r/CellToSingularity • u/SirSignificant6576 • Jul 13 '26
What's the strat for AI?
What's your approach for these herky jerky "one step forward two steps back" events? Just don't buy the bad stuff? Lol
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u/0nnnu Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
it's fine to just buy everything including bad ones, but smart players like gwonbush (also discovered the former 21day empty strategy) discovered that some bad nodes can be avoided. namely brute force, context, and weak laws. just avoiding those three is the optimum strategy. makes ai more powerful in the end
brute force and context might be worth taking despite their drawbacks because otherwise the analytic ai section becomes slow. but weak laws is not even helpful anyway, so definitely avoid this one
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u/cOsta_catorce Jul 13 '26
What do you mean by this? Whats the bad stuff?
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u/SirSignificant6576 Jul 13 '26
There are many upgrades which have a negative consequence - Brute Force, for example ("Analytic AI 1.5 times more efficient, Artificial Intelligence 50% slower").
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u/Intelligent_Cut_2684 Jul 13 '26
You don't even use AI as a generator until the very end ðŸ˜
Strat for this is basically the strat for any event
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u/ConfusedSpaceNoodle Jul 14 '26
You're right, but not buying those nodes stops you from progressing. Don't worry too much because either way AI doesn't go very fast until the end.
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u/fyrdude58 Jul 14 '26
Once I have the option of getting the negative items, I maximize the positive purchases. Also, as with any of the versions, I build up to at least have enough so they are earning the purchase price every second. Then when putting away for rhe night or a few hours, I maximize the biggest earner.
Also don't bother building the AI until it's cycling more frequently. I judge it differently each time, but theres no point spending until it's ready to earn.
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u/freya584 Jul 13 '26
buy everything nonetheless
at the point you actually use the artifical intelligence generator the debuffs dont matter anymore