Contact Earth Inc Tycoon Idle Miner Support

by Perkinberry

This is a fine incremental game, but there is at least one decision that shows me how cynical the developers are and how little respect they have for their players.

In this game you are often tapping the screen, and in the tutorial you are encouraged to use multiple fingers. However, there is a man that occasionally comes and stands right next to where you are tapping. If you accidentally tap him, it is very easy to start an ad by accident. So easy, that I don’t believe it’s an accident. I think the developers are trying to create a situation where you might accidentally start an ad.

Let me be clear. I strongly believe that if I’m having fun playing a free-to-play game, I want to support the developers by watching ads and occasionally buying micro transactions. And there are plenty of good opportunities to do just that in this game. I have chosen to watch dozens of ads in the week or so that I’ve been playing Earth Inc. I’ve also watched several ads by accident, and that’s not okay. I will chose to play a game whose developers have more respect for their players

by Gvbjjb

I tend to play when I am at work just to check in every now and then, so the double coins earned while gone or the 2x coin multiplier are important for steady progress. Anytime I return to the game it states an ad is not available and won’t let me use the coin multiplier. I watched an ad on a different game before and after so it not connection. I would really appreciate some attention to this issue, I will update the score if it is fixed because other than that it is quite fun.

by GZjdjdjd Man

After around the “oa” coin range, it becomes very difficult to progress further. The costs of upgrades scale up at a faster rate than the damage rate increases in an exponential difficulty curve, whereas other ways to increase income or damage (like Supervisor levels, Galaxy Brains, and Epic upgrades) have diminishing returns and/or become increasingly difficult to gain. It doesn’t matter how much real money you spend. You’ll eventually get stuck because the balancing (exponential difficulty curve compared to sub-exponential permanent bonuses growth) is off, yet there are achievements for mine level 50k (the wall is around 45k, if not slightly before) and two more after that.

The developer(s) should release an update to rescale the late-game progression curve, such as by making each mine level after 40,000 multiply the number of available Galaxy Brains by 1.001 (this would be a good start, but not necessarily a perfect solution). It’s a very common design flaw in mobile incremental games for there to be a soft wall as described above due to the aforementioned mathematical reasons. I’ll still give the game four stars because this is literally the only issue I’ve encountered. Great game otherwise.