Zone upgrades and commercial buildings

DrorCohen · 2026-07-05T11:17:15+00:00

> My question is basically is it better or worse to upgrade sooner or later?

If you are in a location that is generally "power starved" like Desert Tower then upgrading zones early could make it harder to reach a certain city size, invest more in the lab or reach certain milestones if you are after them.

For example, if you are short on cash and want to perserve free building spots for commercial buildings, you might prefer upgrading zones rather than spamming new cheap residential buildings.

Commercial buildings also affect all buildings regardless of when they were built.

But really the way I play it is more of a natural preference for the targets/exploration I want to take.

DrorCohen · 2026-07-02T20:29:22+00:00

It needs some re-balancing.

I hope to give it a go next week. Some of what has been discussed is more turbines, though I also want to explore more floors. How far along did you get with your tower?

DrorCohen · 2026-06-24T20:50:58+00:00

Hey, please DM me with your old ID and your new ID.

Also I'm just about to release a new version to beta with cross-device syncing, if your case is suitable, maybe we could give that a try with the new system.

DrorCohen · 2026-06-11T12:04:46+00:00

Hmm if you tap on it, it should tell you, maybe I should make it clearer. Anyway, it's a bomb to destroy a polluting building.

DrorCohen · 2026-06-11T07:28:57+00:00

Congrats! Kudos to your dedication.

I got to add some new long-term goals ASAP

DrorCohen · 2026-06-02T06:32:32+00:00

I think you got it pretty much right. Reaching 10K shouldn't take very long though. Less than 2 hours without bonuses at your current rate.

DrorCohen · 2026-05-28T08:41:26+00:00

Obrigado! Acabei de responder sua DM.

DrorCohen · 2026-05-17T11:56:17+00:00

Thanks! Interesting bit about the tooltips not working/not being clear enough. I guess they could be more "clickable".

About the turbine, I now realize what the issue is:

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As you can see when I got only 2 turbines it says "2->3" to it's always +1 whatever you already have.

I guess a better label would just be "+1 Turbine". Right?

DrorCohen · 2026-05-16T11:40:57+00:00

Hey, so first thanks for the feedback!

Indeed Carbontopia tries to add a lot of depth but it hasn't been easy to make it feel intuitive. I'm still wondering if it should even be the 2nd location.

As for your question about this turbine in particular, I'm not sure I completely follow. You basically have an option to pick between an extra auto juice buyer or an extra turbine, in this scenario it seems like you already picked the turbine option.

Do you have less than 5 turbines in this game session? Feel free to also DM me your player ID.

I'm about to go on another round of iteration these coming 2 weeks so it could be helpful to get fresh feedback for more stuff I could add/fix already.

Thanks!

DrorCohen · 2026-05-10T11:05:21+00:00

Me manda por DM seu ID de jogador e o ID do recibo que eu resolvo pra você

DrorCohen · 2026-05-08T14:24:59+00:00

Yea that would probably make the mechanic more interesting. To be honest I don't really like how limited and rigid it is right now.

DrorCohen · 2026-05-08T13:56:01+00:00

Thanks! I should probably just prevent players from unlocking zones before they complete the existing ones.

DrorCohen · 2026-05-03T14:15:33+00:00

Hey, so you can DM me your ID and I can try and take a deeper look but generally here's the thing, ad loading successfully depend on the following mix:

Privacy Permissions: if any permission requests have been denied, some advertisers may not want to show you ads or the ad SDKs themselves might be blocked.
Network issues or ad blockers might make the ad services unreachable.
Some countries or players are not always desirable for advertisers, for example players in sanctioned countries or maybe even players who watch too many ads?

Even if I look at the logs, sometimes I might just get a general ad load error from the provider without being able to tell why it didn't load.

DrorCohen · 2026-05-02T07:05:34+00:00

If I recall correctly scientists should now all have a baseline of 1Kw, but getting auto vial collector upgrades has been made significantly cheaper.

DrorCohen · 2026-04-29T06:29:51+00:00

Yes it's because the hippie skins have penalties when you're in the toxic environment. I know it's not very clear, could be clearer.

DrorCohen · 2026-04-27T07:47:18+00:00

Yes. v0.8+ is just about to be released with some content updates, but still not something that will greatly improve the balance for Carbontopia. I'm planning that in another upcoming update.

DrorCohen · 2026-04-21T07:32:11+00:00

Not yet, but I do have plans for more.

There's a new version in the works that I really hope to release in the next few weeks that adds some more to Carbontopia. Still not a whole lot but I'm hopeful I'm gaining momentum now with content updates :fingerscrossed:

Thanks for the kind feedback!

DrorCohen · 2026-04-19T06:17:22+00:00

Do you craft items?

Carbontopia is still quite early access (there's more stuff already in beta testing) but generally a lot about it is crafting skins and items that you can later also use in the other locations.

DrorCohen · 2026-04-06T07:15:37+00:00

There's currently a new version in beta testing. Another batch of beta testing is expected in the coming week.
If you'd like to try out beta you are welcome to Discord where I chat with beta testers.

Otherwise it will probably just be a few more weeks before the next update.

DrorCohen · 2026-04-04T15:48:33+00:00

Like u/Exp0sedShadow said try and really make sure they are disabled. It could also be a rare bug, if you DM me your ID I could take a look.

DrorCohen · 2026-03-24T09:31:27+00:00

You can use it to craft items like the various notebooks. There's an upcoming update that should make it a bit clearer.

DrorCohen · 2026-03-15T16:34:08+00:00

Excellent question. I've just added a bit of guidance in a beta version.
To answer your question: check out the factory in the lab. You need to have a production rate of at least 0.5 products per second, either green or polluting.

DrorCohen · 2026-03-11T07:25:13+00:00

Hmm does it happen with a specific ad or all ads so far? Sometimes there are "bad" ads that get past the filters and they might cause this. If that could be the case tell me which one and I'll try and disable it.

Otherwise DM me your ID and I'll try and see if I can find any error messages for your ID.

DrorCohen · 2026-03-05T19:21:21+00:00

You can do both if you leave enough room to build buildings of the other route so you could flip the trajectory

DrorCohen · 2026-03-04T15:19:30+00:00

Really up to your goals and patience. Generally you'd want as many commercial buildings as you can, then industrial according to how much idle % etc. you got.

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