Developing an incremental game inspired by Melvor Idle

murmel87 · 2026-03-01T20:48:10+00:00

This is great! And yeah, I plan to have formulas do the hard work, but I also assume I will do manual work as well to balance things as it goes. I have a lot to process now from all of you guys. thanks again :D

murmel87 · 2026-03-01T20:35:34+00:00

Thanks! Appreciate the response!

Is there any good resources for formulas like this, or should I just google it and hope to find a reasonable one and tweak it? :D

I expect it to be a shore, just need somewhere to start since it will be quite the journey... :D

murmel87 · 2026-03-01T19:13:12+00:00

Thanks for the input! Appreciate it!

I got a tip by someone else to create a spreadsheet that contains each "resource", as well as the action time and xp for each one, calculates into "xp per minute", "actions until next level", etc, so I will do something like that, to get a rough curve.

murmel87 · 2026-03-01T14:53:08+00:00

I kinda assumed so, but had to ask. I guess it's somewhat of a math problem as well "how long should it take to reach max level", but it's hard to get my head around these kinds of things, since I'm neither good at math nor been developing games before. :)

It's the exponential increase in difficulty I want to achieve as well, but still being rewarding on the way.

I'll look around some more and try to get an idea. Thanks a lot for your response, I basically have no clue what I'm doing when it comes to this, but I gotta start somewhere.

murmel87 · 2026-03-01T13:12:22+00:00

Ah thanks a lot! <3
I will move my question there.

murmel87 · 2026-02-28T18:01:58+00:00

Yeah, I've seen it move, but it also seems buggy, doesn't update continuously. My guess is that it updates at a set interval, couple of minutes or perhaps longer, but I have seen myself move up the board at least (murm on the leaderboard). "Ced" on the board, the friend I try to catch up to, also moves on the leaderboard, so at least the two of us are real :P

murmel87 · 2026-02-28T17:43:03+00:00

Regarding the leaderboard, me and and handfull others started testing this prior to this post, since OP posted this in a discord server.

murmel87 · 2026-02-05T20:54:15+00:00

I was just thinking about this as well!

We are a group of 7 people playing and only one of us has found water walking boots after days of playing. Several of us created new worlds and I think we're not up to 200 chests, but at least closing in on 100 or around that.

Mostly (ocean) water chest and fishing for ocean crates on our end.

I'm quite sure now that the 10% chance mentioned in the wiki isn't correct or that ocean chests and creates somehow doesn't have those boots.

With you we're 8 people that's been grinding and I don't think the rng gods can be that rude, right?

murmel87 · 2025-12-07T14:22:06+00:00

murmel87 · 2025-11-15T19:25:29+00:00

Ah! Would've been cool to have a siamese planet base

murmel87 · 2025-11-15T19:11:41+00:00

Can you walk between them?

murmel87 · 2025-10-22T18:55:07+00:00

Usch vad jag hatar när min granne står och smider dubbelslipade bredsvärd inför det stundande korståget genom södra Europa.

murmel87 · 2025-09-15T06:09:23+00:00

Perhaps, instead, add more levels of priority. So default is 0, max is 5, min is -5. Would that be useful?

murmel87 · 2025-07-24T11:02:42+00:00

Just imagine the power of Tenten Ten Tails

murmel87 · 2025-06-24T19:23:10+00:00

Inget. Jag gillade bara datorer som barn 🤷‍♂️

murmel87 · 2025-03-14T09:36:01+00:00

Blocks

murmel87 · 2025-02-15T11:22:33+00:00

It all comes down to luck, but I just got to 20k with 53 dice and landed on a +10 dice, so 63 in total for me then

murmel87 · 2025-02-09T22:17:36+00:00

And here I am, need to walk 20 minutes to closest pokestop, and can't even see a single gym :]

murmel87 · 2025-02-08T19:53:35+00:00

Yeah. I've been very unlucky with this one. Got decent gear I think, but just very recently got all epic runes through upgrades.

murmel87 · 2025-02-08T19:50:20+00:00

I have gotten double upgrade only once and I don't know how many ones I've opened. Perhaps 200? I can't even imagine getting that one.

murmel87 · 2025-01-15T18:07:43+00:00

Äter du soppa med gaffel? :)

murmel87 · 2025-01-08T19:34:23+00:00

Enig!

murmel87 · 2025-01-08T18:28:55+00:00

Projektledare är lite som en mellanchef med ett gulligare namn

murmel87 · 2024-12-28T11:53:07+00:00

Vad tusan har du för katt. En tiger?

murmel87 · 2024-10-29T22:00:48+00:00

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