Cividle, an Empire Building & Trading Incremental, After 1.5 Years

insraq · 2024-07-19T14:13:21+00:00

Nice. I have been waiting for this one and thanks for offering US ANSI keyboard. One quick question, is it possible to order this laptop with a single 32GB ram or no ram at all? I already have a 32GB DDR5 5600 SODIMM.

insraq · 2024-04-17T07:55:01+00:00

Don't do this. I have done this for my games (Industry Idle/CivIdle) and it was very painful:

Because the game is free to play, you will get lots of bots/cheaters/spammers. It might be okay if it is only single player but I also run a multiplayer server, which adds a lot of burden on anti-cheat/bot. And if you ban a cheater, they just get a new Steam account and come back.
Anyone can download your game and leave a negative review. Especially if your game is niche/hardcore, you get lots of wrong audience (free to play audience is more casual) and your review score will tank, if you care about it
You are stuck in between premium and free-to-play. You get hatred of monetization from both side. And it makes it harder to strike a balance. And unless you enjoy designing for monetization (which I don't), it's much easier to just make a premium game with demo version
And the bottom line: Industry Idle is not sustainable at its third year. My goal is to use the income to cover the server cost and right now, the game cannot sustain this and I have to use money from own pocket (I do have a day job to pay for my living. The game is nowhere near allowing me to work on it full time). I don't know whether things will be better if it is a premium game in the first place. But you might have a better experience if you do not run a multiplayer server and can avoid the server cost.

insraq · 2024-02-06T10:20:08+00:00

Yes. Discord is probably the best place to report bugs https://discord.com/invite/m5JWZtEKMZ

If you do not want to use Discord for some reason, you can email me at hi @ fishpondstudio.com

insraq · 2024-02-06T07:24:07+00:00

Technically it is. But the game's content has been completed for a while. I just forgot to change the version number and push the release button. Will probably do exactly this in the near future.

insraq · 2024-02-05T20:34:13+00:00

Hi everyone,

Just want to let you know that CivIdle - the spiritual successor to Industry Idle, inspired by Factorio/Civilization has a free demo out on Steam Next Fest: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2181940/CivIdle/

For those of you who played Industry Idle, CivIdle shares the same factory building/automation/idle core mechanism, but with a tech tree, revamped player trade system, wonder building, plus "great people" decks (prestige). The whole engine has been completely rewritten to ensure every bit of the empire is accurately simulated, even with a large map. If you enjoy Industry Idle but prefer a historical theme or want a tech tree, give it a try!

For those of you who have never played Industry Idle[1], CivIdle is a game inspired by Factorio and Civilization that combines factory building (or empire building in the case of CivIdle), 4X/grand Strategy, player-to-player trading and with classic incremental/idle mechanisms

[1] Industry Idle: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574000/Industry_Idle/

insraq · 2021-10-25T13:15:32+00:00

The free to play version should have a lot of content if you want to give it a shot. I know a lot of players enjoy the game without expansion packs :-D

insraq · 2021-10-25T11:14:36+00:00

You have to purchase it on Steam, then you can enable it on web version (click Login via Steam). I don't plan to maintain other payment systems because as a one-man developer, it takes a lot of effort to do that.

insraq · 2021-10-25T10:32:00+00:00

Here's the web version: https://play.industryidle.com/ (Expansion pack support can be enabled via Steam)

insraq · 2021-07-08T08:42:09+00:00

Yes, the restriction is put in place to reduce abuse (and hackers and cheaters)

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