The Bridge

Tim Stone

3:00 PM

Mobile chat is now slightly less terrible!

Unionhawk

I JUST NOTICED

Arperum

Nearing 96% breeding rate on meerkats.

Sconibulus

600 damned otters...

Batophobia

"You took 9 beavers in exchange for 2 chameleons"

StrixVaria

Very close to penguins.

Arperum

3:01 PM

turtles require a stupid amount of penguins.

Unionhawk

ur a penguin

Powerlord

castles don't have phones.

I feel like what I just said makes as much sense as what everyone else is saying.

Unionhawk

(and no its not the incrementals that have gone to my head it's the freezing cold weather that for some reason needs to be brought indoors)

Arperum

Common meerkats, I want to know if 100% breeding is possible.

Unionhawk

For... Definitions of freezing

Meaning "cold to this wimp who spent a summer in Florida '

Origami Robot

3:04 PM

@Unionhawk <3

Tim Stone

@Unionhawk Helps you stay alert and focused.

O_O

Unionhawk

No what it does is make me go "yay, awake time... Nope it's cold, fuck that"

StrixVaria

@uni are you seeing how good this zoo incremental is?

Sconibulus

hmm, I'm not sure how useful visitors are, actually

Arperum

@Sconibulus stable income every X seconds?

StrixVaria

3:08 PM

I get like $3500 every 40 seconds

Origami Robot

Yes pls

Sconibulus

I'm getting over 1k a second, on average, but I think my animal farms are way better than that

murgatroid99

@OrigamiRobot That ultimate seems unusually easy to lose

Rapitor

"The total selling value of your animals is 1,058,856.09"

neat

Sconibulus

you can be fined by the animal bureau?

StrixVaria

3:11 PM

0.5% death rate on penguins, 2 die in 3 ticks.

Powerlord

> Also, I'm not sure why my brother copied those as literal ( and ) instead of their url encoded versions.

I apparently posted that several days ago

Lazers

-1

Q: Leveling quick Help me

Do you know how I can level up quickly to level 20?its hard for me to level and these quest barely give me xp I want to do dungeons but I'm low level (level 10)

world-of-warcraft

Rapitor

@Sconibulus eh?

Batophobia

How many animals are there?

Origami Robot

@murgatroid99 As much as I like her, I was really hoping we'd see her in Khans block

Sconibulus

3:12 PM

@Rapitor number of times fined are on the stats screen

Rapitor

@Sconibulus ah, I also notice that resetting will increase the birthrate on future plays

Arperum

> Your zoo gets 1,079 visitors every 34 seconds

I have 6 kinds of animals right now.

Unionhawk

Like, you get that many and then they leave the next second?

Origami Robot

10 pengu get

Sconibulus

oh wow, you've invested more than I have into visitors

I'm 971 every 40

fredley

3:15 PM

0

Q: When I borrow money, do I ever have to pay it back?

Is there any downside to borrowing money? It seems that the more I borrow, the more my credit limit goes up, and I can just keep on getting more. Am I being charged interest? Will I ever be forced to give it back?

incremental-zoo

Matt Эллен

@fredley ~~this isn't money.se~~ Happy birthday!

Wipqozn

@MattЭллен Give him break, it's his birthday.

Unionhawk

@fredley you're not @lazers silly

Wipqozn

40 mins ago, by StrixVaria

@djsmiley2k http://magicaweb.com/zooII/

Matt Эллен

@Wipqozn oh ok. fair enough.

Arperum

3:17 PM

lvl 20 is max level for breeding/deathrate modifiers.

StrixVaria

Level 20 is also the max for prices.

Maxed out meerkats.

Arperum

@StrixVaria How many meerkats do you have?

StrixVaria

500-600

I keep selling them.

Unionhawk

I refuse to feed the "let's link @uni incrementals" trolls. And going forward, I will not.

Lazers

0

Q: When I borrow money, do I ever have to pay it back?

Is there any downside to borrowing money? It seems that the more I borrow, the more my credit limit goes up, and I can just keep on getting more. Am I being charged interest? Will I ever be forced to give it back?

incremental-zoo

Arperum

3:19 PM

I'm building up a huge meerkat pile to see if 100% breeding rate is possible.

Sconibulus

oooh, I'm going to max everything on meerkats to see if I can hit 100% breed rate

Matt Эллен

Too slow, Lazers

Origami Robot

@Unionhawk LIES

Arperum

@Sconibulus working on that.

Wipqozn

Arperum

3:20 PM

Currently at 98.5% breeding rate and stuff maxed.

I have 1.6k meerkats.

98.6% it's really slow to increase now.

my deathrate goes up a lot faster then my breeding rate :(

Rapitor

still trying to get 100% breed?

Arperum

@Rapitor yup. 98.7 now, at 1.8k meerkats.

Unionhawk

@OrigamiRobot I've already played the best incremental on the internet. I don't need to acknowledge any more.

Sconibulus

98.82 at 2k

@Unionhawk which one is that?

Arperum

@Sconibulus You buying meerkats or what?

Lazers

3:26 PM

0

Q: Difference between doctor-bag (Mastermind) and first-aid-kit (Fugative)?

What is the difference between the two? (I just noticed the new class and recent changes yesterday and haven't had the time to play much) I'm guessing it has something to do with potency and resetting your 'downs', is this an accurate guess?

payday-2

Rapitor

ffff each animal is more of apain than the last

snakes have a negative birth/death for a while

Origami Robot

@Unionhawk Every new one is a test for the old

Unionhawk

Nope.

I have freed myself from incrementals forever with my airtight logic.

Don't ruin it.

Sconibulus

@Arperum nope, just having all the things maxed

Arperum

@Sconibulus Salme here.

Rapitor

3:27 PM

the max birthrate is level 20 it seems

Sconibulus

well, enclosure is only at 10

Arperum

@Sconibulus more isn't needed yet.

Fuck it, I'm buying my way to knowledge. FOR SCIENCE!

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk If you play new, inferior ones, it will just make you appreciate the best one even more.

Arperum

3k meerkats, 99.22%

Origami Robot

Meerkats feel like a waste now

Arperum

3:30 PM

6k meerkats, 99.6%

deathrate of 37%

Rapitor

is your death rate maxed?

the bonus

Arperum

7k meerkats, 99.66%

Sconibulus

99% is at exactly 2,396 meerkats, btw

Arperum

@Rapitor yup, only meerkat related thing that isn't maxed is cage size.

Sconibulus

with maxed birth rate

DragonLord

3:32 PM

I've noticed a trend towards extreme difficulty these days

Anyone with an explanation?

Unionhawk

@DragonLord In what? Incrementals or real games?

murgatroid99

@DragonLord what are you talking about?

Arperum

@Sconibulus It goes downhill fast.

DragonLord

As in more and more games these days touting high difficulty, permadeath, etc. as a feature

Lazers

1

Q: Engines that play Mangala?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangala_(game) The Turkish have their own rules in the game mangala. I am planning on doing a project in it. Are there any game engines that either specifically play it, or universal Mancala players that plays it after supplying the options?

windows

murgatroid99

3:34 PM

@DragonLord My guess is the popularity of Dark Souls

DragonLord

Roguelikes have seen a massive resurgence in recent years as well.

Unionhawk

Yeah, that, for one, permadeath is a roguelike thing, which was a trend for a while there

Probably still is trendy

I think every game made was being called a procedurally generated roguelike for a good 3 months

Arperum

@Unionhawk it still is.

murgatroid99

rougelike-likes have been pretty successful lately, with games like FTL and Bindiung of Isaac

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum with the highest birthrate and 227.900 meerkats (108 enclosures) you have a birthrate of 99.99%

Unionhawk

3:35 PM

@Arperum Dammit

Arperum

See: recently out of early access game ziggurat. It's pretty good actually.

Unionhawk

Skeptical @Uni is still skeptical

DragonLord

My concern is that this locks moderately-experienced gamers like us out of good content

Kevin van der Velden

You also have a birthrate of 99.99% at 162.000 meerkats

Arperum

@KevinvanderVelden Oh hai there console abuser!

Kevin van der Velden

3:36 PM

@Arperum hai!

Unionhawk

player.win=true

Arperum

I think that settles it, 100% not possible.

murgatroid99

@DragonLord The point of very difficult games is that some players want more of a challenge. If you don't want those challenges, then those games may just not be for you

Unionhawk

boom. just won every incremental in existence

You're welcome, internet

Origami Robot

snakes incoming

Rapitor

3:37 PM

@Unionhawk you don't win incrememntals

Arperum

Game done. I don't care anymore.

Rapitor

you reset them for a boost to play again

Unionhawk

@Rapitor I just set a win flag to true, so clearly I did.

Rapitor

@Arperum it is

Arperum

@Rapitor Oh? At what point? how ridiculously many meerkats do I need to stack? Do I need 1 meerkat moon or do I need a whole meerkat universe?

Unionhawk

3:39 PM

Cats.gfy

2

Kevin van der Velden

@Arperum I went further :D It is possible like @Rapitor said.

Somewhere around 486.500 meerkats

Rapitor

@Arperum when you restart the game, your birthrate is boosted. and there is still a price for birthrate increase after you hit the initial 20 cap, which leads me to believe you could eventually buy higher level

Arperum

3 mins ago, by Arperum

Game done. I don't care anymore.

Chippies

weee

Lazers

0

Q: Does having double cards increase the chance of using them in a mission?

In Pocket Mine you can fuse duplicate cards. But if I don't fuse them but rather play on, do I have more (probably roughly doubled) chance to use that specific card in a mission?

pocket-mine

Powerlord

3:49 PM

That was weird, chat just randomly showed a message I sent like an hour ago with a timeout message

DragonLord

gamesradar.com/high-horse-difficulty-games-broken

That pretty much sums it up

murgatroid99

@DragonLord That's kind of a different issue. It's talking about poorly designed "Hard modes" and bad difficulty curves

DragonLord

@murgatroid99 Yeah, but this only adds to the gap between normal games and super-hard games

Lazers

0

Q: How to obtain 5-star cards?

I get 2-star cards by combining 2 1-star cards. Do I get more-star cards by waiting before fusing, or will fusing only happen between two cards of the same star-rank and increase the star-rank by 1?

pocket-mine

murgatroid99

@DragonLord The problem with the games in that article aren't that they're hard, but that they're poorly designed. There are poorly designed games all over the place, with any kind of problem you can think of. It's not unique to difficulty issues.

Rapitor

3:57 PM

hard in games lately is give enemies more health and you less

DragonLord

@murgatroid99 Well, to get a sense of the difficulty level I'd like to see, Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia actually felt right to me

...while Shovel Knight was marginally too difficult

murgatroid99

@Rapitor I'm interested to see how BoI: Rebirth does hard mode. Because I think it won't be that

Rapitor

@murgatroid99 more enemies

murgatroid99

@Rapitor I doubt it will be that simple

Rapitor

that's what the original BoI was. the "hard" areas was just more enemies that would hit harder.

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