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My personal suggestion is to have it work similarly to Taskmasters on Abilities in CotLI.

In other words, selective usage of resources by having three selectable options for what will be used. All three will use energy, but the first will only use energy while leaving power and mana alone, the second will use power when available while leaving mana alone, and the third will use mana when available while leaving power alone.

That way trinkets that utilize stocked power and mana won't be useless while in auto mode, as you can select whether to use them or not.

267 Posts

Hi Nick!
The way I play, auto-clicker is not usefull.
For people with physical challenges: I vote yes.
Casino and fishing: vote yes.
Ranking future issues: not sure it´s going to solve them... (personally, I don´t even check rankings)

59 Posts

personally I do not care about rankings. But I do not like the idea of powerwhacking be automatic. First because of the powermagersizing rune and second because I never let the bar fill up to powerwhack. Auto fish would be excellent and casino also. A way to categorize all the crap I have would be extremely useful... my tardis is a mess and so is my inventory. Thanks.

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I think this is an AWFUL, TERRIBLE idea. NO for me! The whole idea of playing the game is to actually PLAY it - not let some side function do all the work for you. And as someone said earlier, it reduces a player's usage of strategy. Just adjusting the location of your auto clicker as needed, to me, I don't consider real playing. Know some folks here who play Cotli and they'll just turn it on and go do their housework and eventually come back to see how much "progress" they made. Just a form of cheating, imho. I know there are people here who use it as is on their own. Making it an accepted and desirable part of the game just really turns me off and makes me want to not even play. BTW, I don't care about rankings, I just want to enjoy my game when I have some time. That's a lot of why I love it. I can go at my own pace and not have an auto-clicker trying to make me speed up so I won't fall behind.
Again,a BIG NO!!!!

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Wow, never thought of auto clicking with this game. Although I was so very grateful to figure out the quickwhack feature. (didn't notice at first lol). I've played a little CoTLI, and taskmasters can be useful there but the mechanics are too different.
I think it would be wonderful to save your wrist some trauma, however for this game it would be best to have a counter with it, say use up 200 energy or mana, or a # of clicks, especially since you want to be careful about when you level up for the energy refill. This also works if you need to collect special quest characters. You figured out they show up every 10 quick whacks, so you can set it for that, then do the manual click you need to do to to get the required resource for the quest, then let it click 10 more times, rinse and repeat. I've seen other games with this feature, which is why I consider it.

I also would dearly love an auto fisher, even the auto casino sounds good, but they would also need a counter or a check once x number of something was found, otherwise it could use up all your resources, (you might have 200 bait that's now gone, or all your cash). Although for fishing I would still take that risk for an auto.

In any form, it could be useful. So I vote yes. No one has to use it, but some could like it, so why not. Some days you just want to check in and don't have a lot of time so this would be at least good for those days.

Thanks for new stuff!

And lastly. We have rankings? Huh.

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Hi NIck, me again. Just wanted to say that I am loving this forum-asking-answering-game-enhancing-questions. Thanks for doing this. It is fun to be able to contribute and also see what the other players like and dislike. Fantastic idea. :)

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I love this idea

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sounds great...for fishing it would be great...I don't fish because its a pain and boring to stand there..click click click

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I would like a way to choose to plant so many crops and the game to auto harvest them and plant them again, it would be really great for short grow time crops.

I'm thinking of the game letting you agree to set it up to plant and replant the crops for the next X hours - when you are away from the game. I would make it so you can't cancel it without paying a bushbucks penalty. It could even cost more to plant the crops this way as its a way to save time.

An auto clicker would be a pain with all the things that need to be single-y whacked, but I think it would work great for crops, fishing and the casino.

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I don't do the auto-stuff, but it doesn't really bother me if others do. Off subject, but in the last month I discovered Idle Champions of the Lost Realms, and have been happily delving into it. So thx for that. I feel I should give a random "shout-out" to Dave and Margaret, as I gave an out-of-nowhere shout-out to Nick and Georgia in the middle of their stream the other day. Cuz that's how I roll. Woo!