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Lol that's what it is. It only shows what stats a given loadout would give you if you equipped it. So you have to save something to a loadout to see what it does. How odd.
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All you people worrying about team bonuses and here I am waiting for a second pet to drop.
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I have gotten exactly one pet drop, from hitting the pity threshold in 3-2, which took me about a full day of farming there. I'm only a couple days into A2, so I'm guessing people who have multiple are benefitting from the increased drop chance at higher ascension levels.
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Pets and team bonuses are being tracked in a Google Doc here Since Residue seems like the biggest deal I feel like going for 3-3 + 3-5 for the team base Residue bonus alongside 3-9 for the % Residue is best? idk, there's people with a better grasp of the game who can probably say if there's better progression load-outs. All these pets are in Zone 3 so it's probably not that bad to target them down?
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ErIog posted:IAnd before anyone dings me, no, it's not a real milk respec if your character isn't the one character that gets a lot more milk, same with worms, same with every other system. There is a specific character to interact with each system, and every time you don't do that, you are restricting your progress. There are a lot of things to criticize the game about but this is... exactly the opposite of how the game works. The class system specific bonuses like milk and worms are intentionally minor to avoid this, to that point that they are all worse than just getting your equipment drop rate cap increased on freeloader. KazigluBey posted:Since Residue seems like the biggest deal I feel like going for 3-3 + 3-5 for the team base Residue bonus alongside 3-9 for the % Residue is best? idk, there's people with a better grasp of the game who can probably say if there's better progression load-outs. All these pets are in Zone 3 so it's probably not that bad to target them down? The pet system actually has added far more interesting decisions into the game than I expected. There's a nice mixture of snapshot pets you don't need to equip all the time, but do need to equip to level (reinc %, item rating, whack) and stuff that accumulates over time (class xp, residue) along with the combos. I expected it to be 'farm 4 pets and ignore the rest' but was pleasantly surprised. I don't think there's going to be a simple best strategy but 3-2 class xp and 3-6 reinc xp are a good first two to farm.
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I've had Idlemancery running for a bit and just checking once a day and I went and did my first Banner/rebirth after doing buildings. I was very disappointed to see that the buildings disappear on reset. I don't know if there's a research stuck under something, but it's frustrating because of how slow territory and buildings function in the first place. Makes me feel like there's no point in doing anything except building Banner tiers for big numbers before even looking at doing anything else in the game.
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I started FAPI based on people posting about it ITT. What are the first couple major "walls" where I might be stuck until I look up a guide? This is the first clicker where I'm trying to stay relatively blind but it's hard for me to gauge when my progress is gonna reeeeeally slow down.
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big cummers ONLY posted:I started FAPI based on people posting about it ITT. What are the first couple major "walls" where I might be stuck until I look up a guide? This is the first clicker where I'm trying to stay relatively blind but it's hard for me to gauge when my progress is gonna reeeeeally slow down. I’m pushing into A3 and I haven’t needed anything yet. Do I make perfect ideal decisions, nope. But the game plays just fine without needing to rely on other people figuring out builds for you.
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big cummers ONLY posted:I started FAPI based on people posting about it ITT. What are the first couple major "walls" where I might be stuck until I look up a guide? This is the first clicker where I'm trying to stay relatively blind but it's hard for me to gauge when my progress is gonna reeeeeally slow down. There aren't really any walls in the game and you can kind of do whatever before Ascension 4, at that point if you haven't figured out some of the more obtuse game mechanics it's going to be slow going. This game is the opposite of something like a mario game that teaches you what to do, it will actively mislead you at every turn.
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Jhet posted:I've had Idlemancery running for a bit and just checking once a day and I went and did my first Banner/rebirth after doing buildings. I was very disappointed to see that the buildings disappear on reset. I don't know if there's a research stuck under something, but it's frustrating because of how slow territory and buildings function in the first place. Makes me feel like there's no point in doing anything except building Banner tiers for big numbers before even looking at doing anything else in the game. Yeah, too much is predicated on building up Banners and to a lesser extent Research at the moment, though Buildings are the end of the current content window judging by how the story just stops dead there. There is a building that will boost the amount of prestige gain that might be worth pursuing (after getting Palace to level 4) but I suspect short, active runs win out in the end in terms of progression. I stopped playing after that.
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Sage Grimm posted:Yeah, too much is predicated on building up Banners and to a lesser extent Research at the moment, though Buildings are the end of the current content window judging by how the story just stops dead there. There is a building that will boost the amount of prestige gain that might be worth pursuing (after getting Palace to level 4) but I suspect short, active runs win out in the end in terms of progression. I stopped playing after that. Yeah, I'd gotten it, but it takes much too long to build it compared to running active Banner runs. I can do 150 creatures in 15 minutes, compared to the 300-400 on a long building run. I can see the point of doing a longer run to build up research, but even there you run into sharp diminishing returns quickly. I've unlocked researches until Looting, but Banking is pointless if you don't get to keep any built banks, and having to redo all the battle/terrain means you're sitting and waiting a while before even building things. E: I guess there are some "mega structures" adding in v0.1.2 that persist through resets, but I'm not sure they're going to be worth it unless I can set it up to run okay overnight. Jhet fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Nov 7, 2022 |
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Mega Structures thus far look like one that decreases souls per creature purchase by 50% per building, and one that increases research by 25% per building. They're not shockingly expensive but definitely would take time/effort to get to. I'm thinking of research/buildings as like, alternate progression for long runs and boosting up banners by 150-200 creatures at a time in like 2-minute runs when I have a moment to be active. It's an okay diversion but I'm definitely stalling while waiting for the next interesting thing to pop up.
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Man, FE000000 just doesn't stop does it? Sure is scratching that AM itch though. I'm just now closing in on finishing my second complexity and it's layers and layers and layers of stuff.
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You're close to reaching the point as well where you don't need to constantly respec your studies for eternity challenges, which feels amazing
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The "rebirth" mechanic in Sandcastle Builder is as weird as everything else in that game. I've been playing for like 3 months now and finally got to the point where I can reset (well, you can reset at any time, but there are very few benefits to do so until you get a Bag of Holding that lets you carry a bunch of your poo poo back with you) and I managed to catch back up to where I was in 2 days.
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I just beat Ngu Idle. Only took me 749 days, 18 hours. Considering whether to keep going until I cap all the NGUs and top the ITOPOD.
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I’m nearing Sadistic myself; I’m hoping for an update that finishes the bestiary and gives me some way to get the seasonal portraits I missed. I know I’m going to max absolutely everything.
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Ham Equity posted:I just beat Ngu Idle. Only took me 749 days, 18 hours. How does one beat NGU but not cap NGUS and top ITOPOD first ? Geez was I that inefficient? I had to come back a month after my beat date because I never got the final Ressource 3 cap cheevo.
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I made a project.log post about the Idle / Incremental game I'm working on. Check it out or not over at https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4017479 As I post more would love feedback
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Xtanstic posted:How does one beat NGU but not cap NGUS and top ITOPOD first ? Geez was I that inefficient? I beat it last year at some point and my NGUs are still not at hard cap. I opened to check and my last two are at 727m and 681m. I'd expect that it's going to take another few months because it just takes time to finish to hard cap because you can only get the levels per second cap. It looks like the only other thing not at hard cap is R3 stuff, but I don't seen any reason to care about it at all.
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Oh HARD caps. Ok yeah I understand now. I didn't hardcap, but effectively maxed them.
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Discendo Vox posted:I’m nearing Sadistic myself; I’m hoping for an update that finishes the bestiary and gives me some way to get the seasonal portraits I missed. I know I’m going to max absolutely everything. There are no more planned updates for NGU Idle afaik. I don't believe those are things that are ever going to exist or exist again after a year and half since THE END.
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goferchan posted:The "rebirth" mechanic in Sandcastle Builder is as weird as everything else in that game. I've been playing for like 3 months now and finally got to the point where I can reset (well, you can reset at any time, but there are very few benefits to do so until you get a Bag of Holding that lets you carry a bunch of your poo poo back with you) and I managed to catch back up to where I was in 2 days. so backstory: about halfway through development the primary dev slightly vanished and his Active Play Helper Guy took over and did a lot of the mid-late game. it's where I always bounce off. he didn't like the reset mechanic so all the rewards from it are essentially duplicated slightly later. if you don't mind doing it the boosts are definitely good for when you get them, but it's not mandatory in any way. personally, as a completionist, I get them. you are about to hit a very annoying part of the game if you're not real big on babysitting it.
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Feline Mind Meld posted:
I have completely given into the tedium at this point, I'm full-on stockholm syndrome now. Honestly it seems like I could make my next MD super fast if I just hoard more flux crystals to upgrade Time Lord next time; I didn't realize what a bottleneck the factory automation runs would be even with all my resources. I will probably collect all the prizes for the same reason as you. edit: also I feel like I'm in a weird no-man's-lane because there were some very recent updates after a long gap and I have several items that aren't on the wiki or anything, it's exciting.
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back when I was playing I regularly perused the GitHub to look at boost unlocks etc. it's still a pretty good resource. I also remember time lord being an exceedingly good thing to level. God I wish I could get through the logicat was though. I wonder if the original dev back updated the game to ease that getting, it was never his strong suit fixing early game headaches UNLIKE MY REAL HOMIE FORE GEEZ
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Ok I've downloaded FAPI. I'm back on the idle train!
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I also just started FAPI today -- any must-have "save up and buy this first" things for either the Blue Coin currency (souls, I think?) or the gold you get from the whack-a-mole game, or is it just buy whatever?
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Aerox posted:I also just started FAPI today -- any must-have "save up and buy this first" things for either the Blue Coin currency (souls, I think?) or the gold you get from the whack-a-mole game, or is it just buy whatever? Auto-whack auto, equipment band thingy, faster auto whack auto, extra equipment recycle and auto conversion would be the ones I'd buy first on the 3rd tab and probably leave it at that unless you really want something else. On second tab what ever is on sale, and then whatever. You're probably going to get enough potions from using "daily" code daily, so you don't have to care too much about buying those.
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What does Equipment Band even do? I've avoided buying it because the description is incomprehensible.
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Lone Goat posted:What does Equipment Band even do? I've avoided buying it because the description is incomprehensible. It basically tells you the numerical item rating of an item in your inventory or on your character, which is based on the stats and rarity of the item. It will also be a green number if the rating is better than the equipment you have on currently, and red if its worse. Useful if you need to find better equipment among a pile of drops in your inventory. Of course, the overall rating doesn't take into account the nature of the item bonuses on the item, so compare the items a little closer if you don't want to swap out a particular item bonus you wanted.
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In FAPI i regret going milk for ascension 3 instead of poop + another upgradee. Progress is glacial as i don't have any poop assigned until like 4 hours into a run. Instead i have a 28,7 second milk timer, for a whopping 4,5% increase in milk/time. Yay. Im 4 days into the ascension now and have not yet even gotten to world 3.
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Ineptitude posted:In FAPI i regret going milk for ascension 3 instead of poop + another upgradee. How do you not have poop assigned until 4 hours into a run? The early challenges are a cakewalk during ascensions, and the first couple are auto completed. So you have some worms generating poop for you. Throw whatever poop you have evenly around and it will give you a pretty sizeable boost. Then go back at 4 hours (or whatever) and put out your large accumulated amount.
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FAPI being successful killed the old server the devs were sharing with Wizard and Minion Idle, so I finally had to move from the busted mobile version over to PC. Easy enough to do, just copied a text file from the app's data folder and imported on PC. And now I have no goddamn idea how to play this game, because it's so dramatically different on mobile. And the UI on PC really is atrocious. I don't think I can re-learn how to play with all the differences. Anyway, I guess what I'm saying is, don't hard fork your game to make a mobile version. Learn from the mistakes of others!
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It also just has a sync between mobile and steam now? Also how are you finding it different? Edit: or are you talking about wizard and minion?
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Len posted:It also just has a sync between mobile and steam now? WAMI is very different on mobile and PC. When they did the mobile version it got its own design and it never made it back to PC. I gave it up because it just wasn’t organized well and wasn’t getting an update.
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Ineptitude posted:In FAPI i regret going milk for ascension 3 instead of poop + another upgradee. Not sure how to help you, but it should take 4 or 5 runs of about 2 hours to get further than you are now (based on that milk timer). The slow progress really doesn't have anything to do with picking milk.
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I'm 4 days into acension 3 and almost at ascension 4 with the milk upgrade. Something is definitely not quite right.
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I'm just getting started in FE000000. How many infinity points should I get before starting on the normal challenges? I tried the first one and it was barely moving so I figure I'm not ready for those yet but I'm getting 2 IPs on reset every couple hours which is pretty slow going.
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I don’t remember, but what I do remember is that the infinity challenges are very much not ordered by difficulty. IIRC it’s reasonable to start doing some of them almost immediately. Take a look at the other ones and see which penalties don’t seem so bad.
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