Ascension

[patent ledge]

Ascension, Common
UNLOCK: Play a run without ever gaining max interest after a blind.
"Whenever you beat a boss blind, gain +1 interest cap."

[lament hatch]

Would need a bit of rewording to be consistent with the interest vouchers, maybe have it state that you "gain +$1 maximum interest"
Just a small, technical nitpick, I really like this idea as a sort of worse-but-it's-a-common Rocket

[wheat trail]

Better than rocket imo

You dont need the joker for the effect to work

But if you ever sell rocket its gone

[patent ledge]

But you do need 5$

Its "you need 5$ to earn 1$ per blind" vs "2$ more per blind"

[wheat trail]

That seems pretty balanced

Maybe 2 dollars towards the max interest??

Theres only 8 boss blinds after all

$8 of max interest if you hold it in a joker slot the entire game isnt that worth

[patent ledge]

Maybe, I dont wanna get too close to Rocket, but that'd definitely work balance wisw

[wheat trail]

Yeah

Cool idea

[patent ledge]

Thank y'a! :>

[wheat trail]

Also the unlock sucks 😭

[patent ledge]

Ehh, i mean you can still just get 4$ of interest

[wheat trail]

You just win on green deck

But yeah would definitely be fine seeing this ingame

[ocean jackal]

This makes using gold cards really hard to use actually

You’d need to do this in a vagabond run probably

[patent ledge]

I.. really disagree with that

[patent ledge]

Not this, this is 100% true

[patent ledge]

But often times I'll go the first 3-5 antes without ever maxing interest if my shops are really that bad

Its not hard to purposefully roll down below 25$, unless you magically have hundreds on standby

[grand owl]

It does say max interest; you could get away with $4 interest before picking up seed money and getting flexibility

[ocean jackal]

Yeah ik

But vagabond would be pretty easy to play with going for this since you already ignore interest with it

[mellow rivet]

So I'm looking at code to implement it, and I need to ask how this interacts with the interest vouchers. The voucher text says "Raise the cap on interest earned in each round to $x"

The code currently reads the data on the voucher and sets the interest cap to the voucher data value (50 for seed money, 100 for money tree).

If the current interest cap is modified from its base value of 25, should the behavior of the voucher overwriting be changed?

A: No, the voucher should override the joker at all times
B: The voucher should only override if the joker value is lesser
C: The voucher should not override, but should instead be reworked to add 25 / add 50 for seed money / money tree.

(Note, the code does not internally store the actual interest cap of $5, $10, and $20, just the max value of money to get that interest.)

[uncut rain]

A is what would make sense, C is what we'd like to happen

[patent ledge]

C personally :>

[mellow rivet]

Also do you have any art for this joker?

[patent ledge]

Unfortunately no !

Though I might be able to procure some 😈

[patent ledge]

My GF is willing to do a Joker or two so uh, I'll be back sometime in the next 3-4 days idk her schedule

[mellow rivet]

sweet.

If she wants to be extra awesome, there are some other items in the mod that could use some art.

but no pressure

[patent ledge]

Wanna drop a few rq I'll look at them

Its alr a commission based thing anyways

Acc could we take this to DMs or your channel for this mod? This is gonna get off topic fast

[gritty cove]

It that why to the moon doesn't work like it's phrased

[mellow rivet]

I have this implemented, but I need to go afk, so I haven't made bad art for the joker yet. If you have art or an idea for art for this joker please share!

[mellow rivet]

Otherwise, I'll probably throw something together later today

[gritty cove]

Still no one has answered my question:(

[mellow rivet]

I don't understand your question @gritty cove

How does To The Moon work differently from how it is phrased?

[gritty cove]

It doesn't imply a cap. Or that it's changed by seed money and money tree

[mellow rivet]

well, you earn one extra dollar of "interest" not one extra dollar, so it obeys the cap.

[gritty cove]

Does it say interest

[gritty cove]

How do multiple to the moons work

[mellow rivet]

Dunno, never tried, I assume additively

[mellow rivet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV-2md9qI_E https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1384642650149228674

[gritty cove]

That's insane

And insanely impressive

[mellow rivet]

well, I figured it is better to actually beat the blinds, rather than to use debug mode to click "win blind" and I already scouted the seed, so I knew a straight flush was possible first round, and a flush on the ancient suit was possible the other two rounds.

So the gameplay isn't that impressive.

[gritty cove]

The modding is because you had to change an existing voucher

[mellow rivet]

The code for changing the voucher was surprisingly easy

[gritty cove]

Also the boldNess of the straight flush was funny

[mellow rivet]

didn't even need a lovely patch

[gritty cove]

"It's easy coding" say Dumbledore humbly

[mellow rivet]

well, as my high school math teacher once told me, "it's easy once you know how, all it takes is a little practice"

[gritty cove]

Adults plays balatro 🤯 😵

[mellow rivet]

I'm 40 lol

I've also developed for a reasonably famous indie game previously.

Oh! I should mention. I made it so that the upgrade is permanent. Sell the joker, retain the interest cap.

I figured that should be enough to make it a $6 uncommon instead of a $4 common.

But I could be argued down from that @patent ledge

[gritty cove]

Damn unc. Man really has life maybe a wife. Possibly children?!! And plays balatro. True gamer

[mellow rivet]

Wife, no children, mostly mods Balatro now, instead of grinding for C+ and C++.

[gritty cove]

I'm almost 14 Bru that's. You could be my dad

[gritty cove]

Fuck the children... Wait stop no not like that?? !!!

[patent ledge]

Its 1$ per blind max per ante, it's common worthy

It's entire strong suit is being sellable and keeping the max interest :3

[mellow rivet]

Fair, I'll common it