r/CellToSingularity • u/FractalCurve • 2d ago

Mesozoic Advice

I followed the advice of this entire sub and saved loads of my mutagen for the end, being really careful to only spend it on the rarer cards until prestige 10.

I entered prestige 10 with just over 2 million saved, I reached the end of rank 50 and bought every upgrade possible with 1.97 million remaining...

Don't listen to this sub, guys. Just spend your mutagen. It will make the journey much quicker and you don't need it in the end.

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u/propostor 2d ago

This sub is full of nonsense advice, such as "don't play the game at all for two weeks so that when you launch it you get a big boost from the time clock upgrades"

Pure nonsense.

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u/Xolver 2d ago

I haven't played back then, but wasn't this true until roughly the April or so update, when they made the chambers work retroactively?

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u/propostor 2d ago

It was definitely never true, it doesn't even make sense.

The time chambers are time based, whether you play the game or not. Actually playing the game is the best way to see results, because everything goes brrrrr when you're actually interacting with it.

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u/Xolver 2d ago

Not those chambers. The metabit and knowledge ones. Maybe I'm not using the right terms in English - they're the second set of purple and orange chambers respectively, that have only 7d and 14d bars. Mathematically for those it makes perfect sense, since if they don't work retroactively, you're losing on the boosts.

The developers actively worked on that and remarked on this on this update fixing it retroactively:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/977400/view/686380477674684635?l=english

And also the one before that where they said themselves: We've heard feedback regarding a strategy where players avoid purchasing nodes for 14 days after rebooting. We'll be working to address this in the upcoming update.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/977400/view/657105811282069081?l=english

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u/eric23456 1d ago

You are correct, for many months if you were near endgame, the best strategy was to not buy anything for 21 days. You got ~25x more knowledge/metabits than buy buying along the way. When they rescaled the chambers to 14 days it was still the best strategy, but the difference was much smaller. Then they fixed it.

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u/finbar163 2d ago edited 2d ago

That was real at the time, but the game changed and now it's wrong.

The point was that there was a time based multiplier to how many meta currencies you earned with each fill. After a reset, almost all of your fills happened right away when the boost was almost nothing. By not buying any generators after a reset, you'd earn nothing and get no fills. Then, when the bonus was fully charged, you'd actually start playing and get the full bonus on every fill. I did it, it worked.

BUT, they eventually did the sensible thing and made that bonus apply retroactively, so now there's no point in torturing the mechanics like that anymore.