v1.0.4 is released!

All Stats GP cost reduced

'All stats +1' GP base cost has been reduced from 10 to 3 per level.

Reset GP ability

You can also reset your GP spent. It has a cooldown of 1 hour. This is to prevent exploits with the Sproutling skill. Otherwise you would be able to keep re-speccing to exploit the Sproutling buff.

There is one temporary caveat: Because of the cost change for all Stats from 10GP -> 3GP, it won't be able to return the full 10 GP due to this rebalancing changing it to 3 GP. But this is a one-time drawback. In future ascensions, the full cost will be granted back. This does not affect other GP stats.

Merchant UI improvement

Fish Merchant sell progress indicator has been added so you know when your next fish will be sold.

New Companion visibility toggle

A toggle has been added to reduce the number of companions on screen as I have received feedback that it gets cluttered with many companions.

I also fixed a bug where the 'Mute when unfocused' toggle was not working as intended.

Leaderboard

I have received a review that the leaderboard has cheaters. In this update, existing cheaters will be blacklisted. Furthermore I will do another cleanse on all leaderboards some time after this update deploys.

It is difficult to completely prevent cheating without implementing features that also make it harder for legitimate players to play. I may not have mentioned this in previous updates but I have been doing a manual cleanse on the leaderboard daily due to the feedback on cheaters, which is not something I normally do but was notified repeatedly about it. But even this is something I cannot keep up with constantly.

There will always be cheaters and even the best games' anti-cheats can be bypassed in time. The only way is to make the game online and have everything on servers, but that would impose a lot of impracticability on legitimate players and the ability to play offline, which this game does. At the end of the day, Siegeturtle is a single player game.

Nonetheless I am doing my best to monitor the issue!

Other changes have also been made. Full changelog below! :)

Full changelog:

• 'All Stats' stat base GP cost reduced: 10 -> 3

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• Add fish merchant sell progress indicator

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• Add Reset GP button (cooldown: 1hr)

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• Add 'Show Less Companions' toggle

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• Add leaderboard blacklist (will take time to apply)

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• Global Illumination is disabled by default

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• Fix Temper Tamer duration suddenly dropping from Lv 30 to Lv 31

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• Fix 'Mute When Unfocused' setting not applying correctly

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• Fix leaderboard rankings not showing until you click a category

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-YYZ