Suggested Changes
These are a comprehensive list of features that I suggest in order to make Kroakatoa Island a true successor to the original. NOTE: This list was made before the Spirit Turtle was released - it would need revising since it would be possible to play indefinitely with the correct strategy if additional timelord powers were made available and/or changes were made to Curvy Fries as described below.
Overall Game Changes:
- Coins are awarded based on balls cleared at end of game. However, there will be cost increases for all food / powers / potions to keep the 1:12 ratio of games to games with powers at high levels.
- The amount of coins received per game will increase as you level up.
- Extended Stats are displayed on a separate tab, with a score graph in another.
- Upgrade: Shot Potency (Increases base score per ball cleared, 5 levels)
- Upgrade: Crit Chance (Increases chances to crit (sound only), 10 levels)
- Upgrade: Fruit Upgrades (Increases value of each fruit, 6 levels)
- Life Upgrades (4 levels)
- Life Regen Upgrades (8 levels)
- Upgrade: Curve Mastery (increases curve clear bonus, 2 levels)
- Upgrade: Crit Power (Score from crits increased, 10 levels)
- Upgrade: Coin Collection (increases coins per game, 10 levels)
- Upgrade: Last Hurrah (5 levels)
- Increased XP potions from 15k / 70k / 240k to 20k / 85k / 300k.
- XP Potions now double coins gained per game.
- Changed sound of hot frog firing
- Added back button on Food Select
Power Changes:
- Two additional levels for each power are available after level 110.
- Timelord 4-5 (increases time to 9 seconds, increases spawn rate by 10%)
- Tripler Plus (Multipliers appear faster)
- Quadripler and Quadripler Plus (Start with 4x, Start with 4x with max mult at 12)
- Hot Frog 4-5 (Adds one extra shot / increases points per hot frog fireball)
- Color Nuke 4-5 (scores 100/200 points per ball destroyed, 5th level knocks out adjacent balls.)
- Fruit Master 4-5 (increases fruit value by 20% / 40% and keeps them onscreen longer)
- Speed Shot 4-5 (increases the speed bonus by 2x / 3x)
- Cannon 4-5 (inreases the score for each cannon to 30 / 50 and fire 5 way)
- Bombs 4-5 (increase the score gained for each one)
- Chain Blast 4-5 (increase the chain bonus for each explosion)
- Wild Shot 4-5 (Each wild ball shot gives more points, wild ball matches are guaranteed to crit)
- Changed cost of powerups from
- 1000 / 1500 / 2000 >> 750 / 1500 / 3000 / 4500 / 6000
- 2000 / 3000 / 4000 >> 1000 / 2000 / 4000 / 6000 / 8000
- 3000 / 4000 / 5000 >> 1500 / 3000 / 6000 / 9000 / 12000
Game Mechanic Changes:
- Increased Gap Shot Max Value to 16000 and max gap size to 700.
- Increased points for chain
Food Changes:
- Food now has a variable cost, depending on strength and how effective it is for scoring points. Typically they will start at 20k, and increase to 45k at level 2, and 80k per stack of five at level 3.
- There are three tiers of food, first level at 8, second at 110, and the third available at level 170.
- Ignition Sauce: Hot frog charges 25% / 35% / 45% faster, radius increases by 30%/40%/50% and points increased by 50%/120%/250%
- Hasty Pudding: Increases ball speed by 30%/40%/50%, award 50%/120%/200% more for speed bonus.
- Pyro Popcorn: +40/50%/60% explosion radius for all powers and hot frog
- Kiwi Kebab: Increases Fruit value by 750 / 2000 / 4500
- The Last Bite: Increases radius by 30/40/50%, adds 10k/25k/60k for each powerup and 1k/2.5k/6k per ball.
- Gapple Sauce: Increases Gap Values by 25% / 50% / 100% and decrease gap size max slightly by 20/40/60.
- Key Time Pie: Adds 5/11/18 seconds to the clock
- Kroakatoa Wave: Increased spread by 5/10/15 degrees.
- Gummi Nukes: Increases points for Color Nuke by 500/1500/4000 and each ball cleared by 50/120/300.
- Curvy Fries: Increases points for Curve Clears by 1000 / 2500 / 6000, and adds 2/2.5/3 sec per curve clear
- Shoo Fly Pie: Deters disappearance of Timeball/Time+Mult/All powerups. Cost is reduced here.
- Blue Ribbon Sauce: Fires 1/2/3 extra Hot Frog Shots, doing 20/45/75% more points.
- Smokin Hot Links: Hot Frog Meter goes up by 26/35/55% per five chain.
- Cinammon Soda: Reduced Hot Frog cooldown by 66/83/100%. Cost reduced.
- Candy Bracelet: Increase chain bonus by 2x/5x/12.5x
- Bacon Cake: Increase all powerup spawn by 25/50/75%
- Animal Crackers: Increase Spirit Blast by 750/2000/5000 and 25/60/130 per ball.
- Fruit Skewer: Adds 1/1.5/2 seconds per fruit.
- Caramel Apple: Decreases speed by 15/23/33%.