• Buffed the scaling ascension perk that speeds up prestige layer unlocks and the scaling heirloom that speeds up combat actions. By effect, this makes various time-based milestones available sooner as well
  
• Added a biggest stats chain option for ascension autobuyers, which uses a similar mechanic as mixed prioritization if enabled
  
• Improved the performance of some internal formulas for high amounts of prestige layers
  
• Improved the buy max button displayed accuracy a bit for certain number ranges
  
• Lowered the local save frequency to up to twice per second, down from up to twenty times per second, to reduce disk usage during offline progress processing
  
• Various textual corrections/clarifications

Oh and I recently released my second game: Increlution, into Steam Early Access! If you haven't heard of it yet, consider giving the demo a try!

This update mostly aims to improve the experience of Transcension layer 2+, but helps a bit with layer 1 as well.

• Lowered the price scaling of Transcension upgrades after the third (for all layers). Points spent on the old price that would now be cheaper are auto-refunded.
  
• The base diminishing returns of TL2+ was softened (0.65 > 0.7). Meaning TL1 points now provide more TL2 points (after the first). This also applies to higher layers.
  
• Increased the amount of transcension perk points that are provided for transcending layer 2+ (it now multiplies by ten per layer, up from five).
  
• Ascension and Transcension perk points are now also rewarded for lower layers if they are available, when ascending/transcending higher layers. This way manually claiming them prior to resetting a higher layer is no longer required for maximal perk points.
  
• Reworked how the top row is positioned when you have the ascension dashboard enabled, aimed to make its content less "jumpy". This works best for resolutions wider than 1200px, but should be better for any resolution.
  
• Increased the maximum obtainable offline progress cap from 5 to 7 days, obtained after roughly 213 days of playtime (including offline time). The scaling is exactly the same as it was before, the hardcap is just higher.
  
• Added a timer to the transcension layer tabs, to provide some extra information about TL2+ runs that isn't on the ascension dashboard
  
• All "Buy multiplier" options that were referring to manual buys were renamed to "Manual buy multiplier", to prevent confusion between autobuy settings and manual options.
  
• Removed the minimal manual buy multiplier from the options tab (it's still available on the prestige tabs), because it felt out of place at this point.

• Increased the maximum offline progress cap from 3 days to 5 days. It scales based on total time played and is obtained after roughly 122 days of playtime (including time prior to this update). This cap might be raised to 7 days in a future update if most of you want it to
  
• Corrected the hitbox of the "Start game" button shown when you configured the game to launch paused. It listened to clicks next to it when it shouldn't
  
• MacOS: The App now closes when all windows are closed, instead of entering a sleep state for quick-launch. This is similar to how this is handled on Windows and Linux. The sleep state, while being the Apple standard, could cause steam to keep thinking you were in-game

In addition, the free demo of my second game launches tomorrow (May 12th)! It's a fairly different game than Incremental Adventures, but shares the idle genre. I've been working on it for a couple of months and am really exited to share the first part of it with you! It has been a great place to use feedback that couldn't really find a place into Incremental Adventures anymore such as:

• The game being too confusing to some players
  
• Numbers being too high to get a real feeling of what they represent
  
• Some mechanics feeling too punishing when making a mistake
  
• Oh, and a completely new interface!

I know, not everyone shared the same opinion on these topics. And not everyone considered these things issues. Keeping these points in mind right from the start of designing this game has been very useful to me though!

The main goal was to make the game easier to grasp, but reward clever thinking. A little less on a mathematical level though. The concept of the game is very different from Incremental Adventures, but does aim to provide that same feeling we humans get when numbers go up!

In any case, Incremental Adventures will continue to get updates. Nothing to worry about there! But the demo is completely free, and I would love to hear what you think! So if you're interested, you can find much more information about it below:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1593350/Increlution/

It's been a bit since the last update, but that's mainly because I've been working on this one for a while. Since the release on Steam, most updates have been focussed on improving the early game experience. I think that helped the game a fair bit, so I'd like to thank you for all the feedback I've received that allowed me to do that!

However, it's time for the late-game players to receive some new content today! The majority of this update focuses at the later stages of the game and expands upon them significantly. If you're still early in the game (if you haven't yet unlocked ascension, or haven't gotten to the second layer of ascension yet) and feel like the following text doesn't apply to you yet, there's also some regular update notes at the bottom. Most of the content in this update unlocks a little after completing all Steam achievements.

Transcension features the third "reset" mechanic in Incremental Adventures. It resets Ascension Layers (and prestige) for Transcension Points. These points can be spent on upgrades that provide a significant bonus to base Ascension Points gain. This bonus is x2^(upgrades) to the base AP gain of affected layers. Trancension Layer 1 buffs just AL1, meaning AL1AP base gains are increased x2 (with one Trancension upgrade). For those that like math: this effectively means x((2^1.8)^0.85), or ~x2.89 (yes, two upgrades being x4 or ~x8.84). Transcension does not directly power allstats and continues to use Ascension and Prestige for that throughout Transcensions.

Transcension is unlocked at roughly 100 points on Ascension Layer 5, which obviously makes it a very late game feature. Transcension Points scale on Ascension progress, with every layer approximately increasing the amount of available Transcension Points by a factor of 8. This is affected by a diminishing return similar to what Ascension Layers above one have, when available points are higher than claimed points. This means that previous progress does clearly benefit Transcension progress, but reaching a similar point during a future Transcension run will provide more Transcension Points at the same AL.

Ascension stat upgrades, as well as gameplay unlocks are reset. Ascension trials and perks are not. This means prestige automation fully remains, as well as trials forming a permanent bonus to every Transcension (also, not forming a repetition of having to redo trials).

Similar to Ascension, Transcension features Perks as a form of automation, unlocked with Transcension. Unlike Ascension however, Transcension Perks are fully passive (no buttons to enable them), and unlock seperately for Ascension Layers. Transcension Perks provide free unlocks per ascension layer, as well as automatically unlock Ascension Layers (with customization as to when you want them to). Transcension perk points provided by transcension layers go up much faster than they do with Ascension Layers, but still come with a fixed amount of perk points per transcension on a given layer.

Transcension Layers 2 and up provide a similar bonus to TL1 (x2^(upgrades)) to AL(TL<=AL), meaning TL2, with 1 upgrade will provide a bonus of x2 to both AL1 and AL2. (Possibly) more importantly however, it stacks with TL1. So having x2 at TL2 and x4 at TL1 adds up to a total (base) bonus of x8 at AL1 (and x2 at AL2). Effectively this means a free TL1 upgrade per TL2, in terms of TP costs. AL2+ will still be limited through their dimishing return, but will reach that point faster.

Every Transcension upgrade costs approximately 2.4 times as much as the last one (total, rounded up). So Transcension AP gain upgrades go from 1 > 2 > 3 > 8 > 20 for bonusses of 2 > 4 > 8 > 16 > 32.

While I think they fitted Ascension well, Transcension easily takes too long for those kind of Trials to be "fun", and quickly become punishing (arguably, that's already an issue for ascension). For now, Transcension does not feature any trials. Potentially, this might be extended at a later time to only include trials that do not come with a penalty.

Basically, yes. Transcensions take longer and I want the resets to feel less like you're able to "make a mistake". You'll find that the transcension upgrade works and scales significantly different from the ascension and prestige upgrades. Additionally, the fact that Ascension trials do not reset throughout Transcensions creates different paths as well. Depending on reception, this could be extended upon at a later time, but most likely in a more passive form of reward.

I think that tackles most of the transcension details. If you're able to unlock Transcension straight away, go have a look in-game!

• Layer auto-unlocks (for both prestige and ascension with the new transcension perks) now automatically buy the maximum amount of stats after unlocking the layer
  
• Offline progress speed is now capped to 5 minutes per second, to make interacting with the game during offline progress easier on fast devices. Additionally, this might resolve some "freezes" during offline progress on devices that seem to run into rendering issues
  
• If you're able to unlock multiple prestige layers at once, a disabled button is now shown for the next layer. This button informs you that the previous layers needs to be unlocked first, to help with a common confusion
  
• Lowered the static values of dynamic ascension minimal buy targets, to make them scale better throughout transcension
  
• Fixed some highlighting cases not working for specific ascension unlocks. This also fixes a related issue with an incorrect warning telling you that nothing is available for purchase after ascending when something actually was
  
• Fixed a bug that caused floor power to mismatch the speed trial reward (this fix is a buff to lower ascension layers, and a nerf for very high layers that now have transcension available)
  
• Improved rendering performance of the combat log (most notable during offline progress)

Enjoy!

Cheers,

Gniller

- Added a small title for loadouts (both heroes and autobuyers) to give a general impression what's saved in that loadout
- Updated the third autobuyer preset to work a little better out of the box (it's still aimed at high floors)
- Slightly improved number precision for autobuyers and buy max buttons on numbers above e10. Autobuyers should now be 99.99% accurate in their buy-max, instead of 99%. Buy max buttons should no longer run into fairly rare case where they stopped working at specific numbers
- The ascension autobuyers tab is now unlocked with ascension layer 2 rather than layer 3
- Expanded upon some textual descriptions and added a few new ones to answer more common questions in-game