Idle Frontier: Western Tapper Hack 1.086 + Redeem Codes

I have been playing this game for several years and overall it’s my favorite idle game that I’ve found. I have noticed improvements to the events such as you can generally get to 2nd or 3rd stage and have one normal business and the two transport businesses running. And then certain events the managers stay at Level 1 and it’s just higher cost to upgrade them. I personally would prefer this style every time or at least more frequently. I spend more time playing the game when it’s like that. Overall happy with events and enjoy playing them each week.

The problem is that I have progressed far enough in the main game that it takes too long to finish. I’ve been in the same town for about 6 months or so and based on the progress it will probably take me a year or more just to get the last crate. One crate is earn 50AE and the max I could get off one haul is about 2AD, but the average haul is more like 100AB given how stores have varying speeds. After 6 months I’ve earned 13AE. The other two crates are even less attainable. The main game has pretty much become worthless and my experience playing the game has just shifted to events which only run for 5 days.

I wanted to love this game so much. The regular gameplay flowed ok as far as being able to level up my managers and still meet the goals to be able to move to the next town. I play TPB and Bud Farm so I compared it to those. I feel like those games are on the right track to finding balance. This game wasn’t quite on that level but with some tweaks and updates it could be. However, after starting the 2nd event this week I was officially turned off and deleted the app from my phone. I understand that you can’t make these events so easy that everyone will conquer them but to make them so challenging to the point where you really make no progress after the first milestone is ridiculous. Keep in mind that you aren’t collecting a lot of food and cards to level up/hire your managers to work while you’re offline. When you begin your 2nd journey your manager now needs to be level 3 or 4 in order to work automatically or else you need to sit there and manually collect everything. You need at least 3 managers working at all times to continue making progress while offline. No one has that much time to dedicate to a game. And I hate having to spend money off the bat to make progress on something. That was going to be the only way to get at least get all of the required managers leveled up so that I still made progress while the app was closed. I’ll pass. There are other games that have the algorithm right and are not stressful so I will stick with those.

Yes, I did delete this game (at level 35 😳) but I immediately reinstalled it because I realized what I was doing wrong. If you don't want to get stuck like I did (unable to hire a manager because I lacked cards and pies to upgrade), do NOT move on to the next town until you've completed ALL objectives. Ignore that flashing green bar and just stay put. I'm starting over from the beginning with the new strategy of staying in each town and upgrading businesses to at least 200 (possibly 300) before I move on so I can earn pies and obtain the cards from the objectives that take longer (like earning huge amounts of $$$). I like this game enough to get the most out of it and if that means not advancing as fast as I did the first time around, so be it. The graphics and characters are great and I LOVE that I can walk away from it and still earn. I can actively play and get bonuses from bird drops but I don't HAVE to. I like that. 😃

It's a good game to kill time and even earn currency while away while offering the choice of ads to keep up with needed currency. What is conflicting is an aspect where you "move on" from your town every time you reach a new level/unlock a new shop. When this happens, you essentially start all over again but in a different season and im not sure why they included this aspect rather than just continuously progressing your town. It isnt hard to build back up but rather, repetitively annoying. If seasons Must be added, why not keep jumping between same 4 towns?? Regardless, the biggest bone i have to pick (and many will agree according to reviews), is the events. Im new to this game (only level 6) but i picked up the jist of it fairly quickly. The events work differently and they say so...and that's it. There is no tutorial on how it works so you're just doing what you would normally do (which doesnt progress you) and have all this extra confusing stuff because there is no tutorial or help menu to explain it. So for now, im not seeing the point of events either because how can you progress if you dont know what you're doing? Or why would you want to do them when you dont know these "unique rewards"? So while this game is entertaining for now, it is not one i foresee playing for an extended duration unless some changes are made.

This is your typical nice Kongregate game. Obviously there are a few bugs still that ha e to be worked out. My biggest complaint is that you are required to upgrade managers before you can put them to work if you have the required materials. If you don’t have the pies to upgrade your managers, you can buy them with real cash, but once you have the upgrade mats again, they’re useless until you get the pies. This is where you hit the upgrade wall and it’s pretty fast. I’m at that point on the third level. I’m ok using a 3x manager until I can upgrade to 4x. Upgrading shouldn’t be a requirement for use.

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Like others in this genre, there is a point where progression grinds to a halt. Upgrading building cost 1000x of what they produce around level 17. At 18 you’re looking at 3 days just to produce enough coin to upgrade one of your buildings to the next production level. The quest difficulty combined with the uselessness of the auto-farming managers breaks the game. It’s not an idle game at this point. You’re not only clicking on the offered ads (30 second videos every 45 seconds or so) to get a boost, you’re wanted to spend $$$ on cards to upgrade managers that become useless on the next level. And this system is ten times as bad on the event(PvP) levels. This game is going to get lost in the sea of other ad simulators when it had potential to stand out. This game is destined for abandonment soon just like The Trail.

In the main levels the game build scale is way off. Now it is not difficult to do things because of the offline. The stupidest thing about the main levels and the events are requiring a manager to be a certain level. As long as the manager is owned they should be able to be used, sure the progress would be slow for. Slow level, but at least there would be progress. As for the events... there are too many too often you have to do a lot of work to play in the events which takes this from a nice relaxing game that you check in on every now and again to a complete bore fest. As stated above the requirement for managers to be a certain level before they can be used is idiotic, especially for the one that gives event pieces. It is one thing if they are low level giving me squat, but at least they are working for me. However, the build scale in the events is much smoother. You hate to move to the next level in events because you aren’t sure if any of your automated businesses will be able to go in the next town and then you could lose an entire day of stuff because u advanced.

Not sure if I will play in the events anymore, cuz of course there are a few psychos living in heir moms basement using dads credit card making u feel inferior. If I keep the game I would hope that some changes are made

They’ve ruined the game with events. Events are basically the only way to get legendary cards, epic cards, alternate outfits, and gold. Unfortunately, they’ve made events to where IDLE play is no longer an option. Ironic that IDLE Frontier can’t be played by its namesake. You have to sit and be active or you won’t really make it past town 3 of 15 on events. They don’t provide enough beans to play idle, and they don’t provide enough cards to hire managers. You have to be active to do anything for events. I don’t have 36 hours in a 48 hr period to waste on this game, it’s IDLE Frontier! The entire point is to be able to grow while away as well. They had mid week events before that were MUCH easier and provided pies to help with the main campaign. Now I have to sit for 2-3 weeks on a single town (I’m on lv 56) to complete all of the missions because I can’t upgrade cards for lack of pie. I have over 100 cards for every common character but the next upgrade only requires 30... I am waiting on over 100,000 pies to upgrade people... they’re removing any free aspect to the game and slowly trying to force purchases... expensive purchases. Shameful way to kill a fun thing... months of play and now this. :(

The latest event has a lot of flaws. First, it’s New Years….in June? Whose New Years are we celebrating? Secondly, none of the rewards advertised match what gets delivered to inbox. The icons are mismatched. Finally, it’s impossible to play the event on idle when you have to keep upgrading managers before automating. I haven’t been able to automate anything since the 3rd town. You can’t buy enough manager cards because it sells out when you need one more card (odd time to suddenly be “sold out”). This happened multiple times, so it’s not a coincidence. The VIP is advertised as both $9.99 and $7.99 for a month. Well, which is it? Either way it’s a little pricey.. and what do you get? Ad removal? That’s it? Maybe a one time $1.99 for ad removal, like other games, would be more appropriate. It prompts you to register with Kongregate, but if you try to create an account it locks up and you have to restart the app. I’m guessing this is because Kongregate closed up shop. So, whoever is managing this game now needs to get it together. I’ll update my review if you update the game

The event that just ended, I spend quite a bit on this game because I needed to “upgrade” the managers in the event. I’m ashamed to say how much I spend because obviously I was first place in the event 37mins before it’s over with a huge gap differences ( as in that person better spend the same amount of $$$ that I did to get the difference) between the second person and I. The event ended and it wouldn’t even show me the result or what position I became except it just put my winnings in the mail which turned out to be the 2,3 or 4 place in the event. Look, I’m a bit upset that I didn’t get to see the result especially since I paid for it. This game is kind of “pay to progress” otherwise you’ll move on to the next town and you’re stuck because you don’t meet the managers required level and you either wait for days to accumulate the funds or pay quite a lot of real money for it. If you like spending money on games then beat yourself up later for falling to your impulses again, this game is for you. If you are wiser, frugal and can control your impulses, I still think this game is not for you 🤣🤣. Thanks, this petty game player 🤣✌️

I really want to like this game, it’s got cute graphics and a fun goal-oriented twist on the standard idle game concept, and I’ve been trying to play for a full weekend now, but there is something SERIOUSLY WRONG with how the game assets are loading up cause unacceptable constant crashing. I can get *maybe* 5 minutes of uninterrupted playtime before it crashes - more often than not, I get barely 10 seconds in-game and any progress I attempted to squeeze in didn’t make it to auto-save.

This seems to be a bigger problem with older devices (I’m using an iPhone 6, iOS 12.3.1), if anything the device compatibility rating should be removed for these older devices unless drastic development changes are made to make the game properly compatible. This feels like alpha-testing level of brokenness, and honesty probably should not have been released as-is without a disclaimer (at least for older devices)

Dev team, please either direct your testing team to do more thorough stress-testing and end-to-end with older devices and/or emulators before release, or remove the compatibility rating for the devices that you don’t want to test for.