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First of all I love this game. But the new build has some issues.
R/KeeperRL: An opensource dungeon builder inspired by Dungeon Keeper and Dwarf Fortress. I tried getting one of the Insane Goblins with Legendary Forge.
What's the deal with the Insane trait? Why would I EVER want this? Some of the others, Smelly Breath, Collapsed, are: meh, I'll usually avoid it - but Insane I would never ever take voluntarily. I tried getting one of the Insane Goblins with Legendary Forge. I made his own room with just a bed and a forge.
I made a separate equipment storage area just for him. I used Forbid Zone so that he would create items, and then I would manually pick them up on him, walk him through a two-way forbidden zone, manually drop items, walk him back. Unforbid the zone on the other side, manually take the items, then re-forbid it. It's all just such a hassle. Then I accidentally misclick, and he winds up dead.This also basically makes it so that I can't use the Automatic Immigration feature, because I don't ever want an insane recruit to just randomly kill my minions. Crafting priority.
I have a goblin for crafting. And dwarf prisioners. I want THEM to craft. I don't want to queue up items and then have all my Orcs and Ogres decide it's more important to Craft than Train, especially when they're so terrible at it. Ogres and Orcs can HELP after they've maxed out their training, but as it is I have to manually Deselect Crafting from each new recruits activities, and then manually add it back when they're maxed. Melee fighters should only help craft after maxing their training, and only if they can make higher quality items than other minions.
Crafting in general is pretty low priority for me. I've beaten campaign mode about 5 times, and at the end game I've never had enough spare Gold, Iron, or Adamantium to actually craft very much. In the beginning I'll crank out items that use wood for all my minions. But once I've used stairs to get to the bottom of the dungeon where there is Lava and a Dragon, there just isn't enough resources left to waste on making items.
I make everyone Iron Gloves which only cost 2 iron, and I make an Adamantium Training Dummy, but otherwise my gold goes to recruiting Legendary Humans and Beasts, and towards Gold Statues. My iron gets transmuted to gold. Sometimes I have enough left over to create 1 piece of adamantium armor, but it would be nice if the cost of crafting was reduced enough to make it viable. Tying in with the above, skill points past level 10 are pretty useless.
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Once I get alchemical conversion, and both mutation skills, I don't usually do anything with two handed weapons, magical weapons, jewelry, advanced alchemy (or even basic alchemy besides conversion). There just aren't the resources for it. I like that the mod adds in some new skills, but I hope there are more forthcoming. I wasn't crazy about Endless mode where waves just keep coming. It would be nice if after defeating the first Keeper, you get access to a second map with more stronger enemies, Keepers, and allies.
I read in the notes that this might be combined with campaign. Some unit types just feel so pointless and underpowered. Beasts that aren't werewolf, undead that aren't Skeleton or Vampire, anything collapsed or blind. Doppleganger should have a list of everything it's absorbed so far. When I have a few of them, it's hard to keep track of what it's already eatenThat about does it. I love this game and look forward to future builds:)EDIT: I'm actually looking into mods right now and might just try making my own:)EDIT2: I think I've actually managed to fix most of my complaints. I will post my mod after I've tested it.Insanity is supposed to require special treatment, because the minions that have it come with some special powers.
You can take his equipment from him by moving him to another one-tile room next to his forge and locking the door behind him (it works well with having his bed in there), then opening the main door to his suite which lets the imps grab the stuff. Good point with the automatic immigration, I'll make sure that it's turned off for insane minions.This is one of the most common issues that people mention. There is no easy solution, but I'll try to come up with something for alpha 29.Hint: the dungeon has no bottom:).I don't really understand - at least magical weapons and jewelry are extremely useful.My plan for now is to turn on the endless waves once you win the main campaign game. I've been thinking about having a world map that extends infinitely though with increasingly stronger enemies.Thanks for the feedback:)Visit the discord if you want to get into modding, I've made available an early build of alpha 28 for modders.
This game calls itself 'Free to Play' - with a heavy restriction on the 'play' part. And the 'free' part, too.
Games based around this concept are more commonly referred to as 'Pay to Win,' or more humorously, 'Free to Pay.' This is primarily an advertising trope about a mismatch between PR and reality.
If the commercials bandy about terms like FREE, UNLIMITED and WITHOUT PAYING while the ability to complete or be competitive within the game is walled off for those who don't dish dough , you've got yourself an Allegedly Free Game. This isn't about games where all monetary elements are or minor enough that you could genuinely play the game for free and never miss them, like removing adverts. This is for games that claim to be free, but force players to pay for a HUGE chunk of the content. Sometimes you're restricted to a 'free' zone and have to repeatedly, sometimes you're incapable of gaining certain abilities or items without, sometimes you can buy a copy or pay a subscription fee (and even then,.) Some games just have so much that is exclusively bought that those who pay have such a gigantic advantage over those who don't. Some games make progress dependent on and/or that becomes obscenely tedious without shelling out real money for or other things that reduce the time for grinding or eliminate the need for it — for example, when a mid-level raid on an RPG will net you about 15,000 gold, but the you need to advance to the next level costs 100 quadrillion googolplex gold or 5 diamonds worth one US dollar each. Any way that you cut this, you aren't going to get very far without reaching for your wallet. Some combination of and will likely be involved in this.
Allegedly Free Game is a to. Not to be confused with actual, nor with, which is straightforward about its commercial nature and final about its sale.
Contrast, which is when people buy and sell in-game resources against the developers' wishes. See also, which is when there are lots of extra goodies and bonuses to buy along with the game. Some games will use the to keep players spending money again and again.For a small fraction of the player base, these games are very susceptible to becoming, with some players spending astronomical sums just to get the best equipment. Game design jargon calls these players Whales (a term used by gamblers to describe someone who spends extravagant amounts of money on his favorite game) — they are usually the major source of a game's income and how badly you should milk them is a permanent ethical question for any game company. There's also the need to maintain a balance so that the whales don't become so overwhelmingly powerful that they drive everybody else out of the game.which in turn can lead to the whales themselves also moving on to another game after the 'massively multiplayer' portion of your MMO is gone.Do note that the existence of this type of game creates a seriously among gamers by its very nature, so application of the is a good idea.Examples. follows this free-trial approach.
Marketed as 'free to start', the first two-and-a-half levels are available at the start before the player is asked to buy the rest of the game (which has no microtransactions at all) for $9.99. is a free download, but you can buy Leaf Tickets with real money. Leaf Tickets are used to speed up crafting furniture and amenities, as well as obtaining items like Throw Nets and Honey (which makes catching fish and bugs easier), or items used in crafting. You can also obtain Leaf Tickets and certain items by accomplishing various tasks, though, so it is possible, if slower, to get by without paying a single real-world dime.
is a free game that does not require money to play. Spending real money makes the game appear 'faster', but time is an illusion anyway, making this arguably a. allow units to be upgraded with experience points through steady utilization of stamina, plus the occasional gacha cat, adding to the overall balance of the party setup. But those cats from the Rare Cat Capsule, they do look really nice. Thankfully, its been shown time and time again that you dont even need a single Uber, let alone a Legend Rare, in order to beat every level the game has to offer. Even if you do want to get an Uber, the drop rates for them are somewhat generous (5% for normal gacha, 9% for Uberfest/Epicfest) and theres a mechanic where you can farm items that let you roll the Rare Gacha for free, meaning its possible to stockpile on those items until the desired event comes around.
Having that are that can sometimes outclass Ubers might have something to do with it as well. In, one could play for free, but why miss out on those amazing premium limited edition characters?.
In, you get a steady inflow of Polygons via the day-to-day and through missions. While the game can be played without spending a cent, provided you're willing to stockpile enough Polygons and not spend any to revive yourself or refill those free FES Tickets, and in the packs look really appetizing. falls into this with the 'Sortie Fuel System'. To play either single or multiplayer modes, you require one unit of fuel per flight. You have two kinds of fuel — supplied fuel is free, but you can only have three units maximum and they recharge one unit every four hours, while stocked fuel has no upper limit and can be bought in packs with real money. Ultimately, free players are not at an inherent disadvantage by virtue of being free players, as while there are both stocked fuel and various other goodies that can be bought (including contracts that increase your credit earnings or research progress per sortie), all of these can also be rewarded through in-game challenges or after a multiplayer mission, making it relatively easy to acquire a decent stockpile.
It's getting into singleplayer or the multiplayer ranking events, though, where paying cash seems necessary. To play past the second level in campaign, you must pay in-game credits to unlock them one time, in addition to the fuel used to fly. These costs are prohibitively expensive — for the 200,000 you need for the third level you could buy the F/A-18F Super Hornet, a solid all-rounder and the first plane on the tech tree to outclass the starting F-4 in every way possible.
The alternative, of course, is to buy the Campaign Pass for $20, which removes the credit and fuel costs for singleplayer missions. Ranking events are also an issue for free players, as staying in the high brackets for the main prizes requires a lot of fuel, and the rate at which someone seriously competing will burn through it far outstrips the rate at which you can gain it for free. Plus, using stocked fuel gives extra credits and research progress at the end of a mission, including a guarantee that the plane you actually flew for it will make some progress in research if it can (supplied fuel usually prioritizes parts or planes you didn't fly instead)., also known as Air Rivals and Phi Doi. You can sign up and fly from L1 to L100 for free, but you need cash credits to buy Enchant protect cards, item seeker units, and fancy holographic banner-like things you can attach to your airframe. At least they give you generous samples of these credit shop exclusives as you gain levels.
advertises itself as a free game — it is. Unless you really want to go on the exciting quests, and have advanced classes, pets, and other things that make this online single-player game exciting. Non 'guardians' (you guessed it, they're members) have the large nuisance of only getting a 'small server' whereas 'Guardians' always get space. Also, they can equip some restricted items. '(.) CyberStep continues to churn out Garapon updates non-stop, not even bothering with the Shop in terms of UC and Rt (it took months until an actual bot appeared in the Shop, and it was only 1 bot). Because 95% of the stuff people want are in the Garapon, people are unable to actually improve on their bots unless they were willing to sell their houses. Didn't help that the Gashapon was more or less a part of Japanese culture and that most are very willing to throw their money away on mostly useless stuff, so Japanese players were OK with that sort of thing and CyberStep hoped that it would be the same case with the English players.
After a certain update, every player can receive an item that generates a random Humanoid robot, almost ANY humanoid robot. As it turns out, some of the Humanoid Robots that can be generated are of the (then-)broken 'Type Zeroes', as well as many, MANY gachapon-acquired humanoids.
Cue a large number of players making alternate accounts to get a chance of acquiring these powerful bots. On the other hand, one specific Humanoid that was released in the same update, is currently the most powerful humanoid in the game, having an attack that was so broken, they only nerfed a single effect from it. Oh yeah, and this humanoid can be acquired for no RL money, just for ingame money (and a crap-load of luck at a free gachapon.). became available entirely for free after the Parallel Dimensions update. You, however, can only play it once a day, so you have an option to buy more games for the day if you're impatient enough.
has a 'Free For All' setup, where anyone can play nearly all of the game's content for free. However, the free Silver accounts have severe restrictions placed on character customization (fewer costume choices, a handful of Archetypes, limited bag slots, and a limited selection of travel powers) and have to purchase access to the Adventure Packs (optional repayable mission content).
Still, this is mostly an aversion of this trope as it is entirely feasible to level a character all the way up to end-game content without spending a penny on the game: nothing that is essential requires a purchase. All of the above restrictions can be bypassed by spending real money to unlock the restricted content; but there are two aspects of The game which are only available to the subscription-based Gold accounts: power customization (what color is my energy blast?
Does it come from my palm, fist, chest, or head? Etc.) and Freeform characters (which are superior in every way to the Archetypes, both in terms of how much freedom you have in choosing powers and how many powers you can choose). Silver accounts are definitely second-class citizens in the game; though they are not outcasts. With the introduction of the Questionite Exchange and Freeform slots, this is no longer technically the case. The system allows any player to farm Questionite, a form of in-game currency that can be traded for the real-money currency between players.
Freeform character slots allow anyone to make one freeform character regardless of subscription status. Just be prepared to do a lot of farming if you don't want to use actual money. Luckily, the game has regular events that give extra Questionite and sales that allow the purchase of a Freeform slot for cheap, severely reducing the amount of farming necessary.
In the fifth season of, Codex and Tink find out that the company about to purchase their game plans on turning it into one of these. Parodied in the Jaltoid video. The of has Peter getting sucked into playing a phone game that advertises the use of 'optional' $0.99 tokens to assist players with many basic tasks, including muting the music, preventing game crashes, maintaining the privacy of phone data, and turning the game off. The episode ' deals with this. Stan spends several thousand dollars on in-app purchases for a Terrance & Phillip freemium mobile game.
The episode even explicitly points out that, in 'Freemium', the 'mium' is Latin for 'not really'. The entire scam turns out to be the brainchild of Beelzeboot, the Canadian Devil. As he believes temptations have to have actual nuance rather than simple exploitation of addiction, and goes as far as to possess Stan Marsh to fight Beelzeboot.
In, a low-fi indie platformer, all in-game abilities are unlocked by spending in-game coins on 'DLC'. at 's 'elite' and 'free play' tiers.
The attached news article freely admitted that they didn't know to what extent this trope would actually apply after the rollout, though. In, the VR MMO OASIS costs only a single quarter to form an account. 25 cents and you're in forever. Everything else, however, is considerably more expensive. Equipment for avatars, transport to different worlds, space to set up in online-business, that costs in-game credits which you can buy. And while you can earn money in-game by going on quests and defeating enemies, without some capital for transport, your avatar will be stuck on the starting world.
Main character Wade Watts had been stuck at the starting point for five years prior because he's flat broke. The reason so many players are against the OASIS falling into the hands of the company is that their stated goal is to stick people with a monthly subscription fee and fill the place with ads. The concept is parodied in the games. Everything must be purchased in order to play the game, and the only point of playing the game is to earn 'money' in order to purchase things such as the menu screen, the menu items, being able to save, the copyright page, the music, the ability to turn off the music, the option to say you don't want to purchase something.
Mocked in 'There's An App For That' from: E350 discovers that his friends have been trapped in a supposedly free-to-play app.only to discover that, in order to beat the game and rescue them, he either has to pay a fortune or slog through it for thousands of years. He picks the former option and promptly goes to rob a bank. Parodied in with a prostitute who claims that sex is free, with in-sex purchases. All the client really gets for free is to go in a room with her.
Parodied in ◊ strip. Discussed in one strip for. Neeko says she prefers home console games because unlike mobile games, which have microtransactions, 'Once you've paid ¥6000 to buy a game, everything in it becomes free!!' This Page Has Extra Content! To view it, please purchase the 'All-Access Bonus Pack' in the TVTropes Online Store.
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