I don't understand restocks/difficulty scaling

[kNyne_ OFF THE MEDS]

I noticed that once I start hitting full board clears, I start a downward spiral into losing because the entire board doesn't contain enough points to beat the level. This has got me wondering what restocking actually does. Like is it good to hit multiple restocks early? Does it affect the game at all?

[Jackeea]

Restocking:
* adds new numbers to the board
* increases the goal
* gives you +1 life (up to 5)
* gives you +1 coin

So restocking tons in the early game (by using e.g. Cheese House) is a great strategy, since then you can get to the shop and buy basically whatever you need, or maybe hit the Cafe and start scaling your money that way as well.

It does increase the goal total, and that soon becomes larger than the total amount of pegs on the board - that's why there's doubling items, items that give you a flat number of points like Flutty or Asbestos, and items that increase pegs' value in other ways like Pants.

[kNyne_ OFF THE MEDS]

So let's say I have a crazy setup that's definitely gonna full clear the board. In one round, I full clear and restock 10-20 times and increase the round goal a ton. The next round, my board has a ton of high numbers on it because I restocked so much so I have no problem hitting the round goal, but I don't restock like crazy because the goal went up so much. Now, my pegs are small numbers and the round goal is really high so I lose.

Am I understanding it correctly?

[FishT33th]

kNyne_ OFF THE MEDS lähetti viestin:

So let's say I have a crazy setup that's definitely gonna full clear the board. In one round, I full clear and restock 10-20 times and increase the round goal a ton. The next round, my board has a ton of high numbers on it because I restocked so much so I have no problem hitting the round goal, but I don't restock like crazy because the goal went up so much. Now, my pegs are small numbers and the round goal is really high so I lose.

Am I understanding it correctly?

Yeah thats correct. It scales just as fast if you restock 2x vs 9999x. The only difference is money and lives. Otherwise this game would be completely unfair. Trust me I tried it the way you'd think would make sense and its just not fun.