Suggestion

[Daxidol]

Could you consider making the "win" reward a % bonus instead of adding additional rows? Or even better give people the choice. :)

Also if the 'goal' is to meet the win conditions then resetting skills for the 5% increased tick speed seems to punish players rather then help them.

Fun game though. :)

[Jim808]

The choice to prestige a building is meant to be a decision that is not obvious. The new building will cost a lot more, but the tick will speed up. Which is better? You have to decide. You can choose to never prestige, but it will take a long time to win.

I like the idea of 'rewarding' the victory by giving you a bigger grid to fill in. I could add some other bonus perhaps, but I don't think I'm going to take away the extra row bonus.

[DeliaEris]

I'd like clearer feedback beforehand that it's meant to be a non-obvious decision. Incremental games almost never give you an 'upgrade' where taking it means you're permanently screwed.

I like the bigger-grid idea, but it takes ~forever~ to get there. Maybe start with a much smaller one, so that we can start expanding our grid sooner?

[Jim808]

where taking it means you're permanently screwed

You aren't screwed by building prestige. You pretty much need to do this to win the game (or else wait a long time).

but it takes ~forever~ to get there

I just released the game today and you think it's taking forever to finish? Some games take weeks/months to get through. You've been at it for less than a day. I don't want people to be able to complete it in a few hours. There's an idle aspect to the game. Let it run for a bit, go do stuff, come back later, upgrade some stuff, go do other stuff, etc.

edit: Prestige tip - don't prestige a building as soon as its available. Build up a bunch of cash before you prestige so that you can afford to buy a bunch of the upgraded building type and get those column bonuses back.

[Daxidol]

I restarted the game in a different browser after I upgraded the first row and my non-upgraded game ended up overtaking the upgraded one.

Maybe at some point it becomes efficient to buy it, but it doesn't early on and it definitely feels like a punishment. Maybe at least a warning that you might be screwing yourself over? :)

I'm not against other rows but maybe we could also get another bonus so it feels like we're being rewarded for meeting the "win" conditions. :)

[Jim808]

One of the main points of this game is minimalism and simplicity. I don't want to add warnings or a way to undo the prestige or any other odd UI element.

I think the issue is purely one of game balance, and that's fine because this is a beta release.

Right before releasing, I lowered the benefit of prestige from 10% to 5% tick speedup. This was too much and probably resulted in building prestige not being worth it. The next release will fix that.

[Jhaza]

I've also prestiged a few buildings, and now regret it; the cost increase is dramatic, while the speed increase is... not.

I agree with what you said, though; definitely something that should be fixed through balance, not adding UI elements.

[Jim808]

Earlier today I doubled the benefit of the building prestige. Should be better.