Mixing bubble types is too punishing

ferrous_sapling commented

2025-05-20 06:37:49 +00:00

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Given how orb adjacency works in regard to cooldowns, mixing bubbles of different cooldown length might have too much of an impact on power / damage output of a given placement.

This is especially noticeable when mixing orbs of 2 and 3 cooldown. While these are some of the more powerful types, mixing them tends to be less powerful than going all-in on 1 or 2 "cooldown types". The emergent "type" is nice for added game depth, but it probably shouldn't become the de facto most important factor in placing bubbles.

Instead of all or nothing based on when neighbor bubbles' cooldowns sync up, bubbles could receive diminished benefits from adjacency when the neighbor is on cooldown.

To keep all values involved and produced be whole numbers, we could double the contributions from "synchronized" bubbles instead of decreasing the ones from "unsynchronized" bubbles.

All of this will have balance effects on the dungeons.

Given how orb adjacency works in regard to cooldowns, mixing bubbles of different cooldown length might have too much of an impact on power / damage output of a given placement. This is especially noticeable when mixing orbs of 2 and 3 cooldown. While these are some of the more powerful types, mixing them tends to be less powerful than going all-in on 1 or 2 "cooldown types". The emergent "type" is nice for added game depth, but it probably shouldn't become the de facto most important factor in placing bubbles. Instead of all or nothing based on when neighbor bubbles' cooldowns sync up, bubbles could receive diminished benefits from adjacency when the neighbor is on cooldown. To keep all values involved and produced be whole numbers, we could double the contributions from "synchronized" bubbles instead of decreasing the ones from "unsynchronized" bubbles. All of this will have balance effects on the dungeons.

ferrous_sapling added this to the Road to v1.0 project

2025-05-20 06:37:49 +00:00

ferrous_sapling changed title from ~~Change how orbs trigger neighbors~~ to Mixing bubble types is too punishing

2025-05-20 06:44:45 +00:00

ferrous_sapling commented

2025-05-23 12:03:15 +00:00

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as of v0.1.1, bubbles always support their neighbors, even when on cooldown. this indirectly removes the "problem" of mixed cooldowns being too punishing, but it might take too much weight out of the choice between which bubbles to place next to each other

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