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Right now I have 6 forests and 130 land and haven't felt too slowed down yet. I haven't bought the IAP time doubler. I ran out of people to splice last night but one of my shiny towers (24hr build time  ) has just finished building so I have 6 possible clones to make and 3 more towers still building.But I did get a fair amount of the plutonium or whatever by completing achievements and obsessively filling hearts. EDIT: Y'all know you can go to the achievements (once you have the police station unlocked) page and collect one-time plutonium bonuses from most (if not all?) of your completed cheevos, right? Colin Mockery fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Feb 5, 2013 |
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Are the animals from hearts all unique? I hope so but it feels like I should have a lot more of them filled out in my little chart, by this point. vvv gently caress. Also, it pisses me off that you can still get the 5k reward after you've gotten the 50k one, and after 5k doesn't even matter any more. graventy fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Feb 5, 2013 |
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Feb 5, 2013 03:31
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graventy posted:Are the animals from hearts all unique? I hope so but it feels like I should have a lot more of them filled out in my little chart, by this point. I think you can get dupes. I'm pretty sure I had unicorn unlocked twice, at any rate...
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Feb 5, 2013 03:32
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Dickweasel Alpha posted:It's only used so often because it's easy to do by independent folks. Unless they have the resources to hire a good artist you're probably more likely to get something mediocre or worse instead of just "safe" pixel graphics. 
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Feb 5, 2013 03:36
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LittleCat posted:Have you used any decor? It makes a big difference for keeping costs down. It's a painful land investment, but if you're using the 3 spirit decor it helps a lot. Looks like land prices about double each purchase. At that rate, the decor isn't worth the land cost. It maxes out at 50% off, and uses a minimum of 19 land to do so, assuming all Space Gem decor. So now you've essentially paying land prices 1 level lower (half price cancels out one doubling), for the low low cost of 2 levels worth of land. It also speeds up your other buildings and clones, which is all right, and might be worth it to you for that. For the ~75 gems, you could have just asked your lawyers to bribe you more land instead. Now if you have a few free blocks of land and are ready to upgrade, throw down as many rice paddies as you have room. 10k for 0.5% off pays for itself after the 2mil level. Just delete them when you need to free up the space.
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Feb 5, 2013 03:48
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Think twice before you spend IAP on Pixel People. The game would crash during the load screen so I couldn't play, following their directions to delete cloud data removed all IAP. Clicking on City Hall for a restore has no effect.
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Feb 5, 2013 04:46
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Stock Wars is a pretty good virtual stock market game. Even if you aren't into the stock market, it's interesting to buy up stock, and see how much you would have made (but probably lost) if it were real money. Good way to practice for the real thing and compare yourselves to other traders.
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Feb 5, 2013 04:57
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ChocNitty posted:Stock Wars is a pretty good virtual stock market game. Even if you aren't into the stock market, it's interesting to buy up stock, and see how much you would have made (but probably lost) if it were real money. Good way to practice for the real thing and compare yourselves to other traders. It's probably really sad but this is something I've always wanted. Thanks for letting me know it exists.
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Feb 5, 2013 05:19
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Are there any fun and free-of-freemium business sims out there? Something along the lines of Pizza Tycoon. After a bit of a search, I might give Karnival a try. It came out in '09 before people had really figured out how to exploit the poo poo out of IAP. And for some reason the iPad version is cheaper. :woot:
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Feb 5, 2013 05:21
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Psylent - I really enjoyed GP story and it was more interesting than game dev story (at least to me.) Now I'm in the same boat, looking for something similar without the building placement aspects that are plaguing other kairo soft games and without lovely 'buy money with iap' mechanics. I'm vaguely considering writing my own but it sounds like a lot of work
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Feb 5, 2013 06:24
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I had an idea for a sim about running a music venue a couple of pages back that people seemed to like. I have no skills, time, equipment etc but if someone stole that idea and made a game out of it I'd be very happy.
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Feb 5, 2013 06:42
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Bummey posted:Coast Guard just went free. It's a rather old line drawing game, sort of a mic of harbor master and... a game where you blow up other ships. I rather liked it back then. Get it! Quoting again since this got stuck at the bottom of the last page.
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Feb 5, 2013 06:50
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Can anyone recommend a Texas hold-em game that does not involve IAP virtual currency - just something similar to 'Poker night at the Inventory' on steam?
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Feb 5, 2013 06:52
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So for anyone that's played Beastie bay, got any tips? It seems like I get food incredibly slowly and going through a dungeon kills my food stores. early in the game, leaving me with a lot of "sit on your rear end and do nothing" time.
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Feb 5, 2013 06:58
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Evil Fluffy posted:So for anyone that's played Beastie bay, got any tips? It seems like I get food incredibly slowly and going through a dungeon kills my food stores. early in the game, leaving me with a lot of "sit on your rear end and do nothing" time. I don't know if this will help you, but I'm a bit of a completionist and tried to capture every new/unique beasty that I ran into. Early in the game, I kept sailing to the first island, returning, sailing again. If you have enough beasties staying at home farming, you will do much better. I think it says somewhere in the game that they eat more food as they level up but also gather more, so you'll want to rotate some of them into your party so you don't have low levels trying to keep your "main" higher levels supplied. If you've only got a few of them, they'll be eating your food, and won't be available to help harvest if you drag them off on adventures all the time. TL;DR : Get more beasties!
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Feb 5, 2013 08:34
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Colbear posted:I think you can get dupes. I'm pretty sure I had unicorn unlocked twice, at any rate... It definitely dupe because I've had three loving camels. 160 land is where it slowed me down a lot, with 25% discount thats 45mil. Switching your phones date forward works for an effective fast forward, however restoring the correct date tells you 'a time anomaly occurred' or something to that effect and gives you -1 land, so then I had 160/159 - Stupid move. Mocha Frost posted:Think twice before you spend IAP on Pixel People. The game would crash during the load screen so I couldn't play, following their directions to delete cloud data removed all IAP. Clicking on City Hall for a restore has no effect. I had it crashing with 'newer data available from the cloud' every minute or so after load. Turned off cloud saving and that fixed it for me but I'm not sure if yours is the same issue. DRINK ME fucked around with this message at 10:02 on Feb 5, 2013 |
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Feb 5, 2013 09:58
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Naf posted:Can anyone recommend a Texas hold-em game that does not involve IAP virtual currency - just something similar to 'Poker night at the Inventory' on steam? I'm assuming you've tried Zynga Live Poker? While it definitely pushes IAP, it's definitely not required, as there are plenty of low stakes tablets, and free chip gifts daily. I'm a big poker player, and i've tried all the popular poker apps, but Zynga is still the best. It has the largest player base, and quickest gameplay flow. Good variety of games too.
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Feb 5, 2013 10:38
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PFlats posted:Looks like land prices about double each purchase. At that rate, the decor isn't worth the land cost. It maxes out at 50% off, and uses a minimum of 19 land to do so, assuming all Space Gem decor. So now you've essentially paying land prices 1 level lower (half price cancels out one doubling), for the low low cost of 2 levels worth of land. It also speeds up your other buildings and clones, which is all right, and might be worth it to you for that. For the ~75 gems, you could have just asked your lawyers to bribe you more land instead. That all sounds like math, sure. I don't believe it doubles each level after a point - my most recent have been 70 mil and 84 mil, both at a 30% discount. But that doesn't change your point - still, it feels good to have things go faster.
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Lawen posted:Apparently there's a bug in Pixel People where your town can disappear and your view is just empty space background; clicking anywhere on the screen pops up "Return to Town Center?" but hitting "Yes" doesn't do anything. I saw a couple of people complaining about the same thing in App Store reviews and in the TA thread for the game but haven't seen a fix. Anyone know of a work around? I've tried deleting the game from my iPad and reinstalling it, didn't make any difference. I'm not having any problems on my iPhone so I'd rather not delete my iCloud save. Edit: Fixed half the problem. Still in void-world on the iPod. Edit2: And fixed the rest. Took typing all this out to understand this crap. For anyone else with this problem, try turning your device's iCloud settings off for whatever is getting the blank town, reinstalling, playing through the tutorial, then turning iCloud on again. DaveKap fucked around with this message at 11:31 on Feb 5, 2013 |
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Feb 5, 2013 11:00
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What's the deal with Ghost Trick? I can't figure out the save system, I played through most of a puzzle but lost at the end, didn't have the time to do it again but noticed if I retried I could just continue from the fate change, so I saved and left. I come back to the game and it starts me at the very beginning of the scene, making me watch the death all over again and go through the dialogue. There's no way that I'll have to deal with this for every time I save during a puzzle? Talk about a mobile-unfriendly game...
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Feb 5, 2013 11:32
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psylent posted:Are there any fun and free-of-freemium business sims out there? Something along the lines of Pizza Tycoon. Cook, Serve, Delicious! might scratch that itch for you, although the management side of the game is very light (choosing your menu, buying food/equipment, reading email). The gameplay itself is a blast! Dragonshirt fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Feb 5, 2013 |
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Feb 5, 2013 11:38
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Goddamn you people for getting me addicted to Pixel People. Can you recommend any puzzle games while I wait for new clones? I like Professor Layton type stuff, ty! 
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Feb 5, 2013 16:22
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Power Dips posted:Goddamn you people for getting me addicted to Pixel People. Can you recommend any puzzle games while I wait for new clones? I like Professor Layton type stuff, ty! Puzzle Agent!
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Feb 5, 2013 16:30
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psylent posted:Are there any fun and free-of-freemium business sims out there? Something along the lines of Pizza Tycoon. Hell I would take a paid Tycoon game railroad, or pizza, if there was a good one out there.
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Bummey posted:Puzzle Agent! Game won't even open on my iPad :/
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Feb 5, 2013 17:27
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Little Inferno! Fire is awesome.
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Feb 5, 2013 18:12
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Naf posted:Can anyone recommend a Texas hold-em game that does not involve IAP virtual currency - just something similar to 'Poker night at the Inventory' on steam? Practice (non-online) mode in PlayScreen Poker 2, does not use IAP virtual currency.
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Feb 5, 2013 18:29
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Looks like the Pixel People dev will let you relocate citizens to allow you to delete housing you no longer want in a future update. Also I'm loving all the puns in the profession names + flavour texts. Very nice touch
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I realize I'm super late to the whole Pocket Planes thing, but decided to get into it after seeing it also has a Mac version! Is there a goon flight crew? How useful is being a member of one?retro sexual posted:Also I'm loving all the puns in the profession names + flavour texts. Very nice touch I agree, the names are excellent!
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They are pretty good. Anyone know how to get Tech Support? It seems to elude me
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goethe gear xx posted:I realize I'm super late to the whole Pocket Planes thing, but decided to get into it after seeing it also has a Mac version! Is there a goon flight crew? How useful is being a member of one? There is a Pocket Planes thread here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3490290
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Anime_Otaku posted:So, Little Inferno took a surprisingly dark turn. Really don't know what you mean by this, are you referring to the first video you see? Where people are on fire?
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Teddybear posted:They are pretty good. Splicing a Programmer (Mathematician + Engineer) should spawn the Tech Support building.
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Teddybear posted:Anyone know how to get Tech Support? It seems to elude me Programmer, Mathematician + Engineer
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SquadronROE posted:Little Inferno! Fire is awesome. I really need to have a productive life and this isn't helping 
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I could have missed it but I don't think I've seen a single mention of Wordament in this thread. It's a free, massively multiplayer word game from microsoft and it has me and the mrs addicted.
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Feb 5, 2013 19:15
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Oh shush I already gave you guys at least $50 across all your games, maybe you should hire an artist  I was talking about games that use pixel assets out of laziness, not style. I'm still in love with all the Tiny Frogs and Pocket Fuckin'
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I need a new addicting game, I just finished puzzlecraft, and I'm over puzzles and dragons. Can anyone help me fail some classes this semester?
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elmer fud posted:I need a new addicting game, I just finished puzzlecraft, and I'm over puzzles and dragons. Can anyone help me fail some classes this semester? Have you done New Star Soccer?
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That Dice Soccer game is fun, but they could be more clear in explaining the powerups. For free it's a nice little game.
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