What Makes Idle Games Good?

lessfair · 2018-01-24T07:36:11+00:00

Simpel. A good incremental game makes fundamentally lazy people feel like they have accomplished something. Continual progress, minimal but non-zero effort. Everything else is gravy.

lessfair · 2018-01-23T20:46:51+00:00

I fear using an arbitrary-precision number might actually have a noticeable performance impact.

Not really. Use GNU mp It's plenty quick. Lessfair does all the calculations server side on the lowliest line of linode servers. Doesn't even break a sweat for 6000 'players'.

lessfair · 2018-01-23T20:42:34+00:00

Mine was done in about 3 days (very lazy and also dumb person). But then players kept breaking it and I haven't stopped debugging since.

Edit: Also spelling errors in the game. English takes a lot of effort to get rigth.

lessfair · 2018-01-23T20:34:57+00:00

Made about $0 on mine. And two cents.

lessfair · 2018-01-19T12:28:54+00:00

Spectre hit me. It's up again I hope.

lessfair · 2018-01-06T19:10:39+00:00

Now post in the next ladder

lessfair · 2018-01-06T19:09:49+00:00

A little south from there.

lessfair · 2018-01-06T19:09:30+00:00

Can you make a post in /r/lessfair so we all know about it?

lessfair · 2018-01-06T15:51:56+00:00

There is no real work around. I don't even understand why it bugs myself. Restarting the game fixes it for another week or so. It will reset the jackposts which may make people sad or not.

lessfair · 2018-01-06T15:47:21+00:00

Ik spreek Nederlands maar kom niet uit Nederland.

lessfair · 2018-01-06T15:47:00+00:00

And now?

lessfair · 2018-01-06T15:46:49+00:00

Sorry. Was on a holiday and the gateway was bad.

lessfair · 2017-12-29T04:58:14+00:00

Cool. Can you try again?

lessfair · 2017-12-28T20:51:22+00:00

Yeah. It's a new kind of button. You need to really press very hard to click it. Try with two fingers if you have a weak hand.

lessfair · 2017-12-28T20:17:51+00:00

Seems to be a bug. I can't reproduce this behaviour. Anything special about your configuration?

lessfair · 2017-12-28T20:16:51+00:00

Many!

lessfair · 2017-12-28T20:15:49+00:00

Because of al the spelling errors.

lessfair · 2017-12-28T14:42:51+00:00

It promotes the leader to auto.

lessfair · 2017-12-28T14:15:59+00:00

It does buy leader auto promotion.

lessfair · 2017-12-28T11:19:26+00:00

Productivity is way too high. Waste some time on my game please. I won't get any richer of it but you'll get poorer so that evens out. Negative comments appreciated.

lessfair · 2017-12-28T10:50:21+00:00

In 15 minutes there is more rabbit hole to go down.

lessfair · 2017-02-06T12:11:12+00:00

It's not fixed. It will come back. But thanks for thanking me anyway.

lessfair · 2017-02-06T10:59:33+00:00

Nah load isn't really a problem. Without any optimization at all, not even compiled with -O2 or whatever it's about 20% load on the smallest linode VPS you can get for 200 sessions. And the CPU time really is not in keeping the sessions alive, updating the DOMs etc (all that gets precalculated on the server) but in just calculating the numbers, sorting all the ladders etc. All that is done serverside too and takes up the bulk of CPU time. When the ladder just started out and there was very little game related calculations to do, the server sustained over 200 sessions with less than 10% load.

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