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Auto Necrochess comments · Posted in Auto Necrochess comments

This was an interesting run, for a few reasons.
While I have seen several people aim for and occasionally reach units with 99/99 stats, with these ~~big boned skeletons~~ Calcium Elementals here... as I boosted their health as much as I could, I intentionally avoided boosting their attack at all. This meant, no using milk; Farmers only. In addition to the 3 level 3 Farmers giving each of these guys an extra 4 health every turn, once I had everything set up, I would repeatedly buy 2 extra Farmers to give one of them an extra 3 health (1 for the first Farmer, 2 for the second that upgraded it to level 2), then sell the extra level 2 Farmer. Also, no upgrading them at all, keeping their starting damage at 2... which doubled the amount of time these three were able to stall.
This resulted in the game going on an absolutely ludicrous 28 turns (also having an even more absurd 80 buildings, thanks to all those Farmers). And thus, the King had/was supposed to have so much health that... the extra hearts (pre-emptied because of the 99 stat cap) completely covered the top lane!
Anyway, as for the King fight... I ended up using 2 of my 9 upgraded Blessings. Could have done it with just 1, the first reduced him to just 1 HP left, but I figured it would be best to let my best soldier actually win the fight rather than it and the king getting a mutual kill.

Auto Necrochess comments · Posted in Auto Necrochess comments

Trevormark54 days ago

Auto Necrochess comments · Replied to rye rye4 in Auto Necrochess comments

Trevormark54 days ago

Well, there's two main ways you can go about it: the "normal sane playthrough" strategy, and the "trying weird stuff" strategy.

For normal play:

Your best friend is Bards combined with an upgraded ratfolk, or alternatively with an upgraded flying skull holding bones. Or later a summoner. Just that can hold an entire line on their own until the endgame, and even then all they need is the addition of a Rocker (in ANY lane!) except maybe in the final boss fight. The only downside to this strategy is that if you aren't careful it may result in triggering the final boss fight before you are ready!

Vikings and Stoners are good early game things, but will fall to mediocre as things progress. Skulls start out worse than either of those, but get much better with upgrades. Milkmen are situational; they can be great or nearly useless depending on the composition of the rest of your army. Bowies suck no matter what, ignore them. Stickies are fantastic units for how common they are, just because their upgrading is better than most.

The Bat Curse spell is fantastic. In early to mid game, it is good at killing whatever slips through your defenses, or just killing the most hard hitting stuff (Royalists and Guards) first before they can kill your units. In late game, it removes those pesky shields and bows.

When you reasonably can, calculate ahead of time what will kill what; this will best let you know when to use spells and on what.

Remember that Freeze is a thing!

Don't necessarily just use all your spells at the beginning of the fight; it is often better to keep some in reserve to use later.

Always go for Mausoleums, except maybe if you are about to fight the king.

Consider waiting until the third bone before upgrading anything to the third tier; this will ensure you get four bone stuff appearing to buy.

Use the Summon spell to block archers from taking a step that would enable them to use their bow. This can also potentially be used to make Snitches and APCs spawn only a single unit on death! Works best if you have a Rocker somewhere. Alternatively, use the Summon spell on a space occupied by your own units, to push them back; either to keep them safe from whatever enemy is in front... or to give kobolds and pigs more chances to do their thing!

A single succubus, if you upgrade her health a bit and support her with shielding and spells, is another thing that can easily solo an entire row outside of the final boss fight.

Sell all buildings just before the battle with the king, since you won't be needing them afterwards.

For the final battle, put your most powerful stuff in the middle row, Bat Curse the two princes (to remove their shields if nothing else), note that succubi are ineffective against the king and princes. The Blessing spell on your hardest hitting unit is good for surviving the king's blows long enough to kill him.

For trying weird stuff:

Don't even bother unless you can fairly consistently win with normal play.

Bat curse is even MORE useful here. Get at least one on the first round, reset if you don't get it. Maybe even don't bother with any actual units for the first couple rounds, Bat Curse books only. Eventually aim for a full set of 3 fully upgraded Bat Curses.

Reroll, a lot. Freeze, even more.

ALWAYS go for Mausoleums, they are what will eventually enable your weird stuff. (Especially if your weird stuff IS lots and lots of Mausoleums)

Focus on having the contents of each row be just a single tanky and easily upgraded unit. Vikings are good for this, Stickies are even better. Give them all Shields. Boost with Blacksmith and Farmer, aim for 9 attack to one-shot all non-boss units. Ignore most other units unless they are needed for whatever weird thing you are trying out. Once you have done this, you can stall for an extremely long time, enabling your Mausoleums to let you buy... whatever.

Auto Necrochess comments · Posted in Auto Necrochess comments

Trevormark55 days ago

Bug I discovered on this... uh, this particular run: Level 3 Succubi if given a shield (and presumably, other items) will lose it when using their projectile.

Auto Necrochess comments · Replied to ThatRandomHorse in Auto Necrochess comments

Trevormark55 days ago (1 edit)

I don't think you understand how the minds of leaders work. That, or you think that the villain of this game is somehow different from our real world politicians and corporate executives.

I'm sure the king did invest in those. Probably had a lot more than that, even! More than could possibly fit on the entire field! ...and then he spent all of the income from them on food, wine, and other luxuries for himself. Well, what he physically could spend, anyway; he just hoarded the rest.

Auto Necrochess comments · Replied to B-Kong in Auto Necrochess comments

Trevormark55 days ago

...okay, you win, I submit to the will of the Mausoleum fanclub.

Small update and FANART WOO comments · Replied to Stopsignal in Small update and FANART WOO comments

Trevormark55 days ago (7 edits)

Yeah, Pale Moon is a fork of an old version of Firefox. It... has increasing problems supporting newer games and stuff, but aside from that I still overall prefer it to what modern Firefox has turned into. I keep Firefox around as a backup browser, so can confirm, it does work just fine there. Completed another run in it, with 6 upgraded mausoleums and everything. Well, kind of fine; while in Pale Moon the music was oddly absent even when the game did work, in Firefox it is mostly fine but I did once encounter an odd bug upon restarting that caused two of the songs to play at the same time until I refreshed? Anyway, errors:

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(Sorry if you were attempting to read this before the multiple edits, was having problems trying to work through itch.io's comment formatting)
I notice the differences in the last three errors, and suspect that these last three are both not an issue, and not caused by the game itself, but rather the fact that I use NoScript and don't trust any google sites.

Small update and FANART WOO comments · Posted in Small update and FANART WOO comments

Trevormark56 days ago

You may have gained Android support... but you've lost Pale Moon support. Pale Moon is my main browser, and it was able to play this just yesterday, but now all it gives me is a blank grey square.

Auto Necrochess comments · Replied to B-Kong in Auto Necrochess comments

Trevormark56 days ago

Thank you! The "Hyperfixate on Bat Curses" step was what I couldn't figure out; most of the other stuff I already did even in the course of a normal run. Except for the spying... that I find only rarely useful, especially in the early game, especially if I have any amount of Bat Curse. Oh, and yes, you CAN have enough or even too many Mausoleums... once they start getting in the way of placing other things! 3 level 3 Mausoleums for a total of +12 gold per turn was about the limit. But anyway, yeah, with a full set of level 3 Bat Curses, this was trivial:

Auto Necrochess comments · Replied to B-Kong in Auto Necrochess comments

Trevormark57 days ago

...HOW.

That many upgraded units... all of the same unit... how do you, hold off spawning the king long enough to make this possible!?

Auto Necrochess comments · Posted in Auto Necrochess comments

Trevormark57 days ago

It is amazing just how many emergent weird tricks and strategies and synergies such a simple system can have. A neat one that I discovered that I don't think has been mentioned before: If you have an enemy archer problem, especially with a bunch in the same row (I actually had an entire row full of nothing but archers at one point), the Summon book works better than replacing their bows with the Bat Curse. Just place your summon one space before the furthest place on the field as soon as the battle starts; this will block the archers from taking a step, and give the rest of your units time to catch up to them, so they can take over blocking movement. Works best with a Rocker to Bless summons anywhere in the field. Depending on the situation, it doesn't just have to be at the start of the battle; if unit deaths create another 2+ space gap, just pause and drop another summon in the gap.

Poofle Mutation Idle comments · Replied to BlushingKitsuneBasket in Poofle Mutation Idle comments

Trevormark280 days ago

I have two possible ideas.

The first, more developed, and probably more simple is, something with branching evolution possibilities; whatever form you were before would effect the next ones. Starting form leading to the first three forms is unchanged, but from there... your next form would still show the parts from whatever you were before, as a merged thing. So if, for example, you started with the red Brutality one and became the corresponding dragon, continuing to focus on Brutality until you evolve would result in the bigger dragon like before, but if you were to switch to Alacrity you'd get a form like a cross halfway between the red and green forms (yellow perhaps), or if you were to go to Mysticism you'd get a form in between those instead (magenta). For ease of art, you could get these combined forms from the opposite direction as well; red->green and green->red result in the same thing; only 3 new forms from that. Once you are the final stage form, you would not change forms anymore; no going blue+green cyan form and then suddenly becoming the red one instead. The only way to see the other forms would be via using one of the stat reset items and then going along a different path (and possibly by doing something after completing the game?).

The alternate, probably more complicated idea I had would be to evolve upon reaching specific stat totals, rather than a value with any one stat, and the form you'd get would be based upon the ratio of the stats at the time of evolution. If your Brutality is a lot higher than your Alacrity and Mysticism that would result in the dragon again, but if the Alacrity is relatively close then there'd be some trait from the green path noticeably mixed in, and if all three stats were relatively balanced then you'd get some sort of balanced form combining all three paths. This... would result in a lot more forms, and might require an actual overhaul of how mutations are gained, so whether you want to go for this depends on how ambitious you are and how much you are willing to risk breaking things that already work.

Regardless of what you do, even if you don't go for either of these ideas, I really do strongly recommend some sort of indicator for when you'll evolve. It could be a whole new piece of interface, it could be a little graphic tacked on to the existing interface, it could just be a little number saying that you will evolve upon hitting this value, there's all kinds of ways to do it.

Poofle Mutation Idle comments · Posted in Poofle Mutation Idle comments

Trevormark281 days ago

The way the forms are decided is really... strange. As far as I can tell, there are 7 of them: the base form you start out as, and 2 forms for each stat. The first time you hit some specific value with any of the stats (no way of knowing ahead of time what that value is), you switch to that form, regardless of what you were before. Once the form you were in is replaced, it is gone forever, no matter what... with the exception of the base form, which you switch back to if you fuse with the item that resets all stats.

Path of Achra comments · Posted in Path of Achra comments

Trevormark302 days ago

Glory: successfuly reclined in.
(Twelfth Cycle of Glory is the final cycle, for anyone who didn't know)

Path of Achra comments · Posted in Path of Achra comments

Trevormark314 days ago

This is probably the oddest build I've made, but it's actually surprisingly extremely powerful:Personal offensive power, range, armor, block, healing, buffing, debuffing, hordes of summons, this guy's got it all. By the end, I was flooding almost the entire floor with my summons, taking almost no damage (thanks to Barbarism), instantly healing what little damage I did take, freezing every enemy who came anywhere within four squares of me, blasting everything across the floor with Astral/Ice/Fire damage every time I stood still or attacked. No idea how well it would work on earlier cycles (in particular the first one), but this got me through cycle eleven no problem.

Path of Achra comments · Replied to Trevormark in Path of Achra comments

Trevormark322 days ago

...nevermind, still going, this game is way too addicting. Incidentally, for the fifth cycle... I managed to beat the final boss and all of his minions with just two attacks. Psiblade Pugilist Psychonaut wearing a Robe of Dreams is... absurd. Not even just absurdly powerful, though it is, it's... I attack one enemy, and then I am teleport spamming all over the map, throwing around Psychic/Astral beams all over the place until whatever I hit is dead. Seriously, try it if you can, it's hilarious. King of Many Colors is impressive for needing to be hit a second time before dying, though even that is just because the many Demons he started the "battle" with redirected a bunch of attacks away from him on the first hit.

Path of Achra comments · Posted in Path of Achra comments

Trevormark324 days ago

Astroecologist Roguelike comments · Posted in Astroecologist Roguelike comments

Trevormark360 days ago

When I was trying to capture a family of bison, I ended up closing the door of one of the large cells on an adult bison (it was halfway in and halfway out of the cell), and the game crashed.

Vanguard Monsters comments · Replied to Greav1 in Vanguard Monsters comments

Trevormark361 days ago (1 edit)

Can be found in normal, non-infinite run. Heat. Requires specific egg. Rest.

Vanguard Monsters comments · Posted in Vanguard Monsters comments

Trevormark363 days ago

There. FINALLY got Mamu and Nessa. After attempting all kinds of convoluted arbitrary nonsense, unassigning everyone in the village from their jobs to play with the bouncy red ball for a while, putting myself through hell with various weird long challenge runs in Infinite Mode, savescumming in order to hatch or discard Parra eggs at every single possible random event... I now feel absolutely ridiculous, on account of how simple the actual solutions are.

For Mamu, I looked up the solution, and I'm glad I did because it is something I never would have figured out on my own. Despite it being probably the easiest secret to do once you know how. Not going to simply repost it here, but I will give one more big hint on top of the ones that have already been said.
~~Hint: Empty Building~~

For Nessa... as far as I can tell, the complete solution isn't yet written down anywhere (and I'm not about to break that tradition), but once I pieced together the hints... I'm actually surprised I didn't get it sooner.
Important Info So You Don't Go Crazy While Trying Random Things: Infinite Mode is NOT required, and a specific zone is also not required.
~~Hint: Rest~~

Vanguard Monsters comments · Replied to BriteShadowWolf in Vanguard Monsters comments

Trevormark364 days ago

I could be mistaken about the cause, it's entirely possible that it was the loops rather than saving and quitting. I noticed that the stats were off, and what the incorrect stats corresponded to, but I might be wrong about the exact timing of when it happened.

Vanguard Monsters comments · Posted in Vanguard Monsters comments

Trevormark364 days ago

As far as I can tell so far, the crashing problems are finally fixed... but, I have noticed what I think might be another bug. When saving and quitting under certain circumstances, certain stats are lower or higher than they should be: specifically, stats that are affected by an item that raises/lowers stats by a percentage rather than an absolute value. My Tizik, who fused with the (merged) Crown of Spring, has stats that are all noticeably higher than everyone else, while everyone who had Heavy Shackles (fused or otherwise) has their Speed absolutely crippled despite all the Quickfish I know I've fed them. My guess is that the percentage stat buff/debuff is saved, and then when the game is reloaded, it's applied again, on top of the boost that was already there?