I am sorry I can not really tell how long it took since I had it running in the background and came back to it here an then. There where certainly several rounds without progress which where a bit frustrating. I get that the goal might be to find the correct combination of prestige point distribution to proceed but I wish there where at least an "abandon run" button so that you do not always have to wait through the whole 10 minutes if you realize that this round is not going to work.
Refreshing the page does not disable the sound. It may be the sound of the moving conveyor belt but it is always present, not just when the belt is moving. It is just there as soon as the game starts.
So this totally looks like it could be a good game but unfortunately the dev took great length to make it not be one. There are obvious bugs like you can not finish the tutorial because the UI elements overlap each other and the things that you need to click. Or enemies that can be outside the screen damaging your wall without you being able to do anything about it.
The slow progression is extremely annoying. As is the bad aim of the "heroes". If you save up to get another hero like the cannoneer, thinking that the splash damage might at least offset the bad aim, you will get even more disappointed because their aim is even worse, rendering them almost worthless.
The game forces you to constantly click on the enemies and there seems to be no way to automate around that. That clicking gets tiresome soon. Then you do not really have time to manage the updates of your heroes taking all the fun out of a potential micro-management.
It feels like the salvaging should happen automatically. Having to point the mouse at the debris does not seem to add anything to the game but gets annoying quickly, or am I missing something?
This was on Firefox. I used the keyboard and the freeze happened while navigating with the arrow keys. The cursor was about to jump over a blank space when it froze. It seemed to be stuck at 100% CPU usage and did not accept any keyboard input or mouse interaction after that.
Todays Daily Spell somehow locked up once during solving, so that it did not accept any input. After reloading it worked fine as expected though. I did not try to use any arcane magic to cheat, I swear!
Very nice game! Some comments: Artefacts like coal should be saleable. Since most of the time they just make you weaker. It would also be nice if all reals like Weapon+Coal+Poison would be rolled simultaneously, since it gets a bit annoying to roll so many times per round.
Since the mechanics are easy to get if you nicely ask an AI to do it (I just tested it for fun, got a javascript prototype in like 10 minutes). A dev would quickly realize that it is kind of borked though since it breaks when it fills the screen and you cannot really loose.
Another bug: With the "a destroyed 3 becomes a perl" perk, if a plated cargo with a 3 gets hit, it becomes a perl, greatly reducing the value of plated cargo. If a spiced 3-cargo gets destroyed, it does not become a perl though.
I had a math question which was like: reach 25 to get your cargo back. I made some addition as a first step like "2+3=" with the intention to get a 5. After selecting the "=", the right hand ship got a "6" dice which I found strange. I changed my calculation to calculate with this "6" but when I selected the 6-dice, it only entered as 5 in the equation...
