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In Universal Attractor, things sure slow down when you hit about 30-50 neutron stars. The next upgrade is at 200 NS. Luckily there's a bug in the game where you can just prestige^3 (the final 'super nova' prestige that gives you a neutron star) and it doesn't check if you actually can, which means pasting a few lines of JS into the console gives you infinite NS.  The 200 NS upgrade unlocked challenges, so at least now the game is interesting again!
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I'm stalling out at like e160 mysteries in Idle Wizard. The next milestone is 200 and it feels like I have to start doing ridiculously long exiles to even go up by one.
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May 16, 2018 13:52
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nooooo, a new zone don't think I'll finish my no equipment challenges by then. Why am I doing them, you ask? AP and completing numbers! (I like completing numbers.)
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May 16, 2018 14:25
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RG update just hit. It's pretty big and almost everything is A2 content I think. 
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May 16, 2018 15:35
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Buzkashi posted:I'm stalling out at like e160 mysteries in Idle Wizard. The next milestone is 200 and it feels like I have to start doing ridiculously long exiles to even go up by one. Beyond that, Umbramancer is pretty dumb and with even a single day run I was getting multiple orders of magnitude. Once you can get to Alchemist, switch to that, but I know that's a while from now.
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May 16, 2018 16:17
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Hey somethingggg, is the 'droop' goblin a reference to the mines of phandelver DnD module or just a huge coincidince? You fukkin nerd. 
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May 16, 2018 18:28
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Yeah, in my Dnd group Droop has turned into much more. A friend has played him through several campaigns and Droop has become a time and dimension-travelling goblin that affects a lot of major plot points without realizing. Kind of like a goblin version of Forrest Gump. He always announced himself as Droop the 2nd, son of Droop the 1st, son of Uug the Unmentionable. That's where the Titan comes from. Dropping some deep NGU lore on yall.
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May 16, 2018 18:31
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I'm running phandelver atm and I'm having fun treating Droop as a goblin ramora who has latched onto the party and refuses to be abandoned to the point where he stalks along after them at night the one time they left him behind. He's a real fun character. I'm going to be running SKT with the same group on the heels of this campaign and I'm hoping droop ends up getting dragged along.
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May 16, 2018 18:35
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NGU Can someone explain the math behind the Beard permanent "ticks"? I thought it was sqrt(level) * (1/3) * hours played so it should be +1 at level 9, +2 at level 36, +3 at level 81, +4 at level 144 but I just checked and you get +1 at level 4, and +2 at level 20...
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May 17, 2018 02:32
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Numberwang posted:NGU if it’s anything like exp calculations, it’ll round up to the next whole value, and then calculate growth from that value, meaning actual scaling ends up being considerably faster than the formula. at least, that’s the only guess i’ve got as to why 2% exp bonuses are so impactful
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May 17, 2018 09:11
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DACK FAYDEN posted:How's your equipment? Have you hoovered up all the easy secret achievements? My equipment is pretty garbo and I'm working on that now, but just hanging out with the upgraded Homun to get slightly more crafting mats is such a slog. I'm working with the empowered head and shoulders, ribcage chest, netherloop ring, legacy boots, and umbral coil waist. It's just a mishmash of what the RNG gods have graced me with, and I have three empty slots I haven't been lucky enough to get any items for, meanwhile I'm sitting on like six helms.
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May 17, 2018 12:09
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Buzkashi posted:My equipment is pretty garbo and I'm working on that now, but just hanging out with the upgraded Homun to get slightly more crafting mats is such a slog. I'm working with the empowered head and shoulders, ribcage chest, netherloop ring, legacy boots, and umbral coil waist. It's just a mishmash of what the RNG gods have graced me with, and I have three empty slots I haven't been lucky enough to get any items for, meanwhile I'm sitting on like six helms.
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May 17, 2018 13:27
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Numberwang posted:NGU There's also a cap for very early on that the number of "permanent levels" a beard can gain is capped by the temp level. This only kicks in for maybe the first couple times you do a beard shave cycle,when you don't make many beard levels. it prevents you from gaining say 1 beard level, going for 24 hours, and then gaining what would be 8 perm levels according to the formula i have set up.
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May 17, 2018 19:39
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Is the eternity section of antimatter just slow as balls? I feel like I went from first eternity to extremely fast ones in the blink of an eye, but rolling up on the time theorem upgrade right before EC1 and I typically get 1 order of magnitude more EP overnight and then a long eternity gets me maybe 2-3 theorems from am/ip. Am I just in a slog before the challenges blow my production up? Upgrades and theorems are so far apart and the scaling on all the EP purchases seems really puffed up. Maybe I'm just bad and dumb and have my auto-eternity/crunch set up bad, but the guides don't seem to cover this far in and with so many knobs to twist it's hard to tell if I'm doing minor optimizations to a bad setup because a good one is so different from how I'm running.
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May 17, 2018 19:59
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Eldercain posted:Is the eternity section of antimatter just slow as balls? I feel like I went from first eternity to extremely fast ones in the blink of an eye, but rolling up on the time theorem upgrade right before EC1 and I typically get 1 order of magnitude more EP overnight and then a long eternity gets me maybe 2-3 theorems from am/ip. Am I just in a slog before the challenges blow my production up? Upgrades and theorems are so far apart and the scaling on all the EP purchases seems really puffed up. There's a discord (that's extremely memey in the worst sort of way) but you can pop in and they'll be able to give you tips. It's linked on the game page.
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May 17, 2018 20:19
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Teddybear posted:There's a discord (that's extremely memey in the worst sort of way) but you can pop in and they'll be able to give you tips. It's linked on the game page. If it's a bunch of people who think the achievements are funny, I think I'll probably just struggle instead. Cheers, tho.
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May 17, 2018 20:25
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Eldercain posted:If it's a bunch of people who think the achievements are funny, I think I'll probably just struggle instead. Cheers, tho.
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May 17, 2018 21:01
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May 17, 2018 21:59
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Eldercain posted:If it's a bunch of people who think the achievements are funny, I think I'll probably just struggle instead. Cheers, tho. Yeah, but if you hop on and get the tips then get out it'll be fine. I just mute the server and everything except the channel for the IP/EP level I'm in.
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May 17, 2018 22:10
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Teddybear posted:There's a discord (that's extremely memey in the worst sort of way) but you can pop in and they'll be able to give you tips. It's linked on the game page. I had some trouble with Universal Attractor last week so I hopped on their Discord server, but the last message posted there in any channel was a week ago. 
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May 18, 2018 08:09
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I recently started Swarm Simulator on iOS, are there any must knows or good tips that will give me a good head start? Just ascended for the first time and went with the larvae and energy generation. Not sure if that's the best combo, bus seems like it since I was always short on larvae and it took forever to get the required rocket fuel for my first ascension.
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May 18, 2018 09:02
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Mr Scumbag posted:I recently started Swarm Simulator on iOS, are there any must knows or good tips that will give me a good head start? The wiki on the subreddit has a build to use for your first ascension. IIRC it's meat + lepidoptera early then free respec to bat + swarm warp once you get your nexus built up then when you get your ascension cost down to ~70k stop buying hatcheries til you have a dozen+ of them and swap to frequency + meta to finish out. Only spend about 10% of your mutagen at the start of the run, unspent mutagen will dwarf your normal larvae production for most of each ascension.
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May 18, 2018 09:13
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Its ridiculous how good unspent mutagen really is for production. I had so much larva that I can get to arch minds within a couple hours now and that's not really active play.
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May 18, 2018 10:10
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Merijn posted:I had some trouble with Universal Attractor last week so I hopped on their Discord server, but the last message posted there in any channel was a week ago. That's likely because the dev has patched basically every bug currently in the game but only applied it to "test" but if you aren't a tester and go to play on test he bans you from discord and you are "banned from playing the game at all". He's pretty crazy and has no intention of patching live until "test" is ready even though the way he used it on github it'd be trivial to push the bug fixes to live. After being on UA's discord I stopped playing after a few days because of how much of a dick the dev was.
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May 18, 2018 15:24
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NGU Hey something, can you do something about performance? The game is using ridiculous amounts of CPU and it is particularly bothersome because offline only has limited progression. Option to limit framerate could help?
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May 18, 2018 18:26
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Banemaster posted:NGU I wasn't going to say anything because I don't have exactly a high-end computer, but yea, it takes like 15-20% of my CPU sometimes and it's a bit of a chore.
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May 18, 2018 19:08
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Apparently a few people had issues with the last update with performance, but it might have been something on unity's side? Webgl is rear end when it comes to performance in general. I've routinely been adding in optimizations wherever I can, but i can only go so far with it.
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May 18, 2018 20:47
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that's what made me mention the other day i'd like a standalone client. my chrome tab with the game open has been taking 25-30% cpu pretty consistently, not sure how recently it started though.
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May 18, 2018 21:19
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I do plan to head to Steam eventually, and I know that that version will be way less harsh on your CPU.
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May 18, 2018 21:22
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something posted:I do plan to head to Steam eventually, and I know that that version will be way less harsh on your CPU. Any chance of a fully standalone client until then? People would have to export their save and load it on Kong to buy AP but that's the only issue with releasing a windows native EXE. I guess it wouldn't be too much more complicated to just add the steam API and run a green light campaign or however you get a game on steam these days.
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May 18, 2018 21:25
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I think it's just a "pay 100$" thingnow. But, I would have to imagine with the numbers NGU pulls that Steam wouldn't say no. I hope? Anyways, that's a ways off for now. I could maybe see about reviving the standalone, it's been many many many builds since I last made one of those.
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May 18, 2018 21:51
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The Infinity Cube is brilliant, something. I appreciate having a place to use the scads of power/toughness boosts instead of strictly filtering them out.
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May 18, 2018 22:15
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something posted:I do plan to head to Steam eventually, and I know that that version will be way less harsh on your CPU. I don't play Idle games on Steam because I don't want my most played game to be a 3000 hours clicker
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May 18, 2018 23:36
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Samuringa posted:I don't play Idle games on Steam because I don't want my most played game to be a 3000 hours clicker You can hide that, now. 
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May 19, 2018 00:48
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I ran a Big Scan and it says that NGU is secretly mining something called BitGroin and that's why my computer is exploding. I'd provide more proof but the scanner exe.vbs says it needs $200 to work again, so while my western unions go through I just hope everyone stays safe out there.
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May 19, 2018 00:56
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Sage Grimm posted:The Infinity Cube is brilliant, something. I appreciate having a place to use the scads of power/toughness boosts instead of strictly filtering them out. This and the beards have me high as gently caress about the game. I just love poo poo with permanance that I can gradually beef up. It's also the best game because there's just so much math going on and so many avenues of progression that unlike most idle games, there are no strict guides to optimization. It feels like such a better game knowing I'm forging my own awkward math path rather than just following a guide and sutopiloting my way to bigger numbers. Just realized I had a bunch of stupid GameStop points that I covered in to the 4th accessory slot. It being on sale pushed me towards doing so, so keep doing thay, I guess. I can see dropping another five bucks when beard slots go on sale!
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May 19, 2018 01:01
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pixaal posted:That's likely because the dev has patched basically every bug currently in the game but only applied it to "test" but if you aren't a tester and go to play on test he bans you from discord and you are "banned from playing the game at all". He's pretty crazy and has no intention of patching live until "test" is ready even though the way he used it on github it'd be trivial to push the bug fixes to live. Yeah I saw lots of warnings on the Discord server about playing the test version if you aren't a tester. I don't care about being banned from his Discord server, but how does he expect to ban people from a website game?
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May 19, 2018 06:57
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Merijn posted:Yeah I saw lots of warnings on the Discord server about playing the test version if you aren't a tester. I don't care about being banned from his Discord server, but how does he expect to ban people from a website game? Well, I guess he could ban an ip address from accessing the website, but since most people don't have static ip addresses on their home networks, I don't see how that would work. That kind of dick move though makes me not want to play the game.
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So I also had performance dip a bit with the latest NGU update. Possibly related: when I'm not in idle mode, skills that are ready continue to pulse as if they're undimming constantly.
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A few people have mentioned that issue, and it might just be unity being unity? I think pixaal knew of something that might help. Yo pixaal where you at homie
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