An rare explosion of reactors from the sum of Energy

[freeroot]

Hello,

I have a proposition to do for this game I play for a while already. It is related to the consequence of the Energy ressource. I try to explain things in sequence.

1. When the Energy comsumption is higher than the Energy production, it would have a risk to have a failure.

2. I think the most appropriate failure concerne Reactors because they are an uranium-based technology and uranium is not stable. So, an explosion can occur.

3. To determinate when an explosion occur, I propose, as the Alicorn creation, to have a potential of explosion every tick :

• This potential would be very low, about once by real month (not game month)
• Active only when the sum of Enerny is negative.
• The sum of the energy would higher the chance of the explosion. For example, with -100Wt, the chance of the explosion is multiplied by 2, with -200Wt, it's multiplied by 3, etc..as if the sum of energy was a percentage.

4. The consequencies of an explosion would be :

• The death of the half or the third of kittens.
• The reduction of maxKittens for this game by two (the reset retablishing the maxKittens but Paragon can't be gain).
• The loss of all reactors.
• The loss of all or a part of uranium.
• The deactivation of all building using energy.

Have a nice day

[coderpatsy]

Random automatic negative penalties don't make for good gameplay in idle/incremental type games in my opinion. Especially if the consequences are as bad as actually losing reactors or kittens.

[Arima B.]

There was similar mechanic with space missions. It never really worked, most of the players just savescumed.

[freeroot]

I understand and even I agree with you. Thx for your answers.