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GrossMurpel posted:What's the prestige like? Hopefully it's more than just "okay you get x1.5 energy". Right now I'm on my first restart and it's pretty straightforward still, but it's clear that you can do something with the Quantum Physics research.
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The highest skill you've ever reached in any task translates to 10% per level bonus speed, I think. Haven't finished the story yet, but it should give an energy bonus.
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Apr 12, 2017 19:55
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Falcon2001 posted:Right now I'm on my first restart and it's pretty straightforward still, but it's clear that you can do something with the Quantum Physics research. You'll need level 50 in that before the event triggers so it'll be a few loops.
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Apr 12, 2017 20:46
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Yesterday I went to see a financial advisor, and spent the rest of the day going over the data on my brokerage's interface with a fine-toothed comb. When my wife came home, I told her I felt like a huge dork because I'd spent the whole day nerding over numbers and mix-maxxing saving money. Without missing a beat she said "That makes perfect sense. You'r'e just LARPing one of those make-the-numbers-bigger games you like." 
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Apr 12, 2017 23:01
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GrossMurpel posted:What's the prestige like? Hopefully it's more than just "okay you get x1.5 energy". Each level of each skill at prestige makes it faster to learn that skill. Same with job positions. But your Roy will never be truly happy.
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Apr 12, 2017 23:02
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Yeah, your guy always wants bigger and better housing as he gets older, which requires more time in chores. Happiness is a pretty interesting mechanic because of this; it's impossible to balance without a lot of groundhogging and knowing exactly how to proceed with your new life. This is a Good Idler. I have been Burger King once. Now I'm grinding my way through the Quantum Mechanics progression.
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Apr 13, 2017 14:54
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Sage Grimm posted:Yeah, your guy always wants bigger and better housing as he gets older, which requires more time in chores. Happiness is a pretty interesting mechanic because of this; it's impossible to balance without a lot of groundhogging and knowing exactly how to proceed with your new life. This is a Good Idler. I haven't played much of it (I'm gonna start putting time into it now, in fact) but it seemed to me like chores can be easily counteracted with the servants or whatever they're called, since money seems to be easy to make?
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Apr 13, 2017 15:38
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GrossMurpel posted:I haven't played much of it (I'm gonna start putting time into it now, in fact) but it seemed to me like chores can be easily counteracted with the servants or whatever they're called, since money seems to be easy to make? Money is less easy to make when you're actually trying to win and thus can't go nuts on Yugle profits.
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Apr 13, 2017 15:43
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Game is good. lol if you don't spend $200/day on food because gently caress you I want to be happy (but I recognize that only works if you're progressing towards top career rather than the Quantum Physics line that presumably actually makes you win eventually?)
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Apr 13, 2017 16:28
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Game is good. lol if you don't spend $200/day on food because gently caress you I want to be happy Quantum Physics 50 by age 28 unlocks the endgame.
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Apr 13, 2017 16:43
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Game needs a fast forward option
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Apr 13, 2017 16:47
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Winning is a full reset so don't put it off once available.
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Len posted:Game needs a fast forward option Yeah, honestly this is my biggest problem with the game right now. Long periods of nothing happening at all.
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Apr 13, 2017 17:15
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This is the best idler I've played in a while. I'm having a lot of fun planning lives to establish a progression path that will get me through a career faster.
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Apr 13, 2017 17:25
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dis astranagant posted:Quantum Physics 50 by age 28 unlocks the endgame. Also I laughed at "Dark Plateau" once I figured out why it was named that.
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I think I'm done. Double energy is not enough to keep me interested in a second lap.DACK FAYDEN posted:Ugh, I was kinda hoping it was 50 in your life ever, you have to have 50 when the event rolls in? After the first time you don't have to wait for the event. It's not really worth doing til you can throw out 500 each of study skills and nutrition. Even then it took me 3 lives just to build up enough bonuses on the final researches to actually win. dis astranagant fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Apr 13, 2017 |
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Apr 13, 2017 17:28
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fwiw you can speed it up to 1.5 speed with a speed hack, but anything above that and the pauses to catch up take longer than the actual benefit of speed hacking it. The game code is obfuscated so I don't think there's a tickrate increaser a la kittensgame.
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Apr 13, 2017 17:33
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Solid Poopsnake posted:But your Roy will never be truly happy. dis astranagant posted:Quantum Physics 50 by age 28 unlocks the endgame. So this is an ARG for Rick and Morty Season 3, then, right?
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Apr 13, 2017 17:51
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How does the happiness from your home work? Does your character just want a better home at certain ages?
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Apr 13, 2017 18:27
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It seems that way, yeah. And it accelerates as you get older, in terms of home desires I mean.
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Apr 13, 2017 18:37
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GrossMurpel posted:How does the happiness from your home work? Does your character just want a better home at certain ages? Yes. He also gets unhappy when you have too much non-disposed income and aren't living in a mansion.
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Apr 13, 2017 18:39
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I wish there was more purchases to make. You end up with a shitton of money but going negative for a while tanks all your stats even if you have a ton of savings.
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Apr 13, 2017 18:53
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dis astranagant posted:Yes. He also gets unhappy when you have too much non-disposed income and aren't living in a mansion. DACK FAYDEN posted:It seems that way, yeah. And it accelerates as you get older, in terms of home desires I mean. "I wish I had spent my money on getting better housing instead of buying 200 dollars worth of food every single day of my life" E: Just realized this means you can just go back to a lovely house if you can't afford one your character wants and the happiness hit is offset by the loss of chores. GrossMurpel fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Apr 13, 2017 |
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Apr 13, 2017 18:56
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If anything, a "Waste all my money on pointless luxuries" option would be nice, no actual benefit except setting your net income to zero for the happiness boost.
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Apr 13, 2017 19:17
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While we're at it - I get that the lack of a medium option between the cleaner and servant si probably on purpose, but it would be nice to hire TWO cleaners or something.
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Apr 13, 2017 20:54
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GrossMurpel posted:"I wish I had spent my money on getting better housing instead of buying 200 dollars worth of food every single day of my life" Also, holy poo poo, forget about QM 50 by age 28 to start the Dark Plateau stuff, to get the job after Senior Scientist you need ten levels in Senior Scientist and 500 levels in QM  Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight take me another loop or two to prestige up to that 
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I don't know if it's on the to-do list, but there's a point where your biggest limitation is that you can only level up once per day, which means to get to level 500, it's going to take 500 days no matter your skill. In cases like that, I'd at least like to be able to automatically get credit for time off for the wasted research, or even better, split research between a bunch of subjects. It'd probably really change the balance though, so I don't know.
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Falcon2001 posted:While we're at it - I get that the lack of a medium option between the cleaner and servant si probably on purpose, but it would be nice to hire TWO cleaners or something. I'm not at the point where I can get a servant yet but I assume it's something that's supposed to work in conjunction with what DACK FAYDEN said. At first you just max food for the happiness and then when you can easily afford a servant you can suddenly blast through the housing options without a drawback. E: ^^^^ 
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Apr 13, 2017 21:03
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some of this is getting a little too real for me
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GrossMurpel posted:I'm not at the point where I can get a servant yet but I assume it's something that's supposed to work in conjunction with what DACK FAYDEN said. ...by buying literally everything (four servants, mansion, $200 food) and being a Yugle CEO with some levels in Investment and a million in the bank so I have income of 3205 and expenses of 3250 and my dude's not sweating the -$45/day  e: That said, how do you make "work/life balance" go up? Do I have to use that time to not do research?
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Apr 13, 2017 21:23
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What happens if you just rip off Mrs Pennywise and keep the wallet? I don't dare because I've not yet been desperate enough for cash to keep it.
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Ignoranus posted:What happens if you just rip off Mrs Pennywise and keep the wallet? I don't dare because I've not yet been desperate enough for cash to keep it. You get  and that's it.
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Apr 13, 2017 21:37
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Is there some other point to that interaction? It seemed like there were going to be more events but nope.
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chiefnewo posted:Is there some other point to that interaction? It seemed like there were going to be more events but nope. Seems like proof of concept more than anything.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:e: That said, how do you make "work/life balance" go up? Do I have to use that time to not do research? Yup. You basically have to put time into Free Time (that is, unassigned) and that'll go up.
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What skills do you guys level up? It's really hard to decide because it seems so much effort for linear gains but then in the next reset they get faster so you want to level them up after all and then you spread your research out and now all your skills are poo poo.chiefnewo posted:Is there some other point to that interaction? It seemed like there were going to be more events but nope. You inherit an inconsequential amount of money later.
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GrossMurpel posted:What skills do you guys level up? It's really hard to decide because it seems so much effort for linear gains but then in the next reset they get faster so you want to level them up after all and then you spread your research out and now all your skills are poo poo. First run: Study Skills, Nutrition, Leadership, a bit of Programming and a very little bit of Getting Stuff Done Second run: Leadership into Programming and its subskills to the reqs for Yugle CEO, then Study Skills and Nutrition and Getting Stuff Done and then Quantum Mechanics for the multiplier Third run: Yugle CEO reqs, Nutrition and Study Skills, more Leadership (ended up taking it to like 150ish) for the multiplier, then more Nutrition/Study Skills to prepare a sick multiplier for next run and QM for an even bigger multiplier. Fourth run: Yugle CEO into Lambda CEO. I don't know if I'll have enough time to do all this research before I hit 60 but I've got 400 Study Skills/500 Nutrition/500 Quantum Mechanics/300 Leadership so next run I probably won't bother with Yugle at all. Wonder if I could go straight into QM and never progress beyond the first few flippers? I guess Leadership would be fine for buffing XP at Lambda so really it's just Programming I'd avoid, and the Lambda CEO position pays fine. Investing is a trap, Getting Stuff Done is good for the first hour it can produce and okay for the second (level 120 it gets slacking down to 0:53) but I wouldn't take it further, ...yeah holy poo poo there's a LOT of research required at Lambda Complex, I was hoping the fourth one would be done but the fifth one requires level 200 in the fourth one Definitely avoid Yugle to save yourself from having to bother learning to program, I think. Can use that time to buff Nutrition and Study Skills more to prepare for this giant research rush at the end.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:For me it was: I'm actually thinking of moving my research to programming because I have been focusing on the burger jobs and it takes ages to advance later. Wait, I just realized I can level up the lower jobs a bit so they go faster next time. This game is 2deep4me GrossMurpel fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Apr 13, 2017 |
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Apr 13, 2017 22:40
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The game loving rules but I am not nearly smart enough for it. I'm pretty much just going through entire lives focusing on leveling one or two skills or jobs and then "feeling out" what makes sense for the next life.
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I kind of got bored with the game because progression slows way the gently caress down once you hit like Senior Scientist and gently caress if I wanna redo all that poo poo with the uber-reset.
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