Upcoming Patch: End Game Balancing and a New Leaderboard

First of all thanks for playing the game. As a solo dev it's been very fun watching people absolutely break my game. I have fixed a lot of the bugs that plagued the game at launch, and have a few more to go. I wanted to talk about the end game balancing, or lack of. I realize that once you get rolling almost nothing can stop you in the current state of the game. That's not ideal as the leaderboard basically comes down to who is willing to play the longest. I have an update I am almost finished with that should hopefully fix this. It's a full re-balancing of the late game. I will have exact patch notes soon, but I wanted to give a summary of the type of changes I'm making. 1. The cost of items in the dungeon store are going to start to scale. Right now, you get to a point were you can just buy every item on every floor, and that's not very fun or interesting. The prices are going to start increasing after floor 5, and continue to increase every 5 floors after that. 2. The hard monsters are going to scale slightly faster than the weaker ones. Currently at end game there isn't much difference between a level 30 rat and a level 35 knight. This will change that. 3. The +1 clocks per floor item is very good. Currently you can buy it 5 times, meaning you have at least 5 clocks on every floor. This makes it impossible to lose. I still have some testing to do, but I am either limiting this item to 1 purchase per run, or outright removing it from the game. There is a lot more going into the update, and like I said I will provide full patch notes when it launches, hopefully in the next couple of days. The final thing I want to explain is the leaderboard. With a re-balancing of the game this large, the current leaderboard is going to be full of impossible to beat scores. My plan is to keep that leaderboard viewable in the game but not allow any new scores to be posted to it once the balance work is done. Instead, there will be a fresh leaderboard for the new scores. In a perfect world, I won't have to do this again. But I am a team of one doing this in my spare time and this game has a lot of possible item combinations. So I fully expect to need a 3rd or 4th leaderboard as well. I will make sure I give a day or two notice before I launch the update, so if having a certain place on the original leaderboard is important to you keep an eye here or on my twitter: https://twitter.com/GhostGoats Thanks so much for playing my game. It really means a lot to me.