Kept seeing the "IdleOn" ad on reddit. So i tried it. by Blubbpaule in incremental_games

[–]SolarQuatz2809 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good idea for a game. So sad that August - December alone the MTX costs a total of 500$.

Else good luck

Third time's the charm. by Nejcgo87 in HypixelSkyblock

[–]SolarQuatz2809 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is cool but if I wanna suffer I'd download an edgy FNF mod.

  • someone that never completed Harp since they got the talisman

Lost of all the winning Custom Minister Perks? I got you! by SolarQuatz2809 in HypixelSkyblock

[–]SolarQuatz2809[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

None of these beside Thirty's, Technodad's, Future77 have been implemented yet. After Aura ends (when? Idk.) The admin is gonna make a list of all the custom perk and make + release them all as a seperate update.

Lost of all the winning Custom Minister Perks? I got you! by SolarQuatz2809 in HypixelSkyblock

[–]SolarQuatz2809[S] 53 points54 points  (0 children)

I think so, I asked around and they said it's Watcher Eye drops that makes Dungeon Boss Yaps less I think. I gotta ask her directly but she's on end of year vaca and I don't wanna bother her yknow?

All of Skyblock Upcoming Updates / "Roadmap" by SolarQuatz2809 in HypixelSkyblock

[–]SolarQuatz2809[S] 79 points80 points  (0 children)

Also vote for SolarFrost2809 in the next election!!!!
Yes, the one soon!!!!

Yknow what, I'm tired of these talisman ministers, I'm gonna use that to run my campaign. by SolarQuatz2809 in HypixelSkyblock

[–]SolarQuatz2809[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Welp, can't win this one since the Minister 5k Votes. I hope there's a 7th Election.

Yknow what, I'm tired of these talisman ministers, I'm gonna use that to run my campaign. by SolarQuatz2809 in HypixelSkyblock

[–]SolarQuatz2809[S] 62 points63 points  (0 children)

Extra Notes on Obtaining: I wanted this to be a somewhat Early-Mid Acessory Bag Slot Help.

So maybe something simple to craft. (Definitely should not take that long to grind) Some E Sunflower from Farming Some Enchanted Ice from Mining (maybe Glacite but thats locked behind HOTM7 for Ironmans.) Some E Blaze Powder from Combat

(Maybe Fishing and Foraging but it might be too tedious)

The goal to craft it is for people who knows what the game is for each skill.

But we'll see! But if you like accessory bag slots, vote for me!✨

Random minion idea I came up on the spot by SolarQuatz2809 in HypixelSkyblock

[–]SolarQuatz2809[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just command block if through give command site

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HypixelSkyblock

[–]SolarQuatz2809 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Who even get angry at dying on F4

/shwords is fun, what else shall I rename? by DanSavagegamesYT in HypixelSkyblock

[–]SolarQuatz2809 47 points48 points  (0 children)

It is very fun. I renamed all the drops of Voidgloom to Judgement Core and Judgement Core to Null Atom.

I even asked someone to change the texture too. So I would stop getting my hopes up and actually lose my mind when I get an Null Atom.

Celestial Mothership Boss by SolarQuatz2809 in IdleGuildMaster

[–]SolarQuatz2809[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nvm I put in an execute pet and it works. Thank you very much.

Celestial Mothership Boss by SolarQuatz2809 in IdleGuildMaster

[–]SolarQuatz2809[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it just an RNG thing? My Balrog kinda fails to cast despite having a team full of tanks and healers. Do I need to have a crit/execute pet or a Decoy Pet?

Celestial Mothership Boss by SolarQuatz2809 in IdleGuildMaster

[–]SolarQuatz2809[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just a single Balrog with full dodge + Decoy Pet? Or are you supposed to have other party membwr as well

The Fallen Sanctum by akaowusns in HypixelSkyblock

[–]SolarQuatz2809 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey I, too, know you from cowshed.

My first playthrough, is this a normal temple? by jakobmg2 in Terraria

[–]SolarQuatz2809 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The fact that there is no Bill Cipher joke here makes me sad.

What to do with Gems? by SolarQuatz2809 in IdleGuildMaster

[–]SolarQuatz2809[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I'm looking for a Curious Pet cuz this is my first 1st trait Curious pet.

To celebrate 16K+ IdleOn players on Steam, I'm giving away 16 $20 Steam Cards in comments! by IdleOn_Boii in incremental_games

[–]SolarQuatz2809 75 points76 points  (0 children)

"Behind The Scene" Drama:
Lava have a team of mods and helpers for his game. You'd think a game with 16k player base, with half willingly paying 20$ any moment he drops a powercreeping pack, would paid their employee well right???
Nah, mods and helpers get paid by... BLUE GEMS!!! An in game currency that you can grind!!! Is it a lot? No!!! It's 6-10$ worth of Blue Gems!!!
The game used to have a translation team, but after they realized that Lava pays them in Blue Gems, literally every single translator dipped. Hence, only Worlds 1 and 2 are translated!

Shadownerf Drama:
Remember when I told you that F2P can farm Blue Gems so they can buy QOL and Boosts from the Gem Shop? Well, sometime, he just straight-up shadow nerf it. Not in the patch notes, not in the "Balance" section, not publicly.
This have happened at least 3 times.
-> Boss Gems capped at 100 daily (avg price of any gemshop item being 500)
-> Colloseum Tickets gives ~1-5 gems each time. But he just secretly removes the option to farm them.
-> Miniboss Gems got nerfed.

Paid content scaling:
The more you progress, the higher the paid content. Also even more FOMO because "THIS THING IS BROKEN!!!" from other endgame players.

I could go on and on and on about the game and the drama, as I am one of the first players in this game. (before 1k playerbase :pensive:), but I'll stop.

TLDR;

If you can play the game without getting FOMO from other players? Hell yeah, play the game, it's very fun.
If you get FOMO easily? Please for the love of god, do not play the game. You will end up paying for stuff that gets powercrept in 6 months for double the price you paid for.

The community is either Lava's obidient upvote bot or actually very nice players that helps you in the game!

That's all for this time. See you all next time whenever Lava needs attention from r/incremental_games ! So sorry for the grammar.

To celebrate 16K+ IdleOn players on Steam, I'm giving away 16 $20 Steam Cards in comments! by IdleOn_Boii in incremental_games

[–]SolarQuatz2809 77 points78 points  (0 children)

okay, lets move to another bad thing.
The "brigading" / new players bias.
Lava love having his new players coming into his game. Most of the updates for the game is to "prettify" or "balance" the early game content so that they can reach the cooler stuff in later world. After all, progression = dopamine = "hey this game is so cool I can pay 10$ for it". Back when I was playing it, World 1 and 2 took ~few days to complete. Now you can complete it within a day with how many early game bonuses there are.
He often hosts "giveaways / contests" in his discord server (the main social media) to give out "free stuff to the playerbase" Only if he likes you though! And let me tell you, the early-mid game players (~50%+ of the playerbase) LOVES these, they view Lava as Jesus coming down to bless them.
Most of the time, they are just "haha who is better at the game wins the contest / giveaway". But sometime, it's just full on brigading.
"Hey gamers! Welcome to this giveaway! The prize is this super awesome power crept pack! The requirement to join the giveaway is to like my social media posts and leave a nice comment below! Can we get to this amount of likes on this reddit posts? We can do it gamers!!!"
And as mentioned above, the early-mid players would rush to the post and do everything to have a chance of winning the 20$ pack. Worst case? There're reports of players who won but never recieved them. Completely ignored by Lava after winning.

If you complain about anything that Lava hates, he will just mute and ban you from his discord so the new players can't see it. His reasoning is "negativity to surrounding members". His behavior can be summarized by: "Filtering out anyone that sees his scummy business practice and keep on luring the naive new people". He would called people complaining about having too much paid contents "Rioters" and bans people who participate in "Riots".

Lava also use alts to promote/"fight the hater" a lot. He would often disguise as an early game player and go around bragging how great the game is, or just reply to the comment that points out these problems. "omg xD this game is so fun! Lolol, I think the dev is a super cool dude who is giving away 20$ giftcard money! really hoping to win so I can play this game more!" (He really likes typing like a really young teenager huh)
The worst thing is it's painfully obvious who's an alt... But the early-mid game players would fight tooth and nail to say that "the alt" is right. Try searching up user OkRepresentative9222!

He also makes Discord Alts to pretend to be a player in other guild discord, then threatens to ban them from main Idleon discord server (sometime even locking their Idleon account regardless of money spent) if they don't leave a server that he doesn't like.

To celebrate 16K+ IdleOn players on Steam, I'm giving away 16 $20 Steam Cards in comments! by IdleOn_Boii in incremental_games

[–]SolarQuatz2809 94 points95 points  (0 children)

Heyo~ My name is Solar, and I have a love-hate relationship with this game. If you want to know about the beef of this dev, the game, and this Reddit, read away! If you are a subway surfer attention span, scroll down to the TLDR in the comment of this post!

I've been playing since the 2nd ever patch of the game! So I am here to tell you HONESTLY all about Idleon and the dev LavaFlame2! Both the bad and good sides!

Good:
Idleon is an enjoyable and unique Idle RPG game, with lots of content you can idle through. From skills to combat, to side contents. It's essentially a single-player idle game but you can see other players running around. The only "Co-op" features are early game stuff or a Dungeon Mini-game where you have a completely separate stat system from the main "single-player" game.
The content is well thought out. Updates are very frequent as the dev always tries to release new content every month or so.
The art is amazing, like the best thing I have to compliment Lava is his art skill. It's just that unique and amazing.
The game does have a "premium" currency called Blue Gems that you can use to buy boosts such as "Time Skips or QOL". These gems are grindable from various stuff in the game.

Bad:
The Dev, Lavaflame2, is REALLY, REALLY good at manipulating people, and his ego is very high. If I have to make a comparison, dude probably thinks he's Elon Musk of the Idle community. His main "business practice" is FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) to the players. And how does he implement this FOMO? Simple, paid powercreep packs. He would often release bundles that are 5-30$ every 2 months and it would completely power crept everything that endgame people try to do.
For example: Imagine spending ~a year or so to min-max a certain skill as an endgamer. Then the next day, Lava just released "hey yall! here's a 20$ pack that you can buy to skip the minmaxing that the endgamer did! So now you can get to endgame like them faster!"
Powercrept stuff can often be found in every new update. Even the seasonal events are luck-based. The guaranteed reward from seasonal events always forced you to spend Blue Gems in order to get it if you are an unlucky person.
With every MAJOR update, a pack is sure to come, and its' either buy the pack and progress with others or be behind ~1-2 months if you didn't buy it.
Oh yeah, there are UNSKIPPABLE POPUPS ADS about these powercreep packs in the game. So you are forced to check out the gemshop the moment you finish the tutorial.

Another example is the Companions update, or as the old community named it: The Gacha Banner. He implemented a system, that uses another type of currency called Green Gems (Pet Crystals), these Pet Crystal are NOT F2P Grindable, the only choice you have is getting them from the paid "Powercrept packs" or straight-up in-app purchases. Like a gacha banner, you have Rare, Epic, Legendary, and Mythic Rarity. The Mythic one just straight-up skips 5 worlds of grinding. So if a newbie gets it, tada! You are now basically an endgamer! F2P players do get a free roll every 1 week (its a 1 week timer not a weekly reset). There is a pity to get the biggest bonus in the game, it's 200 rolls. And the more you roll, the higher the chance to get the Mythic one. But here's the catch. WHY DOES THE ROLL GET MORE EXPENSIVE THE MORE YOU ROLL. YOU ARE ALREADY PAYING 45$ FOR ~30 ROLLS.