I think I'm nearing the end of this game

[n00bdragon]

Currently I'm on difficulty level 2 and I just don't think 3 will ever be possible. I'm currently only getting about 600 cooking medals a day mainly from challenges and it takes ~3000 to add 10k% more training or research speed and I don't even have an idea how much of that I might need total to take on level 3. 100k each minimum? Anyone on level 3 with an idea about minimum stats? Currently at 30/40 Challengers Challenges and those are just getting too obnoxious to be worth it. I wonder if Ryu meant for finishing each Challengers Challenge to increase your base challenger difficulty by 1 instead of every 10 because as it is now it's taking me over 24 hours of active gameplay just to get to the level where I can start fighting through the 13 challengers, so total completion time is the better part of a week. That's for one. Ten weeks of that nonsense just to get 1 extra medal per challenge (yes, I know it gets multiplied by difficulty but still). And then if I do get to difficulty level 3, even if I do that, that's just going to double my gain to 1200 medals a day but I'd be looking at buying hundreds of 100k% bonuses for 29.7k each. It would take years or decades to ever even think about difficulty 4.

So I think this may be the end. There's nothing left to cook. Once I get all the fairies I'm done.

[starwol]

I'm on difficulty 4 and depends on what you mean by minimum stats. This will be a bit fuzzy as I've been here for a while.

Typically what happens when I enter a new difficulty is you train, can't beat first boss (John Doe) so retire at that point (having gained a few % in stats) and repeat cycle until victory. This bit can take weeks and that is probably the case regardless of how much research/training upgrade you have (the reductions for each difficulty seem to be far bigger than what you could feasibly upgrade). Anyway with a restaurant you now have an income so you can do research which should make the next few chefs go smoothly and once you can upgrade training you're basically home free. If you need to retire before then make a backup save in case it's another long wait to beat John Doe.

Maybe there are some other tricks to deploy (reconfigure fairy abilities).

But yes there is no more content so it's a matter of curiosity more than anything else.

[n00bdragon]

Interesting. What's your current Research/Training bonus%?

[starwol]

Right now they're at about 400,000%. I just buy the 1000%. Probably started difficulty 4 at about 225k but I didn't take notes or anything.

[n00bdragon]

Beat difficulty 4 today AND evolved the last of the fairies to the final form all in the same day.

[n00bdragon]

Well, it's 8 months later and I'm still playing. I think I'm really done for real this time though, or getting very close to it.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2545110936

70 challengers challenges is... sure something alright. Unless someone has done way more than that I don't think I have the heart to go any further. They are simply too tedious and time consuming. It's ironic, since they wouldn't even be that bad except that you have to manually fight every single battle all the way up the ladder at one fight per hour. It took me about 4 days of regular play just to reach difficulty 70, and another day to finish all 13 battles.

As far as doing higher difficulty levels I'm currently on Difficulty 5 and I think I could do 6 and 7 and maybe 8 if I really had balls of steel. It's going to be a long slow process to get there but that's the only goal I have remaining. I'll probably only open the game once a week from this point on.

I am fully aware that Ryu has no plans to update this game but if he did, these are the changes I would make:
- Add some kind of price multiplier buy option for Upgrades. Having to type like 20 zeroes in the Count box when buying Upgrades is kind of silly.
- Some kind of max price multiplier auto adjust option where it automatically adjusts your slider upwards whenever a restaurant is selling a dish in 0.05 seconds. Having it check this once a minute and multiplying by x10 if it finds something off would be sufficient
- Allow challenger auto battle to advance
- Allow Instant Battle to be automatically used on cooldown, even while auto battling
- Allow research Next At values higher than 10 million

[starwol]

I managed 60 challengers challenges. I think my thoughts were that was where the lowest difficulty available gains max medals. Of course going further would mean more secrets and money but as you say having to do challengers challenges increasingly becomes a slog.

Difficulty 6 progress is 9 or 10 retirements in with stats of 7E7 I need a score x5E5 greater than current to beat John doe.

The thing about difficulties is speed is (1/10^n) while medals/secrets earned is 2^n and I don't recall what enemies increase by so it's going to keep taking longer and longer unless secrets snowball to a point where stats don't matter.

Originally posted by n00bdragon:

I'll probably only open the game once a week from this point on.

Do note that some things cap offline gains at 12 hours (e.g. challengers). I usually forget but I try to log in once or twice a day for that reason.

Originally posted by n00bdragon:

- Allow challenger auto battle to advance

This was added to a patch at some point but it seems to be only if you're online when the auto battle is used and is capped at challengers challenges - 5 * difficulty.

[n00bdragon]

Originally posted by starwol:

This was added to a patch at some point but it seems to be only if you're online when the auto battle is used and is capped at challengers challenges - 5 * difficulty.

Is this the case? A shame there's no way to knowing what your current challenger rank is without turning off auto battle and waiting an hour.