Combo thing to disincentivize guessing

[knexer]

fuck yeah

[knexer]

Upgrades to mitigate bad feels from forced guesses:

• combo armor, you can lose once and it's fine, regen by winning X games.
• ambiguous board detection, could also be upgradeable, e.g. if there are only two spots left and the mine could be either, it's a draw. Maybe you have to click a button, and if you're wrong, it's a loss.
• upgrades to the mapgen to reduce likelihood of being forced to guess? Like start with two zeroes revealed, or start with a zero in the largest region of zeroes, etc.

Also if you cap out the combo after like not that many consecutive wins, it won't feel that bad

[knexer]

UI-wise, add a panel under the title and money display that appears once combos are unlocked. It would show the current win streak, the combo multiplier, and have controls to enable/disable the auto-guesser, if applicable.

[knexer]

Initial balance for the combo thing: gives a +.25x money multiplier for each win - aiming to be the largest plausible value without massive cost rebalancing.

Caps out at a 4x multiplier, so 16 win streak.

Would be a fairly cheap early-mid game upgrade, maybe like ~$10-15?

Further upgrade options:

• toggle auto-guess
• combo armor
• increase combo cap or increase combo multiplier per win
• lose half your streak instead of all of it when you lose a game

[knexer]

MVP in! Some implementation differences from what I outlined above, so a summary:

• Claiming spoils adds +1 to your win streak
• Abandoning a lost game resets your win streak to 0
• You can therefore choose to leave a lost game there, clogging up the slot, instead of abandoning it. This in essence makes multiboard upgrades a kind of combo armor for active play.
• Every 4 consecutive wins increases combo bonus by $1
• Medium boards add the combo bonus to their spoils

• Large boards add 2x the combo bonus to their spoils

  Next steps:

• Lock it behind upgrades.
• Communicate the differences in how small, medium, and large boards interact with the combo system.
• Communicate that abandoning a lost game is what resets your combo.
• Make auto-guess disableable
• Make auto-restart lost boards disableable (same switch?)
• Balance pass, on the combo system itself plus on upgrade costs.

Further thoughts:

• Could make auto-guess more finely configurable, e.g. auto guess if there are X mulligans remaining.