Yeah, those are not tested at all. I just added a handful more because you were all so fast. Just doubling HP for each. Every time I change something the balance can shift dramatically. Lvl 6K Arena was never intended, that is for sure
Eventually a final balance run should be done, but as long as I keep adding stuff that is a Sisyphus task.
Well, you're trying to rebalance a system where you have what feels like possibly logarithmic costs, exponential passive income, and linear arena income. With damage systems which also combine all three. If you ever found a perfect balance to that I'd suggest you snag a gig at SpaceX and get our asses to Mars.Yeah, those are not tested at all. I just added a handful more because you were all so fast. Just doubling HP for each. Every time I change something the balance can shift dramatically. Lvl 6K Arena was never intended, that is for sure
I’ve left it run 24/7 just cause I have a seed box and it seems fine how it is to me for a free game. If someone is just throwing it on for a few hours a day they could play this for weeks or months unlocking stuff. Leaving it on for weeks and I still haven’t unlocked those last five monsters. That’s hundreds of hours, I feel like that’s a little overkill for a light user, fine for an autist user…but either way it’s plenty of play time for a free (or even cheap) idle game.Haus "...how much play time do you expect the average person to get enjoyment with this from, and what past that is the "some autist is going to make me create harder monsters to fight"?
Really good question... some people are on 24/7, others not so much. I have no idea right now.
Probably leaning more to the casual side. And free. The last five will be tweaked, they just got semi-random hp.
It's based on arena hit points. 6 is 320M, 5 is 700M... so I'm guessing your arena has between 320M and 700M hp. This will be adjusted eventually.
It's based on arena hit points. 6 is 320M, 5 is 700M... so I'm guessing your arena has between 320M and 700M hp.
Yeah, my bad, you got the propaganda numbers. Off by a factor of five. The correct numbers are 1.6B and 3.5B, and you are in between. Btw, there's no chance you will reach the last one before they are rebalanced.
I think it could be detected, but the rest sounds hard
Players buy new upgrades, enemies get more HP. Things change. But an average income of the last X rounds could be given every 30 seconds. That would help...
Boss monsters are too much work
I'm sticking to easier stuff or I will never get anything finished. A bonus for every 5th X2 bought (or something) and for every 10th arena reached (I think that one came from you). Something like that. Then maybe more skins. Maybe a win condition, so it can actually be completed (can continue after). Balancing...
I think it could be detected, but the rest sounds hard
You could pop in and buy some quick upgrades, then back out. I don't think I can handle that. But... average of dps over some rounds, and then just compare with total HP for each round. Then arena can be increased until that dps is too low. But still needs a few rounds for average dps. And it must be communicated to the player. Fuck browsers. Maybe just include a Windows build and refer to that from the web build. edit: but upgrading would be a bigger hassle than just an F5... it would need to be essentially finished for that to work.Well, nobody buys upgrades while they're AFK/minimized. The "things get incrementally harder" is why you subtract .1% for each win, to reduce their win chances, and add .1% for each loss to represent lower level arenas being slightly easier....
The real goal here is like any idle game, you want to see the numbers get bigger. In this case the arena number.
