P.I.C. - Community Competition!

[Jenaf]

I want to enter the Second Part of the competition!


As we have no real use for Crystals from the Mine I came up with a nice little thingy to use Crystals at:

the Crystal Garden! 

All you need is a Solution of some Crystals, a Seed Crystal and a String to attach it to.

My main Goal is not to make this feature need much attention. This is an Idle game after all.

It should be a slow-Paced Longterm Investment thingy.

P.S.: it would also be nice if the crystals really grow; just scale the immage up as they gain more growth points. (a fresh crystal would be really tiny)

Here is my design concept of the Crystal garden screen:


(why is the pic so small??)
Here some thoughts about balancing:

High-value Currencies should have expensive Seeds.


If you harvest the crystals too often you spend a lot of crystals on Seeds.

As you can Harvest Crystals anytime there is no preasure to be online.


The levels of the Crystals themselves should not affect the outcome too much.
those levels are intended to create a feeling of Progress.


dissolving Crystals in the Solution increases the rate at wich the crystals grow.
It is needed that the growth rate is the logarythm (I used the ln in the Picture) of the solved

crytals. (or else the grow could become too fast,)

you can also buy new Strings to dangle more Seeds into your solution.



thw whole Thing should be a slow-paced longterm investment thing wich only requires minimal involvement

by the Players. (it should be good for Players who can not be online very much)




P.S. I would like to answer to questions about my Balancing thoughts, if you want to contact me its Proably best via Discord or Kong PM