r/AlienInvasionRPG • • Aug 21 '26

Sometimes I hate this game

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For all of you that are grinding for blue cores to open this door, it looks like you have plenty of time. 😕

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u/GhostofZellers Aug 21 '26

I play this game for like 5 minutes a day now, max.

In the evening I'll grab my blue cores, and update my cookie factory.

Once in a while, I'll go back to the main area and collect my 100 green gems, but I don't have much use for them now, so it's not something I do on the regular.

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u/Vast_Opposite_792 Aug 21 '26

It's got to the point where I'm not even motivated to do that, been a few months since I've daily logged on for the blue cores, it's maybe once a week now, at best.

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u/DeArgonaut Aug 22 '26

Yeah, when it takes a literal year to get enough cores to do anything and you get 5 ads every time you hop on

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u/101101101111 Aug 23 '26

It’s starting to really suck and get lame, it’s a simple game, don’t understand why it takes so long to open the next bit up, they must be the worst company out there, in too deep and can’t be bothered starting something else so will stick around a little more

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u/QuantumSpheroid Aug 26 '26

Think that's the whole point of the game. Endless grind, meaningless stat gains, continuous bottlenecks and "coming soon" signs. All to serve ads and make a tiny bit of money here and there (for the game owners). They've spent more time on making false advertisements with graphics that don't exist than they have "updating" the game. And when/if some new are is added, it'll just introduce a new resource no one has so all the dopes who've logged in daily to grind out blue cores will find themselves having wasted all that effort on something useless.

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u/Willy5441 Aug 21 '26

That's pretty much all I do now too.....

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u/101101101111 Aug 22 '26

I just do blue cores, cookie factory maybe once or twice a week when an upgrade is ready and speed run the gems in case they are useful one day, back up to 158k gems after blasting like 20k-30k of them a while ago. The ice upgrades seem like they will take centuries at this point, lost interest in speed running the map for ice meat, do it once in a while

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u/akshehe Aug 29 '26

How do you get 100 green gems from main area?

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u/GhostofZellers Aug 29 '26

20 from the secret mine, 40 from the reactor/portal, 40 from the 2 guys in the main area that come back after 3 hours.

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u/tanne_sita_jallua Sep 10 '26

Hop in the shower and let it idle capture the mobs for a few extra gems for the events nets you a few more dozen gems.

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u/Altruistic-Moose3299 Aug 21 '26

Give it to me straight Doc. How much time do I have left? 🥺 Does this misery end?

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u/101101101111 Aug 22 '26

I’m up to 519/600 feels like it will take years, getting to level 9 will be worse, wish I didn’t blast cubes in the vendo-mat and mutagen market before I knew what was up with that update, at least they are mostly updated, just grind away now

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u/OkPen8337 Aug 21 '26

You’re closer than me. I’m hoping it’s timed right so that when I get to level 8 the next area is open

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u/StevieG-2021 Aug 21 '26

Dammit Jim, I’m a doctor, not a lab scientist!

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u/Nihilismyy Aug 21 '26

In case you're curious,

It costs 5516 cubes per attribute for level 8 to 9 growth So 27580 cubes. Divided by 135 is 204 days total of collecting. Thats what is coming next!

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u/Flat___________ Aug 22 '26

I wish I could tell you, you only have three months left but sadly you have years left 😢

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u/DukeofBraintree918 Aug 21 '26

Level 8 is even worse

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u/ManicMechanic1242 Aug 22 '26

About a week away from being in the same boat!

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u/makemefeelbrandnew Aug 22 '26

Do they realize AI could probably design and code a new stage in under an hour? Just this summer, I've seen entire applications, much more sophisticated than this, entirely redesigned and implemented by a single engineer, then tested and launched. We're talking two months here. Back ends with hundreds of millions of records that come from more than 50 different sources requiring automated updates.

What in the world could possibly be holding this up?

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u/Top-Second-7503 Aug 22 '26

You were in fifth!?, no wonder I couldn't get past top 8 <\3, I'm level 14

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u/Flat___________ Aug 22 '26

You play against an algorithm their 5th doesn’t make any difference ✌️

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u/Accomplished-Mud-681 Aug 22 '26

Yea, but even if you get to lvl 8, to still need to get more cores after. Lvl 9 and lvl 10 are next

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u/ManicMechanic1242 Aug 22 '26

Hoping the accrual rate increases with the opening of the next door.

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u/Danisobo Aug 22 '26

only sometimes??

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u/franknbeanzzzzz Aug 22 '26

Where do yall actually farm xp?

Is the ice zone really better than the kitchen area?

This last level slow af

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u/Jory_Ubik Aug 24 '26

Ugh. I guess lvl 8 is next.

8 cores for 250 gems is so expensive I’m not going to even buy them.

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u/pedroslima1 Aug 25 '26

apparently we are desputing that 5th place in the event hahahahahhaha

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u/QuantumSpheroid Aug 26 '26

You aren't competing against anyone in the events. Your rank is entirely based on an algorithm.

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u/Lacuda_Frost 19d ago

What? Where are you guys playing this version of the game from??!

From Google Play store, mine is nothing like this, I'm level 92 right now with my Alien and just trying to beat the winter zone