DanielNoord
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3 years ago You are basically proposing two functions here, which I will comment on independently.
1) Figuring out the next achievement is basically a duplicate of #4. However, I was thinking about this some more last week and remember that sometimes the next achievement is not necessarily "x of building", but could also be "x total amount of buildings", "x of all buildings". Therefore, we can't just check for the next "x of building" achievement and subtract the current amount of buildings but we will need to loop over increments to see if the number of achievements changes. (So buy 1 cursor, buy 2 cursors, buy 3 cursors..) Doing this for all buildings on each cps cycle would be very resource intensive. I am trying to figure out a solution but have not come up with anything yet. If you have any suggestions I would recommend you to discuss those in #4.
2) Giving advice on what to do to reach a number of cookies is problematic. Should we suggest selling all your stock? Even if they are super cheap? Should we advise you to use your magic? Even if the magic bar is not full and regenerating would thus cost more time? Should we advise to pop wrinklers? Even if in the long run this is often not effective and the respawn rate of wrinklers is based on luck.
We have tried to fix these issues for the chocolate egg calculations. Where we basically list what you need to do to reach the maximum reward. However, displaying this for every building or upgrade is not feasible and would clutter the interface too much. Making all the questions I asked in the previous paragraph toggles is also not something I am in favor of as it would clutter the settings.
In general, I think we should try to refrain from being to forceful in the advise we give to players and allow the user to pick the information he or she wants to use. We provide suggestions and information for each individual section (the garden interface, the aura interface, the wrinkles stats screen, etc.) and make it clear to users how to optimize those individual sections. This has been the way Cookie Monster does things previously and I think is still the best option. If there are any sections where you are missing relevant information you could certainly create a feature request!
TakGalaman
As the game goes on one's objective is usually to work toward the next achievement to increase milk level and thereby kitten bonuses. One of the most predictable achievements to get is having 100, 200, 300, etc. of each building - we can calculate how much it will cost to buy all the buildings between where we are now and the number we need to reach, and we know which achievements we have gotten and which we haven't.
I would like cookie monster to save me from using outside calculators or lots of scrolling and scanning through the achievements list to see which # of buildings I need to reach next.
Proposed solution: Add to the tooltip for each building what is the number of that building which will result in the next achievement for me. Also tell me how many cookies it would cost to buy my way to that number, and whether I can afford it if I popped all my wrinklers.
Alternatively this should be in the Stats menu.
Optionally this should have toggles for considering optimal pantheon, grimoire spells, krumblor auras, and any other modifier that I'm not thinking of right now. (Like - "you could afford this if you cast Crafty Pixies and popped 4 of your wrinklers")