturated/transparent a little)
- Zap oriented damage in red
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Anyone else not able to get monster credits? Been like this since I rebirthed this morning.
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Just a small glitch (playing on Firefox): saved 3 diamonds and bought "passive income x2" and ended up like this:
Some things did reset but the arena stayed up. Tab closing didn't help, restarting browser did. If it's fixed in 0.24/0.25 then disregard, just wanting to mention it because I let the
Browser ran overnight and had 3 Credits in the morning.
Also: is the pirate skin working? I am pretty sure I opened 50+ chests by now, still not unlocked.
Some things did reset but the arena stayed up. Tab closing didn't help, restarting browser did. If it's fixed in 0.24/0.25 then disregard, just wanting to mention it because I let the
Browser ran overnight and had 3 Credits in the morning.
Also: is the pirate skin working? I am pretty sure I opened 50+ chests by now, still not unlocked.
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Haus
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Notes from today :
When I did a rebirth, it didn't keep the "faster mystery" and I had to spend a diamond to rebuy it.
On a philosophical note. Since Arena earnings are such an afterthought... If you wanted to make Arena earnings (and ergo gold, gold per dagger, etc) more relevant, you should tie credit progress to JUST arena earnings and not overall earnings. We can call it "The great Haus Diamond Nerf"
When I did a rebirth, it didn't keep the "faster mystery" and I had to spend a diamond to rebuy it.
On a philosophical note. Since Arena earnings are such an afterthought... If you wanted to make Arena earnings (and ergo gold, gold per dagger, etc) more relevant, you should tie credit progress to JUST arena earnings and not overall earnings.
We can call it "The great Haus Diamond Nerf"
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Hateyou
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Things like that start taking away from the ‘idle’ part of the game though, forcing a dedicated tab on top all the time.Notes from today :
When I did a rebirth, it didn't keep the "faster mystery" and I had to spend a diamond to rebuy it.
On a philosophical note. Since Arena earnings are such an afterthought... If you wanted to make Arena earnings (and ergo gold, gold per dagger, etc) more relevant, you should tie credit progress to JUST arena earnings and not overall earnings.
Haus
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Not really, it just gives some reason at all to care about the arena, gold, gold per dagger, etc... And slows the progression from new, which is an aspect of keeping people hooked in on a game like this from what I've seen.
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Are you saying people are skipping those? I focus all my money split between the highest unlock for passive, plus all the arena focused damage which is focusing on arena. Check out my levels on my screenshot.Not really, it just gives some reason at all to care about the arena, gold, gold per dagger, etc... And slows the progression from new, which is an aspect of keeping people hooked in on a game like this from what I've seen.
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Actually this gives me an idea for something to spend diamonds on. You could do Arena Earning multiplies like the passive multipliers. 2x, 4x, 8x. More things to spend diamonds on and allows people to choose which they’d rather multiply. Passive will still eclipse it I’m sure but I still think that’s ok with the browser throttle issue.
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Haus
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On my most recent rebirth (this morning), I went zero back to around 6x my passive income in around 4 hours by following a strategy of "Ignore gold, ignore gold per dagger, ignore dagger damage once you have zap past level 10 or so". Admittedly I am not near your vaunted arena and passive levels. Just noted how I see it which is that arena performance can all but be ignored. Necromancer and Skull Crusher got a little attention only because of inflection points where they were the best place to spend for passive income.
In my head from a gaming perspective I see it as passive income and increasing the numbers/levels on skills should play into the reward of seeing our boy Earl clear higher and higher tiers more easily. But the passive income chase makes you forget about poor Earl over there actually fighting.
Which does bring up another philosophical point....
Earl was idling, then the "monsters" came. But from what I can tell all the monsters want to do is idle as well, and meander around. Earl, on the other hand, is a gleeful homicidal maniac, constantly asking me to spend multiples of the US GDP to give him sharper daggers, more lightning to throw around, meaner skulls to chew on his enemies with, etc.... So at some point we have to ask ourselves, is Earl actually the monster here?
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Haus
I really wanted the arena to be the main focus. Passive income was just to buy more goodies for arena. But then I discovered the browser throttling... Beast unlock bonus was added to make arena progress more meaningful, without having to keep the tab open at all times. Also a few skins for arena levels, if you care about that stuff.
Maybe Earl is the monster... witchcraft, necromancy... killing "monsters" that are not attacking him...
"When I did a rebirth, it didn't keep the "faster mystery" and I had to spend a diamond to rebuy it." - fixed in next version.
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btw that skin unlock picture is waaay out of date
You need to refresh.
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Haus
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Maybe Earl is the monster... witchcraft, necromancy... killing "monsters" that are not attacking him...
When I look at what Earl does, and how happy he looks doing it (in the pirate skin), I keep thinking it's really that he wants to be the best gladiator ever, but he just really sucks with money management, and that's where I come in!
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