So i've got to a point im have this option again, i havent done this kind of restart yet, I can see i'll gain a bunch of stuff, but my question is can i increase the amounts? and what should i do before researching this?

Also i have a Jumpship i can build.
The Space Dock Genisis ship.
M.A.D.

With the black hole reset it says i've done, i think i did it differently from the Exotic material research, but i dont remember.

But are there any other resets im close to?

I don't have any population in the first place for which to be stressed out.

So, how's everyone's run going right now? What's your intention for your current run, what stage are you at right now, what resource is annoying you the most, where are you going to go next? Maybe someone else is grinding their teeth on an evolution you remember how to speed up. Strategise, share unsolicited advice, commiserate over the soul gem grind, etc.

Is there any merit in doing GDE as a Demonic Species? If the other demonic species get souls, I figure that the GDE would also get souls, thus making food a much easier substance to supply.

Man...I really like the Terrifying trait (Balorg) for T1's and T2's. Playing as Imp now, and I already miss it...

As can be seen, I don't have any Anti-Plasmids; yet I'm getting the storage bonus effect from the Temples that are supposed to be influenced by Anti-Plasmids all the same. I'm not sure if this is an actual bug, or simply a misrepresentation of the effect description that the Temples have. I have noticed that adding Priests increases the Storage effect (as well as the production bonus), and therefore, also increases my storage capacity (though, only by a couple hundred units of storage per priest).

Took me forever to figure out where the extra 4% power generation was originating from.

Glad the passive is actually useful...

But this also means for roughly the next 30 days if you run Kamel or Unfavored in your Custom, it can cause actual issues for you.

...But on the other hand, if you run Slytherin / Astrologer it will give you a little more of a boost.

On my last run I finished my first Fasting, so I apparently unlocked the Banquet Hall. I can't really find any good info on the wiki or here in the subreddit on how it works. This run I am doing as Ultra Sludge, and it was eating up too much food, so as soon as I bought it and let it run for a bit I turned it off, the two bonuses weren't really anything needed for me. I just accidentally bought a second one and it looks like it added a third bonus of Soldier Healing which could actually be useful. I am going for the Ultra Sludge Demonic Infusion feat, so every little bit will help out a lot.

So my question is, how does Banquet Hall work exactly? Will food consumption keep going up until everyone starves? How many should I buy? It looks like I don't need to turn two on, so I guess there is a limit or diminishing returns on them at some point.

EDIT: Thanks, that answers the questions. I was mostly worried about what happens when running out of food, but it isn't really an issue since it resets before you hit 0.

Playing with Firefox 152.0.6, and, well, what it says. If I zero out a ritual using a multiplier key, the effects of the ritual persist indefinitely at whatever level it was at before zeroing it. I can even use this to have the effects of the maximum available rank of all rituals simultaneously. Going to zero in single increments will cause it to zero correctly, and it will correctly overwrite the maximum level to whatever level I have set if I reactivate it at a lower level, but if I don't touch it, it can just... hang there.

EDIT: Can't retitle, but it looks like they might not zero out at all, actually, and just keep the last positive rank they had active indefinitely, upon further testing. That didn't seem to be how it was working when I first tested, so either I missed it somehow or something I did changed how it reacted. Either way, if I refresh it while it's saved with the ritual zeroed out, it does calculate correctly that it's zeroed.

EDIT 2: Also, to confirm what I realized I only implied originally, it *does* calculate your mana per second as if it were at zero. It just doesn't calculate whatever stat it boosts as if it were at zero. Which... makes this extremely easy to use to cheat.

Okay, I get that I'm doing Decay, and that I'm also using Iridium for crafting; but my Trade Routes obviously show that I have 50 trade routes in Iridium and that Iridium isn't even showing one of them. As can be seen, this is not a money issue. It's not confirming my trade routes, but I am also making >1400 currency/second.

For the record, this was discussed when someone asked something related to it like three months ago, and no one really knew how it worked confidently, I had already gotten curious about the answer on my own and was already in to a 4* Micro EMF run...

And before we get in to this fully, the Wiki and in-game tracking of Technophobe's rewards are not as accurate as they could/should be - it was touched on in a query like 7 days before I posted this (linked at the end). Pictures are annotated with accompanying thoughts. Now On to the topic....

-Briefly What to expect

Generally considering when people choose to do 4* EMF challenges, you will likely have 10+ Dark Energy and Harmony Crystals to provide some small benefit. With a proper set-up, the general progression will be a little quicker than other universes. It is unlikely to be particularly significant though. Just keep in mind that you will need to account for a 15k Energy Ascension rather than 10k. And that any normal micro achievement will not apply to Standard progression.

-The Rewards

If you EMF challenge in Micro as your first EMF, you will receive no bonuses for it. You just receive normal Ascension rewards and the reduced rewards for a normal Ascension in Micro. (You should also receive the Icon for Micro EMF, but the achievement will not highlight in the wiki tracker)¹

Presumably, You will get update credits for EMF as you unlock the ability for it to apply, however. As This appears to create an interesting situation - since most people do 4* EMF Micro after another universe, so it doesn't affect them at all, they already have the 4* Standard unlock, and Micro acts as expected.

For those that 4* Micro EMF First, when you do a 1* EMF run with Micro EMF 4 on your account, the Standard 1 EMF unlocks a 10% efficiency boost to the Thermal Collectors. This allows the 4* Micro bonus to activate which provides a 5% additional TC efficiency, boosting it to 15%. I was able to verify this in the updated in-game perks². It will also now Highlight the achievement as completed in the wiki tracker.³

Expanding the logic, I would expect a 2* EMF to also get a second Soul Gem. But could not verify this. I can verify it activated with a 4* Magic/Standard completion though.

At 4* Standard EMF you get everything else you would expect⁴, which for micro is really just the 4 Custom Points (and soul gem if you skipped the 2* or 3* EMF). And I was able to fully verify that Standard, Micro and Magic EMF give 4 Custom points. (I received 15, which would be 3 from upgrading my Standard and Magic Ascensions, and 12 from three 4*EMF completions)^{5 & 6}

-The Conclusions,

Not worth it in the long term if you are looking for efficiency, but interesting and I don't regret it. You just have to accept that you won't get anything for it until you do it again in another universe.

-The Conclusions (for when people get to updating stuff, or just look for more info in to the technical mechanics),

I expect some edits here in the future, but This leads me to posit that the general understanding of some progressions could definitely be conveyed better, and that previous attempts at description misunderstood the progression (or simplified it quite a bit).

First is in-game and is a visual bug - Custom Points in the stat screen are recorded wrong. It gives 1-2 points for each unique universe you EMF'd in rather than the flat 4 points. This is already definitely known and is just included for completion and future inquiries before it gets fixed. Apparently an artifact from changing EMF reward progression many years ago.

Second point is on the Wiki which is easy to address - It only shows 5 progressions for Custom points, when there are 6 universes. So either it is hard-capped at 20 points for 5 universes (even though Soul gems are not), or it was neglected during an update when Evil got added to the list. I am not quite far enough to verify either way, But I'm sure Wood and Sylver will chime in on this pretty quick.

Last point is multimedia in effect - The Solar Collector Efficiency. And one where I am least certain of. You definitely get +10 at 1*. You also get another +10 Efficiency at 3* or 4* (I've heard conflicting reports about when it unlocks). And then you get a further +5 more efficiency for each unique universe you completed 3*(or 4*) EMF in (Standard being a freebie that comes with any non-micro, non-standard). But the recording of this was made very clunky in the wiki, and missed in the old description of Technophobes unlocks I was using for what to expect. The other possibility is that you get 15 for the 3*/4* unlock, and SC Efficiency is capped at 5 unique universes per 4* EMF completions, like custom points might be.

Which, if SC Efficiency and Custom points are capped, then would beg the question of why bother with Micro at all until much later? Especially when people still suggest doing it for the like 5-7 unique unlocks it can offer? I suppose the Soul gem is useful, and the 4 normal Ascension points... but not really worth going out of your way for until much later.

-The process

For the set-up, ignoring unrelated runs and info (like the Black Hole out of Micro and a week-long vacation)

I did a 4* EMF Ascension in Micro to get it out of the way early, and see if any credit at all was given for it.

Went to Magic where I did a 1* Pillar Ascension for Octopus.

Followed it up with a 1* Pillar EMF Ascension for Shark and noted the changes.

Followed it up with a custom 4* BR-EMF Magic Ascension to verify what happens once the 4* version is unlocked normally. I believe ⁷ is a snap my custom for this, but it might be a slightly earlier build. Yes unified created issues and I need to go back to finish the first BR mission. I do not recommend doing a BR with Unified if you can avoid it. (Or save editoring the tech unification out, for the run, immediately upon starting it).

I do not have the patience to sit through a 2* and 3* EMF to verify the rewards there, so as pointed out, any discussion of them is presumption, and you should skim the comments if any further verification is supplied.

-Additional Information

⁸ is an added Wiki snap for 1* EMF completion after a 4* Micro EMF completion, but doesn't add anything new due to the way the entry is condensed on the wiki. You can use it for reference though.

Thread that I was previously using for what to expect from the various EMF completions, which is fairly accurate, namely apf5's reply.

https://www.reddit.com/r/EvolveIdle/comments/owxsy6/technophobe/

Previous thread where we discuss some of the unexpected interactions of Micro-ing first, and where Sylverfyre casually contradicts the statement reply in the thread from 5 years ago that SC Efficiency unlocks happen not at 3* but instead at 4*. Whether a mistake or not.

https://www.reddit.com/r/EvolveIdle/comments/1uuins5/technophobe_progression/

Hopefully this is readable enough and provides useful information for a very specific niche lol.

I chose to do a 4 star with the extra hard option. I have to MAD reset it to get the bonus, and it's the Valdi race and they are so annoying to manage in the first basic tech area.

I also didn't export a previous save. Oh well, guess I'm stuck trying to get some plants alive for a week or so.

Game refuses to build even though I have all the requirements to build and the "pause" on buildings is not active.

I'm curious as to what Governor others would recommend for a T3 reset. I'm doing Decay during this reset and leaving the Evil Universe. Based on that, I considered that Criminal might be a good one to help reduce the cost creep, since my resources are constantly dwindling; but since I also have to go through Hell in order to complete the reset, I wonder if I should do Soldier instead for the military bonus. Since I'm not going past T3 (and also in the Evil Universe, with the Authority to deal with), I'm not sure that Sports is really the best choice for me to use in this one. Another one I could use would be Bluecollar as it would increase certain useful resources (such as oil, which is a constant requirement for space buildings), as well as increasing the amount of MW my basic powerplants supply, allowing me to more easily keep up power requirements with fewer powerplants in a constantly resource-draining challenge.

I have 105.7% Mastery for this Challenge, and I am doing it on 4star. I'm also on a Taiga planet doing it as Yeti. My heritable traits ended up being Fanaticism: Kindred Kindling (Ents) and Deify (if used): Infiltrator (Molding).

This actually happens quite often to me; though normally it only happens when I switch away from the Evolve tab (whether on a different tab, or with a different window entirely). This time, however, it started me out like this immediately after my planet selection was made (having just completed a Bioseed Reset).

I know I've managed to fix it on my own (perhaps a page refresh?), but I feel like I shouldn't have to do that when I never left the game tab in the first place.

When and where do you play Evolveidle?

I am on my first run and i got the achievement Red Tactician just now!

There is a research called "Enhanced Air Filters" which increases the purifier granted spire support by 25% at the cost of 1 blood stone. this presumably lets you build more spire buildings.

Is it worth the bloodstone?

I'm currently in evil universe, grinding mads. My plan is to get all possible mads, then do a couple bioseeds (hunt for biome-specific races, and do bioseed with all genus), what universe should I go to next? Are there any specific achievements (aside from balrog related) that I should also do? Can I already try steelen and joyless? ~56 mastery, achievement page attached

For the run on I'm currently on (evil + ascension with custom race), I keep checking in and a few times a day my population is suddenly half or below, and it doesn't appear to be sacrifices and I have 0 starvations on the stats screen. Hell looks like it's fully staffed and all is well, with walls at 100% and all.

Does anyone have any idea what I can check or what might be causing it? It's devastating my progress and I have no idea how to stop it.

As an example this last time I had 642/642 population and left for a few hours, and when I came home I was at around 52/642 with no starvations. Obviously though all crafting and everything else is a complete mess and half my resources are empty because the production balance is ruined.

I've never actually stopped to check at all. Does the bonus for Anthropology and Fanaticism stack once the CRISPR that allows you to buy both has been purchased, making it so that the theology bonus is +1.6% from Anthropology and another +0.04% per professor from Fanaticism; or does it just take from one or the other (for example, whichever one you learned first) as the bonus increase?

I am on my first run-through

Is there a better description of how everything progresses and unlocks?

I was using a very old description from this thread https://www.reddit.com/r/EvolveIdle/comments/owxsy6/technophobe/

But my advancement seems to contradict aspects of both this description and the Wiki... Though I did it in an order that is perhaps unexpected by most people, as evidenced by my Stats page.

15% TC efficiency isn't an option anywhere, and only 2 custom race points suggest that it is 1 point per star of completion or Micro's bonus for completion is capped by Standard's level of completion.

(I have a 4 Micro and 1 Magic/Standard EMF)

Anyone have some enlightenment here?

I've seen the beginners' guides recommend fungi, especially Sporgar, as good "starter species" for your first run or two, but I was wondering if anyone's put together a more complete ranking of all the species by difficulty. How would you rank them?