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Realm Grinder: I think I might be misreading or misunderstanding something. The last Drow faction upgrade says the Combo Strike bonus will be applied passively; that should mean I wouldn't have to cast it for my profits to go up, only for the percentage to grow, right? Yet there is a noticeable drop in my production when the spell is not active.
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Kiranamos posted:On the new NGU patch it says now only specific items need to be merged in inventory, but I'm still having to merge everything - not sure if I missed something. It's as it relates to the Auto-Merge feature. To prevent shenanigans (mostly with Ascended/A^2 Forest Pendants), it originally meant that it wouldn't do the last merge to 100, but now it's only transforming items that need to be done in-inventory.
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Feb 18, 2018 00:31
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Samuringa posted:Realm Grinder: I think I might be misreading or misunderstanding something. The last Drow faction upgrade says the Combo Strike bonus will be applied passively; that should mean I wouldn't have to cast it for my profits to go up, only for the percentage to grow, right? Yet there is a noticeable drop in my production when the spell is not active.
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Feb 18, 2018 00:39
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Assuming they haven't reworked it at some point, the Drow challenge 5 reward, which applies to all factions, is 5% of your alignment spell (Holy Light, Blood Frenzy, or Gem Grinder) bonus is applied passively. Meaning you get that 5% regardless just by having the challenge benefit ticked, and if you actually cast the alignment spell you get an additional 100%. No clue if those are additive or multiplicative with each other (e.g. 1.05 * 2 = 2.1, or 1 + 0.05 + 1 = 2.05). I don't know if this also applies to the A2 secondary alignment spells, nor do I know how the 5% thing interacts with spell tiers.
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Feb 18, 2018 01:05
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Kyrosiris posted:It's as it relates to the Auto-Merge feature. To prevent shenanigans (mostly with Ascended/A^2 Forest Pendants), it originally meant that it wouldn't do the last merge to 100, but now it's only transforming items that need to be done in-inventory. Makes sense. I'm way far off from anything like that. Is there a guide anywhere to make sure I'm not doing stupid things early on?
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Feb 18, 2018 01:07
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Vil posted:Assuming they haven't reworked it at some point, the Drow challenge 5 reward, which applies to all factions, is 5% of your alignment spell (Holy Light, Blood Frenzy, or Gem Grinder) bonus is applied passively.
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Feb 18, 2018 03:21
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Oh, that one. The not-a-wiki's formula for that is "x, where x is your current Combo Strike bonus", so yes it sounds like it's giving the full effect passively. Regardless, active spells are applied separately from passive upgrade buffs, so you do still benefit by casting the spell.
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Feb 18, 2018 04:49
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NGU: Is there an obvious point to switching from energy to magic? I'm at 400k energy cap and it's just started to feel like I have more than I know what to do with (energy buster and time machine speed both start at 15-20 minutes to upgrade), but I've heard some people advising that you never touch magic until at least one million energy cap; should I just keep plugging away at cap and power for now?
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Feb 18, 2018 08:06
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Vil posted:The hand-holding artifact-specific half of it isn't working, but it still properly loads your artifact RNG number and therefore the small-values tab works properly. Thanks, I've been holding off on artifact sets until I'm R109 or so and this will probably help a lot. 
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Feb 18, 2018 10:42
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The more reincarnations you wait, the fewer excavations you're free to burn (unless you're willing to shell out for ruby resets, which I've been refusing to on general principle). By all means, wait until later to focus on it, but you might as well see if you'll have good small numbers to use in the meantime, particularly once you start reaching high enough gem counts to be able to afford getting your excavations high enough (E290 helps) for a free reset or two.
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Feb 18, 2018 13:54
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I haven't really looked into how the free excav resets work. Is it just 'at R gems, do max excavs and you will magically get a free reset'? Is there a button, a message or even an upgrade that resets it?
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Feb 18, 2018 16:03
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Merijn posted:I haven't really looked into how the free excav resets work. Is it just 'at R gems, do max excavs and you will magically get a free reset'? Is there a button, a message or even an upgrade that resets it? You get a free reset at a specific amount of excavations and when you use it the amount needed for the next free reset increases, so on and so forth until you reincarnate. If you click on the reset button it pops up a window that tells you about it. NGU Idle question: Is there any way to earn xp outside of rebirthing and killing bosses over again? I keep making long runs and without some time based way to earn exp it's becoming impossible to make any real progress without spending days offline, but I keep hoping there will be a way that doesn't require constant attention and rebirthing every half hour for dozens of runs.
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Feb 18, 2018 16:37
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nessin posted:NGU Idle question: Titans in adventure mode give XP, but other than that, no. Everything is pretty balanced around 30m-1h runs for XP and the a longer run here or there to build NUMBER for furthest boss progression, etc.
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Feb 18, 2018 16:40
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Omi no Kami posted:Hmm yeah, 24 hours for 58 sounds like a really tough sell with my Number resetting though; I think I'm gonna save that at least until my magic has been boosted, so I can rapidfire blood rituals to rebirth. Well the unlock condition for the 24 hr challenge is to beat the basic challenge in under 24 hours (which is also to beat boss 58)... so if you can unlock it, you can do it once.
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Feb 18, 2018 16:42
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Gully Foyle posted:Well the unlock condition for the 24 hr challenge is to beat the basic challenge in under 24 hours (which is also to beat boss 58)... so if you can unlock it, you can do it once. Fair point! 
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Feb 18, 2018 18:31
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Well I threw nine rubies at excavation resets and got the Spiked Whip. I'm too indecisive about ruby upgrades anyway (should really look 'em up) and I got enough from events and such that it felt worth it. Now to see what to actually do with it.  e: ha, I see a Mana Spring build exists now. 2-3 months. McDragon fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Feb 18, 2018 |
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Feb 18, 2018 18:40
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Merijn posted:I haven't really looked into how the free excav resets work. Is it just 'at R gems, do max excavs and you will magically get a free reset'? Is there a button, a message or even an upgrade that resets it? The cost depends on your R and how many free resets you've already done in that R. It's 2000 + 50*R + 500*free_resets_this_R. If you've done that many excavations, you can reset for free (and then you'll need 500 more, as per the above formula, to do it again), without spending any rubies. The excavation-reset button will now bring up another window with two more buttons, one with a ruby reset (no limitations outside of spending the rubies) and one with free reset. You can't use the former if you don't have the rubies, and you can't use the latter if you don't have the excavations, but the window with both buttons will show up regardless. The other caveat to a free reset is that your production is multiplied by 1/10 until you abdicate. In most circumstances this is a non-issue - you do a free reset, then abdicate to get rid of the penalty, and get on with your life. However, the chances of the elf artifact scale with the number of free resets you've done this abdication, and that 1/10 stacks multiplicatively each time you do it if you do it more than once in a single abdication, on top of the requirement going up by 500 each time. (Read: elf artifact is a jackass.)
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Feb 18, 2018 20:17
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I have a sneaking suspicion they hosed up and the elf artifact is supposed to be per reincarnation. Then again all these numbers seem way too low for anyone not using a third party tool to figure out, so
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Feb 18, 2018 22:40
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I just lost over a week of progress on ITRTG, can anyone upload a save or something so I don't have to start over from scratch? It literally said my online save file was broken and my last manual save was so long ago. I feel like an idiot for being confident that I wouldn't need to manually save.
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Feb 18, 2018 22:46
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Realm Grinder: G00F doesn't say it but I'm going to assume this Scarab of Fortune is a one use thing, right? And that I'll have to luck out and dig it up again? edit: Forget it, I Abdicated and it's gone
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Feb 18, 2018 23:54
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Samuringa posted:Realm Grinder: G00F doesn't say it but I'm going to assume this Scarab of Fortune is a one use thing, right? And that I'll have to luck out and dig it up again? You don't have to dig it up every time. You just have to rebuy the upgrade for 1e42 coins every abdication.
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Feb 19, 2018 00:03
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Any artifact that you successfully dig up, you keep forever. If it grants you an upgrade though, you need to re-buy that upgrade every abdication.
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Feb 19, 2018 01:03
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Omi no Kami posted:NGU: Is there an obvious point to switching from energy to magic? I'm at 400k energy cap and it's just started to feel like I have more than I know what to do with (energy buster and time machine speed both start at 15-20 minutes to upgrade), but I've heard some people advising that you never touch magic until at least one million energy cap; should I just keep plugging away at cap and power for now? You shouldn't be using this. It is best time and gold wise to only invest in scissors both safety and danger. (well at the moment, Something is doing a rework of augs to address this a bit). You'd need to be very far for it to be worth considering throwing energy into other augments. I'm at over 200k XP. You'll likely suddenly be able to get way more time machine levels. You likely need to progress in adventure more and get a large energy multiplier on some gear.
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Feb 19, 2018 15:13
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They started the Valentines event in Tap Titans 2 with a big patch last week. It started out pretty rocky but they added several quality of life improvements in subsequent patches making the game more solid than ever. The goon clan is still going strong if anyone wants to check it out. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3801833
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Just refreshed NGU...and it wiped my save, and my latest one is five days old. Rad. think I'm done with it for a bit.
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Falcon2001 posted:Just refreshed NGU...and it wiped my save, and my latest one is five days old. Rad. think I'm done with it for a bit. I suspect you refreshed and transferred from build that was pre online-saves to post online-saves? If you let me know what kind of stuff you had I could see about sending you a file that's roughly the same stage, if you want.
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something posted:I suspect you refreshed and transferred from build that was pre online-saves to post online-saves? If you let me know what kind of stuff you had I could see about sending you a file that's roughly the same stage, if you want. Same thing happened to me. Fully beefed cloth set, and full power 30% tutorial cube and an about 50% sewer amulet.
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Feb 20, 2018 11:25
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Merijn posted:I haven't really looked into how the free excav resets work. Is it just 'at R gems, do max excavs and you will magically get a free reset'? Is there a button, a message or even an upgrade that resets it? Quick rundown of the "Free reset" You have to be at so many excavations (for example, right now, at R108, it wants me to be at 7400 excavations for my first free reset. If you use the free reset as opposed to the ruby reset, you will suffer a 90% penalty to production until abdication, and the requirement for the next reset will increase. This is what the the reset button will tell you, but I wanted to point out the 90% penalty specifically, because people on the Kongregate forums seemed to be missing that when reading and then complaining that their production went way down.
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Thanks! So I understand that you could do multiple free excav resets in a single R. Would reducing your production by 90% not basically prevent this? Also a heads-up: updated versions of Lara Crypt are appearing that support the new A2 artifact sets. Here's one: https://maxxwyndham.github.io/dox4242.github.io/arch/index.html It has a caveat about the Ancient Hourglass find chance, since it's based on the FC find chance (which is stupidly complex) but I understand it mostly works otherwise.
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Merijn posted:Thanks! So I understand that you could do multiple free excav resets in a single R. Would reducing your production by 90% not basically prevent this? 90% reduction is 1e reduction. So, no.
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Merijn posted:Thanks! So I understand that you could do multiple free excav resets in a single R. Would reducing your production by 90% not basically prevent this? sweeeet
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Been playing Endless Frontier on and off for awhile now and I'm up to 2 billion medals but not sure what to spend them on or what kind of team composition to focus on. I've gotten just enough 5* & 6* units for free to have a full team with a few spares. So far I've got: Human Steam Punk Aladdin Griffon Rider Flame Spirit Cleric Gunner (twice) Fire Mage Elf Undead Incubus Dark Admiral Succubus Dark Spirit Orc Big Foot (twice) Blade Master Sorcerer Raptor Rider So I'm obviously not going to do an Elf team, but I'm not sure which of the others I should focus on. I'm able to break level 1,000 about every 24 hours. The Orc Blade Master and Human Steam Punk feel like my strongest units.
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I hope this isn't taken as making GBS threads on NGU, but I wish the game were just the "Adventure" part. It's like an interactive version of Progress Quest, in a way, and I enjoy it way too much. 
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Feb 20, 2018 20:09
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There's a whole bunch of idle games that are "progressively kill enemies" with loot systems and everything.
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LLSix posted:Been playing Endless Frontier on and off for awhile now and I'm up to 2 billion medals but not sure what to spend them on or what kind of team composition to focus on. I've gotten just enough 5* & 6* units for free to have a full team with a few spares. You still don't have a ton to work for here for the short term, but let's see what we can do. I think Human is probably your best bet at this point. You'll need to buy as many Winged Knight's as you can from the Shop of Honor. I'd say something like: Magical Core: Flame Spirit Physical Core: Winged Knight (Replace with Valkyrie/Pilot) Support1: Cleric Support2: Steam Punk (Replace with Cleric) Support3: Aladdin (Replace with Cleric) Support4: Winged Knight (Replace with Cleric) Support5: Winged Knight (Replace with Cleric Support6: Winged Knight (Replace with Priest) Support7: Winged Knight (Replace with Priest) Support8: Winged Knight (Replace with Priest) Support9: Winged Knight (Replace with Priest) Support10: Winged Knight (Replace with Priest) Obviously you probably won't be able to afford that many Winged Knight's right off the bat, so do the best you can, throwing in the other not listed Human units as mere space fillers. Getting those Clerics and Priests will provide a huge boost eventually. Throw in any Valkyrie, Steam Punk, Aladdin, Battle Drummer, Fairy, or Hippogriff you get between now and then to replace the bad Human units.
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Gully Foyle posted:Well the unlock condition for the 24 hr challenge is to beat the basic challenge in under 24 hours (which is also to beat boss 58)... so if you can unlock it, you can do it once. I'm trying this challenge now and i swear that it's loving impossible with a normal working life. I was on it resetting every half an hour last night before having to go bed and then gave it another 30 min run in the morning before going to work. I get back home after work and the closest i get is boss 53. I've got 1,000,000 energy, 20k magic, energy power of 25, speed 50 and 22 bars. Other than waiting until the weekend where i can spend a solid number of hours just resetting every 30 mins until i hit 58, i'm not sure what to do.
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Kin posted:I'm trying this challenge now and i swear that it's loving impossible with a normal working life. Jerk stats.
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Yeah, I did a 24 hour challenge with not even half those stats, but I did it on a weekend where I could basically poke it every ~hour or so. 
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GrossMurpel posted:There's a whole bunch of idle games that are "progressively kill enemies" with loot systems and everything.
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Is the forest pendant purposely a lower drop rate or something? I have everything maxed except that one is like level 60.
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