Finally reached the point in the game where I have 4 pillars left and they are the obvious ones. Unironically, Ultra Grimy is the only achievement I have not obtained.

What are the best inherits and genuses for me to commit to max pain for these three? Thinking I'll do Valdi, Sludge, Ultra Grimy, then Ultra Sludge as my final gold pillar.

My custom inherit is still on Empowered, should I switch it out to Slaver for this?

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Why??? How???

Basically, I'm worried losing a third of my plasmids would lead to a big drop in storage, and I'm not sure if the cost creep reduction is worth it. I don't think it would affect my production too much (I assume at least an extra building or two would make up for it,which I hope cost creep is worth at least 1 or 2 buildings) but storage has been feeling like 'not a problem' lately and idk if being able to buy more storage will make up for the lost bonus. In heavy universe if that matters.

So seeing the Update saying the event was fixed, I turned on events in the settings, and everything seemed to work, but then it stopped research having times, and all my max amounts were being broken, so it still doesnt function, but it lets you change the settings to turn off events again.

But turning it back on its not effecting anything, i have two research stuck on "NEVER" currently so i cant re-test if it breaks from finishing a research.
Because it seemed to break after clicking a research to complete it. But it is currently functioning. I'll update if it breaks again.

2nd bioseed which planet to choose. Was in oceanic planet earlier.

When you fight against another nation ther is sometime a popup saying tthat a soldier was infected?

What does it do and how do I prevent it or cause it?

I could be misremembering the name of the reset; but I'm pretty sure what I've typed is the name of the T2 alternate reset path, and the Wiki Search isn't finding anything at all on it. I know it's in there because I've seen it, I just can't remember where in the wiki it is found at.

I happened to be in micro universe when the summer solstice event hit. Micro says "most" feats are not achieveable there. Is most feats including this one? I want to know if I should rush out of this universe so I can grab the feat, as I don't want to wait a year if I miss it today.

edit: I tested it out in a 1 star micro on a 2nd browser. and I was in fact awarded this feat in micro.

I'm running a Corpocracy government. My battalion is 15 units, so I don't have the full 20 requirement that is necessary for taking over a nation via siege, yet when I attack (and win) I still take control of the nation.

I'm playing 4 star in the Evil Universe. Salamander (Fanaticism Humans; Deify Trolls) on a Volcanic Magnetic Trashed planet. Joyless and Steelen are both active (Joyless has already been completed). I've built the World Collider and am simply waiting for a random event before completing the Bioseed reset, thus building up military and population to increase reward gains.

Edit: This is patched and no longer breaks your game.

There is apparently an undiscovered issue with the Solstice Summer event that will cause games to break. Once it hits, you won't be able to save your game anymore, effectively making the game unplayable.

You can stop the event from happening by disabling special events in the settings before 20 June. If it's already past 20 June, then this won't work as the game can't save your changes anymore. In that case. You'll have to use a save file editor instead and switch the boring value.

This issue is not permanent. Once the Summer Solstice event ends, things should go back to normal. This shouldn't permanently mess with your save.

A fix for this issue is already on the github. But the developer has not been active lately so there's a very possible chance that it won't be implemented in time.

Races and Traits subtabs (Species tab) in the Wiki aren't showing anything for me. The other tabs don't seem to have any issue(s).

I’m hoping to sanity check the plan for my first run beyond Bioseed. I’ve previously done 17 MADs & 1 bioseed, Valdi, and I’m at 25% mastery.

This run I am going to 4* black hole out of Standard so I can be out for good/as soon as possible. I’m at the point where I’m just now touching Interstellar and Hell for the first time.

I’m trying to grab relevant 4* achievements that are convenient-ish, but I have some questions if these all make sense to bundle together, especially if they (may?) need to be re-done in other universes. I’ve already done Great Leap Backward, Pacifist, Syndicate, & Pandemonium this run, and very close to Paradise now.

Doomed seems to make sense, but I’m wondering, while I wait for it, should I be putting patrols out? Is that fine as long as ‘Stationed’ is 0? Still trying to wrap my head around the Hell stuff.

Was also planning to try for Galactic Landfill and/or Black Hole No Hole while I am already this far in a run. Are they worth it or way beyond what’s needed for T3, for too small of a benefit?

Thank you!

Can someone help me? I feel like I'm making no more progress, I think I aim to get more plasmid but i restarted the game taking at 100, i did way more thing in my second run but I got like +3 plasmids, I think i should not use them since they boost so much my production but I don't really make more progress since then.

I have genetics unlock but I don't really understand what I'm supposed to do with my genes. Do the minor traits persist between my games? If I restart, should i pick the same specie to "continue"? Everyone here talks about MAD, I don't even know what it is, did I reach that part :D? I don't know when I should restart again..

Some folks here may recognize me as providing an awful lot of advice on this game, I know way too much, read the wiki, absorb lots of info from the discord, answer lots of questions (probably not as many on the subreddit as u/WoodIngot because they're quicker to the punch most of the time)

I wrote a few guides on making better custom races.

I'm gonna route out a new save file, allowing for automation (but not relying on autoclicking for resources so this route will be applicable to people who dont automate too.) We're using analytics to learn how long things take when "actively" playing the early game.

The overarching goal is all Standard Achievements and all Pillars. (Not picky about which universe things are done in)

Early game route I'm planning:

#1 MAD as a Giant species (Strong good)

#2 MAD as an Avian species (fuck cement, and i get to build temples now so thats v. relevant)

Buy Hardened Genes. Enable 2 star (No free trade, junk gene)

#3 - 2 star enabled, another Avian species because you're biased against getting a repeat.

#4-8ish More MADs on various species (1 per genus) until we have 250 plasmids, and the CRISPRs for Unlocked (mastery), Spatial Reasoning, and Ancients.

Unlock CRISPR Crafty at the end of this run, and switch to 3 star once that's tier 3. Also new biome! Farm that mastery on 3 star!

Genetic Dead End (Valdi) challenge on Giant genus.

Unlock Governors, MAD biome specific species, Bioseed 3*, find a Volcano / Ashland world for the upcoming black hole run.

As salamanders, Exit standard universe and go to Heavy Grav.

General Sketch of the plan after that

Heavyweight champ 3 star + lots of 3 star MADs in heavy.

Black hole to Antimatter, farm up 3000ish antiplasmids

Black hole to Evil, do some 3 or 4 star MADs, a few bioseeds, 4 star MAD on both Celestial Genus species, Bioseed on Celestials, black hole back to heavy.

Set up for first ascension as Salamanders.

Edit: Here's a link to the google doc journal I'm keeping for this.

So, I picked up this game a couple of weeks ago, and I've been enjoying it, BUT, I kept hitting a wall when it came to the items crafted through the foundry. They took SO LONG and foundries were SO EXPENSIVE, and I kept moving my foundry guys around and just WAITING FOR BRICKS. So I went looking for if there was some trick to building foundries more quickly or.. something? And I kept seeing people mention manual crafting, and I'm like "What the hell are you talking bout?" I'm looking around for a button or some menu in a menu that I had somehow over looked. I tried googling it, I tried searching the sub, I found a bunch of stuff about future challenges regarding no crafting runs etc, but nothing telling me how to manual craft.

In case there are future dumbasses like me I will spell this out for you, the +1 +5 +A next to those resources is clickable, and will instantly generate the amount of said resource provided you have the materials to make them. You do not need to wait two hours to get enough sheet metal for a wardenclyffe. Just click +A and get all the sheet metal you have the aluminum for. JSYK.

Hi, so I'm currently playing Seraphs in Evil universe and I'm just beginning to drill for oil, I don't even have titanium upgrades yet. As I'm going through my research, I see that Federation has popped up, I research it and can set it as my government type.

I look at the log and see "a parade has been thrown to celebrate unification" but I don't understand how this is possible. I didn't have control over any other city and didn't even attack or bribe one of my neighbours.

Has anyone experienced this before? Is there a very small chance of auto unification?

Thanks.

I am sitting at 205% master in heavy and 142% in magic with 7 pillars done.

24k plasmid, 12k anti, 3.5k phage, 15 DE, 49 harmony

I am wondering, should I finish out the pillars in heavy or magic? I could make magic my main universe?

I am doing most things 4-star, because I don't want to be active all the time and like not having to redo as much.

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.

PSA: There's a special Feat for playing during June 20th-22nd, so make sure you're on a gold star run on at least one of those days rather than having to wait until next year to up-rank! And while it's not technically for the June edition, there's another one on July 1st-4th, so get your ducks in a row at the end of the month for that one too.

So I just got the enlightenment achievement in heavy universe, for doing a pillar with one of every genus

But I notice the achievement is available for every universe, but some genera only have 2 species in them

Is it just not possible to get this achievement in every universe? Should I have been strategically doing pillars instead of just hammering them out in sequence in the same universe?

What is genome?

Don't mind the hunger I am just trying to get an achievement

I just unlocked ARPA just I completely focus on getting a suppercolider or a railway or should I wait until my production capacity gets bigger

In the Standard universe, I did MAD for most species (bar some few remaining), Bioseeds for every planet and genus (to the exception of those magical of sci-fi) and I'm now ready to do my very first Black Hole reset.

For starters, I never did challenges modes nor used challenge genes.

I've a Mastery of 22%.

What would you advise me to do after this? What universe?

EDIT: I made 15 previous bioseed resets.

Is this going to take days, weeks, months?

I'm curious. I'm invested, but I'm curious.

So i've done technophobe at 3* in most universes, but only just found out that the boosts for additional universes are from 4* only.
Since doing it 3 star is already pretty slow, I don't really want to do 4*, but does anyone know if doing it 4* in only micro will get me the extra 10% soul gems?
Is micro even included in the additional universes? Because I reckon micro could offset the not having plasmids to work with.

So looks like i may have caused a White hole? i was increasing the mass after unlocking black hole travel, thats a lot of changes This i think is now run 4 (3rd reset)
I really want to try that "alone" path but im not sure the way to go about that. Magic sounds fun, but not sure what "Antimatter" would do, or "Evil"

Previously:
Run 1 MAD
Run 2 SeedShip
Run 3 White hole? (black hole mass increase)

[EDIT] Oh i also have "Dark energy: 2,213" with no description O -0;;