Sage Grimm posted:

Evolve has a new challenge: Genetic Disaster. You are forced to take all four challenge genes -- No Plasmids, No Weak Crispr, No Manual Market, and No Manual Crafting -- and become a species called Valdi which has *all* the bad traits from the start. Your reward? Obviously immediate full star achievement for extincting them but you get.. 1000 Knowledge when first starting instead of 100 and +1 to Knowledge gain when you tech into Sundial.

KazigluBey posted:

Whatever happened to that game that was getting made with goon playtesting in the old thread, the one that had ideas similar to Path of Exile?

frankenbeans posted:

I just did the Genetic Disaster Challenge in Evolve. It was a bitch. You only need to get up to MAD, but it's a bit of a slog, even with 800 plasmid and 100 phage. I had 75% of my people growing food for most of the run, and still managed to get the 'starve 100 people' achievement.
On the upside, it counts as gold star for achievements and unlocks a special perk, which I think is 'Bonus to knowledge cap and gain' which starts you off with 1000 knowledge cap and about 6 knowledge/sec. This makes the early hour of the game a lot less annoying.

Toshimo posted:

THIS GUY IDLES

Sage Grimm posted:

So for those in Evolve playing in the Hell Dimension and cussing out the demons always destroying your fortress, well the math isn't in your favour at least initially. A siege chance will start with an initial value of 999 and compare it against a random number between 0 and it. If it isn't 0, it decrements chance by 1 and tries again in the next Hell Dimension tick. If it is 0, a siege starts.

The calculus for the fortress fight is as follows:
- Divide the current threat value by 2 then use it as the maximum bound for the generated random number that will start a siege; statistically, this will average out to a quarter of the current threat
- Divide the fortress defense rating by 35 or use 1 if it less than that. This gives the number of demons killed per round as a range from [1, defend + 1]
- For every round, roll to kill demons (additionally subtract them from the current threat) and remove 1 percent from the wall while the siege is still going
- If the wall strength hits 0%, everyone on your side dies

The first two bits are why it's so difficult to succeed initially. I had 4 patrols of 15 fiery-backed gene-boosted antids pushing down the threat to around 1100-1200 and 10 stationed in the fortress giving me a defense rating of 256 (also one laser turret). The maximum number in their siege would be 600 but I would only be dealing 1-8 damage per round; it would be like bringing a water pistol to a fight against a flamethrower. I would only be able to deal with, on average, a siege of <500. Changing that to stationing 70 gets me a rating of 2219 against 10000 threat: 33.5 avg damage against an average 2500 siege means I'll likely win the first one (in ~73 rounds) but the wall won't regenerate enough for the second. However, playing around with it while writing this post I have 60 stationed + a patrol of 15 keeping the threat down to under 3000. At the biggest siege, I'll hold in ~53 rounds on average. Thus my recommendation is dumping the majority of your army into the fortress and maintain a patrol just large enough to keep casualties lower than your training speed.

Whatever the case, in order to get Infernite you have to be patrolling; the equation is set up so that a surveyor is instantly killed if you have no one manning your fortress. Once I get into war droids this will definitely become easier, the laser turrets don't appear to be very useful in the face of numbers since they require significant power.

Sage Grimm posted:

I'd say around 3 or 4. That gets you to the soft cap of Plasmids at 250 plus some perks (storage from plasmids is definitely one to take).

Sage Grimm posted:

I was tempted only once to Reject Unity because of Balorg's slaves production bonus but I'm glad I didn't because it held out for at least the bioseed ending. The allure of more storage is too strong.

Side note, Sharkin might have a massive benefit when pursuing the third tier ending: Their Frenzy morale bonus will continue to escalate to a maximum as long as your Hell patrols are alive.

DACK FAYDEN posted:

Finally decided to bite the bullet and play Evolve. I just unlocked Electricity and it's taking me forever to grind enough Aluminum for Sheet Metal to raise my Knowledge cap high enough to start poking around. What can I do other than, you know, sell everything in the marketplace for cash for aluminum? Am I missing something that creates lots of resources I can sell? Should I be pumping steel production or something?

Eldercain posted:

Cheers.

I hate to ask again but how do you get soul gems

Eldercain posted:

So I'm at 11 plasma turrets and around 50 soldiers on the wall, 9 attractors, and demons float around 5k, and I have never, ever, not been overrun and have no idea what I could do to not get overrun. I think I'm just gonna stop manning the walls at this point and turn my tourism back on, I'd rather have the money than keep guessing.

Sage Grimm posted:

Not quite, you average a quarter of the current threat but it can go up to half. Surveyors will be 100% safe so long as the threat is below 10000 - (N * 1000), where N is the number of active surveyors. Once you're established you can run 7 consistently without casualties but anything higher risks the occasional evisceration.

SettingSun posted:

What's the key to getting a lot of space? The only recipe of it that generates the amount I need for air seeds is comparatively slow. Just a waiting game?

SettingSun posted:

This almost makes sense to me. I can't seem to generate Parallel in any meaningful amount. It's at its low cap (from Triple Compressed Space) but the second recipe barely generates any at all. I feel like I'm missing something.

SettingSun posted:

I stabilized my space output in Alkahistorian and these air seeds get made quick. I used PureAir to up my air input and this just cascaded into upgrading the other three. And now a million things unlocked at once including this gemstone thing with 20 recipes.

This is a game I never knew I wanted.

xiw posted:

I can't get over this rate of change, I was refreshing after a few hours over the weekend and going from v55 to v65 etc

SettingSun posted:

Arcanum is great and I'm loving it, but would it kill the dev to include a changelog?

Jester Mcgee posted:

I just realized that alkahistorian is about alchemy not alcohol.

Samuringa posted:

Arcanum felt like it was being developed by an actual wizard for a while and that was really good

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

I've asked before, but something, if you're looking for an idea of what to add, I'd love to see some of the heart items renamed to liver, spleen, right kidney, etc, and usable in an extended equipment screen of internal organs, with a special inventory that's an ice chest.

Bonus points if instead of using empty slots, they're prefilled with natural organs on rebirth, and then when you switch one out, you can sell the organ for some gold (or level them up to 100 for no reason other than vanity)

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK posted:

iirc the slowdown is proportional

if you're running 2 beards of the same type levellling is done at 1/2 speed and takes twice as long, 3 beards is 1/3 speed, and 4 beards would be 1/4 speed

Devor posted:

Denimwalk

https://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=8904

mdxi posted:

I've always been a tiny bit sad that the Gigantic Flock of Canadian Geese wasn't followed by a Flock of Gigantic Canadian Geese, which, in my heart of hearts, would be followed by a Gigantic Flock of Gigantic Canadian Geese.

Merijn posted:

Just posting here to let y'all know Cookie Clicker on Android just updated, and the alpha build has prestiging!
You can switch from live to alpha on the About page, and import your live save.

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK posted:

blow your PP

Falcon2001 posted:

Anyone tried Wizard and Minion Idle? I hear it's heavily inspired by NGU, not sure if it's worth checking out though.

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

the events of the last two pages have radicalized me and I will now do everything in my power to ensure number goes down

something posted:

Yes i do, i see 70% of that muns. Same as most every other platform

edit: also I lied sexy mayo is actually called ayy Lmayo. I apologise.

MrTargetPractice posted:

New Yorp New Yorp posted:

NGU: It seems like some of the PP/QP costs could use rebalancing in the context of cards. Or some cards need to be nerfed slightly to bring them in line with how much equivalent QP/PP buys cost.

Like, since cards launched, they've given me a 172% wish speed bonus. That's in maybe 2-3 weeks.

Meanwhile, there's a perk with 100 levels that gives a 10% bonus to wish speed when maxed, at a cost of 80 million PP. And there's another tier after that that's even more expensive, 300 million PP to max. Meanwhile, even end-game players are getting 4? million PP per day, so we're looking at weeks and months to get a comparatively small bonus. It's not worth the investment.

Of course, cards are rapidly accelerating the amount of PP/QP earned per day, so maybe those perks will be reasonably-priced soon.

Xtanstic posted:

drat it now you've given me a timer to beat NGU before NGU Industries comes out.

shs posted:

I'm trying the idle game thing again. You can test it here if you feel inclined.

It's basically 7+ cookie clicker / adventure capitalist styled games stacked on top of each other. Each layer has its own set of buildings, resources, upgrades, an item grid, a bonus feature, and its own prestige resource that's used to support the layer above it (after you unlock it). There's some dungeon crawling as well, and a set of resources (energy) that you need to thoughtfully allocate between all the layers.

This is NOT a release build (but the game mostly is what it is and I wouldn't expect anything significant to change in the future). This is a help me find issues so I can move towards release faster build. Issues such as something being confusing or unclear, something not adding up, or something just being plain broken.





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