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can someone explain the presets for flask crafting in idle research to my idiot childlike brain, i do not get it and it is really killing my enjoyment I have no idea how to set things up
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Aug 20, 2022 22:57
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Sindai posted: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. You'll soon unlock Wandoos, which will soak up some of your Magic, and NGUs, which will for most of the game (aside from basically the end phases of Normal and Evil) take as much Magic as you can afford to give it.
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Aug 20, 2022 23:03
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Rynoto posted:You always want to do the spire and hell resets at 4* because of how blood stones work. Am I doing something wrong, because 3* seems great, but 4* is a gigantic slog, at least early on. Does it even out as the run goes on and you earn plasmids from genetics? Or do I need a zillion anti-plasmids or something?
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Aug 20, 2022 23:22
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Beasteh posted:can someone explain the presets for flask crafting in idle research to my idiot childlike brain, i do not get it and it is really killing my enjoyment It's just how many crafters you're assigning to each color, separated by commas so 5,5,5 means "assign five crafters to red, five to orange, and five to yellow"
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Aug 20, 2022 23:29
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Am I doing something wrong, because 3* seems great, but 4* is a gigantic slog, at least early on. So blood stone gain is 1 (or 2 after the upgrade) per challenge tier ie. 4* gives 10 blood stones per floor. 3* at 8 is still okay but mech damage isn't affected and you should have no problems keeping the bays full and 4* runs with your custom shouldn't take you that long to make it to spire. The spire portion takes up the vast majority of the run and a full 100 floors means missing out on a whole load of stones if you don't 4*. Plasmids give a decent chunk of bonus production (~30-35%) but beyond the blood stone thing the only reason to do 4* is mastery gain or to see pretty gold stars on the feat page. Faith helps but it's nowhere near a 3* plasmids which just leaves having a huge mastery pile. Antiplasmids drop off pretty fast and you'll get ~50% bonus before it becomes just not worth farming more. Theocracy and priests boosting ziggurats is a good bonus production for ultra-late saves as well. Here have a status update on the Orbital Decay challenge so it's not just my rambling.  So close to tech salvagers 
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Aug 20, 2022 23:30
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Rynoto posted:So blood stone gain is 1 (or 2 after the upgrade) per challenge tier ie. 4* gives 10 blood stones per floor. 3* at 8 is still okay but mech damage isn't affected and you should have no problems keeping the bays full and 4* runs with your custom shouldn't take you that long to make it to spire. The spire portion takes up the vast majority of the run and a full 100 floors means missing out on a whole load of stones if you don't 4*. Ok, that makes sense, I've really only been getting up to about floor 10-15. Maybe I should be sticking around much longer, but the cost creep starts to become an issue for buying new tower buildings. Is there a number of Harmony crystals where it starts to become more viable? I've got about 40, so if that's good, I'm probably just doing something wrong and need to experiment a little more.
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Aug 20, 2022 23:38
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Is there a number of Harmony crystals where it starts to become more viable? I've got about 40, so if that's good, I'm probably just doing something wrong and need to experiment a little more. Harmony Crystals are always viable? Their effect per crystal drops off pretty hard after ~100 but CCR is always incredibly strong to stack. As long as you've done a 4* ascension at least once in the current universe you get the full effect.
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Aug 20, 2022 23:49
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Rynoto posted:Harmony Crystals are always viable? Their effect per crystal drops off pretty hard after ~100 but CCR is always incredibly strong to stack. I bet that's the issue. I don't have a 4* ascension, so I'm probably getting a weak version of the cost creep reduction.
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Aug 21, 2022 00:37
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Beasteh posted:can someone explain the presets for flask crafting in idle research to my idiot childlike brain, i do not get it and it is really killing my enjoyment In addition, the "Preset on [Color] Flask" means that if that preset is active, it'll automatically be applied when that color is your highest preset level. The best use for it is for automating the steps right after you prestige since they'll automatically kick off and generate your research prerequisite flasks. I also think the preset is auto-applied whenever you buy new crafting slots -- at one point I was wondering why my flasks kept getting reset and shuffled around. That's how I understand it anyway!
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Aug 21, 2022 00:47
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Pope Guilty posted:You'll soon unlock Wandoos, which will soak up some of your Magic, and NGUs, which will for most of the game (aside from basically the end phases of Normal and Evil) take as much Magic as you can afford to give it. 
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Aug 21, 2022 01:12
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In Evolve Idle, at what stage to I go on to the next tier of resets? I've done a total of 27 resets, 3 Bioseed including a 3 star.
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Aug 21, 2022 03:38
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Maigius posted:In Evolve Idle, at what stage to I go on to the next tier of resets? I've done a total of 27 resets, 3 Bioseed including a 3 star. It's been a long time, but I feel like it might be worth trying to do a black hole reset because it lets you go to the heavy universe which is only slightly more difficult but with better rewards for bioseed. Once there, you'll probably want to re-earn some of the achievements for Heavy, build up some phage, buy at least one level in every mutation, and consider some of the challenges. Don't be afraid to check out the other universes too. Antimatter can be a little annoying at first, but you probably aren't going to regret having a 20-30% boost for the rest of the game with a modest stockpile of anti-plasmids.
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Aug 21, 2022 03:52
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On Research Idle: I hadn't automated (or invested anything in) Golden Flasks Accerelator.
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Aug 21, 2022 05:35
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Banemaster posted:On Research Idle: I hadn't automated (or invested anything in) Golden Flasks Accerelator. Once you get to tubes, remember to actually turn on the auto-allocator or it won't auto-allocate poo poo and you'll just hit a brick wall
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Aug 21, 2022 06:12
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NGU: when's a good time to do the basic challenge? I kind of accidentally unlocked it super early when I loaded a save from over a year ago.
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Aug 21, 2022 08:03
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Sindai posted:NGU: when's a good time to do the basic challenge? I kind of accidentally unlocked it super early when I loaded a save from over a year ago. That’s a good one to do pretty soon after unlocking it because the rewards are useful right away. This is really the only challenge that’s useful to do early and maybe one or two of the second challenge. You’ll start to know if your stats are good enough to do things based on how your early rebirth goes. It’s also very helpful to remember that you can drop down a save and just reload it if the challenge is proving to be too much of a pain. This way the worst that happens is some offline time.
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Aug 21, 2022 08:34
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Sindai posted:NGU: when's a good time to do the basic challenge? I kind of accidentally unlocked it super early when I loaded a save from over a year ago. As soon as you can tolerate it, but as soon as you've got a full set of gear from the first titan is probably the earliest that it won't feel like it's slowing you down
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Aug 21, 2022 12:50
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iirc magic is basically terrible when you first get it and as you unlock other things and gear up it slowly grows in importance
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Aug 22, 2022 03:35
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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. IT BEGINS:     One thing I tried, on a friend's recommendation, was to use JetBrains Rider as my IDE. It seems really well suited for Unity. I try to take a college course every few semesters or so to stay eligible for educational discounts. At the price of free, JetBrains has an excellent suite.
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Aug 22, 2022 05:14
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:IT BEGINS: The "how many things in this project use this script" is worth the price of admission on it's own
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Aug 22, 2022 11:19
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Feline Mind Meld posted:iirc magic is basically terrible when you first get it and as you unlock other things and gear up it slowly grows in importance this is every mechanic in NGU
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Aug 22, 2022 19:28
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I guess while I'm offering dev suggestions, if you use Git, and you probably should be using Git: try out GitKraken. It's a GUI for Git that makes things a lot easier and overall streamlines a lot of stuff.
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Aug 22, 2022 19:30
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Zokari posted:this is every mechanic in NGU The first would be making adventuring work offline and be more idle-friendly in general without unlocking 10 QoL upgrades.
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Aug 22, 2022 20:01
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Are there any goons still playing Tap Titans 2? Have there been any significant changes in TT2 in the last few years that would warrant checking it out again? I kinda got a hankerin' for some cooperative clicking with goons but the last time I played this was 5 years ago 
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Aug 22, 2022 20:02
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I guess while I'm offering dev suggestions, if you use Git, and you probably should be using Git: try out GitKraken. It's a GUI for Git that makes things a lot easier and overall streamlines a lot of stuff. Isn't that a subscription only thing? If I'm going to pay monthly for my tools I'd rather it be Jetbrain's IDE
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Aug 22, 2022 21:25
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Hughlander posted:Isn't that a subscription only thing? If I'm going to pay monthly for my tools I'd rather it be Jetbrain's IDE I think the free tier covers most of the good features.
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Aug 23, 2022 01:55
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I restarted Synergism a few days ago, off of an old save I found. It seems to have a lot of updates and I like it. More important to me (and perhaps uninteresting to you) is that I'm realizing that Synergism and NGU Idle are 100% the games that I judge all other idle/incremental games by, and no other game has really matched their charm.
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Aug 23, 2022 19:49
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I think the free tier covers most of the good features. Ah right I use a selfhosted gitlab so had to be on the $4.95 plan that’s why I didn’t look at it too much
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Aug 23, 2022 20:56
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Cobalt60 posted:I restarted Synergism a few days ago, off of an old save I found. It seems to have a lot of updates and I like it. It does have a ton of new content, but it's pretty awful and alternates between requiring a ton of hand-holding and requiring waiting for multiple days with no interaction.
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Aug 23, 2022 21:11
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Sindai posted:If there were two things I could change about NGU, this would be the second one. Unlocking a new feature is almost always a disappointment. Taking notes
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Aug 24, 2022 01:43
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I've been playing Evolve for a few days, done a few 1 and 2 stars MAD ascension, and decided to go for my first 4-star. Things have been painful, with a lot of fiddling with jobs. I have managed to kill my population twice, and the desert planet doesn't help. Is there a recommended way to progress regarding ascensions, challenges, etc...?
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Aug 24, 2022 10:11
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i'd suggest doing 3-star ones to build up mastery and plasmids, tbh, but that's not like The Way To Do It you want the "bioseed loads of genuses" achievement quite quickly, it gives you bonus planets to pick from when seeding which will help you get other achievements
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Aug 24, 2022 10:18
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Fat Samurai posted:I've been playing Evolve for a few days, done a few 1 and 2 stars MAD ascension, and decided to go for my first 4-star. Things have been painful, with a lot of fiddling with jobs. I have managed to kill my population twice, and the desert planet doesn't help. 4*s are a whole different beast than 3* and under so sticking with 3s (or 0s) is better at first. For new-player-paths I'd personally recommend one of two. For both though you'd want to build up at least to base soft-cap plasmids (250) then start doing bioseeds. The currency from this second tier boosts the plasmid softcap which you'll always want to stay above but now you can start spending extra points on crispr upgrades. Stay on Bioseeds for a while to get your softcap up to 400-500 then go for the third tier, Blackhole, and leave the universe. Now from here it splits into either the longer setup path of going to Antimatter universe and doing 4* runs for ~3k antiplasmids - this will take a decent chunk of time but will leave you with a permanent ~30% production boost for the rest of the game and antimatter gets worse to do the further you get in as its 4* lowers mastery which you won't have much of early. You then blackhole to Heavy universe and start progressing on your own. This is a good path for grinding out early 4* perk achievements for things like MADing 25 races, bioseeding genuses, planets, etc. The alternate is the more direct path where you leave directly to Heavy and build up 3* runs before swapping to 4* mastery grinding. You'll miss out on the early AM production but also won't sit in a boring universe for a while. Both will get you started for 4* mastery farming later. Challenges can be started, imo, once you're in heavy and Ascensions are one of the endgame resets. This is all really designed for someone who knows they want to go all-in on 4* gold mastery farming. You can play the game doing 3*s and be just fine with less mastery but always having the plasmid bonus.  So much orichalcum needed to end this challenge Rynoto fucked around with this message at 10:35 on Aug 24, 2022 |
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Aug 24, 2022 10:28
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explosivo posted:Are there any goons still playing Tap Titans 2? Have there been any significant changes in TT2 in the last few years that would warrant checking it out again? I kinda got a hankerin' for some cooperative clicking with goons but the last time I played this was 5 years ago There's still a thread for the clan here but no one has posted in it for nearly a year. On my way out I gave GM to someone who may or may not have been a Goon so who knows if it even still exists? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3801833
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Aug 25, 2022 03:20
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Idle Research Are potions in the tube section not auto crafted when the game is not active?
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Aug 25, 2022 10:07
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Oh hey the WAMI dev's new game Farmers Against Potato Idle (?) (lol FAPI) just came out in EA on Steam Edit: I like the clicking-to-charge mechanic a la Idle Apocalypse as opposed to clicks themselves dealing damage. explosivo fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Aug 25, 2022 |
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Aug 25, 2022 17:35
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It should be out on Android today too, their approval process is just significantly worse.
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Aug 25, 2022 17:44
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Arzaac posted:It should be out on Android today too, their approval process is just significantly worse. Oh cool, good to know!
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Aug 25, 2022 17:50
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DerekSmartymans posted:
You say that, but Guild Wars 2 just launched on Steam recently and someone gave it a "Do Not Recommend" review that started with: quote:I have almost 20k hours between Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 combined and the best advice I can give you after 17 years with this franchise is: do not give a single dime to this developer.
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Aug 25, 2022 19:59
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that’s great!
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NGU: It's so painful to go from an energy set to a magic set. Stupid clock set is going to cost me 2/3rds of my energy power 
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