AdVenture Ages: Idle Clicker

This is one of my favorite idle games, however, the progression sequence feels off. The game takes too long unless you spend a bunch of money. I’ve been playing for several years, and its feels like I’m only halfway done. Right now, I have products in three of the five categories without a manager because the manager won’t become discoverable for 3, 7, and 11 more levels respectively, yet I have no hope of progressing without them because each cycle takes around 20 minutes without a manager to speed then up and automate them, and the capsule requirements are production heavy at this level. Furthermore, once the manager unlocks, it takes around 50-100 capsules before I actually find it as the algorithm seems to withhold it. My feedback is that managers should become discoverable shortly after their corresponding product is unlocked, and the first one should be granted automatically (or at least guaranteed with the first capsule).

Done here.

Your f2p or “mostly f2p” players are never going to be competitive vs whales and the game is designed to separate whales from money. That’s ok. But… giving everyone a little bad luck protection, like say 10 or 15 capsule opens with no new hero guarantees a new available hero on the 10th or 15th wouldn’t destroy your game’s income. Going entire ranks and 10 or 20 capsules with no new ‘find in capsule’ hero is very discouraging, especially after watching a bunch of ads during that event. I can see how events promote different types of purchases, and again, that’s ok. What’s not ok is being “mostly F2P” and getting shafted by really poor RNG. Something to consider.