Turning the power off for 120 sec?

[Infected Ronin]

How am I supposed to do that? Is there a button to switch off all generators in the lair?

[andrew.ch.]

引用自 Dagordae：

引用自 Jack Burton：

I swear the playerbase existent in todays games KILL me... Someone has a complaint about a game mechanic, & the general reply is:

"NexT TImE DoNt OverbUIlD" ...Fml...

Whining about having to click 40some times is simply silly. He had to do more work to build the things in the first place.
And this is from someone who chronically overbuilds(21 extra generators? That’s sad and weak.)

Part of the natural issues of building a GIANT base is the GIANT part. If you simply can’t handle having a large base with floors of redundancy, don’t build it. Especially when you are going to be replacing each and every generator sooner or later.

For the first time passing the game, by this moment, I completely built up the 2nd floor with generators. Disconnecting generators from electricity is not as enjoyable as building a base.

At least developers need to add a hot button to disconnect the building from electricity or select the same type of building. This is a common practice in similar games where there are the same tasks.

[YesMan]

引用自 andrew.ch.：

引用自 Dagordae：

Whining about having to click 40some times is simply silly. He had to do more work to build the things in the first place.
And this is from someone who chronically overbuilds(21 extra generators? That’s sad and weak.)

Part of the natural issues of building a GIANT base is the GIANT part. If you simply can’t handle having a large base with floors of redundancy, don’t build it. Especially when you are going to be replacing each and every generator sooner or later.

For the first time passing the game, by this moment, I completely built up the 2nd floor with generators. Disconnecting generators from electricity is not as enjoyable as building a base.

At least developers need to add a hot button to disconnect the building from electricity or select the same type of building. This is a common practice in similar games where there are the same tasks.

or just simply don't design this kind of quest and think it's funny

And this is one of the reasons why I associate EG2 with mobile game alike design.
If this is casual, idle timer game like Farmville, Happy Farm, etc. Occasionally requiring you to click on something with your fingertip on the screen can be a fun interaction, it gives you something to do.
But when it's that 'turn off generators' quest, or click on listening devices, symmetry devices in EG2, it's 'why are you making me to do this?'

[ToucanSafari]

引用自 Infected Ronin：

I need 2 screenshoots to take all the generators I have in the basement.
WHO THE ♥♥♥♥ BETA TESTED THIS GAME?!

Well, you are. You're actually alpha testing it.

[Gain]

If you bring down the power output below the lair power requirement, power outage will trigger..let it last of 120s.

[Holce]

I had to swith a lot of generators. I go way under 0 because I have batteries. I wanted to empty them more quickly.

@YesMan
"But when it's that 'turn off generators' quest, or click on listening devices, symmetry devices in EG2, it's 'why are you making me to do this?' "

I think the purpose is to keep you busy instead of waiting looking at the screen in X2 speed. The symmetry devices will be marked if they are in your base for a long time.

[Darth Glorious]

I think that is it a simple dev oversight, but yeah, the capacitors are only useful for those side quests

[makijongd1]

引用自 Holce：

I had to swith a lot of generators. I go way under 0 because I have batteries. I wanted to empty them more quickly.


I think the purpose is to keep you busy instead of waiting looking at the screen in X2 speed. The symmetry devices will be marked if they are in your base for a long time.

i dont think the device gets marked? i had one in my base for atleast 5/6 hours not knowing what it was until i clicked on it must have been a quest that did that

[Mandemon]

引用自 Infected Ronin：

引用自 piero5673：

you don't need to all turn them off, just enought to reach at most -1 power (if you don't overbuild, that's 2 click what an insane effort to do ...)

I have +788 energy, 36 per generators ... I need to turn off .... you know what? ♥♥♥♥ this quest. ♥♥♥♥ THIS QUEST IN PARTICULAR.

Do you overbuild and now pay the price. Sounds like emergent problem, not a design problem. I have usually 120-40 extra power.

Or, you know, you could just designate area to be "demolished", this marks all items in it to be sold. Then just rebuy the generators.

引用自 Holce：

@YesMan
"But when it's that 'turn off generators' quest, or click on listening devices, symmetry devices in EG2, it's 'why are you making me to do this?' "

I think the purpose is to keep you busy instead of waiting looking at the screen in X2 speed. The symmetry devices will be marked if they are in your base for a long time.

Honestly, whole "mobile game" thing is silly. If devs make people do something in their base, people claim it's mobile game design. If they don't have anything to do in their base, it's mobile game design.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

[Darth Glorious]

if you play anything lower than hard mode, turn on hard can drop a lot of power, so you need to turn off less generators

[YesMan]

引用自 Holce：

I had to swith a lot of generators. I go way under 0 because I have batteries. I wanted to empty them more quickly.

@YesMan
"But when it's that 'turn off generators' quest, or click on listening devices, symmetry devices in EG2, it's 'why are you making me to do this?' "

I think the purpose is to keep you busy instead of waiting looking at the screen in X2 speed. The symmetry devices will be marked if they are in your base for a long time.

it would be okay if those device is just a single, visually notable device.
but as you know, there are multiple copies being laid.
select->destroy, select->destroy, select->destroy......confirm all
the repeated process is meaningless

[MasterFeff]

I also find it fun to have to rebuild utilities I already have or kill off minions to meet training goals. Like how hard is it just to code HAVE X items instead of BUILD/ TRAIN X thing. Anyway this was actually small to me for the issues I had. There was alot of big fish bugs that made me go ballistic. I am still saying Goosfraba to myself just thinking about them xD

[Mr. Awesome]

引用自 Mansen：

Sounds like you are grossly overproducing power. That seems more like emergent gameplay than a game design issue.

A design issue would be blacking out your whole base if you plug in a toaster while running at max. capacity.
Oh wait......that's how they made it!

[MrDeity]

I over built my power grid and have over 900 fusion generators... it'll take me an hour to turn enough of them off! LOL we need a master breaker for this mission.

[kasnavada]

This thread has literally described to you how to do it in 10 seconds on every page.

[Costarring]

Play the tutorial. Find out about power in step 4 or 5 (if you have -1 power NOTHING WORKS. Ergo, -1 power turns everything OFF)
People not paying attention: "Ow, this game is bugged/badly designed..."