Project Chromata

Got to the Void today - really enjoying this one. Story feels robust, and the idle mechanic feels really inspired.

Only criticism is that getting the PIP AI to function properly was a bit of a struggle, and I never figured out how to get the manual percentages working, so I’m just running manual flat numbers right now. Would love a mode similar to High Yield: Light Essence, but that automatically cascades the points to Cyan/Magenta/Amber when White is full, then cascades the points to Orange/Purple/Green, etc

I feel like I'm doing something wrong. I left the game after finishing stage 2 and after a day of playing and trying to optimize i get aprox 83k light every 3 minutes with automation. Tried some longer runs but it is always less light per minute. I want to play stage 3, but waiting 2Hours for 4M to unlock the next void sector feels like shit. Any recomendations? I have 1000 PIPSand a 120% bonus light from the void sectors. I'm doing 3 minutes runs to max the basic colors and whatever white i can get in those 3 minutes for bonus light. Thank you.

I've noticed in this update that the Secondary Color Bonuses to make them faster seems to make them drain more from the Primary Colors? Specifically my Green Mixer has a 125% bonus, and the points per second for Yellow and Blue are 5 more than that of Red with a 40p Orange, 40p Purple, and 30p Green setup.

SPOILERS for Stage 3

I'm about to finish Stage 3 as I'm writing this. I was so dumb not seeing the patterns earlier. So, for anyone who's lost, I'll give you all the coordinates of the constellations and the lore coordinates.

Scarlet Veil: 10.-10
Fragments: 3.0 5.-2 5.0 3.2

Azure Font: 0.10
Fragments: -3.3 -5.3 -1.3 -5.5 -3.5

Golden Corona: -10.0
Fragments: 0.-3 2.-5 -2.-3 0.-5

Crimson Maw: 0.20
Fragments: -2.-8 0.-9 2.-10 1.-11 -1.-10

Jade Expanse: -20.0
Fragments: -6.0 -8.2 -8.0 -6.-2

Ochre Cradle: 20.-20
Fragments: 8.-1 9.-3 11.-4 10.-2

Vermillion Locus: 20.0
Fragments: 6.-6 8.-6 8.-8 6.-8

Fuchsia Cluster: -20.20
Fragments: 0.8 2.6 0.6 -2.8

Ultraviolet Shroud: 0.-20
Fragments: -11.5 -9.9 -9.7 -9.5 -11.7

Decrypted Datapoints:
-8.-9 -15.11 9.-9 0.-19 -15.11 0.9 0.19 -9.0 -19.0 19.-19 19.0 17.-6 -9.0

(I might have missed some.)

The void is symmetrical — flip a coordinate and you'll probably find its partner. Play with the minuses and pluses, you'll get there.
The most thorough approach is to circle around yourself, which is also the most costly and time-consuming if you don’t know where to go — which is what I did.

English is my second language, so sorry for any misspellings.

Also, a bug: I can’t upgrade the Void Nexuses.

Thanks for reading. I hope it help

See you on stage 4!

ive been playing for quite a while, and i have some concerns

spoilers for late fractured void

i cant seem to upgrade the outer ring of void nexus structures

the PIP ai always slightly underestimates the amount of required PIPs to not run out, and i have had to manually tune the AI to fix this

EDIT: this is only on the Ethereal generators

this is a great game!

I absolutely love this game, one of the most enjoyable idle games I've played in my entire life, and the lore behind it along with the plot twist is just perfect. Especially for being so early in development, I really want to take a moment to truly thank you for being such a wonderful team of developers and being so hands-on and close to your game, monitoring and changing it nearly immediately in response to feedback. Thank you, truly. This game is wonderful. 

Implementations that'd be awesome: maybe when undergoing efficient purification, you could control how much pristine light you want to make, so as not to drain the entirety of your light reserves (therefore keeping passive light gain from structures optimal). Also, as others have mentioned, it is a bit of a chore exploring and then stabilizing the fractured void, it would be a tremendous boon to the game if you could allow a keybind to explore/purify a sector, and also allow arrow keys to move your highlight between sectors. Also, it seems as though upgrading Void Nexus structures past level 2 is impossible for some reason (at least on the web version) and the void Nexus structures further from the forge are impossible to upgrade even once after activation. 

I've having a lot of fun playing this game, its actually insane lol

minor spoiler warning for early fractured void if anyone cares lol

However I feel like I'm stuck, or I'm just missing something. I'm currently at the fractured void stage of the game, and everything's costing over 32M Light to purchase, and I barely get any Light, I've gotten everything of 16M Light and below, tried long runs for Light, but short ones still seem to be better. Got a feeling I'm missing something important, but can't figure out what.

Não sei se irão traduzir isto mas deixo aqui um comentário que possa ajudar.

Me parece que vocês devem limitar a mecânica "Light Collector Array". Com apenas algumas desses bem posicionados o jogo simplesmente "quebrou" quando se atinge 1b de luz. Sugiro limitar a quantidade que possa ser construída da estrutura.

Algo que também sugiro é que indiquem a forma como se desbloqueia a Quintessência, depois de algum tempo sendo consumido pelo Vazio a capacidade de produzir simplesmente apareceu do nada, não sei se era algum problema ou se fiz algo que deveria ser feito.

Por fim, quero dizer que vocês estão de parabéns, estão criando algo muito divertido.

The game's still unplayable for me. My vram usage just keeps shooting up with the game open and both the fractured void and star chart pages are so laggy that they're basically unusable.

is the high yield quintessence pip thing even working?

What a thoroughly enjoyable game!

Now then, I have a question. I'm accumulating light to perform super convergence, but the button has vanished. I've tried reloading, hard resets, and various other methods, but it still won't work.

I currently have 16M light. Please help me. I wish to progress to the next phase.

I'm using the Chrome browser.

I have all star systems except for one star on UV Nebula which allows x2 Quintessence production. I have a feeling that I should have unlocked Quintessence earlier, and I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but how am I supposed to get it? I've spent billions on exploration hoping it's a node to unlock and the corruption is killing me because I can't produce enough pristine light without Quintessence. How do I produce it?

I have all the original stars and all the upgrades up to and including "final convergence", don't really know how to get that to work and have no way to trigger the part that I think takes me to Fractured Void.

Great game! (I'm currently idling for super convergence) I have one question, is the loretext Ai, or is it just very well crafted? For some reason I keep recognizing keywords and phrases that AI uses. Also, awesome lore so far!

This is coming from someone who played to the end of Phase 2, then came back when Phase 3 was out. I had everything unlocked up to that point.

Coming back, I'm mostly struck by how there really isn't anything active to do in Phase 3. Maybe I'm missing something. But there's the whole empty Fractured Void, where it costs 1 Million to unlock one of the hexes. That takes maybe an hour to accumulate. Then the reward is just 5% bonus? After unlocking a couple of those immediate 1 Million hexes, I thought maybe the 2 Million hexes would really start to be useful, but those are also only 5% bonus? So maybe once per hour at this point I can do something in the game. I don't remember the earlier phases being so idle. It's quite dull, knowing there are maybe hours/days to come of just unlocking these hexes for meager 5% bonuses? I don't get it.

Bug report: Offline gains are pretty messed up. If Auto-Converge is turned on, I will never get offline gains. I'll close and reopen the game later, and it will be as if the game had been paused the whole time, and no state change occurs. If I turn off Auto-Converge, the game applies offline gains as expected. This means I can't set the game to Auto-Converge at 2 Million, then come back tomorrow, because the game won't do offline gains if Auto-Converge is on. I think maybe it kind of works offline if you set the Auto-Converge amount to something very low, but it definitely doesn't work at all at higher values.

Anyway, I thought the first two phases were kind of interesting, but Phase 3 just slammed on the brakes and puts me off completely. I keep feeling like there must be some skill I'm not seeing that would make the start of Phase 3 not be a total slog.

Please make a button to buy things in stage 3. I can't stand clicking explore and stabilize. I've basically beaten the game but I can't stand clicking. Put a button to buy, like "press E to buy."

Just letting you know I loved this game.

not exactly sure what stage 3 is supposed to introduce? I had the game completed on stage 2 except for super convergence and this feels more of the same. the only new thing is the fractured void and several 1 mil light nodes, i've gotten all those and nothing new still. when does this genesis forge unlock? should i see some place to use that?

"Final calibration protocol" didint do anything for me, orange purple and green were full but still had 110 pips assigned. I missed a setting?

Game start is super slow and game end is uneventful. The shift click distribution is fun, though maybe a "max, half, third" options would be more intuitive instead, since you almost always work with weird numbers.

But the overall polist is good. I like it.

Good game

So I guess I finished the 3rd Stage of the game a few minutes ago.
( I was playing the Web-Version of the game - Don't know if any of this is related to my Chrome Browser of if those Bugs exist in the Downloadable version as well)

Most of the time I enjoyed the game like...a bit too much. :-)
But then after my first Pristine Light collecting, the Fractured Void was giving me a hard time.
It's not that it was too difficult with gathering more Light or the corruption taking over the board, it was allocating all of the board itself.

As you have to:

1. "click the tile"
2. "move over to the right"
3. "hit the button"
4. "Move back to the left for the next node"
Repeat the process over and over felt like hell.

NOW, you have to do it a second time for stabilizing all tiles and remove the corruption
AND another time once you want to build your "Structures" on it.


So here's my suggestion for improvements for Stage 3 Content:

1. Make it so that a tile can be allocated by "Shift-/ or Ctrl-Clicking"
2. Stabilizing tiles with the same key comb. or a different one would be great as well
3. It would be really cool to "pre-select" one of the structures in a menu somewhere and just "click click click" the tiles I want the structures to be, as entering the menu for it every time is a bit tedious.
4. The colors of the hexagon tiles are pretty cool, but the background colors are very hard to distinguish if you're not having a strong colorful monitor.
I'm not sure if you could adjust the color a bit to make more clear which tiles are "yet to stabilize" - it was pretty hard to tell sometimes.


Furthermore I noticed a few minor bugs/design issues with the game in generel which could be interesting for you to know. :-)

1. Auto-Reset of production when switching tab or minimizing Window
For some reason there is an "auto-reset" of all colors and mixers once you change the browser tab or minimize the window. (Might be due to preventing the "Cheat" with "getting all tanks full in a blink of an eye" (Offline Calculation))
And that's basically no problem, it just bothered me once I tried to collect more Pristine Light as I minimized sometimes while allocating the tiles and didn't notice, that the production was completely off for several minutes.

2. I can not click on the second Button in the Pristine Light conversion Menu where it says "Efficient Purification" with Quintessence - even though I would get "+1B" at the moment and have all of the board allocated (The 9 Color nodes as well).

Reloading the game wasn't helpful either so I guess it's a bug.


3. Some Menu-Texts for Tile Structures are not properly readable
I noticed that once I wanted to know if the Nexus-Nodes would buff those Structure effects as well. (Most noticable in Window-Mode of the game - fullscreen works mostly fine)


4. The current I/O numbers are very odd or missing sometimes
There are two scenarios I noticed the most: 
- Input Number is displayed only (That's especially with the new Essences you need to collect for Stage 3 Content) - Very hard to balance later on.


- Both numbers are displayed, but the input number has another notation
For example (Input = 1.5k / Output = 1.422)
As the numbers get rounded (At least I think so) It's a pain to get the production right
(Imagine minimizing the browser before saving stuff in AI, so you have to do it all over again. xD)


5. Color-Arrangement of "Cyan, Magenta, Amber"
That's really a small GFX-thing but Castor75 drew a cool looking re-arrangement of those. I thought I'd repost it here:



6. The Codex is always highlighted
Don't know why, it just is.
I read through each and every entry and it's still blinking, might be some relics of the old state of the game as mine wasn't "hard-resetted" once 3rd Stage came online.



And that's all I can complain about for now. xD 
I hope I could keep the feedback constructive and you're not offended by the long list. :)


I really enjoy this game and will eagerly wait for Stage 4 to come out.
Wouldn't think that mixing some colors together would bring such a joy.
Thanks for all your time and effort putting into this! Keep up the great work and have nice rest of your day.


And you too, reader of this way too long comment! 
Thanks for reading and wasting your time. xD