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BobTheJanitor
Jun 28, 2003

Just noticed this existed, but the android version says the early access program is full. Any chance you'll be opening more space soon?

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BobTheJanitor
Jun 28, 2003

A couple of things. One, the 'build X building' quests can get really annoying when it's for something like 4 small buildings and buildings that have been built and then replaced by the auto-builder don't count towards your total. You basically have to watch it intently and be ready to grab the building and set it to historical immediately. If you can even notice it when you're dealing with a spread out city with lots of plots all over the place. That's not quite the experience I look for in my semi-idle games. There needs to be some kind of option to, say, auto-set a building to historical when it's part of a quest, or something similar.

Also, your ad provider is trying to serve up a 2 1/2 minute long movie trailer to me. That's a bit ridiculous for a 10 minute bonus. On that note, I'd also be happy to just toss a few bucks your way for an ad-free VIP option a la Tiny Tower.

Edit: Since I'm having a whine already, the placement of the camera button isn't great. I've tapped it way more often on accident when trying to hit something near it than I have ever tapped on it intending to open the camera view. Feels like something that should be in a sub-menu, not in a place of prominence on the main UI.

BobTheJanitor fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Mar 16, 2017

BobTheJanitor
Jun 28, 2003

Didn't see the ad again since complaining about it. I don't think it was skippable, I just kept backing out of it and trying a new one until I got a normal length ad, usually only took a couple tries. And then I saw you got a permanent speed doubler added, so congrats on earning some google surveybucks.

(Still wish there was an option to auto-set quest buildings to historical status)

BobTheJanitor
Jun 28, 2003

Boten Anna posted:

Unless there's later quests I haven't gotten to that are more specific, so far whenever it's like "Build 2 of X" it counts if it happens at any point after the quest starts, and even if the building is upgraded, it still counts. Seconding that the screenshot button is in an awkward spot though!

I don't think that's the case. What appears to happen in my experience is that the bar itself will not actually go down, but you no longer get credit for the building. For example, if you were supposed to build 4 gas stations, and you had 2, you would see 2/4 on the bar. If one of them was replaced with something else, it stays at 2/4. If you then build another one, it still stays at 2/4. If you get yet another one at this point, only then will it go to 3/4. Essentially the quests should be worded "Have X of <building> in your city at the same time"

I have no idea why it works that way. Really doesn't make sense that the bar wouldn't change dynamically to show the way the quest is actually being tracked. I'm assuming there's probably some technical reason on the back end that it doesn't just count total buildings of a given type that you've built, probably because otherwise rebuilding the same one over and over would finish every quest easily. But there's got to be an easier solution than trying to find one tiny building out of hundreds in order to set it to historical before the auto-builder eats it. (Hint: the solution is to automatically set them historical so I don't have to please thanks)

BobTheJanitor
Jun 28, 2003

Budgie posted:

E2: Last building is about 50trillion, earning 135bn/sec. Most of your cash always comes from tapping coins so I recommend going for the large coin bonus chance in the game section.

I feel like the balance is off on that. There's not enough content here to actually focus on the game constantly tapping cars. The idle income needs to be brought up more so that you can just get a lot of buildings and let them auto-upgrade to keep a moderate cash flow. I like tapping cars/boats/planes as an option when you need to push for the next thing, but it really shouldn't be so much more lucrative than idling to the point where you feel like you should be doing nothing else. It's just not that entertaining.

Budgie posted:

E: Turns out once you complete all the missions they don't roll over and start again. The best way to earn bux will be prestiging and doing the first 5 or 6 cities then opening the pension pig.

And this makes it sound like maybe there's not much point in playing any further beyond that. If the drip of questbux dries up and the only option is tapping thousands of vehicles or spending real money over and over for premium currency... ehhh, no thanks.

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BobTheJanitor
Jun 28, 2003

Egg Inc feels a little better since you can leave it off for hours and pop back in and actually have enough saved to do a few upgrades. Bit City, with the game off overnight, may get you about as much as you'd get by leaving it open for 5 minutes. (And then asks you if you want to watch an ad to double that paltry amount) Also drone chasing only requires you to tap the occasional thing, whereas there are always more cars, boats, and planes to tap. Egg also drops free or ad supported piles of cash or golden eggs on you periodically, sometimes huge ones that let you make a nice leap ahead. I agree that they're comparable, but I feel like there's always a clear winner in that comparison.

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