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Coldbird posted:I posted a review a couple pages ago. Only got half an hour into it and was not at all impressed. Confusing, unfinished feel, poor localization, and a lack of its big selling point (strategy). I didn't bother going very far, it might open up later, but my impression was that it would only get worse. Thanks, just saved me from spending money. I was tempted to get it but 2.50 is a little much for an app imo.
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Tunga posted:I need games to play on the tube. For those not familiar with the wonders of the Central Line, it approximates a sardine tin. As such, I need games that are playable in portrait with one hand, not require fast/specific tapping, and something that doesn't result in me dying if I stop looking at it. Hoplite is a good example and I also played a random football management thing a while back. Abstract puzzlers can be okay but I tend to get bored of them if they're just the same mechanic/process over and over. If you haven't already picked it up, Pixel Dungeon makes my Piccadilly Line commute bearable.
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Tunga posted:I need games to play on the tube. For those not familiar with the wonders of the Central Line, it approximates a sardine tin. As such, I need games that are playable in portrait with one hand, not require fast/specific tapping, and something that doesn't result in me dying if I stop looking at it. Hoplite is a good example and I also played a random football management thing a while back. Abstract puzzlers can be okay but I tend to get bored of them if they're just the same mechanic/process over and over. I don't know if this is your thing, but all the Dragon Quest ports are designed for portrait with one hand.
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Sep 3, 2015 20:42
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Any of you try it Laura Croft Go yet?
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Sep 3, 2015 21:11
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Dirk the Average posted:Contract Whist. It's free and has a lot of variations on the card game Oh Hell. Very fun card game, launches almost instantly, and since it's a card game it all waits on you to take an action. It's my go-to time waster whenever I have a spare 30 seconds. Here's the link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qsoft.android.whist
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Norns posted:Any of you try it Laura Croft Go yet? Yeah, it's pretty fun. Feels similar to Monument Valley. It's probably very similar to Hitman Go, but I never played that so I can't compare them.
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Sep 3, 2015 22:07
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I need an invite to a goon town. I am on the spreadsheet. Do I need to leave the town I am in?
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Trastion posted:I need an invite to a goon town. I am on the spreadsheet. Do I need to leave the town I am in? No you don't need to leave. Just accept the invite when you get it.
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Sep 3, 2015 23:30
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What shop game is it you are all going on about? Can I play without internet? Also you should all try Card Crawl. I'm really enjoying it. The unlock felt a little pricey but I keep playing it on my commute!
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Sep 3, 2015 23:53
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Lowness 72 posted:What shop game is it you are all going on about? Can I play without internet? Called shop heroes, and no you cant play without internet. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cloudcade.shopheroes
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I've been messing around with a couple recent shmup-based F2P's. I'm not really sold on either of them though, doesn't really feel like there's much reason to play one at home when I could play a real shmup on console or PC instead... but as a mobile time-waster on the go maybe they're ok. I dunno, I'm not really sure yet. Dragon Heroes has you fighting single screens of enemies, Galaga-style, then you fight a boss, lather rinse repeat. So far it feels like it keeps reusing the same enemy patterns and same bosses from stage to stage... I assume it gets harder. There's some other modes like an Arena PvP mode that I haven't unlocked yet and something about a raid mode that was just added. Has all the usual mobile game trappings of drawing random heroes from gachapon, powering up your dudes and scantily-clad ladies, the usual fire/water/wood/light/dark mechanics. You can switch between characters on the fly and summon a friend's character, but the friend system sucks because even though it seems like the game will give you a list of random people to summon before each stage, it's actually telling you to send a friend request to them first before you can actually summon them. Also there's something about guilds I guess. Elemental Wings is a little weirder - I'm still not entirely sure how it works, because it seems you're always playing the same base game so I don't really know how much variety there is to it, or if there's later things to unlock. You're not expected to survive to the end on your first play, you have to keep playing and powering up your elementals. Speaking of which, to actually do well in the game you have to keep picking up your elemental powerups as they're your primary source of damage on bosses, and the game's all about DPS... you have a lifebar (or "mana bar") that constantly dwindles during play and only regenerates after killing sub-bosses. Taking a hit reduces it of course, and when it empties out, the next hit is game over and the difficulty rises a little as the game starts firing semi-homing bullets at you. Unlike Dragon Heroes, you can't move up and down, you can only move left and right. Also doesn't help that your character's hurtbox feels like it's the entire sprite, which makes it quite unforgiving in terms of dodging stuff. Again, there's modes in the game that don't unlock until you advance in level a bit. Also both of these games have the exact same problem (at least on my phone) where when the music stops to loop, it stops the game itself for a second and is quite jarring for a shmup-style game. I would highly recommend turning the music off.
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Tunga posted:I need games to play on the tube. For those not familiar with the wonders of the Central Line, it approximates a sardine tin. As such, I need games that are playable in portrait with one hand, not require fast/specific tapping, and something that doesn't result in me dying if I stop looking at it. Hoplite is a good example and I also played a random football management thing a while back. Abstract puzzlers can be okay but I tend to get bored of them if they're just the same mechanic/process over and over. Two Dots. It adds new mechanics every twenty levels or so and is very one hand friendly.
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Sep 4, 2015 01:04
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Real time tactics game Door Kickers has made the leap from PC to Android tablets.
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I sent out a handful of Otisburg invites in Shop Heroes, so we'll see who gets the three open spots first. I can add at least one extra slot if needed.
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Dirk the Average posted:Contract Whist. It's free and has a lot of variations on the card game Oh Hell. Very fun card game, launches almost instantly, and since it's a card game it all waits on you to take an action. It's my go-to time waster whenever I have a spare 30 seconds. lmao any whist game that doesn't include minnesota rules
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Sep 4, 2015 03:44
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mrkillboy posted:Real time tactics game Door Kickers has made the leap from PC to Android tablets. I really enjoyed this on Steam. Will be watching for reviews to see if I should buy again.
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Does anybody have the newest apk for Shop Heroes? It's not available in my region and APKPure has an outdated version.
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Aethernet posted:If you haven't already picked it up, Pixel Dungeon makes my Piccadilly Line commute bearable. Gann Jerrod posted:I don't know if this is your thing, but all the Dragon Quest ports are designed for portrait with one hand. LeftistMuslimObama posted:Two Dots. It adds new mechanics every twenty levels or so and is very one hand friendly.  Dirk the Average posted:Contract Whist. It's free and has a lot of variations on the card game Oh Hell. Very fun card game, launches almost instantly, and since it's a card game it all waits on you to take an action. It's my go-to time waster whenever I have a spare 30 seconds.
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Sep 4, 2015 11:10
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Got space for 2 more in goontown?
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Lowness 72 posted:What shop game is it you are all going on about? Can I play without internet? The single player, not-internet-connected version of Shop Heroes is called Merchant. It strips away all of the graphics bits, basically plays like an Amiga game, but at its core is exactly the same game.
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Shop Hero: How do I remove a worker from a slot? What is the best way for a lowbie to contribute to goontown?
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There should be a fire button when you click on a worker directly (might not show up until a certain player level). Also I think the best thing you can do really depends on how rich you are compared to the rest of the town. If you can afford to level buildings or at least large chunks of buildings, levelling the town hall, resource buildings, and worker buildings are good ideas. If you're relatively poor, invest your money into workstations, resource bins, and energy furniture so you can make/sell items much faster, and catch up income-wise to everyone else before worrying about the city. Honestly besides the town hall, nothing in the town is so important that you need to beeline early game so long as you've got your city-wide bonuses rolling all the time. e: Actually if you're running into items that are running over 2 minutes and your total skill level for those items is less than your workshop cap, then that is the absolute best thing to prioritize until the price gets out of what you could reasonably afford. (For example, my main workbench is currently going to cost me 5 million) Deki fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Sep 4, 2015 |
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Rebuild is on sale right now https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.sarahnorthway.rebuild2
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re: Door Kickersbeerinator posted:I really enjoyed this on Steam. Will be watching for reviews to see if I should buy again. I'm finding issuing commands and moving my guys around fiddly at times because my huge fingers get in the way but otherwise it plays fine. It looks like you can even import a code from the PC or iPad versions to carry on an existing game. Too bad its for tablets only at the moment though, the quick missions and the almost instantaneous load times would really make this a pretty great pick up and play game on a phone (albeit probably one with a large screen). mrkillboy fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Sep 4, 2015 |
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vulturesrow posted:Shop Hero: How do I remove a worker from a slot? What is the best way for a lowbie to contribute to goontown? For the first one, fire them. For the second, just contribute where you can. Iron Mines is where I've been dumping my money and the town hall so we can get more people in.
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mrkillboy posted:Spiritual pixel art platform/adventure game The Deer God is out on Google Play. Anyone who picked up the Android beta of the game that was included in that Humble Bundle a long time ago will also get that version upgraded soon. mrkillboy posted:The sequel to zombie apocalypse 4X strategy game Rebuild, Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville is also out, as is the sequel to the Dead Trigger games Unkilled. coyo7e fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Sep 4, 2015 |
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Sep 4, 2015 19:20
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None, that's not the kind of game it is, there no IAPs at all.
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coyo7e posted:How much pay to win or energy-recharge and build waiting is in it? Rebuild 3 has no pay to win mechanics and you can adjust the time scale. Not sure about the other.
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Thanks much for the clear responses. Can I buy hats or something?
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coyo7e posted:Thanks much for the clear responses. Can I buy hats or something? Negative. $5 and you own the game. Clearly this was from the past.
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My Shop Heroes strategy: #1. Pick 1 or 2 item types as your 'money makers' to focus on progressing down the tiers. You should only sell these items with a super charge, and only after you have the +25% value upgrade on it. #2. Pick 1 or 2 extremely common item types as your 'energy makers' and purchase/upgrade racks for them for the bonus energy. Obtain many of the lowest level of these items and use them to farm energy. #3. Save your crafting slots for your money makers and use the market to purchase your energy makers. So how it works is you stock up on your energy makers via the market. Tiers 1-2 of each item type generally sell for less than or equal to the value of the item. With the +25% value upgrade learned on the item, you can almost always cut a profit. Every customer who isn't asking for your money maker item type gets suggested to one of these items. With racks, this will build up your energy extremely quick. Then you use your energy to suggest/supercharge your money makers as you make them. If the market is out of your energy maker, warehouse your rack and use a different item that is in stock (racks only cost 250g). Once you get to level 6-8 this allows you to play indefinitely as your resources are able to replenish while your farthest tiered items are being produced and everything else comes from the market (or a single build slot pumping out tier 1 items for energy). Racks are switched out on the fly depending on the stock you are moving. Basically every customer get's a compliment and a suggestion, and since you don't have to wait for items to build the turnover rate is extremely fast so it gets achievements quickly as well. Baldbeard fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Sep 4, 2015 |
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Baldbeard posted:My Shop Heroes strategy: Alternatively you can always set up racks for your money makers and refund a large part of your energy each time you sell a big ticket item
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That's the strategy I was using until I hit a little bump. A customer won't ever ask for, nor can you suggest an item 7 levels under him or her. I've got a few guys in 13-16 range, so I can't just make a bunch of knives and shortswords anymore. My current strategy is to work on unlocks and replacing lost items while my guys go adventuring, and sell off excess quest rewards. I think I've sold away a hundred burning embers for 2-3k each. I've got a bunch of guys in the frozen lake right now harvesting ice crystals that are worth around 20k a pop. Items also get costly real fast and make it impossible for you to focus entirely on a couple items. Many of my items cost 30 or 40 of 1-2 T1 resources (Like iron + leather)and 10-15 of a T2 resource (like steel). You end up jumping around your crafting options while your resources regenerate. The upshot is, you can't ever screw yourself over. Items will pretty much always sell and the resources cost you nothing. Even crafting a ton of low level items to master them is useful, because higher level crafts often call for good quality versions of low level items and you save yourself the annoyance of crafting 40 extra broadswords. A couple tips that are not obvious: You can tap the resource icons on the right side to auto-collect from all your bins. Enable Multi-craft in the options menu. Instead of leaving the item screen each time you go to craft an item, you stay in the screen so you can just jam the button a bunch of times. Very useful when items start requiring 3 copies of a low level item. Every additional adventurer on a quest increases the power of all adventurers on the quest, regardless of their actual power. So I can send my lvl 16 Theor with 3500 power with 2 undergeared chumps to boost him to 5k and knock out a high level quest. The low level guys will be out of commission for a few hours but if you can't muster a full team of A's for a quest it's a viable method. Your total storage for items is also your max storage for each quest material. Get yourself up to 50 or so capacity so you can hoard quest items. It really sucks to unlock a new item and find out it takes 3 or 4 of something you haven't stockpiled (I'm looking at you, herbal tea and your 4 ironwood cost + 40 crafts for the next unlock)
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Selling quest items is a good early game strategy, but the items they make are going to be worth a lot more. I'm making 44k a pop off an item that takes 1 venom and 1 rainbow dust, and those are a hell of a lot easier and faster to get than the ice crystals. Your strategy is really, really good at levelling your customers really high though, which is good unless they outgrow what you can make.
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That Pandemic: The Board Game game is out.
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I'm not sure how to progress in Shop Heroes. I only just started, and it feels like I make MAYBE 80 at most from any given item, but in order to progress I need things that cost a lot more than I have (more workers I don't have the slots for to make the armor and herbs I'm starting to get recipes for, etc.). Am I missing something?
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Panic! at Nabisco posted:I'm not sure how to progress in Shop Heroes. I only just started, and it feels like I make MAYBE 80 at most from any given item, but in order to progress I need things that cost a lot more than I have (more workers I don't have the slots for to make the armor and herbs I'm starting to get recipes for, etc.). Am I missing something? Whenever you fill the meter on an item's crafting screen card, it "levels up", with an effect according to the icon next to the meter. If there's a little scroll there, the effect is that you unlock a new recipe. This recipe is either the first item in another category, or the next level of expensive item in the same category. So, the knives section will eventually have knife, dagger, dirk, parrying dagger, stiletto, etc. Some of the later knives require the cheaper knives as ingredients. Every category works like this for its own items.
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Panic! at Nabisco posted:I'm not sure how to progress in Shop Heroes. I only just started, and it feels like I make MAYBE 80 at most from any given item, but in order to progress I need things that cost a lot more than I have (more workers I don't have the slots for to make the armor and herbs I'm starting to get recipes for, etc.). Am I missing something? As someone said earlier. Send your adventurers on the quest to collect the blue gems constantly. Never stop doing this. Then sell your gems on the market, you can get 200-300 gold each for them. As for leveling up, it's slow as gently caress.
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ModeSix posted:As someone said earlier. Send your adventurers on the quest to collect the blue gems constantly. Never stop doing this. Then sell your gems on the market, you can get 200-300 gold each for them. Nah, sell them for 700. I always priced at 700 and they were sold within an hour. A stack of 10 will start raking in the money.
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