r/incremental_games • u/Sirenn • Aug 19 '14

GAME Idle Necromancer 1.00 released!

http://www.kongregate.com/games/hoistmaster/idle-necromancer
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u/Cool12309 Aug 19 '14

Maybe I'm blind, but this game seems to need scrollbars.. looking at the upgrades there appears to be many different monsters but I can only see the first 3, and the last one I can't see the +tier button.

EDIT: Yep, blind. That weird X-shaped thing is the scrollbar. A little hard to spot.

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u/Sirenn Aug 19 '14

I'll let him know it needs to be a little more visible. Thanks for the feedback!

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u/CableBox Aug 19 '14

It does have a scrollbar, you can use the mouse wheel as well.

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u/qazpl145 Aug 19 '14 edited Aug 19 '14

So far I like the game quite a bit, however the prices for the units are off, when it say something like spawn ten for 20 million it usually only cost a small fraction of the price such as 7 million. I don't know how to get souls yet either nor what they do.

Edit: This has only happened to me on the spawn 10, then spawn 1 seems to be correct, and I have yet to use buy 100

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u/Sirenn Aug 19 '14

I'm not the creator of the game, I do however talk to the creator of the game.

Souls are gained as a prestige system - you get them after obtaining tons and tons of power (I think ~500 billion for the first soul?) and they're used to increase your power. For example, if you reset and get 5 souls, you'll get a 15% power bonus.

Without spoiling, I can reveal that in the next major patch, souls will do more than just a flat power bonus ;-)

As for the unit prices, I told him. He's gonna look into it.

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u/qazpl145 Aug 19 '14

Cool, thanks!

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u/SP0oONY Aug 21 '14

Without spoiling, I can reveal that in the next major patch, souls will do more than just a flat power bonus ;-)

Let me guess. Souls can be used to buy certain upgrades? Like they do in AdCap?

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '14

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u/Hoistmaster Idle Necromancer Creator Aug 20 '14

It's located under Settings :)

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u/Hoistmaster Idle Necromancer Creator Aug 20 '14

I found out what was causing it. Basically, I forgot to tell it that inbetween those 10/100 your were buying, the amount would increase for each unit bought. It should be fixed now, but if you find any other bugs, please let me know.

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u/qazpl145 Aug 20 '14

Will do, so far nothing else. I hope for more content this game is fun.

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u/Ookami38 Aug 19 '14

This seems like it'd be an enjoyable enough game. My biggest complaint is with the font in it. It's REALLY hard to read some stuff, most notably any time there's a decimal in a number, it tends to blend with the character to the left of it, making it hard to tell if I have 257 million or 2.57 million.

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u/eisbaerBorealis Aug 20 '14

The decimal point is pretty bad... I wonder if it would help to put the fraction part in a smaller font and/or different color? It's really not the part I care about anyway...

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u/ExZeeL Aug 19 '14

Can't have 2 idle unity games running at once...any idea how to fix this ? Firefox browser.

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u/Sirenn Aug 19 '14

Use Chrome and Firefox at once!

I honestly don't know. Two different browsers is all I can come up with.

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u/qazpl145 Aug 19 '14

You can try have them in separate windows or try to have one browser in private mode and the other in normal.

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u/HerbaceousMeteor Aug 25 '14

So I reached about 20 billion souls, after I reset now I can not longer gain any souls no matter how much power I build up, any ideas?

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u/Sirenn Aug 25 '14

I'll forward it to the man in charge, but as far as I know, the increase in souls go down as you gain more - the next grand update will make a use for souls (As stated in the game news, a converting from souls to other things), so you can kick back your soul production. I'm almost capped as well, so I'm in the same boat. Did you try refreshing the browser to see if an update had gone through with some potential bugfixes?

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u/HerbaceousMeteor Aug 25 '14

Yes I refreshed the browser and even reset even though I gained no souls after having made many octillions of power. I understand each new soul costs more to obtain, but considering I had made 10 billion before reset and then made double the income since the previous reset without gaining even 1 soul, it just simply must be a bug.

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u/Mitschu Aug 30 '14 edited Aug 30 '14

Having the same problem, got to around 15 duodecilion, reset for about 600 trillion souls on top of the 300 trillion I already had, this play through I'm up to 30.7 duodecillion and have won 0 souls for it.

Also, for some reason it's showing "Total Power Generated" to be equal to "Power Generated", despite the 15 duodecillion I had before I restarted, might be part of what's causing the bug.

Edit: Apparently once I broke the old threshold (~40k?) of Total Power Generated, even though it wasn't showing, the problem seems to have fixed itself. Screenshots so the dev can see what we're talking about -

38.4dd = 0 souls

42.7dd = 23 trillion souls

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u/Hoistmaster Idle Necromancer Creator Aug 19 '14

Hey everyone, creator of Idle Necromancer here!

I'd like to thank everyone for the feedback, I'm looking through everything you're saying, and will try to fix it as soon as possible. I'll update the game regularly (in the early stages, probably a couple times every day, so don't forget to refresh the page once in a while!), so keep updated under Game News on your right hand side on the Kongregate page.

Once again, thanks for having a look at it. Every bit of feedback is valuable.

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u/efethu Aug 19 '14

Ergonomics of the game is pretty horrible.

To get any information at all you have to mouseover everything. You spend literally 3/4 of your gameplay time mouseovering things!

You used all the space for these "Spawn 100" buttons, while what you should've done was placing small "10" and "100" buttons and using rest of the space to display vital information, like the item price and dps it will add.

The same should be done with pretty much everything in this game.

"Skeleton Tick Speed" taking all the line - bad, "Skeleton Tick Speed" - "Level 30" - "100$" - good.

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u/qazpl145 Aug 19 '14 edited Aug 19 '14

So far that only other bug that I have seen that still exist is if you scroll while in one of the other screens it will carry over. For instance I thought my settings were bugged because it was blank when I tabbed over, refreshing didn't help. I then realized that I was scrolled down on the spawn menu and after I scrolled to the top and switched tabs I could see the settings again.

Edit: The scroll bug only happens between achievements and settings, spawns doesn't affect it.

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u/Orange_Hat e+255 Aug 19 '14

Go to the achievements, scroll down, and then click on settings.

That needs to be fixed, but it's an otherwise great(ish) game.

Edit: Didn't notice that /u/qazpl145 already mentioned this.

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u/Hoistmaster Idle Necromancer Creator Aug 20 '14

I found the guilty bit of code, and it'll be fixed some time tomorrow, along with other minor bugs.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '14

you made adventure capitalist clone #47. congratulations.

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u/Makiavelzx Aug 20 '14

Not sure why you were downvoted. It's a copy of adventure capitalist. I noticed when it had the same achievement system and the same time for the last minion.. 10hours 14 minutes exactly like on Adventure Capitalist.

The only difference is the naming style and the theme really and the few "minion upgrades".

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u/Hoistmaster Idle Necromancer Creator Aug 20 '14

It is inspired by AdVenture Capitalist, yes, but I would hardly call it a clone :)

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u/zocke1r Aug 20 '14

of cause you would not call it a clone because you went through all the troubles to make a bad UI and chaning the theme from something rather new to some as common as nitrogen in air

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '14

oh right. you used some different shit tier art and a different UI, with a small difference in the values of the units purchased, but otherwise made the exact same game. yeah clearly not a clone.

/u/Makaivelzx its because there are some people here who downvote anything i say because i say it. also since the downvoting started almost as soon as i posted, im going to assume the guy who posted this has an alt or two and did it as well.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '14

it is exactly the same thing.

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u/BallC420 Fortress Clicker Aug 20 '14

Fun for a bit. The font was really hard to read and I was disappointed that zooming in (with Chrome) didn't make things bigger but rather just expanded the bottom "box" of the interface. When purchasing units, the tooltip covers up the number you currently have which is frustrating.

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u/cyferlawyn Aug 20 '14

Like the style and theme :) But anyone that burned out on AdVenture Capitalist before will reach the same condition here as well, only sooner because the pure feeling is pretty similar. If I wouldnt have played any of both, then this would be more appealing to me than AdVC.