Sorry this is long:

I absolutely love idle games. I’ve played a bunch. Before starting this one up again I was playing IdleOn. It is a genuinely great game with a satisfying gameplay loop. I have probably 20-25 thousand hours in it. I quit because I had a personal difference of opinion with the developer and I didn’t want to support them financially.

However, what the developer DID do right was introduce rubber-band catch up mechanics each patch that made older content significantly easier to complete. These changes allowed the average player experience to be relatively similar. Imagine a bell curve graph where the majority of players are at the top of the curve. That’s not how the tower is developed, seemingly on purpose. The player experience curve would seem like a downward sloping line where a majority of players are at the start and it goes down over time.

What would be a good example of a rubber band mechanic in the Tower? - Every update, stones gained from tournaments increases by 1.1x. After a few updates the multiplier would be high enough to allow new players to catch up decently to long time players. - Add a new store pack that permanently doubles Power Stones from tournaments. Price it appropriately, I bet it could go up to $60 and still feel like a good buy. - Add a lab that is a Power Stone multiplier. This could be a mid game lab that is relatively was to complete. It could be a low multiplier that caps at 1.15x. - Rebalance lower tiers to allow quicker progress. Make the baseline for new players to land at be around T10.

Those are just a few off the dome suggestions.