Hello Apple Vis forum
Knight Commander has just been approved for the App Store.
It has been a real struggle to get it their as I seem to have broken almost
all of the guidelines that are set out for developers to follow.
The game is not as far forward as i would like as i have
been busy for the last 2 weeks to get it approved.
As with most of my apps and games they get a whole lot better
when released and people support them.
Thank you to all the people who joined in on the beta testing and gave
good feedback.
Hopefully i now have a core of people who will test future apps.
As for promo codes I have decided who will get one so please do not ask.
As ever all feedback is very welcome.
This is the link
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/knight-commander/id1386064178?mt=8
Comments
Contract Ordering Suggestion
Right now it seems contracts are generated randomly. After you complete onee it might say you are on level 12 while the next contract you complete might tell you you are on level 1. Shouldn’t these go in order from number 1?
Contract Ordering
Personally I like the randomness of the contracts. For me if I always knew what would be coming up next I would get board with them after running through them 3 or 4 times. The way it is now I never know what I will get so it stays interesting.
Thanks John
Thank you John for the new contracts. I have been doing them sense Sunday and really been enjoying them. It is so fun when I get a contract I've never done. Please keep them coming. I have not seen anything for the cheese sandwitch, soup, or stew and others yet. Maybe water and lemons to supply a lemonade stand?
Thanks again. Great work. Great fun Fantastic game.
Contracts
Hello
The contracts do go in order and then repeat.
Well they are supposed too anyway.
You can complete a number of contracts in one go when you complete a contract and have
the resources to complete the next one then it does so automatically thus giving
the impression that the contracts are not in order.
Thank you all for your continuing support of the game.
I am still trying to come up with a solution to update and add more items to the
database without the need to restart the game.
Thanks for the responses!
Thanks for the responses! Wish I could be of some help with the items issue. Have you tried asking other devs?
I do have another question. Will there ever be an increase in tribe size? I have fun naming my people. Lol.
Hybernation for Years
The game says one of my people will be hybernating for well over five million minutes. This calculates to several years. In other words, he is in cryostasis. Or dead. Lol. I killed him.
Guess that’ss what happens when you win the game lottary and start increasing energy and time like crazy. Lol. I am sorry Andrew.
No Real Game Lotery
I realized after I wrote that that someone might ask if there is a game lotery. There isn’t. I unknowingly made myself extremely rich by building nearly 400 shops and not getting rid of the products in those shops until I had built them up a lot. I also auto created a couple of books. So, I have a hundred people, an inventory that holds about 20,000 items, a working time of over two hours, a man in cryo-stasis and a whole bunch of cabbage and potatoes. I have finally run out of money. Lol.
I love this game. I am having a blast with it, John. I have been laid up all month with illness and I want you to know it has been a great passtime. Thanks for creating it. :)
I hope you get better soon
I hope you get better soon
I am letting my back brain work out a solution to the adding items and save game issues the game has.
Currently i am working on a another project but will return with hopefully lots of new content and features and a solution for the games many,many code flaws.
soonish
Thanks.
Thanks.
Can’t wait for updates. The game is great.
Hunting Question
Correct me if I am wrong. When you level up your buildings like the crop farm and fruit farm you get more from each haul. What about hunting? How to I increase the amount of meat my people bring back?
Is this game still being worked on?
Is this game still being worked on? It hasn’t been updated since February
The future of KC.
Hello
There will be a update sometime.
All my apps and games are a work in progress.
It all depends on time and money.
It is not a nice answer but it is a real answer.
Many thanks to all who support the game.
I was excited to see this
I was excited to see this game being updated again. Thank you so much for working on it.
I saw someone mention adding more war features. In my opinion we have a ton of war games but no empire building games. This is the only one. With that said, when you do resume adding new features, please add to the settlement side of things. It is awesome to finally have something like this to play.
Hi, Jon. I was playing the
Hi, Jon. I was playing the game today and noticed that I still can not add people or use the alchemy creation option.
Speaking of people: is the limit still 100? I was hoping that has been changed as I love building. The empire part of it is what I love.
I was thinking too: I know you said you would not add any features until bugs had been fixed, but would you consider adding a few new quests in the next release?
This is such an awesome game. It is so engaging and I thank you for creating and updating it. I’m hoping for another update soon!
The state of KC
Thank you all for the ongoing support of the game.
The main focus is still to make it crash less often, I spent 2 months coding a error reporting system for the use in all my apps to speed this process up and it is proving quite successful.
The income from the game is minimal so any work on it is during downtime on other projects.
Quests are created randomly by the game and run out and are replaced automatically.
Contracts are quite easy to add but time consuming to test so they will be added every now and then.
This is a bit of a rant about contacting developers in general based on my and other devs experience.
If you want to talk to a dev then send them a email
be polite
A rating of 3 or less kills the future of the game stone dead.
As people do not download apps that have a rating of 3 or less.
So if you want a app to survive and update then play your part in the
future of the app.
Work with the dev not against them.
Many thanks
John
I think I reported a bug,
I think I reported a bug, saying I couldn’t add people. I am adding people just fine. :) I am so sorry about that and hope you haven’t gone bug hunting on my account!
As for ratings, I am pretty certain I gave this one a five star rating. This info is good to know though.
Is there a way to increase revenue? Maybe add some premium options—upgrades you have to pay for. If it means further development I would be alright with it. You have to survive and this game is awesome. It has so much potential for growth.
A marketing thought: It is currently called Knight Commander. If you rename it to something else that might help it land in empire building game search results. There are also some blind-friendly channels on Youtube. You might see about getting someone to review it.
Hope this helps you!
Hi. When I open Knight
Hi. When I open Knight Commander this morning it makes a sound and then does nothing. It will tell me I have 57 people and their energy but that’s it. I am a voice over user. So I don’t know if the sound indicates an error or what. I will have my husband check the game later to see if he can do anything with it as a sighted user. My guess is he will have the same result.
Hubby tried to use the app.
Hubby tried to use the app. It is unresponsive. We can’t cycle between people and none of the options work. It is just frozen.
I built the sawmill but I still can’t make planks
so I need a little help I can’t make planks even though I have already built the sawmill so can somebody answer me this question how do you make the planks after the sawmill has already been built I have tried to double tap on the planks in the resources tab I’ve tried to long press it I’ve tried long pressing the sawmill on the building but it just makes it so I don’t know how to do this like I said so if somebody can answer me this question I’d be very very interested to know how you would handle that
this is an awesome game I totally agree
this is a totally awesome game I do agree with you completely on that I love this game I’m like addicted to it right now especially because for a long time now I’ve been looking for a game kind of like Minecraft where you can craft things and build things and build drone world or Empire whatever you wanna call it but I’ve been looking for a game like that for a long time now and when I found this I was like yes and only a dollar now that’s a good price for a game
I found how to make the planks after the sawmill is built
I found how to make the planks after the sawmill is not but one thing I don’t know is how you get seeds with somebody please tell me I’d love to know please and thank you
Need help with storekeeper
Hello, guys. I need some help with the storekeeper.
I started playing this game again after a very, very, very long time.
So, gnu things are found and I have to say that this game is great.
Well, my problem is the following:
I has activated three items so far
Buckets of water,
Stone and wood.
They seemed to be working fine for maybe half an hour or one hour.
After that time, the keeper stopped restocking the items I have mentioned before.
I have already closed the app and re-opened to find that it is still not working.
I don't know what else to try I have already restarted the game approximately 10 times and I keep having the same problem.
What can I do?
Please help.
Thank you in advance.
Reply from Developer for what that is worth
Hello
The new version 3.0.4 is going to be updated with a new version that
will need the game to be restarted to fix another bug, so i would refrain from playing the game until 3.0.5
As for the store keeper it will only store the stock limit that has been paid for.
The store keeper will only work wen the game is running
The figures on the side menu do not update and are a snapshot when the menu was launched.
This has been reported as is being looked into.
The new version is due to be thrown at app review on Friday
So hold your breath and keep everything crossed.
Question about the storekeeper
Hello, John.
Would you say that the storekeeper will only stock the limit that has been paid for, does that mean that we will not be able to add more items to the keeper or expand the stock limmit?
I sure hope that is not the case.
Whoopee!
The store keeper bug has just been fixed and is being tested.
You can expand the number of items and the type of items
for gold.
Thank you
Thank you, John.
Thank you for developing these great games.
It is good to know that the update will be out soon.
Stay safe, my friend. :-)
This game is still amazing!
I’ve been playing Knight Commander for almost as long as it has been around, and it is still one of my favorite games! John, I absolutely love the new additions to the game, and, I can hardly wait to see what this game has in store with the next update! I really like the new interface. The only thing that I cannot figure out is that I can’t sell one of a single item from the warehouse. Is there a way to do that? For example if i have 50 bananas, and i need 40 of them for a contract, is there a way to sell the remaining 10 without selling off all of them? Great work as always, and thanks for my favorite game!
Selling items
Open the side menu by tapping the top info button
Tap on the type of the item you want to sell
for example food
swipe to the item and if you have some of the item in stock
there will be buttons at the bottom of that item screen
these will allow you to sell various amounts of that item.
Hope this helps
Some questions after last big update
Hi, I'm a little confused after the last big update.
I had already bought the store keeper for food, water, wood and stone (as long as I remember) but after the last big update it seems like my store keeper disappeared and now it seems like the food can't be added to the store keeper, am I right?
Second, I can't find where is the help section now, I mean, where are the instructions of the game?
Also in the buildings section there are a lot of "sell 1, sell 2", etc. buttons, but I don't understand which one belongs t to each building, I think this part of the game should be recoded in order to be easier for us to understand with voiceover.
Kind regards.
A few answers and a minor rant
Hello
The storekeeper is completely different to allow the collection of all resources and
not just a few selected ones.
The sell buttons at the bottom of each item that has stock is a sore point
to label the buttons with what they refer to would be in breach of Apple guidelines on design.
As I would have to make the text visible for sighted types.
The buttons only appear when the item has stock so on each item page they are referring to that item.
It is not perfect but workable.
As for a help system I was hoping for people to test the game in testflight
but that did not happen so the game got released and the bugs keep getting fixed.
Any help system would be out of date on a weekly basis any questions I will try to help as best I can.
Thank you all for supporting the game.
Quite far
Hi, this game is so good. I’m quite far in now but I’ve noticed when you try and use one of the players after a certain amount of time it just throws you out of the game and then no more progress seems to be able to be made.
Many thanks
What?
Hello
Did you rename the person with a null string?
Could you send me your game save file
to do this backup your game
then share the file to me at the email address
[email protected]
could you also tell me the steps you do to do make my beloved and super game crash?
thank you
Renaming
Yes I did the renaming thing.
Are you not meant to rename certain ones? I will send the file to you later I don’t have time at the moment but will do that as soon as possible.
Thank you so much for your help.
Fixed this...
You can rename all your people if you like
The problem was the fact that you could rename them to be a empty string
and code no likey empty strings!
The new update 3.0.64 should not allow you to rename people to have empty strings
I know some of you will think it funny to do this but do not!
The new version is out now
Thank you all and carry on
Just out of interest
What do you mean by an empty string?
A empty string occurs when…
A empty string occurs when you hit enter without entering any text.
How do you
How do you make the soda and the ice cream once you have the super machines?
Not so super machines
Some super machines are not that super
and do nothing at all at the moment.
Be careful when buying!
Still
Still the best game ever so thank you.
Same question here what about sodas, ice cream and steam Machine
Hello John, didn’t quite understand your answer to this question, for the last update the released notes stated that these machines give some bonus, but I don’t know how to make them either.
In fact although I have all the super machines already in use, I don’t see the menu where other players could buy them in this last big update, also I don’t see a way to spend mana in anyway.
Super machines
Hello All
To buy a super machine you need mana.
you get mana by completing contracts and fighting.
The first super machine costs 1000 mana
Each additional machine costs a whole lot more
You only get the option to buy a machine when you have enough mana to buy one.
Some of the effects of the machines are invisible to the eye but do effect the game.
Such as food mixer
Most of the machines that effect bonuses should show up in the bonus screen
if they do not then they will at some point in the dim distant future.
Hope this helps
How much mana?
I have 214K mana, isn’t it enough for something? And where is it supposed to appear this buying option?
Before update was under the gold option but now ai don’t have any idea
Thanks John
How
The option to buy a super machine appears in the side menu.
You must have clicked on it to buy other super machines.
The first machine costs 1000 mana
the second costs 8000 mana
and so on so the later machines
cost a lot of mana.
Not sure at this point in time how much the last one would cost
as too early in the morning to be thinking too hard.
hope this helps
OK, now a question for other players
Putting it that way, it will be almost impossible to buy
Now I have a question for other players, how do you manage to complete any quest when all of them require more than 400 elements of resource in less than 30 movements in average?
Quests
The quest amount is based on the size of your warehouse.
1 turn is when 1 person completes a task.
I have pushed this game mechanic every which way but loose
This way seems to work for more people.
hth
Resources per turn
I seem to remember it being said that a building or tool required to make a thing doesn't increase it if you have more of that building or tool. This is still true, right? For instance, you get I think three meat per turn whether you have one spear or 10. That's the only thing I'm having trouble with on quests. If you need 500 milk, and you have 12 people, and you make 4 milk per person, wouldn't you then only make 48 milk in 12 turns? If you needed 500 milk in 25 turns, I don't see one single way around that, again unless I am wrong, and upping the number of cows ups the amount of milk per turn. Milk is just an example, there are a lot of things that face the same problem. I've mostly been making gold by making random things and selling them rather than doing many quests for that reason. My warehouse has gotten pretty big and like I said, I have 12 people. Recruiting more would just make them produce more but take more turns. Very much enjoying the contracts, and fighting and all the new things I can craft though. I left this game for about five months and came back in March, and I was like a kid in a candy store. It's awesome.
Re: Resources
That is exactly my pint regarding quests.
Years ago the fact of havving many items of a building or tool, ended in increasing the production of resources, but that is no longer available, so I’m having the same trouble as musicmyxstress, I have a nice big warehouse and 10 people and there is no way I can achieve a single quest since the last big update.
Now I don’t have enough motivation to keep playing than to have a time killer.
Quest targets
Hello
The amount in quests is based upon your warehouse size.
The previous method of getting more resources for every spear or similar tool directly caused the new update as players were generating huge numbers of items.
The new method is to make buildings to get production bonuses, speed the game up and other benfits
that aid in the production of items and as such allow the completion of quests.
Quests wer only ever meant to be somthing to do to get some money but most people seem to have no trouble in
amsssing a large of pie of gold quite quickly.
I have rebalanced the game several times and seem to upset one group or the other.
John.
Dear John and a big suggestion for old users.
Hi All:
You could read from my last posts that I was having a lot of issues regarding the newer functions and machines of the game that were not working for me.
3 days ago when I realised that my 3 or 4 years long game was not working, i decided to restart everything from zero.
Here is the key of everything. Once I started my new game, a lot of new things appeared in my resources tab. I saw things that I haven’t seen before in my game, no matter I kept it updated always, those things were bamboos trees, ice cuves, paper umbrellas, etc. And a lot of new buildings like a creamery and much more.
Here is when I come with my suggestion for old gamers. You should restart your game no matter how horrible that sounds after years and years of building your empire, because no matter what you do, if you don’t restart your game, you will kept stock as I was, losing a lot of new resources and functions of the game, like the whole new super machines I wasn’t able to buy before, no matter I had a bunch of mana.
Dear John, I don’t know if you ever suggested in one of your updates to restart our games in order to get these new functions, but if not, I encourage you to have his suggestion in your update notes. And if you you did so before, please disregard this message.
I’m very adicted again to the game, and I have a lot of motivation to keep playing, what wasn’t happening a long time ago.
Hth..
A question of complex quests
Hi, a long time ago I asked this question but haven’t realised the right way to complete complex tasks, I mean those where you have to make a tool or resourse that needs other resources. So I have this task where I need to make 20 stone studded clubs, but I already gadered stones and wood to make them, I already manufactured those 20 clubs but the quest haven’t been completed. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.