Power Orbs Missing?

[foofaraw and Chiquita(ARF!)]

I just encountered something I have not seen before. From a full "fuel tank", suddenly there were, very simply no more power orbs. Not above ground level, not below. In fact I completely exhausted my full tank, yet saw none:

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/972101581447038250/11801F4806D1BFC3C79B175D76D459D9EE41EC64/

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/972101581447069405/E2BDE2A6BA5DCCB638E1DD1CB7F77062D32899CD/

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/972101581447068097/BF64E57EC5F956A188D3E896ED44BD95474567E1/

I have more shots showing the same lack, should they be helpful. Total score was 1.3M, so most of the run seemed completely normal. (I have a shot of the score screen also.) I confess, I was on either "C" or "D". speed setting, should that be a helpful detail.

Thank you.

[BLK Dragon]

Judging from HUD, You've reached maximum level distance.
After certain distance, no more energy orbs spawned -- it's kinda soft limit on level length.
So it's not a bug, just something to be explained in game manual :)

Left (white) bar on HUD shows how much distance (time) do you have until no more energy orbs.

[foofaraw and Chiquita(ARF!)]

Seems reasonable. Thank you.

Just curious......

Since the speed seems to have an effect on how how many runes have to be collected, does speed also have an effect on how far this maximum level distance is?

Or might I be mistaken about this speed/difficulty ratio?

Thank you.

[BLK Dragon]

Speed-class does not affect rune-spawning logic (and level max.distance).
Key-word (runes to collect) for each level is also the same for every speed-class.

[foofaraw and Chiquita(ARF!)]

Thank you.

Possibly the limited space available for display confused me. (Or I may just be confused in general. Bumping into those towers repeatedly can do that.....)

[foofaraw and Chiquita(ARF!)]

"not every rune (you can pick up) is used in key-word"

Perhaps this is what caused me to think rune collection varies with speed.

Perfectly valid, and the confusion was entirely mine. This line from the manual should be very helpful.

Thanks!