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Sindai posted:It's neat that tubes unlock just as flasks turns into an almost entirely automated matter of idling for freezing flasks for hours. Also that tubes are nothing like flasks whatsoever. It's very neat.
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Is it me or is the Energy Production Accelerator on some kind of weird curve? Usually if you spend all your Energy you can watch the multipliers on the accelerators tick up, and accelerators you've spent more on will tick up slower (because, of course, you've already spent more on them and therefore it costs more than the others to increase your multiplier). That makes sense. But I notice that the Energy Production Accelerator will start out ticking slower (since you just spent on it) but then start ticking faster and overtake the multipliers on the other Accelerators. Is that one uniquely based on how much you're spending at a time or something?
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Aug 17, 2022 18:07
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Kyrosiris posted:Also that tubes are nothing like flasks whatsoever. i've always been saying this
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Aug 17, 2022 18:18
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Pope Guilty posted:Is it me or is the Energy Production Accelerator on some kind of weird curve? Usually if you spend all your Energy you can watch the multipliers on the accelerators tick up, and accelerators you've spent more on will tick up slower (because, of course, you've already spent more on them and therefore it costs more than the others to increase your multiplier). That makes sense. But I notice that the Energy Production Accelerator will start out ticking slower (since you just spent on it) but then start ticking faster and overtake the multipliers on the other Accelerators. Is that one uniquely based on how much you're spending at a time or something?
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Pretty sure the bonus is based on that total spent you see on the right (PC 16:9 I noticed you can change the res and it dynamically rearranges a bit) The percent gain shown is just the gains from current bonus and new bonus.
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Aug 17, 2022 18:39
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Laughed out loud when I got to Tubes, game seems pretty fun so far. Is 11 diamonds the most you can get from daily solitaire? I cleared the board on the first try both days but was curious how the score factors into it.
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Aug 17, 2022 18:47
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I just realized it's been a little over 5 years since you first posted NGU. Congrats! Hate to say, what i reallly do is just google the name of my problem +unity. I also struggle seperating issues on 3d vs 2d, i just.. muddle through it, really. How i specifically do menus is i have a global canvas, then a subcanvas as the parent of each menu. Then it has a child which is the overall menu and i go from there. Then, I have a menu swapper controller that puts the right menu at 0,0 (front and center in screen) and shoves all the rest to (5000,5000) or some arbitrarily far distance. The subcanvas thing in theory saves on rendering costs, or something like that. I read somewhere that when any object in the scene changes visually, it marks the whole canvas its on as "dirty", so splitting each menu into its own subcanvas saves all other menus from unnecessarily being marked. You can also give each canvas an int id and run update code only if its the visible menu to save further processing.
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Aug 17, 2022 23:36
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something posted:Hate to say, what i reallly do is just google the name of my problem +unity. I also struggle seperating issues on 3d vs 2d, i just.. muddle through it, really. Believe it or not, that's a good start and helps! I'll take a crack at things and maybe if I make any progress I'll post some updates!
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Aug 18, 2022 00:25
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Help I have been watching number go up in Idle Research for 12 hours. I have just unlocked Ice. I have things to do today!
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something posted:Hate to say, what i reallly do is just google the name of my problem +unity. I also struggle seperating issues on 3d vs 2d, i just.. muddle through it, really.
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Aug 18, 2022 02:13
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inspire posted:Do you have a rough ETA on NGU 2? Very excited for it. You didn't know? It'll be here in 5 hours.
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Aug 18, 2022 02:15
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No estimate yet, it's still just gradually forming right now.
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Aug 18, 2022 02:38
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Idle Research: If I have the Fire upgrade that earns 10% of Prestige flasks every second, is there any reason to manually prestige? Feels like i would lose a ton of progress.
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Spokes posted:Idle Research: Prestiging is the only way to get more Fuel to help you get more Fire But I stopped prestiging for a while when I got that yeah
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Devor posted:Prestiging is the only way to get more Fuel to help you get more Fire oh right, because you re-research. what a fun little game this is!
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Spokes posted:oh right, because you re-research. what a fun little game this is! I got to ice with 7 hours played yesterday. After unlocking auto prestige I barely turned it off. Just keep getting further and further with only 60 seconds. Then when it feels like you aren't getting more of the green things a run to be worthwhile I did a 30 minute run to pick up some new unlocks then started that grind. No idea if my timing is good or bad. Auto prestige is your AFK idle mode I don't think there's much point doing a deep run that's several hours long.
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Aug 18, 2022 18:11
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I unlocked dark flasks and was close to dark tubes which are deliberately super slow and grindy since they're the end of the current content so I guess I'll mostly put the game down until cylinders are implemented. With how different flasks and tubes are I'm looking forward to them.
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I was worrying the content was running thin. It has a solid base. excited to see where it goes Research Idle looks to have log multi-year long legs at this point if the dev doesn't burn out first.
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Aug 18, 2022 18:51
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wait is Research Idle literally just making flasks and more flasks and nothing else?
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Aug 19, 2022 00:35
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Cobalt60 posted:wait is Research Idle literally just making flasks and more flasks and nothing else? There are also Tubes.
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Aug 19, 2022 00:45
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Which are not at all like flasks.
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Cinara posted:Which are not at all like flasks. this part is key
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Venuz Patrol posted:this part is key Flasks are just lab equipment. Tubes are militaristic. They're not at all alike. Don't be ridiculous, of course they're not both made out of glass. I am enjoying Idle Research plenty.
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the internet is a series of tubes The way these interact I have a good feeling about future content.
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Ironically, unlike apparently everyone else, I was enjoying Idle Research until I got to Tubes. It being different to Flasks is good, the way it's different is good in theory but in practice makes it so much slower that it just isn't as fun or engaging. 
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yeah i'm not the biggest Tubes fan, the whole adventure structure just feels like NGU but without what made NGU fun it's interesting enough that i'm willing to stick with it for a while longer tho
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Aug 19, 2022 03:44
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NGU complete! And it only took me... uh. 
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Pope Guilty posted:NGU complete! And it only took me... uh. Now vote do not recommend for a hell of a review. "ran out of content after 18,000 hours game is too short"
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pixaal posted:Now vote do not recommend for a hell of a review. "ran out of content after 18,000 hours game is too short" "It says Idle right in the name but required so much from me!"
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pixaal posted:Now vote do not recommend for a hell of a review. "ran out of content after 18,000 hours game is too short"  that’s great!
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issue i have with tubes is it feels like a bunch of fluff stats that don't actually improve anything, only attack and kill rate matter. i completely out scale everything by an insane factor since i didn't leave the game open and running for a day and i'm just gated by kill progress.
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My excitement with tubes isn't what they do, it's how they function in relation to flasks and freeze. It makes me excited for additional layers. It's something that feels new and interesting. It's got a bit of Lazy Kings in the DNA.
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Early progression on Research Idle is a little weird because the offline progress assumes you're micromanaging your flask crafting slots so it's actually more efficient early to just use the offline progress than to futz with it. Interesting.
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I wish I'd known that when I was wrestling with the crafting build saving system and how frustratingly dumb it was in a few ways. The saving grace is that the phase of the game where that really matters is fairly short.
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something posted:No estimate yet, it's still just gradually forming right now. "number of days until NGU 2 comes out" is the only number I ever want to go down
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I wonder if I am missing some way to progress in Research Idle. I am at E850 Energy and for last twelve hours or so I have slowly been auto-prestiging (and sometimes not to see how it effects) upwards in Energy charts. I have been buying Fire upgrades and Juices as I can afford them but other than that I don't really see any progress happening easily. I am lacking White, Black and Golden Flash Effect boosters, but those three are entirely unpractical go towards. Am I just supposed to sit there from E600 to E900+ Energy?
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Evolve chat: I've been grinding through 0* pillars for a few weeks now. I'm up to 21/49 species done, and I'm running out of species I can do without bioseeding or blackholing. For the resonance achievement, I'm thinking the best strategy is going to be to 0* pillar, then 4* my remaining unpillared species from each genus. The cost of pillaring just keeps going up and I figure the ~1 day time to pillar at 0* will be faster than the time to build up enough infernal forges to pillar at 4*. I guess I should start to see if a demonic infusion is feasible soon, too. I don't mind the 0* pillaring because it's mostly hands-off.
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Banemaster posted:I wonder if I am missing some way to progress in Research Idle. Be sure to charge up the temporary juice boost thing you get by manually juicing and use it when you have 2 or more juice colors that aren't yet automated. I think fire upgrades and juice are the main progress drivers at that point in the game. Sindai fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Aug 20, 2022 |
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New Yorp New Yorp posted:Evolve chat: Pillars are good but not essential for hell resets and if you're at pillaring already then a demonic infusion is just extra time. You should definitely do a few though as a few of the upgrades are very worth like the four unbounds which lets you play any species on any planet with a small (5% at tier4) malus. You always want to do the spire and hell resets at 4* because of how blood stones work. If you really want to power through pillars then 0* on micro are even faster and still count for the production bonus and -%cost for the spire gates. Really though you're at the point where Truepath and the harder challenges are all possible. Rynoto fucked around with this message at 19:52 on Aug 20, 2022 |
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Picking up NGU again and I really wish there was something I could spend magic on that didn't also cost gold, or that boosting gold income with energy/magic had a lower barrier to entry. I have to let most of my magic sit idle because I'm so limited by gold income.
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