Just beat the game, loved it :) My only feedback is that you get the option to dronify specific subs way later than you get the option to dronify everyone, making two of the upgrades effectively useless, and by the time I got the option to dronify the last remaining friends I'd already beaten the game, and consequently received the flavor text that the friends were all drones when two of them weren't --v-- Nothing game-breaking though! It was a lot of fun to leave running in the background
Hey, I have to ask do you have any ideas for updates for the country part of the game or are you going to be focusing on the personal part of the game, and if you are going to update the country part of the game what ideas do you have?
Currently do not have any strong ideas for new updates (only thoughts of what could be interesting), unfortunately. I’d love to do another country update, but that would probably require new art to match which is the biggest limiting factor. The personal part was really an idea I got because I could do that without finding or comissioning art (and I’d rather not comission art for the game myself since I am not making any profit from this).
Ah, ok that is understandable, but I do hope you can find something in the future and must say good luck. Another thing, have you thought about asking for help finding artwork?
I am open to suggestions and/or collaboration, though I have not specifically seeked anyone out myself. I try to find things I myself would like first and foremost and sometimes it’s tricky.
When you take the submission route in the personal game mode, you get to choose later on between robots or tentacles. Are these 2 options different in the dominant route? And if the two options are the same, os there any difference in the text?
How are Dolphin drones supposed to work? The text indicates they're supposed to help with research, but they don't seem to contribute to passive research, nor do they affect research rewards from contracts.
EDIT: Playing around some more, I think I get it now. Rather than contribute research points directly, they seem to multiply the research provided by blank drones.
You need 100 materials to reshape. If you are at the drone cap, you’ll need to reshape one into a blank one and discard it. After that you should be able to capture a PR one (if you hover over the use blank button it will tell you that you need to have captured one manually before to use a blank).
Sometimes the idle activity when finished in personal mode will stay stuck at idle done and not move to the next activity. It can take several minutes or only take a few activities after the last pause for this freeze to occur. It seems to happen most frequently when the next activity is to play videogames or watch porn. changing the speed to 1 or 2x speed seems to fix it, but sometimes you have to wait a second after switching it.
I'm having the same issue as well. It's really game breaking at the moment - there are sometimes long waits between upgrades being available and not being able to go to a different tab or leave the PC for more than a minute or so before it freezes unfortunately defeats the point of an idle game.
enjoying the personal run, however after about an hour or 2 of letting it run, it gets stuck on an idle cycle and won't respond until the game is refreshed.
It happened shortly after getting the Latex Fetish upgrade, while doing the sub route.
If this happens again, please open the browser console (F12) and tell me what the error there is (I’ve updated the build here so it should show proper error messages in the console).
There may be an update at some point, but I’m kind of out of ideas for a theme for an update at the moment, that would work both art- and gameplay-wise.
There’s an export function for save files if you are afraid of losing progress. Additionally, it does not in fact reset on update I believe.
There is no permanent progression between runs through the game and the game has concrete endings after which your only choice is starting from scratch.
I think I may have found a bug, then. I had researched 4 of the 5 types and left after closing the game for a bit, and when I came back one of the drone types had vanished without my knowing. "Scientists," apparently?
Edit: Nevermind, I'm just an idiot lol, figured it out
Even though it’s not designed for mobile use, the only thing it doesn’t allow me to see are the tooltips. Everything else works fine so far - and I’m almost at the full conversion of the original route.
Indeed. Still, not bad for a little game, and makes me want to see how things go when you decide to go above and beyond just a country of 100k drones, but decide to go further than that…
And managed to do both of the full conversion routes. The first time, I mistook what the final button would do, and ended up as a Bee drone, but the second time I knew what it does, and thus managed to select to become a Shark Drone.
If you managed to run out of research exactly and didn't have any blank drones active, you can no longer perform research manually until you get blank drones for research points again.
A bit thin on content when played actively. <3h if played well and has some boring stretches during that.
So i tried to speed running it: 2h26min13secs [1]
It is not enjoyable to speed run.
[1] Time stamps from memory.
<20 min to penal
<25 min to recognized as work
47 min to not sure anymore, maybe 1000 bee or 10 fox holes
95 min to not sure, maybe 100 fox hole tech
125 min to 100 fox holes
146 min to finish
Hi, I am enjoying this game a lot, although it gets grindy at later stages. However I just use a auto clicker for that ;). But if I may ask, is there different paths yet, if there is not, then please can you tell me when?
Oh, I had not yet gotten to the true grindiness...
For anyone that is truly impatient, there is an export button, and it exports in a format that can be freely edited and then imported, saving you a ton of time.
If you have the maximum amount and need space to capture a new drone, you will have to convert one of your other drones into a blank one and use the “Discard” button.
Seems like the game looks completely wrong on mobile itch.io website, you might have better luck turning on the desktop site mode in your browser, but otherwise I can’t help much.
Certain upgrades require you to have some amount of government drones before they are visible. If you get below that threshold they will become invisible again.
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it'd be neat to have an alternate to the null in the personal one, maybe a nymphodrone/sextoy alternative.... could be interesting to explore
is it normal to get edging like 8 times in 10 activities? lol
Pretty much. It’s random chance, so it can happen. You’re lucky if that happens, since that means you get more resources at that time.
Just beat the game, loved it :) My only feedback is that you get the option to dronify specific subs way later than you get the option to dronify everyone, making two of the upgrades effectively useless, and by the time I got the option to dronify the last remaining friends I'd already beaten the game, and consequently received the flavor text that the friends were all drones when two of them weren't --v-- Nothing game-breaking though! It was a lot of fun to leave running in the background
Hey, I have to ask do you have any ideas for updates for the country part of the game or are you going to be focusing on the personal part of the game, and if you are going to update the country part of the game what ideas do you have?
Currently do not have any strong ideas for new updates (only thoughts of what could be interesting), unfortunately. I’d love to do another country update, but that would probably require new art to match which is the biggest limiting factor. The personal part was really an idea I got because I could do that without finding or comissioning art (and I’d rather not comission art for the game myself since I am not making any profit from this).
Ah, ok that is understandable, but I do hope you can find something in the future and must say good luck. Another thing, have you thought about asking for help finding artwork?
I am open to suggestions and/or collaboration, though I have not specifically seeked anyone out myself. I try to find things I myself would like first and foremost and sometimes it’s tricky.
When you take the submission route in the personal game mode, you get to choose later on between robots or tentacles. Are these 2 options different in the dominant route? And if the two options are the same, os there any difference in the text?
It only changes a few upgrade flavor texts to match the names and roles to the route you chose
How are Dolphin drones supposed to work? The text indicates they're supposed to help with research, but they don't seem to contribute to passive research, nor do they affect research rewards from contracts.
EDIT: Playing around some more, I think I get it now. Rather than contribute research points directly, they seem to multiply the research provided by blank drones.
Yes, that is the case. I am planning to clarify it at some point in the future.
I can't change my drones at the beginning to blank drones and can't in turn get research.
I don't know why but I can't make pr drones, I can't use blanks.
You need 100 materials to reshape. If you are at the drone cap, you’ll need to reshape one into a blank one and discard it. After that you should be able to capture a PR one (if you hover over the use blank button it will tell you that you need to have captured one manually before to use a blank).
It does not give me the option to capture.
If you hover the mouse over the capture button it should say why.
What is the difference between the robot and tentacle route? I played both but they seemed identical
Just the flavour text, whatever you like more. Same as dom/sub. Could become more at some point, but it’s not much different as of now.
The Tentacle path currently has, at least in the entry I was on, the wrong flavor text
Sorry, the upgrade’s text checked for an old value that I changed. It should have the correct text now.
Sometimes the idle activity when finished in personal mode will stay stuck at idle done and not move to the next activity. It can take several minutes or only take a few activities after the last pause for this freeze to occur. It seems to happen most frequently when the next activity is to play videogames or watch porn. changing the speed to 1 or 2x speed seems to fix it, but sometimes you have to wait a second after switching it.
I'm having the same issue as well. It's really game breaking at the moment - there are sometimes long waits between upgrades being available and not being able to go to a different tab or leave the PC for more than a minute or so before it freezes unfortunately defeats the point of an idle game.
This should be fixed now. There were some typos in action names, sorry.
Find some bugs, I can't upgrade anything in personal route even if I have enough latex.
Test a few time to find out if you export and import the file will cause this bug.
Should be fixed now. It was a really strange issue, and your report really helped figure out why it was happening.
enjoying the personal run, however after about an hour or 2 of letting it run, it gets stuck on an idle cycle and won't respond until the game is refreshed.
It happened shortly after getting the Latex Fetish upgrade, while doing the sub route.
If this happens again, please open the browser console (F12) and tell me what the error there is (I’ve updated the build here so it should show proper error messages in the console).
app.d73aac26.js:1 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'money')
at Proxy.randomConsideringMoney (app.d73aac26.js:1:51005)
at Proxy.update (app.d73aac26.js:1:51820)
at chunk-vendors.62d45632.js:27:16783
at Worker.<anonymous> (chunk-vendors.62d45632.js:27:15826)
This should be fixed now. Sorry, there were some typos in action names.
does the save system not work or is it just me
If you’re playing in private browsing mode, it might not work properly in some browsers, because the block local storage/indexed db.
i dont think i am though
What browser are you having issues with? In general some privacy addon may be blocking it, too.
i play on edge
It seems to be working fine on the latest version of edge for me. Reloading the page or restarting the browser loads the game correctly.
Hey, are still working on this or just taking a break?
There may be an update at some point, but I’m kind of out of ideas for a theme for an update at the moment, that would work both art- and gameplay-wise.
how about an airline update
No download? Anyone can play a downloaded Html.
I don't waste time playing anything without a download because playing in browser online means that all saves get deleted with every update.
I'm not gonna play until there is a download, good luck though.
2 months late but if you have the itch desktop client, you can actually download the html file from this page.
How do I get more drones if all my places for drones are full? I can't progress any further atm it feels like.
You probably didn’t capture every kind of drone you researched. You need to capture every one manually at least once for it to show up in the list.
I think I may have found a bug, then. I had researched 4 of the 5 types and left after closing the game for a bit, and when I came back one of the drone types had vanished without my knowing. "Scientists," apparently?
Edit: Nevermind, I'm just an idiot lol, figured it out
Even though it’s not designed for mobile use, the only thing it doesn’t allow me to see are the tooltips. Everything else works fine so far - and I’m almost at the full conversion of the original route.
That’s great to hear. The tooltips are mostly tidbits that show prices or little suggestions of what things do, so not that important.
Indeed. Still, not bad for a little game, and makes me want to see how things go when you decide to go above and beyond just a country of 100k drones, but decide to go further than that…
I have some plans for continuation of the story from that point where the paths converge, but nothing concrete. It might happen eventually.
And managed to do both of the full conversion routes. The first time, I mistook what the final button would do, and ended up as a Bee drone, but the second time I knew what it does, and thus managed to select to become a Shark Drone.
If you managed to run out of research exactly and didn't have any blank drones active, you can no longer perform research manually until you get blank drones for research points again.
happy to see the update been enjoying this a lot =w=
is a chame you cant enlarge the tekst
its hard to read
Use your browser scaling/zoom to enlare the page to 110% or so, should be fine then. It’s a problem specific to itch that I’m not sure how to fix.
game doesn't seem to work, and theres no download, I'd like to play, but i understand if you dont want to update it.
The game might not work in private browsing mode if you’re using that. An update is coming, but it will likely not fix this particular issue.
In case this doesn’t help, you can download the game here (all the versions are listed on the left): https://www.tfgames.site/index.php?module=viewgame&id=2823
oh, alright then. have a good one
need more
A bit thin on content when played actively. <3h if played well and has some boring stretches during that. So i tried to speed running it: 2h26min13secs [1] It is not enjoyable to speed run.
[1] Time stamps from memory. <20 min to penal <25 min to recognized as work 47 min to not sure anymore, maybe 1000 bee or 10 fox holes 95 min to not sure, maybe 100 fox hole tech 125 min to 100 fox holes 146 min to finish
I spent about 8 hours but was able to make everyone an OwO drone
I added the fox drone database, now what?
As the Upgrade column says: capture more of them.
I can't, it said I need more drones.
Keep trying it, it doesn’t always succeed.
OBEY.
Hi, I am enjoying this game a lot, although it gets grindy at later stages. However I just use a auto clicker for that ;). But if I may ask, is there different paths yet, if there is not, then please can you tell me when?
Not yet, and probably not in the nearest future, but eventually.
Cool!
Instead of an autoclicker, you can just focus on the button and hold down your enter key
Oh, I had not yet gotten to the true grindiness...
For anyone that is truly impatient, there is an export button, and it exports in a format that can be freely edited and then imported, saving you a ton of time.
I have to say, it was fun.
The range of values at this stage is so wide that it feels like it could be changed.
I thought there was a lot more that could be expanded, so I paid attention.
:P
how do you gain trust?
You capture PR drones. If you already have the maximum amount you can discard a blank drone.
alright thank
how do you even make pr drones? i'm stuck at that part and i don't know what to do
If you have the maximum amount and need space to capture a new drone, you will have to convert one of your other drones into a blank one and use the “Discard” button.
Umm playing this on my phone so I'm wondering is there a thing I'm missing that would be on pc version like the amount of drones?
Seems like the game looks completely wrong on mobile itch.io website, you might have better luck turning on the desktop site mode in your browser, but otherwise I can’t help much.
Could use a scroll bar on the upgrades. Or make more columns.
Speaking of upgrades: Is it normal for them to get delisted? Like when I turned some cops into blanks.
Certain upgrades require you to have some amount of government drones before they are visible. If you get below that threshold they will become invisible again.
And that threshold is the absolute maximum?
There is one upgrade that requries the maximum amount, yes.